«Таинственный сад»: 40 слов, которые стоит выучить перед чтением
The Secret Garden
40 слов из книги «Таинственный сад» (Frances Hodgson Burnett): 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.
robin/ˈɹɑbən/зарянка, малиновка110 раз в книге
She thought of the robin and of the way he seemed to sing his song at her, and as she remembered the treetop he perched on she stopped rather suddenly on the path.
moor/ˈmʊɹ/вересковый|вересковая пустошь, пустошь90 раз в книге
The house is six hundred years old and it’s on the edge of the moor, and there’s near a hundred rooms in it, though most of them’s shut up and locked.
thee/ˈði/тебе, тебя, тобой90 раз в книге
“An’ tha’s browt th’ young ’un with thee.”
queer/ˈkwɪɹ/странно61 раз в книге
“How queer and quiet it is,” she said.
skip/ˈskɪp/пропускать, пропустить40 раз в книге
It was a strong, slender rope with a striped red and blue handle at each end, but Mary Lennox had never seen a skipping-rope before.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/испугать, напугать, пугать36 раз в книге
The woman looked frightened, but she only stammered that the Ayah could not come and when Mary threw herself into a passion and beat and kicked her …
cottage/ˈkɑtədʒ/домик34 раза в книге
Then they had passed a church and a vicarage and a little shopwindow or so in a cottage with toys and sweets and odd things set out for sale.
nest/ˈnɛst/гнездо32 раза в книге
He come out of th’ nest in th’ other garden an’ when first he flew over th’ wall he was too weak to fly back for a few days an’ we got friendly.
inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/спрашивать, справляться26 раз в книге
inquired Mary.
scarcely/ˈskɛɹsɫi/вряд ли, еле, еле-еле25 раз в книге
The wine made her so sleepy that she could scarcely keep her eyes open and she lay down on her bed and knew nothing more for a long time.
gardener/ˈɡɑɹdənɝ/садовник, садовница, садовод25 раз в книге
A slow smile spread over it and the gardener looked quite different.
lump/ˈɫəmp/бугорок23 раза в книге
“Look along th’ twigs an’ branches an’ if tha’ sees a bit of a brown lump swelling here an’ there, watch it after th’ warm rain an’ see what happens.”
spade/ˈspeɪd/заступ, лопата, штыковая лопата22 раза в книге
Presently an old man with a spade over his shoulder walked through the door leading from the second garden.
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/воскликнуть, восклицать, вскрикивать22 раза в книге
exclaimed the man, turning to his companions.
softly/ˈsɔfɫi/тихо21 раз в книге
said Mary, and she moved toward the little tree softly and looked up.
carriage/ˈkæɹɪdʒ/карета, воз, повозка20 раз в книге
When the next day they set out on their journey to Yorkshire, she walked through the station to the railway carriage with her head up and trying to keep as far away from her as she could, because she did not want to seem to belong to her.
lamb/ˈɫæm/ягнёнок, агнец, барашек20 раз в книге
… and the seeds we planted are up, and Dickon has brought the fox and the crow and the squirrels and a newborn lamb.”
temper/ˈtɛmpɝ/нрав, темперамент, характер19 раз в книге
Martha sat up on her heels, with her blacking-brush in her hand, and laughed, without seeming the least out of temper.
hop/ˈhɑp/подпрыгивать, подпрыгнуть, подскакивать19 раз в книге
He hopped about and pecked the earth briskly, looking for seeds and insects.
sour/ˈsaʊɝ/кислый19 раз в книге
She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression.
bush/ˈbʊʃ/куст, кустарник18 раз в книге
The robin flew down from his treetop and hopped about or flew after her from one bush to another.
cushion/ˈkʊʃən/подушка18 раз в книге
… and they drove off, the little girl found herself seated in a comfortably cushioned corner, but she was not inclined to go to sleep again.
oblige/əˈbɫaɪdʒ/быть обязанный|обязанным18 раз в книге
Two or three times she lost her way by turning down the wrong corridor and was obliged to ramble up and down until she found the right one; but at last she reached her own floor again …
startle/ˈstɑɹtəɫ/испугать, напугать, пугать18 раз в книге
He looked tired and troubled, but when he saw her he was so startled that he almost jumped back.
mysterious/mɪˈstɪɹiəs/таинственный, загадочный18 раз в книге
There was something mysterious in the air that morning.
gasp/ˈɡæsp/вздохнуть, вздыхать, открывать рот17 раз в книге
Mrs. Lennox gasped.
sofa/ˈsoʊfə/диван, канапе, кушетка17 раз в книге
It made her jump and look around at the sofa by the fireplace, from which it seemed to come.
weed/ˈwid/полоть, прополоть17 раз в книге
She searched about until she found a rather sharp piece of wood and knelt down and dug and weeded out the weeds and grass until she made nice little clear places around them.
scent/ˈsɛnt/запах17 раз в книге
The sun was shining and a little wind was blowing —not a rough wind, but one which came in delightful little gusts and brought a fresh scent of newly turned earth with it.
fond/ˈfɑnd/любить, нравиться16 раз в книге
Everyone was too panic-stricken to think of a little girl no one was fond of.
delight/dɪˈɫaɪt/восторг, наслаждение, удовольствие16 раз в книге
But she knew he had followed her and the surprise so filled her with delight that she almost trembled a little.
puzzle/ˈpəzəɫ/озадаченный16 раз в книге
Mary listened to her with a grave, puzzled expression.
grin/ˈɡɹɪn/усмешка, ухмылка16 раз в книге
“That’s th’ moor,” with a good-natured grin.
springtime/ˈspɹɪŋˌtaɪm/весенний сезон, весеннее время года, весна15 раз в книге
That’s because th’ springtime’s on its way.
tantrum/ˈtæntɹəm/истерика, приступ гнева15 раз в книге
If he’d been like he is most times he’d have throwed himself into one of his tantrums and roused th’ house.
squirrel/ˈskwɝəɫ/белка, веверица, векша15 раз в книге
He moved so slowly that it scarcely seemed as though he were moving at all, but at last he stood on his feet and then the squirrel scampered back up into the branches of his tree, the pheasant withdrew his head and the rabbits dropped on all fours and began to hop away …
till/ˈtɪɫ/до, до тех пор пока15 раз в книге
He was a sour young man and got no good of all his money and big place till he was married.”
awake/əˈweɪk/бодрствующий, не спящий, проснувшийся15 раз в книге
She had no intention of going to sleep, and, in fact, she was becoming wider awake every day which passed at Misselthwaite.
rabbit/ˈɹæbət/кролик, крольчиха15 раз в книге
“Well,” said Martha stoutly, “I’ve told thee that th’ very birds likes him an’ th’ rabbits an’ wild sheep an’ ponies, an’ th’ foxes themselves.
lonely/ˈɫoʊnɫi/одинокий15 раз в книге
Since she had been living in other people’s houses and had had no Ayah, she had begun to feel lonely and to think queer thoughts which were new to her.
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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