Array Коллектив авторов: 75 лучших рассказов / 75 Best Short Stories

Naples– a city in southern Italy, founded in 600 BC

Grantham– a town in Lincolnshire in east-central England, first mentioned in 1086

Stamford– a town on the River Welland in Lincolnshire in eastcentral England

Wesleyan– belonging to the family of the Wesleys

San Diego– a port and city on the Pacific coast in southern California

Hippocrates(460 BC–375 BC) – an ancient Greek physician who is regarded as the father of medicine

the Floridian peninsula– a peninsula in the southeast of the United States in the state of Florida; Juan Ponce de León (1460–1521), a Spanish explorer, discovered Florida in 1513 while searching for the mythical fountain of youth.

grandam= obsolete an old woman

Pygmalion– in Greek mythology, a sculptor who made an ivory statue of a woman and then fell in love with it; Venus, the goddess of love, brought life into the statue in answer for Pygmalion’s prayer.

Albertus Magnus(1200–1280) – a bishop, philosopher and teacher of German origin; he is considered patron saint of those who cultivate natural sciences.

Cornelius Agrippa(1486–1535) – a physician, theologian, philosopher and expert in occultism

Paracelsus(1413–1541) – a German-Swiss physician and alchemist; he was the first to establish the role of chemistry in medicine.

Newcastle– a city in the United States named for Newcastle upon Tyne in England

Frisco= San Francisco

Kidd– William Kidd (1645–1701), a British pirate, one of the most colourful outlaws of all time

tomahawk– a war hatchet of the North American Indians

quakers– Society of Friends, a religious Christian group that first appeared in the 17th century England with the idea of direct apprehension of God

Anabaptists– a radical movement of the Protestant Reformation, the spiritual ancestor of Baptists and Quakers

the Salem witches– in 1692, nineteen women were accused of witchcraft and hanged in the town of Salem in Massachusetts

Eldorado– a mythical country of gold and other riches

Zionward– in the Old Testament, Zion is a hill in ancient Jerusalem where God dwells; in Christian literature and hymns it is a heavenly city or the earthly city of true Christian faith.

phaeton– in the 18th–19th centuries, an open four-wheeled carriage without doors

Southampton– a city and port on the English Channel in southern England

congé= permission to depart ( French )

n’est-ce pas?= isn’t it? ( French )

terra firma= solid ground ( Latin )

detour= roundabout way

Allons– come on ( French )

Allez– come on ( French )

empressé= impressed ( French )

C’est comme ça.= (it’s) like this. ( French )

La bonne idée!= A good idea! ( French )

là-bas= here, there ( French )

sabots– a kind of shoes

Mon Dieu!= My God! ( French )

ma foi!= my! ( French )

Valparaiso– a city and port on the Pacific coast of Chile

Ventrebleu!= by gosh! ( French )

Parbleu!= by jingo! ( French )

sergent de ville= policeman ( French )

fournisseur= supplier, provider ( French )

que si– here: if only ( French )

ces messieurs= these gentlemen ( French )

Eh bien! – here: Oh, well! ( French )

Eh bien! – here: Oh, well! ( French )

Sapristi! – an exclamation of annoyance ( French )

Nom de Dieu!= Good God! ( French )

Mais oui= Oh, yes, certainly ( French )

Il faut fixer la somme.= It is necessary to fix the sum. ( French )

James’s footnote: I am told that there was no resisting her smile; and that she had at her command, in moments of grief, a certain look of despair which filled even the roughest hearts with sympathy, and won over the kindest to the cruel cause.

savoir faire= self-control, quick wit, endurance ( French )

La-De-Das– pretentious people

Kensington Gardens– a park in central London to the west of Hyde Park

Capetown– a city and seaport in South Africa

as dead as a door-nail– idiom absolutely dead

ayah– in India and other former British colonies, a maidservant, a housemaid

fakir– in Islam and Hinduism, a holy man with miraculous powers

salaaming– here: to saying greetings

Mohammedan= Muslim

khitmutgar= servant ( Persian )

Sahib– master or government officer in British India

the Ascot– a horse race in Ascot, a most fashionable event that takes place annually in June