«Лунный камень»: 40 слов, которые стоит выучить перед чтением
The Moonstone
40 слов из книги «Лунный камень» (Уилки Коллинз): 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.
aunt/ˈænt/тётя, тётка, тётушка120 раз в книге
… we have been talking of the loss of the Indian Diamond, in my aunt’s house in Yorkshire, two years since.
mistress/ˈmɪstɹəs/госпожа, хозяйка82 раза в книге
It was all one to me where I went, so long as my mistress and I were together.
till/ˈtɪɫ/до, до тех пор пока76 раз в книге
There I lived till Miss Julia married the late Sir John Verinder.
nightgownночная рубашка, ночная сорочка, ночнушка71 раз в книге
But for that outfit, we should have discovered a new nightgown or petticoat among Rosanna’s things, and have nailed her in that way.
ladyshipблагородие, милость, миледи63 раза в книге
“We gratefully thank your ladyship,” I said; “but we ask your permission to do what is right in this matter by giving up our keys.
jewel/ˈdʒuəɫ/драгоценный камень, самоцвет58 раз в книге
… I must revert for a moment to the period before the assault, and to the stories current in our camp of the treasure in jewels and gold stored up in the Palace of Seringapatam.
temper/ˈtɛmpɝ/нрав, темперамент, характер55 раз в книге
A foolish wrangle followed; and Herncastle’s unlucky temper got the better of him.
afterwards/ˈæftɝwɝdz/после, потом, впоследствии54 раза в книге
… two years ago, and how it came to be lost in little more than twelve hours afterwards.
opium/ˈoʊpiəm/опий, опиум48 раз в книге
Sometimes they said he was given up to smoking opium and collecting old books; sometimes he was reported to be trying strange things in chemistry …
plainly/ˈpɫeɪnɫi/ясно45 раз в книге
Herncastle’s fiery temper had been, as I could plainly see, exasperated to a kind of frenzy by the terrible slaughter through which we had passed.
upstairs/əpˈstɛɹz/вверх по лестнице44 раза в книге
When I wanted to go upstairs, there was my wife coming down; or when my wife wanted to go down, there was I coming up.
honour/ˈɑnɝ/честь43 раза в книге
And I declare, on my word of honour, that what I am now about to write is, strictly and literally, the truth.
smear/ˈsmɪɹ/мазать, размазать, размазывать41 раз в книге
says Mr. Superintendent, suddenly pointing to a little smear of the decorative painting on Miss Rachel’s door, at the outer edge, just under the lock.
instantly/ˈɪnstəntɫi/сразу41 раз в книге
… when I know a family plate-basket to be out on a pantry-table, is to be instantly reminded of that basket by the sight of a strolling stranger whose manners are superior to my own.
proceedings/pɹəˈsidɪŋz/действия39 раз в книге
… except that he was pretty and delicate-looking—the two girls had stolen along the inner side of the hedge between us and the road, and had watched the proceedings of the foreigners on the outer side.
distress/dɪˈstɹɛs/бедствие, беда39 раз в книге
My mistress came out among us, looking sorely puzzled and distressed.
laudanum/ˈɫɔdənəm/лауданум34 раза в книге
“Who gave me the laudanum, without my knowing it myself?”
innocence/ˈɪnəsəns/невинность, невиновность34 раза в книге
It was no longer a question of quieting my young lady’s nervous excitement; it was a question of proving her innocence.
oblige/əˈbɫaɪdʒ/быть обязанный|обязанным33 раза в книге
… no doubt, on people who are really obliged to get their living, to be forced to work for the clothes that cover them …
inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/спрашивать, справляться32 раза в книге
When I inquire what this means, Penelope says, “Fiddlesticks!”
thief/ˈθif/вор, воришка, воровка32 раза в книге
Early in the morning, the plunder still going on, General Baird announced publicly by beat of drum, that any thief detected in the fact, be he whom he might, should be hung.
interval/ˈɪntɝvəɫ/интервал, промежуток32 раза в книге
On summoning up my own recollections—and on getting Penelope to help me, by consulting her journal—I find that we may pass pretty rapidly over the interval between Mr. Franklin Blake’s arrival and Miss Rachel’s birthday.
dreadful/ˈdɹɛdfəɫ/страшный, ужасный, кошмарный31 раз в книге
… in regard to thinking about it, being truly dreadful after my lady had gone away, I applied the remedy which I have never yet found to fail me in cases of doubt and emergency.
privately/ˈpɹaɪvətɫi/про себя31 раз в книге
I modestly declared myself to be quite unequal to the task imposed upon me—and I privately felt, all the time …
quicksand/ˈkwɪkˌsænd/зыбучие пески, зыбучий песок, зыбун30 раз в книге
Between the two, shifting backwards and forwards at certain seasons of the year, lies the most horrible quicksand on the shores of Yorkshire.
miserable/ˈmɪzɝəbəɫ/бедный, несчастный30 раз в книге
We were not a happy couple, and not a miserable couple.
rouse/ˈɹaʊs/пробуждаться29 раз в книге
I was roused up by my daughter Penelope running out at me as if the house was on fire.
drawer/ˈdɹɔɹ/ящик, выдвижной ящик29 раз в книге
One of the drawers inside was pulled out as far as it would go.
downstairs/ˈdaʊnˈstɛɹz/вниз, внизу, на нижнем этаже28 раз в книге
I went downstairs with the message, of which I took the liberty of presenting a new and amended edition of my own contriving …
sailor/ˈseɪɫɝ/матрос, мореплаватель, моряк28 раз в книге
It is a case (as a sailor would say) of very fine steering.
juggler/ˈdʒəɡəɫɝ/жонглёр, жонглёрша27 раз в книге
She wanted to have the three Indian jugglers instantly taken up; for this reason …
pardon/ˈpɑɹdən/прощение27 раз в книге
“One of them (if you will pardon my mentioning it) was never keeping to the matter in hand.
fetch/ˈfɛtʃ/установить26 раз в книге
The only difficulty is to fetch out the dates, in the first place.
terrace/ˈtɛɹəs/терраса26 раз в книге
… when I was stopped by hearing a sound like the soft beating of a drum, on the terrace in front of my lady’s residence.
disposal/dɪˈspoʊzəɫ/распоряжение26 раз в книге
In that case, and in no other, certain sealed instructions relating to the disposal of the Diamond, and deposited with it, were to be opened, and followed implicitly.
maid/ˈmeɪd/горничная, служанка25 раз в книге
… when old enough, to be Miss Rachel’s own maid.
useless/ˈjusɫəs/бесполезный, никчёмный25 раз в книге
Quite useless!
objection/əbˈdʒɛkʃən/возражение25 раз в книге
But she points out one objection.
puzzle/ˈpəzəɫ/загадка, затруднение25 раз в книге
“It’s just possible, Betteredge, that my stranger and your three jugglers may turn out to be pieces of the same puzzle.”
stain/ˈsteɪn/пятно24 раза в книге
“The stain is taken off,” she said.
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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