«Маленький принц»: 40 слов, которые стоит выучить перед чтением
The Little Prince
40 слов из книги «Маленький принц» (Антуан де Сент-Экзюпери): автор повторяет их снова и снова, а в 4000 самых частых слов английского они не входят. Выучите их заранее, и первые главы пойдут гораздо легче. У каждого слова есть транскрипция, перевод и предложение из книги.
prince/ˈpɹɪns/принц, королевич, царевич184 раза в книге
He has gone to sleep…” And that is how I made the acquaintance of the little prince.
sheep/ˈʃip/овца, овечка41 раз в книге
It said: “If you please — draw me a sheep!”
geographer/dʒiˈɑɡɹəfɝ/географ23 раза в книге
“I am a geographer,” said the old gentleman.
baobabбаобаб20 раз в книге
It was in this way that I heard, on the third day, about the catastrophe of the baobabs.
lamplighter/ˈɫæmˌpɫaɪtɝ/фонарщик17 раз в книге
There was just enough room on it for a street lamp and a lamplighter.
volcano/vɑɫˈkeɪnoʊ/вулкан15 раз в книге
He carefully cleaned out his active volcanoes.
sunset/ˈsənˌsɛt/закат15 раз в книге
Bit by bit I came to understand the secrets of your sad little life… For a long time you had found your only entertainment in the quiet pleasure of looking at the sunset.
tame/ˈteɪm/приручённый, ручной14 раз в книге
“I am not tamed.”
constrictor/kənˈstɹɪktɝ/констриктор13 раз в книге
It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal.
thorn/ˈθɔɹn/шип, колючка13 раз в книге
“Even flowers that have thorns?”
explorer/ɪksˈpɫɔɹɝ/исследователь, исследовательница13 раз в книге
Here is an explorer!”
conceited/kənˈsitəd/самодовольный, тщеславный11 раз в книге
The second planet was inhabited by a conceited man.
tipplerпьяница10 раз в книге
The next planet was inhabited by a tippler.
switchmanстрелочник8 раз в книге
“Good morning”, said the railway switchman.
yawn/ˈjɔn/зевать, зевнуть8 раз в книге
And, after working with all this painstaking precision, she yawned and said: “Ah!
extinct/ɪkˈstɪŋkt/о геологическом объекте: больше не действующий8 раз в книге
He also had one volcano that was extinct.
inhabit/ˌɪnˈhæbət/жить, населять, обитать8 раз в книге
Remember, I had crashed in the desert a thousand miles from any inhabited region.
magnificent/mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/великолепный8 раз в книге
Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/мил7 раз в книге
The first night, then, I went to sleep on the sand, a thousand miles from any human habitation.
pulley/ˈpʊɫi/блок, шкив7 раз в книге
“Everything is ready for use: the pulley, the bucket, the rope…” He laughed, touched the rope, and set the pulley to working.
lighted/ˈɫaɪtəd/зажёгший7 раз в книге
And he lighted his lamp again.
globe/ˈɡɫoʊb/сфера, шар7 раз в книге
… and added to himself, “This flower is a very complex creature…” “At night I want you to put me under a glass globe.
bushes/ˈbʊʃəz/кустарничек5 раз в книге
“It is true, isn’t it, that sheep eat little bushes?”
muzzle/ˈməzəɫ/намордник5 раз в книге
I will draw you a muzzle for your sheep.
asteroid/ˈæstɝˌɔɪd/астероид, малая планета5 раз в книге
I have serious reason to believe that the planet from which the little prince came is the asteroid known as B-612.
obey/oʊˈbeɪ/подчиниться, подчиняться, покориться5 раз в книге
… “if I ordered a general to change himself into a sea bird, and if the general did not obey me, that would not be the fault of the general.
butterfly/ˈbətɝˌfɫaɪ/мотылёк, бабочка, мотыль5 раз в книге
Does he collect butterflies?”
disturb/dɪˈstɝb/мешать, беспокоить, возмущать5 раз в книге
Again the little prince disturbed my thoughts: “And you actually believe that the flowers — ” “Oh, no!”
pencil/ˈpɛnsəɫ/карандаш5 раз в книге
And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing.
elephant/ˈɛɫəfənt/слон, слониха5 раз в книге
It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
queer/ˈkwɪɹ/странный4 раза в книге
What a queer idea!”
thirst/ˈθɝst/жажда, смага4 раза в книге
And yet my little man seemed neither to be straying uncertainly among the sands, nor to be fainting from fatigue or hunger or thirst or fear.
thirsty/ˈθɝsti/жаждущий, томимый жажда|жаждой, хотеть пить4 раза в книге
“He has never been either hungry or thirsty.
salute/səˈɫut/отдать честь, отдавать честь, поприветствовать4 раза в книге
“It is to raise in salute when people acclaim me.
petal/ˈpɛtəɫ/лепесток4 раза в книге
They had only one ring of petals; they took up no room at all; they were a trouble to nobody.
scarcely/ˈskɛɹsɫi/вряд ли, еле, еле-еле4 раза в книге
It was a question of life or death for me: I had scarcely enough drinking water to last a week.
sorrow/ˈsɑɹoʊ/грусть, скорбь, горе4 раза в книге
And once again, without understanding why, I had a queer sense of sorrow.
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/воскликнуть, восклицать, вскрикивать4 раза в книге
Then they would exclaim: “Oh, what a pretty house that is!”
cough/ˈkɑf/и наружу через рот кашлять, кашлянуть4 раза в книге
Embarrassed over having let herself be caught on the verge of such a naïve untruth, she coughed two or three times, in order to put the little prince in the wrong.
flush/ˈfɫəʃ/покраснел4 раза в книге
And he flushed.
Переводы: WikDict, English to Russian (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA), with the Mueller dictionary for words it lacks Транскрипция: ipa-dict (MIT), по данным Викисловаря.
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