75 лучших рассказов / 75 Best Short Stories. Коллектив авторов

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СКАЧАТЬ Strand – the street in central London linking the West End and the City of London

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Waterloo Station – a main line railway station in London

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hors de combat – disabled due to the wound or injury

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K. C. – King’s Counsel

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Kingsway – a street in central London where companies’ offices are located

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the Aldwych Theatre – a theatre on the corner of Drury Lane in the West End, built in 1905

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Lancashire – a county in northwestern England

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Bakkan – a province and city in Vietnam

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M. P. – Member of Parliament

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Chancery Lane – a street in central London where lawyers’ offices are located

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the Law Courts – the main building of the House of Justice where all important judicial decisions are adopted

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New Oxford Street – a street in central London, the shopping centre of the city

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Lincoln’s Inn Fields – a street in central London

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inamorata = sweetheart, beloved (Italian)

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Knightsbridge – an area in west-central London with expensive jewellers’ and antique shops

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sine qua non – necessary conditions (Latin)

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St. George and his Dragon – a Christian martyr of the 3d century and the patron saint of England; St. George saved a Libyan king’s daughter from the dragon and killed the monster in return for the promise that the people of Libya would be baptized.

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cromlechs – in prehistoric architecture, a cromlech is an acircle of stones enclosed by a broad rampant

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Cornwall – a historic county on the Atlantic coast in southwestern England

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St. Yves – a coastal town in Cornwall

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Wesleyanism – the Wesleyan church, one of the Protestant churches, founded by John Wesley (1703–1791), a clergyman and church reformer; the members of the Wesleyan church promise to live a sinless life.

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Sarah – a biblical figure, in the Old Testament, the wife of Abraham and the mother of Isaac

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Abraham – in the Old Testament, the first of the Hebrew patriarchs, revered in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

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Hagar – 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 brain caused by fever or some other physical disorder

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Monterey – a city in California, 135 km south of San Francisco; the first Europeans in the region were the Spanish in 1542.

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the Blavatsky people – followers of Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891), an occultist and spiritualist; she founded the Theosophical Society to promote theosophy (divine wisdom), a philosophical-religious system.

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Sepoy – 1) a place in India; 2) an Indian soldier in the service of the British India Company.

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the Thugs – members of the Indian organization of professional assassins who travelled throughout the country for several cen-turies since 1356

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vraisemblance = love of truth (French)

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Garrick – David Garrick (1717–1779), a famous English actor, producer and dramatist, one of the managers of the Drury Lane Theatre in London

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the Syndicate Mill – a mill belonging to the Syndicate, an association of racketeers in control of organized crime in the USA

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Dionysius (430 BC–367 BC) – a tyrant of Syracuse, an ancient СКАЧАТЬ