Array Коллектив авторов: 30 лучших рассказов американских писателей

Marion Crawford – Francis Marion Crawford (1854–1909), an American novelist, poet and journalist.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) – an American poet and journalist.

Sic transit gloria urbis. – So passes the glory of the town. ( Latin )

Caliphs – here: rulers; caliph is a ruler in a Moslem community.

Oratama – a Spanish town invented by the author.

alcalde – the head (both administrative and judicial) of a town or village in Spain.

the Cordilleras – also called the Andes, a mountain system of South America.

Roosevelt – Theodor Roosevelt (1858–1919), president of the United States in 1901–1909; he got the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1906.

Grover Cleveland (1837–1908) – an honest and principled politician, president of the USA in 1885–1889 and 1893–1897.

Adam – a biblical figure, the first man on Earth created by God ‘in His own image’ on the sixth day of Creation.

Talleyrand (1754–1858) – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, a French statesman and diplomat during the French Revolution, under Napoleon, and later at the Restoration of the Bourbon monarchy.

Mrs. De Pompadour – Marquise de Pompadour (1721–1764), an influential figure at the court of Louis XV of France and since 1745 his mistress.

Loeb – Jacques Loeb (1859–1924), a famous American biologist.

Long Island Sound – the arm of the North Atlantic Ocean between the New York shore and Long Island.

Oyster Bay – a town in the state of New York on central Long Island, founded in 1653–1660.

Nebuchadnezzars – here: barbarians, savages; Nebuchadnezzar II (630 BC–561 BC) was the great king of Babylonia, famous for his military expeditions to the Middle East where he, at different time, conquered Syria and Palestine, and crushed the Egyptian army.

seguramente = of course, certainly. (S panish )

Aztec – an ancient civilization that formed an enormous empire in the 15th–16th centuries in what is now Mexico.

Yucatan – Yucatan Peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.

carruaje = carriage. ( Spanish )

baile = ball, dance. ( Spanish )

botica = drugstore. ( Spanish )

Belize – a river in Central America, and a town and seaport on the Caribbean coast.

The Guilty Party – An East Side Tragedy

New Jersey – the US state (19 479 sq. km) on the Atlantic coast.

the South Sea Islands – the Marquesas Islands, Gilbert Islands, Tahiti, Samoa, etс.

Maypole – a painted pole decorated with flowers around which people dance on May Day.

Buffalo Bill’s show – Buffalo Bill’s circus.

By Geronimo! – an exclamation of annoyance; Geronimo (1829–1903) was an Apache leader who led the defense of his native people against the US military might.

dassent – here: have no right to…

David and Goliath – biblical characters of the 11th–10th centuries BC; David, king of Israel, killed the Philistine giant, Goliath.

King Herod (73 BC–4 BC) – the king of Judaea, appointed by the Romans; in the New Testament, a tyrant who ordered to kill all male new-born babies after Jesus had been born.

wiskerando – here: drunkard.

no, sirree! – no such matter!

Bedlam – here: confusion, madhouse, chaos; Bedlam means Bethlem Royal Hospital for mentally ill patients in England, founded in 1247.

Son cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu’on le touche il résonne. – His heart is a hanging lute; As soon as one touches it, it sounds out. ( French )

De Beranger – Pierre-Jean de Beranger (1780–1857), a French poet, the author of many popular, lyrical and tender songs.

ennuyé = bored, disappointed. ( French )

arabesque – here: of elaborate design.

morale = moral state.

cataleptical – suffering from periods of unconsciousness and rigidity of muscles; unstable.

Fuseli – Henry Fuseli (1741–1825), a Swiss painter known for his dramatic and original works.

impromptus = improvisations. ( Latin )

Gresset – Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (1709–1777), a French poet and dramatist.

Machiavelli – NiccolÒ Machiavelli (1469–1521), a political philosopher and statesman of the Italian Renaissance.

Swedenborg – Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), a scientist, philosopher, theologian and Christian mystic of Swedish origin.

Holberg – Ludwig Holberg (1684–1754), a prominent Scandinavian writer and philosopher of the Enlightment period.

Robert Flud(d) (1574–1637) – an English philosopher, physician, occultist and author.

Tieck – Ludwig Tieck (1773–1853), a German writer and critic of the early Romantic period.

Campanella – Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639), an Italian philosopher and writer, the author of the famous ‘The City of the Sun’.

Eymeric de Cironne – Nicholas Eymerich (1320–1399), a Roman Catholic theologian, the great inquisitor of Aragon.

Pomponius Mela – a Roman author and geographer of the 5th century.

Satyr – in ancient mythology, a mythical being, part man part goat.

Œgipan – in mythology, a mythical creature in a bestial rather than human form.

Avatar – incarnation (usually of a deity in a human or animal form).

phantasm = phantom.

‘Hernani’ – a tragedy in five acts by Victor Hugo (1802–1885), a famous French novelist, dramatist and poet of the Romantic period.

out-Heroded Herod – idiom to be worse than the worst person imaginable.

wigwam – a traditional dome-shaped dwelling of North American Indians consisting of a framework covered with large woven mats.

Alpha and Omaha – Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet; Omaha is a city in eastern Nebraska, US; in the popular phrase ‘Alpha and Omega’, where Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet, the author substitutes Omega for Omaha.