Лучшие произведения Джерома К. Джерома / The Best of Jerome K. Jerome
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platz – place (German)
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the Criterion – a West End complex of a theatre, restaurant, dining and ballrooms
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Hunden verboten – no dogs (German)
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Ausgang – exit (German)
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Zampa – Zampa (or the Marble Bride), comic opera by French composer Louis Hérold
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Ditto – the same (Italian)
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bath-chairs – a bath chair is a light carriage with a folding hood and a glass front, on three or four wheels and pushed by hand, used by invalids
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Ouida – pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839–1908), English novelist, famous for her melodramatic romances of fashionable life
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Wirtschaft – household (German)
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‘mittagstisch’ – something for lunch (German)
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Kneipe – a pub (German)
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Korps, crack – sports club (German)
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Burschenschaft – a students’ association (German)
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Landsmannschaft – an association of people from the same area (German)
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Mensur – a duel (German)
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reductio ad absurdum – leading to absurdity (Latin)
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Fruhschoppen – an early cup (German)
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Prosit – to your health! (German)
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Sunt – We are (German)
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Ad exercitium Salamandri – Let Salamander be (Latin)
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the Bogie Man – the main character of a comic book, a Scottish mental patient who only can solve the “mystery” of his own construction
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Belegete-semmel – a roll cut in two with some ham or cheese (German)
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Aufschnitt – a meat dish (German)
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Spiegeleier – fried eggs (German)
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The Robbers – a play by Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)
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statutory law – created by legislative regulations
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strike attitudes – to speak or act in ways that make it very clear what you want others to think you believe or support
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sponging upon – “to sponge on (upon)” is “to be parasitic on smb”
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Adelphi – a district in the Strand (London), named after the buildings erected here in 1768
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He crosses the African desert in patent-leather boots, does the stage hero – Here the “question” word order and the auxiliary verb are used to strengthen the meaning (ironically, of course)
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Dost see yonder star – poetic way to say “Do you see that star” (archaic)
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nabbed – to be caught or arrested
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swag – plunder or loot
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to pall – to lose interest because of familiarity
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orangamatang – perhaps, orang-utang
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Y.M.C.A – Young Men’s Christian Association
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Tit Bits – a British weekly magazine (from “titbits”, small pieces of tasty food or something pleasant, even gossip!)
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it is next door to impossible – hardly ever possible
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grit and go – backbone (courage) and activity
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sit on the comic man – “to sit on smb” means “to hold him back”
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it was fifteen and nine, his style – evidently, it was a mannequin with clothes’ sizes
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the wooping-cough – Pertussis, a highly contagious bacterial disease
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is doing his two years’ hard – “to do one’s time” is “to stay in prison”
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cavendish – tobacco, prepared by a special method
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Mr. Gilbert – perhaps, Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936), English Christian philosopher and writer
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spooning – “to spoon” is “to behave in amorous way, to kiss” (archaic)
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Shure, Bedad, Beghorra – perhaps, Irish variant of pronouncing “sure”, “be dead” and “big horror”
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a bob’s worth – a bob = 1 shilling (12 pence)
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Machiavellian – Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) was an Italian historian, statesman, and political philosopher. His name is a synonym for amoral deception and cunning.
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Shiver my timbers – an exclamation of surprise or annoyance, mostly associated with pirates
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R. and L. – right and left
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