Лучшие романы сестер Бронте / The Best of the Brontë Sisters. Шарлотта Бронте. Читать онлайн. Newlib. NEWLIB.NET

Автор: Шарлотта Бронте
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      comme cela – like that

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      taille d’athlète – athletic built

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      croquant crunching

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      porte cochère – gateway

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      Job’s leviathan broke the spear, the dart, and the habergeon – allusion to the Bible (the Book of Job, 41:26). Here is meant the readiness to overcome any hardships and obstacles.

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      roué – a scapegrace

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      beauté mâle man’s beauty, handsomness

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      filette – a daughter or a girl

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      Beulah – from the Bible: a symbolic name of the heavenly Zion, the promised land.

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      Qu’ avez-vous, mademoiselle? Vos doigts tremblent comme la feuille, et vos joues sont rouges: mais, rouges comme des cerises.  – What’s happened, Miss? Your fingers are trembling like a leaf, and your cheeks are red, as red as cherries.

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      ignis-fatus – “fool’s fire” (Latin), dim wandering light appearing over the swamps at night. It is believed to drive travellers from the safe paths.

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      passées old-fashioned

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      Some natural tears she shed – allusion to “Paradise Lost” by John Milton (1608–1674); the original quote is “Some natural tears they dropped.”

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      Elles changent de toilettes – They change.

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      Chez maman, quand il y avait du monde, je le suivais partout, au salon et à leurs chambres; souvent je regardais les femmes de chambre coiffer et habiller les dames, et c’était si amusant: comme cela on apprend. – When my mom had guests, I followed them everywhere, in the drawing room and in the bedrooms. I often watched the maids combing and dressing the ladies, and that was real fun; that’s how they learn.

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      Mais oui, mademoiselle: voilà cinq ou six heures que nous n’avons pas mangé. – Oh yes, Miss; it is really five or six hours since we had some food.

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      abigails – allusion to the Bible, here: ladies’ maids

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      et alors quel dommage – well, it’s a pity

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      Est-ce que je ne puis pas prendre une seule de ces fleurs magnifiques, mademoiselle? Seulement pour completer ma toilette. – Oh Miss, can’t I take one of these beautiful flowers? Just to complete my toilette.

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      minois chiffoné – here: pretty

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      père noble de théâtre – noble (aristocratic) head of the family, father (theater emploi)

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      Tant pis! – even worse! (meaning “it serves her right”)

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      Au reste as for the rest of it

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      Who would not be the Rizzio of so divine a Mary – an allusion to the story of David Rizzio, a private secretary of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542–1587)

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      black Bothwell – the husband of the said Mary who mastered the murder of Rizzio

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      con spirito here: in a high-spirited way (Italian)

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      Gardez-vous en bien – Look out!

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      Paynim – Muslim or pagan

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      airs – here: songs

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      Voilà, Monsieur Rochester, qui revient ! – Here is Mr. Rochester, he’s come back!

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      Mother Bunches – a person from the English folklore, a wise old countrywoman, teaching a mixture of charms and magical recipes

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      le cas – the proper case

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      the old gentleman – the devil

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      ad infinitum – eternally (Latin)

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      Queen Boadicea – a British Celtic warrior queen who led an uprising against Roman occupation.

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      prête à croquer sa petite maman Anglaise – ready to eat her English mommy up

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      Midsummer – a religious holiday celebrated on the 24th of June

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      Day its fervid fires had wasted – it is a slightly changed quotation from Thomas Campbell’s “The Turkish Lady.” The original phrase was “Day her sultry fires had wasted.”

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      organ of Adhesiveness – according to Phrenology (a science of faculty psychology and theory of brain), each faculty must have a separate seat or “organ” in the brain

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      gild refined gold – it is a quotation from William Shakespeare’s “King John,” meaning “to improve something unnecessarily.”

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