«История доктора Дулиттла»: 40 слов, которые стоит выучить перед чтением
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
40 слов из книги «История доктора Дулиттла» (Хью Лофтинг): 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.
monkey/ˈməŋki/валять дурака58 раз в книге
And when that red-faced booby started to monkey with me, I just couldn’t bear it any more.”
parrot/ˈpɛɹət/попугай35 раз в книге
But his favorite pets were Dab-Dab the duck, Jip the dog, Gub-Gub the baby pig, Polynesia the parrot, and the owl Too-Too.
sail/ˈseɪɫ/плыть, плыть под парусами27 раз в книге
And I sail the ocean Blue.
till/ˈtɪɫ/до, до тех пор пока20 раз в книге
… like the dormice and the water-voles and the bats, they will have to go back and live in the fields where they were born till we come home again.
sailor/ˈseɪɫɝ/матрос, мореплаватель, моряк17 раз в книге
The parrot, Polynesia, was sitting in the window looking out at the rain and singing a sailor-song to herself.
jungle/ˈdʒəŋɡəɫ/джунгли17 раз в книге
I hear footsteps in the jungle!”
snuff/ˈsnəf/нюхательный табак, снафф16 раз в книге
“Snuff, by Jingo!—Black Rappee snuff.
downstairs/ˈdaʊnˈstɛɹz/вниз, внизу, на нижнем этаже14 раз в книге
So Polynesia took him downstairs into the inside of the ship and showed him the beds, set all on top of one another like book-shelves against a wall.
crocodile/ˈkɹɑkəˌdaɪɫ/крокодил13 раз в книге
And another time, when the circus came to Puddleby, the crocodile who had a bad toothache escaped at night and came into the Doctor’s garden.
pirate/ˈpaɪɹət/пиратский12 раз в книге
When they reached the shore they saw the pirate-ship, with the three red sails …
anchor/ˈæŋkɝ/якорь12 раз в книге
And you must have beef in cans—and an anchor.”
shark/ˈʃɑɹk/акула12 раз в книге
“The sharks!
palace/ˈpæɫəs/дворец, чертог11 раз в книге
WHEN they had gone a little way through the thick forest, they came to a wide, clear space; and they saw the King’s palace which was made of mud.
lion/ˈɫaɪən/лев, львица11 раз в книге
So he sent messages to the other animals, like the lions and the leopards and the antelopes, to come and help with the nursing.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/миль10 раз в книге
… but drove every Saturday all the way to Oxenthorpe, another town ten miles off, to see a different doctor.
terribly/ˈtɛɹəbɫi/очень10 раз в книге
One day a plow-horse was brought to him; and the poor thing was terribly glad to find a man who could talk in horse-language.
clever/ˈkɫɛvɝ/умный, изобретательный, искусный9 раз в книге
And whenever he walked down the street in his high hat everyone would say, “There goes the Doctor!—He’s a clever man.”
drown/ˈdɹaʊn/потонуть, тонуть, утонуть9 раз в книге
And then, just at that moment, the old man’s hat came floating by; and I got into it because I did not want to be drowned.”
dreadfully/ˈdɹɛdfəɫi/страшно8 раз в книге
Oh, sometimes people annoy me dreadfully—such airs they put on—talking about ‘the dumb animals.’
presently/ˈpɹɛzəntɫi/вскоре, скоро8 раз в книге
They all listened; and presently they heard the sound of some one running.
canary/kəˈnɛɹi/канарейка7 раз в книге
“Don’t you hear the canaries singing?”
seashore/ˈsiˌʃɔɹ/берег море|моря, побережье, приморье6 раз в книге
And when they had seen that there was plenty of hay in the loft to last the horse through the Winter, they carried all their luggage down to the seashore and got on to the boat.
leopard/ˈɫɛpɝd/барс, леопард6 раз в книге
Then the leopards got proud too and said they wouldn’t help.
circus/ˈsɝkəs/цирк6 раз в книге
When the circus-men came to take him back he got so wild and savage that he frightened them away.
prince/ˈpɹɪns/принц, королевич, царевич6 раз в книге
“If I were only a white prince!”
upstairs/əpˈstɛɹz/вверх по лестнице6 раз в книге
I want to go upstairs again and see them start.”
fisherman/ˈfɪʃɝˌmæn/рыбак, рыбачка, рыболов6 раз в книге
But he said he didn’t want to be a pirate, because killing people and stealing was no work for a good fisherman to do.
dungeon/ˈdəndʒən/темница, подземелье, склеп5 раз в книге
So six of the black men led the Doctor and all his pets away and shut them up in a stone dungeon.
din/ˈdɪn/шум5 раз в книге
They looked under the mat; they looked under all the carpets; they looked in all the cupboards and drawers and lockers—in the big chests in the ship’s dining-room; they looked everywhere.
roast/ˈɹoʊst/жареный5 раз в книге
“I smell roast beef cooking,” he mumbled—“underdone roast beef—with brown gravy over it.”
swift/ˈswɪft/быстрый5 раз в книге
“They are bad sailors,” said Jip; “and their ship is very swift.
sniff/ˈsnɪf/нюхать, понюхать, принюхаться5 раз в книге
She found Gub-Gub poking his nose through the bars of the window, trying to sniff the cooking-smells that came from the palace-kitchen.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/испугать, напугать, пугать5 раз в книге
When she flew down to get it, she found one of the white mice, very frightened, sitting inside it.
unhappy/ənˈhæpi/несчастный5 раз в книге
The Doctor saw at once that the monkey’s collar was too tight and that he was dirty and unhappy.
cliff/ˈkɫɪf/вертикальный обрыв скалы утёс, клиф, скала5 раз в книге
Then they all took shelter in a nice dry cave they found, high up in the cliffs, till the storm was over.
drawer/ˈdɹɔɹ/ящик, выдвижной ящик5 раз в книге
Then he sold his piano, and let the mice live in a bureau-drawer.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/завтрашний день, следующий день, утро4 раза в книге
Just think—it’ll be a hundred and sixty-nine years to-morrow since I was here!
conceited/kənˈsitəd/самодовольный, тщеславный4 раза в книге
“They’re just conceited.
stairs/ˈstɛɹz/ступенька, лестница4 раза в книге
And she went back up the stairs of the ship, humming this song to herself,
grinder/ˈɡɹaɪndɝ/шарманщик4 раза в книге
Once when he was sitting on his garden wall, smoking a pipe in the evening, an Italian organ-grinder came round with a monkey on a string.
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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