О. Генри - Лучшие рассказы О. Генри = The Best of O. Henry

mein Gott – My God ( German )

Ausgespielt – here: Finish ( German )

Spiel! Zwei Bier! Vamoose! – here: Make off! Run away! ( German & slang English )

Gott in Himmel! = Heavens! ( German )

Schnapps = vodka ( German )

Nero (37–68) – the fifth Roman emperor known for his infamous behavior, persecutions of Christians and burning of Rome

the Gulf States – the states located along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico

Alexander – Alexander the Great (356 BC–323 BC), king of Macedonia, famous for his conquest of the Persian Empire and the Indian campaign

staccato = abruptly ( music )

city marshal – an official responsible for public order in the city ( American )

feeling blue – feeling sad, depressed (idiom)

fortissimo = very loudly ( music )

desperado – a person liable to behave recklessly

cun-cussion = contusion

tanglefoot = whisky, alcohol ( colloquial )

Santa Guadalupe – Our Lady of Guadalupe; the Virgin Mary appeared before Juan Diego, an Aztec converted to Christianity, in 1531.

La Paz – a city in west-central Bolivia, the administrative capital of the country

Hotspur – Sir Henry Percy, byname Hotspur, (1364–1403), an English rebel against King James IV, and a major character of Shakespeare’s ‘Henry IV’

Port Limon – a city and port of eastern Costa Rica, a country of the Caribbean region

Colon – a city and port in north-central Panama, founded in 1850

Callao – a city and the major port of Peru, located west of Lima

Graeco = Greco, Greek

Hessen-Darmstadt – a former grand-duchy and state of Germany, formed in 1567

triste = here: miserable (Spanish)

galeria = gallery (Spanish)

dolce far niente – sweet idleness (Italian)

Cape Cod – a peninsula in southern Massachusetts, extending 105 km into the Atlantic Ocean

Sphinx – here: an enigmatic and inscrutable person

aconite – a poisonous herb

Bermudas – Bermuda islands in the western North Atlantic Ocean

Bulwer-Lyttonese – Edward George Earle Bulwer Lytton (1803–1879), a British politician, poet, novelist and critic

frappéd – tightly bound (nautical)

Concepción – a city in south-central Chile, founded in 1550

Valparaiso – a region on the Pacific coast in central Chile

Lima – the capital of Peru

James O’Neill (1849–1920) – an American actor, best remembered for his role of the Count of Monte Cristo

anteojos = glasses, spectacles (Spanish)

bien venido = dear (Spanish)

Casa des Huespedes, Numero 6, en la calle de las Buenas Gracias – the Guest House, Number 6, in the street of Many Thanks (Spanish)

correo = post (Spanish)

mantilla – in Spain and Latin America, a lace scarf worn by women over the head and shoulders

Arcady – Arcadia, a region of ancient Greece with its pastoral life and isolation, represented as a paradise in Greco-Roman poetry and the literature of the Renaissance

duster – a long loose coat without buttons worn by women

buenas tardes = Good afternoon (day) (Spanish)

mestizos – metises (Spanish) , persons of mixed, usually white and American Indian, origin

San Domingo – the capital of the Dominican Republic, a country in Central America, founded in 1496 by Bartholomew Columbus, the brother of Christopher Columbus

Vandyke – Anthony Van Dyke (1599–1641), the most prominent Flemish painter of the 17th century after Rubens

diablos Americanos = American devils (Spanish)

the Cumberland mountains – the Cumberland Plateau, 65–80 km wide and 725 km long, the western part of the Appalachian Mountains

Hymen – in Greek mythology, the god of marriage

Cupid – in Roman mythology, the god of love (Greek Eros)

pow-wow – the words used by the American Indians in curing rituals

Lothario – a fictional character whose main aim is to seduce women

curcumlocute – to use many words in an attempt to conceal or evade smth.

Gertrude Atherton (1854–1948) – an American writer and novelist, the author of fictional biographies and history books

Edward Bok (1863–1930) – an American editor of periodicals for women, an innovator in the field of periodical journalism

m. e. – here: military expert

Associated Press – a 24-hour news agency, the oldest in the USA and the largest in the world, founded in 1846 in New York City to provide information about the Mexican-American War

Caracas – the capital of Venezuela, and one of the major cities in South America, founded in 1567

Zamora – a valley and city in west-central Mexico; the city was founded in 1540.

Los Andes – the Andes, a mountainous system of South America, one of the greatest on the Earth

Miranda – a state in Venezuela

Marguerite – one of the main characters in Charles Gounod’s opera ‘Faust’ based on Goethe’s poem of the same name

calabosa – calabozo = prison, jail ( Spanish )

camino = road (Spanish)

Auf Wiedersehen = good-bye (German)

der = the (German)

the Guarico River – a river in central Venezuela

Emerson – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) – an American philosopher, poet, essayist and lecturer