Array Коллектив авторов - 20 лучших повестей на английском / 20 Best Short Novels

the Mater Dolorata – the Suffering Virgin Mary (Mother of God), a theme in Christian art

the Saviour – Jesus Christ

the Mother with the seven swords in her breast – a theme in Christian art and iconography depicting the Virgin Mary with seven swords in her breast

stigma – a mark of smth. (disgrace, suffering, etc.)

before the Romans came – the Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD, and Britain became a part of the Roman Empire

maenad – adj frenzied; n a priestess of Bacchus, the Greek god of wine and ecstasy

Ishmael – in the Old Testament, an illegitimate son of Abraham by his wife’s maid; when the maid got pregnant, her behavior became haughty and arrogant

Baal – a fertility god in the ancient Middle East, one of the most important gods of ancient times (2nd millennium BC)

Ashtaroth – the plural form of the name Ashtoreth, the greatest goddess of the ancient Middle East; the plural form of the name is a general term denoting paganism

‘Rule, Britannia’ – a famous song by Thomas Arne (1710–1778), the most important British composer of the 18th century

en bloc( French ) = as a whole ( French )

canaille= mob, common people ( French )

Puget Sound – a bay near the USA-Canadian border in the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean

San Diego – a city and port in southern California, on the Pacific Ocean, founded in 1769 by the Spanish

Santa Clara Valley – an area near San Diego, a region of orchids

the Klondike strike – the Klondike gold rush of the late 1890s on the Klondike River, a tributary of the Yukon River in Canada

Frisco – San Francisco, a city and port in northern California, a cultural and financial centre of the western USA, founded as a military post by the Spanish in 1776

sou – a French coin of low value (no longer in use)

squarehead – slang simpleton, blockhead

Seattle – the largest city of the northwest Pacific alongside Puget Sound, founded in 1851

the goose hang high= everything is OK

Sacredam! – Damn! ( French-English )

Spitzbergen – a large island in the Arctic Ocean north of the Arctic Circle, a part of Norway

the Barrens – a treeless area near Hudson Bay – an inland sea in east-central Canada

Queen Charlotte Sound – a deep inlet of the North Pacific Ocean in Canada

the Dyea – a river and town in the Rocky Mountains in Canada

Sheep Camp, the Scales – small settlements in the Rocky Mountains

the Chilcoot Divide – a pass in the Rocky Mountains used by the prospectors as a way to the lands rich in gold

Lake Bennett – a lake in the Rocky Mountains

webbed shoes – a kind of skis that look like tennis rackets, and are used for walking on powdery snow

Lake Le Barge – a lake in Canada

pandemonium – wild and noisy disorder

Dawson – a city in Canada on the border with Alaska, at the confluence of the Klondike and the Yukon rivers; it was named after geologist George Dawson

the Thirty Mile River – a river in northwestern Canada

the Hootalinqua – a river in Canada

the Big Salmon, the Little Salmon, the Five Fingers – posts in northwestern Canada

the Pelly – a small river in Canada, a tributary of the Yukon

aurora borealis – northern lights, a luminous atmospheric phenomenon in the Northern Hemisphere

the Yukon – a river in North America; it flows through northwestern Canada and the central regions of Alaska, US

Salt Water – fort on the Yukon River

Sixty Miles – fort on the Yukon River

Northwest Police – a mounted police founded in 1873 by the Canadian government to maintain order in the wild lands in the northwest of the country

the White Horse Rapids – rapids near the town of Whitehorse on the Yukon River

Marsh, Tagish – lakes in the Rocky Mountains

White Pass – a pass in the Rocky Mountains used as access to the lands rich in gold

Skaguay – a town in southwestern Alaska, US, founded in the 1890s at the time of the gold rush

Cassiar Bar – a bank at the foot of the Cassiar Mountains

Hudson Bay dogs – a local husky breed

Outside dogs – coll. dogs from other regions; inside dogs – coll. dogs of local breed

Q. E. D. – quod erat demonstrandum = which had to be proved ( Latin )

the Tanana – a river in east-central Alaska

Circle City – a town on the Yukon River in Alaska

the Forty-Mile Creek – a tributary of the Yukon River

totem-pole – a vertical carved and painted log constructed by the Indians in the northwest of the USA and in Canada to commemorate smb. or smth.

Bonanza King – a person who became rich quickly during the gold rush; gold round the Bonanza Creek, a stream near Dawson, was found in 1896

Mastodon King – a very rich man

the Stewart River – a river in Canada