«Портрет Дориана Грея»: 40 слов, которые стоит выучить перед чтением
The Picture of Dorian Gray
40 слов из книги «Портрет Дориана Грея» (Оскар Уайльд): 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.
charm/ˈtʃɑɹm/обаяние, очарование, чары64 раза в книге
You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
murmur/ˈmɝmɝ/журчание, шелест, шорох44 раза в книге
The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine …
dreadful/ˈdɹɛdfəɫ/страшный, ужасный, кошмарный43 раза в книге
… there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people …
duchess/ˈdətʃəs/герцогиня, княгиня32 раза в книге
… much liked by every one who knew her, and of those ample architectural proportions that in women who are not duchesses are described by contemporary historians as stoutness.
hideous/ˈhɪdiəs/безобразный, отвратительный, страшный32 раза в книге
How perfectly hideous they are!
coloured/ˈkəɫɝd/крашеный30 раз в книге
It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
delightful/dɪˈɫaɪtfəɫ/восхитительный, очаровательный, приятный29 раз в книге
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful.
fancy/ˈfænsi/каприз, прихоть, причуда29 раз в книге
… and made a little moue of discontent to Lord Henry, to whom he had rather taken a fancy.
exquisite/ˈɛkskwəzət/изысканный, изящный26 раз в книге
I had a strange feeling that fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.
monstrous/ˈmɑnstɹəs/чудовищный, отвратительный25 раз в книге
Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
worship/ˈwɝʃəp/чтить, благоговеть, боготворить23 раза в книге
No wonder Basil Hallward worshipped him.
till/ˈtɪɫ/до, до тех пор пока23 раза в книге
I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.
romance/ˈɹoʊmæns/романтика23 раза в книге
It is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one’s life.
stain/ˈsteɪn/пятнать, пачкать22 раза в книге
… thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame—”
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/воскликнуть, восклицать, вскрикивать22 раза в книге
exclaimed Hallward, frowning.
colour/ˈkəɫɝ/колер21 раз в книге
Some day you will look at your friend, and he will seem to you to be a little out of drawing, or you won’t like his tone of colour, or something.
theatre/ˈθiətɝ/театр19 раз в книге
“Let us go to the theatre to-night,” said Lord Henry.
scarlet/ˈskɑɹɫət/алый, багровый, багряный18 раз в книге
Yes, he was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair.
shudder/ˈʃədɝ/дрожать, содрогаться18 раз в книге
It makes me shudder when I hear it.
sorrow/ˈsɑɹoʊ/грусть, скорбь, горе18 раз в книге
… whose joys seem to be remote from one, but whose sorrows stir one’s sense of beauty, and whose wounds are like red roses.
frown/ˈfɹaʊn/насупленные брови, нахмуренные брови, хмурый взгляд18 раз в книге
asked Hallward, with a slight frown.
marvellous/ˈmɑɹvəɫəs/замечательный17 раз в книге
It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us.
pity/ˈpɪti/жаль, сожаление17 раз в книге
It will be a great pity, for it will alter you.
mutter/ˈmətɝ/бормотать, бубнить, бурчать17 раз в книге
“You should have gone away when I asked you,” he muttered.
horrid/ˈhɔɹəd/отвратительный, ужасный16 раз в книге
The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.
horribly/ˈhɔɹəbɫi/страшно, ужасно16 раз в книге
“How horribly unjust of you!”
poison/ˈpɔɪzən/отравлять, отравить, травить16 раз в книге
Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.
tremble/ˈtɹɛmbəɫ/дрожать, трепетать, трястись16 раз в книге
His finely chiselled nostrils quivered, and some hidden nerve shook the scarlet of his lips and left them trembling.
fantastic/fænˈtæstɪk/великолепный, превосходный, чудесный16 раз в книге
He was brilliant, fantastic, irresponsible.
silly/ˈsɪɫi/глупый, дурной, тупой16 раз в книге
It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
vulgar/ˈvəɫɡɝ/вульгарный, неприличный, непристойный15 раз в книге
The Academy is too large and too vulgar.
spoil/ˈspɔɪɫ/баловать, избаловать15 раз в книге
Don’t spoil him.
jewel/ˈdʒuəɫ/драгоценный камень, самоцвет15 раз в книге
The waving of crooked, false-jewelled fingers gave grotesqueness to the words.
absurd/əbˈsɝd/нелепый, абсурдный15 раз в книге
When we meet—we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke’s—we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces.
dull/ˈdəɫ/скучный15 раз в книге
You never open your lips while you are painting, and it is horribly dull standing on a platform and trying to look pleasant.
terribly/ˈtɛɹəbɫi/грозно, жутко, страшно15 раз в книге
… Dorian Gray’s good looks—we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.”
upstairs/əpˈstɛɹz/вверх по лестнице15 раз в книге
One could hear her singing as she ran upstairs.
shallow/ˈʃæɫoʊ/мелкий, неглубокий, поверхностный15 раз в книге
But the world might guess it, and I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes.
gilt/ˈɡɪɫt/золотистый14 раз в книге
The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive.
fascinating/ˈfæsəˌneɪtɪŋ/обладающий интересными качествами14 раз в книге
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so …
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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