«Тридцать девять ступеней»: 40 слов, которые стоит выучить перед чтением
The Thirty-Nine Steps
40 слов из книги «Тридцать девять ступеней» (Джон Бакен): 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.
till/ˈtɪɫ/до, до тех пор пока43 раза в книге
I watched from my window till I saw you come home, and then slipped down the stair to meet you....
glen/ˈɡɫɛn/лощина25 раз в книге
We rumbled slowly into a land of little wooded glens and then to a great wide moorland place, gleaming with lochs, with high blue hills showing northwards.
moor/ˈmʊɹ/вересковый|вересковая пустошь, пустошь22 раза в книге
A child of ten received my ticket, and I emerged on a white road that straggled over the brown moor.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/миль17 раз в книге
Not tonight, for they’ll follow me forty miles along the road, but first thing tomorrow morning.
moorland/ˈmʊɹˌɫænd/верещатник16 раз в книге
A brown-faced woman was standing by the door, and greeted me with the kindly shyness of moorland places.
heather/ˈhɛðɝ/вереск16 раз в книге
By-and-by I came to a swell of moorland which dipped to the vale of a little river, and a mile away in the heather I saw the smoke of a train.
fool/ˈfuɫ/балбес, болван, глупец16 раз в книге
I found that out—not that it was difficult, for any fool could guess as much.
chap/ˈtʃæp/кент, малый, мужик15 раз в книге
I rather fancied the chap.
reckon/ˈɹɛkən/считать15 раз в книге
Say, sir, I’ve been watching you, and I reckon you’re a cool customer.
mile/ˈmaɪɫ/миля14 раз в книге
There was no plan of campaign in my head, only just to go on and on in this blessed, honest-smelling hill country, for every mile put me in better humour with myself.
herd/ˈhɝd/пастух14 раз в книге
It was some hours since I had tasted food, and I was getting very hungry when I came to a herd’s cottage set in a nook beside a waterfall.
cottage/ˈkɑtədʒ/небольшой дом14 раз в книге
The moor surged up around it and left room only for the single line, the slender siding, a waiting-room, an office, the station-master’s cottage, and a tiny yard of gooseberries and sweet-william.
mill/ˈmɪɫ/мельница14 раз в книге
A small mill-lade ran in a wooden aqueduct at the other side of the yard, and into this I fell.
tide/ˈtaɪd/прилив, отлив14 раз в книге
(“Thirty-nine steps”) was the phrase; and at its last time of use it ran—(“Thirty-nine steps, I counted them—high tide 10.17 p.m.”).
roadmanдорожный рабочий13 раз в книге
Then in a tiny bight of road, beside a heap of stones, I found the roadman.
ridge/ˈɹɪdʒ/горная цепь, горный хребет, хребет13 раз в книге
Over a long ridge of moorland I took my road, skirting the side of a high hill which the herd had called Cairnsmore of Fleet.
collar/ˈkɑɫɝ/воротник, ворот13 раз в книге
I hunted out a well-used tweed suit, a pair of strong nailed boots, and a flannel shirt with a collar.
queer/ˈkwɪɹ/странный12 раз в книге
He seemed to brace himself for a great effort, and then started on the queerest rigmarole.
butler/ˈbətɫɝ/дворецкий, домоправитель, камердинер12 раз в книге
The back door stood open, and a grave butler was awaiting me.
clever/ˈkɫɛvɝ/умный, изобретательный, искусный12 раз в книге
A clever man can make big profits on a falling market, and it suited the book of both classes to set Europe by the ears.
milkman/ˈmɪɫkˌmæn/разносчик молоко|молока, молочник11 раз в книге
But about twenty minutes to seven, as I knew from bitter experience, the milkman turned up with a great clatter of cans, and deposited my share outside my door.
aeroplaneаэроплан11 раз в книге
I was as certain as if I had been told that that aeroplane was looking for me, and that it did not belong to the police.
whistle/ˈhwɪsəɫ/свистеть, свистнуть11 раз в книге
I opened the front door, and there was my man, singling out my cans from a bunch he carried and whistling through his teeth.
murderer/ˈmɝdɝɝ/убийца, душегуб, киллер11 раз в книге
… for, unless the murderer came back, I had till about six o’clock in the morning for my cogitations.
cliff/ˈkɫɪf/вертикальный обрыв скалы утёс, клиф, скала11 раз в книге
I think it’s a piece of open coast with biggish cliffs, somewhere between the Wash and the Channel.
din/ˈdɪn/столовая10 раз в книге
… even the pockets of the clothes in my wardrobe, and the sideboard in the dining-room.
yarn/ˈjɑɹn/байка, небылица10 раз в книге
“Get on with your yarn,” I said, “and I’ll tell you.”
plump/ˈpɫəmp/округлый, полненький, полный10 раз в книге
two plump thrushes had blundered into it.
cigar/sɪˈɡɑɹ/сигара10 раз в книге
I left him with the newspaper and a box of cigars, and went down to the City till luncheon.
policeman/pəˈɫismən/полицейский10 раз в книге
Then I caught sight of a policeman a hundred yards down, and a loafer shuffling past on the other side.
puzzle/ˈpəzəɫ/озадачивать10 раз в книге
He told me some queer things that explained a lot that had puzzled me—things that happened in the Balkan War, how one state suddenly came out on top …
whisky/ˈhwɪski/виски9 раз в книге
There was a tray of drinks on a table beside him, from which he filled himself a stiff whisky-and-soda.
harbour/ˈhɑɹbɝ/гавань9 раз в книге
If it was a harbour it must be some little place where the tide mattered, or else it was a heavy-draught boat.
occupant/ˈɑkjəpənt/жилец, квартирант, квартирантка9 раз в книге
I recognized him as the occupant of a flat on the top floor, with whom I had passed the time of day on the stairs.
presently/ˈpɹɛzəntɫi/сейчас9 раз в книге
“Not Mr Scudder,” he corrected; “Captain Theophilus Digby, of the 40th Gurkhas, presently home on leave.
descend/dɪˈsɛnd/спускаться, сойти, спуститься9 раз в книге
The potato-digging station-master had been gingered up into some activity, for the west-going train was waiting to let us pass, and from it had descended three men who were asking him questions.
grey/ˈɡɹeɪ/серый8 раз в книге
There seemed no road to it from anywhere, and to increase the desolation the waves of a tarn lapped on their grey granite beach half a mile away.
innkeeper/ˈɪnˌkipɝ/корчмарка, корчмарь, трактирщик8 раз в книге
“You’re young to be an innkeeper,” I said.
dovecotголубятник8 раз в книге
From another window I saw that on the far side of the mill stood an old stone dovecot.
villa/ˈvɪɫə/вилла, загородный дом, дача8 раз в книге
I walked back through fields and lines of villas and terraces and then slums and mean streets, and it took me pretty nearly two hours.
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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