«Дракула» и другие лучшие мистические истории на английском. Коллектив авторов

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СКАЧАТЬ subject, published by the British government; Red book is an official, or canonical, collection of data or regulations.

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Bradshaw’s Guide – a series of railway timetables and travelers’ guide books

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the Honfoglalas – Hungarian conquest or land-taking, resulting in the settlement of the Hungarian people in Central Europe (9–10th centuries)

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shame of Cassova – he means the Turkish victory at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, fought between the Serbian Principality and the invading Ottoman Empire.

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the Crescent – the symbol of Islam and the Ottoman Empire

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battle of Mohács (1526) – the battle fought between the forces of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I, and the forces of the Kingdom of Hungary, resulting in the Ottoman victory

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Omnia Romae venalia sunt – Everything in Rome is for sale. (Latin)

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‘Marmion’ – a poem by Walter Scott (1771–1832) about the Battle of Flodden Field (1513)

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fash masel – trouble myself (local language)

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cured herrin’s – herring, preserved by fermentation, or pickling, or smoking

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gang ageean wards – go ahead towards

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crammle aboon the grees – climb about the steps

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lack belly-timber sairly by the clock – I’m hungry, surely, it’s time

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lock, stock, and barrel – everything, all of it

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bairns – children

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a’belderin’ – crying

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touters – here: crooks

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skeer = scare

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hafflin – youth

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steans – tombstones

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acant – crooked

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scowderment – chaos, confusion

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jouped – jumbled

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Yabblins — possibly

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balm-bowl – chamber pot

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kirkgarth – churchyard

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consate — imagine

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be happed here – are buried here

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snod an’ snog – smooth and compact

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toom – empty

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baccabox – mouth

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aftest abaft – near stern

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bier-bank – churchyard path

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antherums – doubts

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jommling and jostling – jamming and pushing

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thruff-stone – a table-like tombstone covering the entire body

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gawm – understand

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acrewk’d – twisted

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lamiter – a deformed person

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the clegs and dowps – the flies and the crows

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Gabriel – archangel, messenger from God to people

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keckle – to cackle, to laugh

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aud – old

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daffled – beaten down

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abaft the krok-hooal — about the crock-hole (grave)

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caffin’ – joking

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The chafts will wag as they be used to — the chaps will laugh as they’re used to do

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dooal – pity

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mares tails — clouds in the form of thin, wispy strands

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lanthorns – the chambers at the top of lighthouses, surrounding the light

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mirabile dictu – amazingly (Latin)

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theyoungCasabianca – Giocante, young son of Luc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca, the captain of a French ship ‘Orient.’ During the Battle of the Nile in 1798 he remained at the burning ship not to leave his post without his father’s orders. Both of them and the remaining crew were killed in the explosion of the ship.

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wolds – woods on high ground

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cum grano – with a grain (Latin); the phrase ‘cum grano salis’ (with a grain of salt) means ‘with a bit of common sense.’

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sent a round robin – a petition or protest, having the signatures in a circle (not to guess the order of signing)

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Jack Sheppard – a famous London thief and gaol-breaker of the 18th century.

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kick the beam — to be of light weight or of misguided judgment

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virgin crants and maiden strewments – from William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet,’ Act 5, Stage 1.

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perfeshunal subjucts – professional subjects

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bloomin’ ’arf-quid – half-quid; quid = 1 pound.

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dessay – dare say