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

the Mayo, the McQuestion – small rivers in Canada and settlements of the same name

Hudson Bay Company – a prominent company in the history of Canada, established in 1670 to explore the Pacific coast, occupy the lands and develop profitable trade with the Indians

the Yeehats – an Indian tribe

Haeckel – Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), a German zoologist and embryologist

Boston – a city on Massachusetts Bay in the northeastern United States

plebian – of low social class

Bunsen burner – a device consisting of a metal tube on a base with a gas inlet, the forerunner of the gas-stove burner; named for Robert Bunsen, the German chemist who developed it in 1855

daemoniac – devilish

cacophony – unpleasant mixture of sounds, usually very loud

Puritanism – a religious movement of the 16th-17th centuries aimed at purifying the Christian Church

Ptolemaism – the mathematical Earth-centred model of the universe known as the Ptolemaic system; named for Ptolemy (100–170), an astronomer, geographer and mathematician of Greek origin

Calvinism – the Christian teaching of John Calvin (1509–1564), the leading Protestant Reformer of the 16th century

Darwinism – the theory of evolution as a result of natural selection developed by Charles Darwin (1808–1882), a famous English naturalist

Nietzscheism – the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), one of the most prominent philosophers who greatly influenced Western thought, religion and morality

Sabbatarianism – an idea of some Christians that Sunday is a holy day, and all work on it should be strictly forbidden

Tartarus – in Greek mythology, the lower part of the underworld, the place of shades, the land of no return where gods’ enemies and sinners are locked

Hibernian= Irish

Harlem – a district in New York with predominantly black population

Congo – a state with long and rich history in central Africa

tom-tom – a long and narrow African drum

omens – signs or warnings of fortune

stiletto – a small dagger with a narrow blade

Illinois – the US state in the High Midwest admitted to the Union in 1818, named for the Indian tribe

St. Louis – the largest city in the state of Missouri and a prosperous cultural center of the Midwest, located on the Mississippi River

the Great War – World War I (1914–1918), a large international conflict in which most of the European countries, the United States and some Middle East countries took part

Flanders – a region in northern Belgium

Ottawa – a city on the southeastern bank of the Ottawa River in southeastern Ontario, Canada; the capital of the country

Baudelaire – Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), a French poet and art critic, the author of the famous ‘The Flowers of Evil’

Elagabalus(209–222) – the Roman emperor (218–222) notable for his eccentric behavior

St. Eloi – the bishop of Noyon-Tournai in Flanders in the 7th century

embryo – an offspring of an animal at an early stage of development

D.S.O. – a military award ‘Distinguished Service Order’

cannibal – adj eating human flesh

ethereal – too light for this world, delicate; spiritual

morbidezza – softness, gentleness ( Italian )

metaphysics– an extremely subtle, theoretical study to determine the true nature of things

materialist – a follower of materialism, the philosophy asserting that everything in reality depends on physical processes

spiritualist – a follower of spiritualism, a system of thought that insists on the existence of immaterial reality

Mercury – a small planet in our solar system, the closest to the Sun

phlebotomize – medical to let one’s blood

asphyxy – a pathological state of lack of oxygen in the brain caused by some disturbance of breath

lord chancellor – an officer, custodian of the seal and a cabinet minister

Heigh-ho! – an exclamation of disappointment

Thibet – a historic mountain region with unique culture and religion; the centre of Thibetan Buddhism

Nereid – in Greek mythology and religion, one of the daughters of the sea god

lord chamberlain – an officer who manages king’s household

oracle – a sort of prophecy, an answer given by the divine forces in response to the request

shoeblack – a person whose work is to polish shoes

subterranean= underground

imprimis – first, in the first place ( Latin )

Chancery – in the USA, a court of equity for cases with no remedy in common law; an office of public records

Wall-street – a street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, the financial centre of the country

Spitzenberg – a sort of beer

lethargic – here: hopeless; tired, lacking energy

sanguine – optimistic, full of hope

moon-struck – crazy, mad, insane