Френсис Фицджеральд - «Великий Гэтсби» и другие лучшие произведения Ф.С. Фицджеральда

Vous êtes ici maintenant?= Are you here nowadays? (French)

Non, pour la journée seulement.= No, I’ve just come for a day. (French)

Ah, bon. Alors – au revoir, Monsieur.= I see. So, good-bye, sir. (French)

Rolls= Rolls-Royce (British-made expensive car)

goblins– in Western folklore, mischievous and malicious wandering spirits attached to a household

Coblenz– a city in northern Germany at the junction of the Rhine and the Moselle rivers, found by the Romans in 9 BC

Montreux– a resort town in western Switzerland on the eastern shore of Lake Geneva

Jugenhorn– one of the bays of Lake Geneva

débris– broken pieces of rock

funicular– a cable railway on a mountainside

undulati– here: hills

Vaud– a canton in southwestern Switzerland on the French border

Swiss Savoy– a historical and cultural region in Switzerland, and also in Italy and France (Italian and French Savoy)

the Rhône– a river in Switzerland and France flowing to the Mediterranean Sea, one of the major rivers in Europe

Kursal– a concert hall in a resort town (German)

Chillon– the château of Chillon on Lake Geneva, built in the 12 th—15 thcenturies

Défense de cueillir les fleurs.= It is forbidden to pick up flowers. (French)

Dorothy Perkins roses– a sort of roses easy to grow, named for Dorothy Perkins

Irene Castle– a famous American dancer of the first half of the 20 thcentury

Conte= Count (Italian)

Caux– a mountainous town in Switzerland to the south-east of Lake Geneva

‘Vanity Fair’– an illustrated weekly newspaper published since 1868

Bull!= bullshit

Vevey– a resort region in Switzerland

sanitarium= sanatorium (US) ; here: asylum.

Mad Anthony Wayne– Anthony Wayne (1745–1796), a prominent American general during the American Revolutionary War

Marshall Field (1834—1906) – American millionaire and department-store owner

Je m’en fiche de tout= I don’t care at all (French)

cameriere– a man-servant at a hotel (Italian)

Orvieto– a town in central Italy

Capri– an island in the Mediterranean Sea near the entrance to the Bay of Naples

Pallas Athene– in Greek mythology and religion, the goddess of war and handicraft, the protector of Athens

Woolloomooloo Bay– here: a small bay of the Mediterranean Sea on the coast of Algeria

Biskra– a town in northeastern Algeria on the northern edge of the Sahara

Ouled Naïl– a settlement not far from Biskra

Senegal– a country in West Africa, known as ‘Gateway to Africa’

Timgad– an ancient Roman city in what is now northeastern Algeria

Affaires Etrangères= Foreign Affairs (ministry) (French)

Mistinguet– Jeanne-Marie Bourgeois (1875–1956), a popular French comedienne famous for her participation in spectacular shows in the Moulin Rouge and the Casino de Paris

Pas sur la Bouche= only not on the mouth/lips (French)

mistral– in southern France, cold and dry strong wind from the north

belladonna– a poisonous plant used in medicine

mandragora– a plant used in magic in old times

Bon Ami– the name of a cleanser (French)

luminol– a chemical compound used as a sleeping-draught

the three Chinese monkeys– the monkeys that symbolize the attitude of ‘I hear nothing, I see nothing, I say nothing’

ceinture– belt (French) ; here: the circle of the suburbs.

pousse= recurrence (French)

Ward McAllister (1827—1895) – the US lawyer and social leader

Syndicat d’Initiative– initiative syndicate (French) ; here: organization that searches and studies local recourses.

Gstaad– an Alpine resort village in west-central Switzer-land

Sturmtruppen= storm-troops (German)

St. Moritz– a resort town and a fashionable spa in southeastern Switzerland

Cambridge– University of Cambridge, 80 km north of London, founded in 1209

ickle durls= little girls

castile soap– soap with olive oil

Anglophilia– love for everything English

Croesus (the 6 th century BC)– king of Lydia (an ancient state in Asia Minor), known for his great wealth

Bleuler– Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939), Swiss psychiatrist who introduced the term ‘schizophrenia,’ one of the most influential psychiatrists of his time

Forel– Auguste-Henri Forel (1848–1931), Swiss psychiatrist and entomologist known for his study of brain structure

Adler– Alfred Adler (1870–1937), Austrian psychiatrist who introduced the system of individual psychology and supportive psychotherapy