75 лучших рассказов / 75 Best Short Stories. Коллектив авторов
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СКАЧАТЬ – in the Old Testament, Sarah’s maid and Abraham’s mistress, the mother of his illegitimate son, Ishmael

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      Britannia metal – the alloy composed of tin, antimony and copper, used for making household utensils

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      Penzance – a town in Cornwall where the English Channel joins the Atlantic Ocean

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      escutcheon – a metal plate placed on a wooden article either to decorate it or to protect the wood

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      chartreuse – the liqueur made from more than 130 different plants by the monks of La Grande Chartreuse in France

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      Derby – one of the most famous English horse races, an annual event since 1730; the Derby is run on the first Saturday of June.

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      cheroot – a thin cigar open at both ends

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      claret – famous Bordeaux wine made since Roman times in the region around the city of Bordeaux in France; the word claret is not used in modern French.

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      hansom – a low two-wheeled open carriage with the elevated driver’s seat

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      West Kensington – a fashionable district in central London

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      W. – West

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      brougham – a four-wheeled one-horse carriage designed in 1838 by Henry Brougham, a former lord chancellor of England

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      kept me on tenter-hooks – idiom kept me in a state of anxiety

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      Alabama – the US state in the south (131 334 sq. km); the first Europeans who came there were the Spanish, the first settlement was founded by the French in 1701; after the war of 1763, the territory was ceded to England.

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      the Federal army – the army of the federal government in the American Civil War of 1861–1865 with 11 Southern states

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      the Southern cause – the southern states seceded from the Union in 1860–1861; the Northern and the Southern states had different economies, different attitude to slavery, trade and the very idea of states’ rights.

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      Corinth – a city in northeastern Mississippi; the bloody battle took place to the north of the city during the American Civil War.

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      the Yanks – Yankees, a nickname of the citizens of New England states; the word was used by Southerners for Northerners and Federal soldiers during the American Civil War.

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      Niagara – Niagara Falls on the Niagara River in northeastern North America, on the USA-Canadian border

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      Aeolian harps – Aeolian harp is a musical instrument in which sound is produced by the movement of the wind over the strings; in Greek mythology, Aeolus is the god of the winds.

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      delirium – mental state marked by confused thinking, hallucinations, etc. as a result of the intoxication of the bra

Примечания

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bungalows – a bungalow is a small one-storied house with a veranda

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Norfolk – a historic county on the North Sea coast in eastern England

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Norwich – a city in Norfolk; the first settlement was founded in Saxon times; in the 12th century, in the times of the Danes, and later, after the Norman Conquest, Norwich became an important market centre.

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Brownie – in English and Scottish folklore, a small fairy, a mythical being that inhabited houses and barns

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talisman – an object acting as a charm to bring good fortune and avert evil

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chariot – an open vehicle of ancient times with two or four wheels; it originated in about 3000 BC in Mesopotamia.

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calico – a cotton fabric with simple design, first made in Calicut, India, in the 11th century

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castanet – a musical instrument of a clapper type consisting of two pieces hinged by a cord, usually held in the hand and used by dancers in Spain and some parts of Italy

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elfish – in Germanic folklore, an elf is a spirit in a tiny human form; it usually causes disease and brings mischief.

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s’prise = surprise

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Lord Mayor – the title given to the mayor of London or some other large city

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Ohio – the US state in the Midwest (106 125 sq. km), joined the USA after the American Revolutionary War in 1783

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Indiana – the US state in the Midwest (93 491 sq. km), joined the USA after the American Revolutionary War

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Sandusky – a city on Lake Erie in northern Ohio, founded by the British in 1745

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Lake Erie – one of the five Great Lakes on the USA-Canadian border

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Wapping – an area in eastern London

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the old Globe Theatre – a theatre built in 1599 on the south bank of the Thames and famous for the performance of the greatest Shakespeare’s plays; it remained in use until 1644.

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Covent Garden – 1) London’s wholesale flower, fruit and vegetable market in central London at the time when the story СКАЧАТЬ