75 лучших рассказов / 75 Best Short Stories. Коллектив авторов

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state in the Midwest (93 491 sq. km), joined the USA after the American Revolutionary War

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      Sandusky – a city on Lake Erie in northern Ohio, founded by the British in 1745

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      Lake Erie – one of the five Great Lakes on the USA-Canadian border

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      Wapping – an area in eastern London

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      the old Globe Theatre – a theatre built in 1599 on the south bank of the Thames and famous for the performance of the greatest Shakespeare’s plays; it remained in use until 1644.

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      Covent Garden – 1) London’s wholesale flower, fruit and vegetable market in central London at the time when the story was written; 2) the Royal Opera House which is near the place where the market used to be.

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      the Strand – the street in central London linking the West End and the City of London

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      Waterloo Station – a main line railway station in London

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      hors de combat – disabled due to the wound or injury

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      K. C. – King’s Counsel

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      Kingsway – a street in central London where companies’ offices are located

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      the Aldwych Theatre – a theatre on the corner of Drury Lane in the West End, built in 1905

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      Lancashire – a county in northwestern England

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      Bakkan – a province and city in Vietnam

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      M. P. – Member of Parliament

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      Chancery Lane – a street in central London where lawyers’ offices are located

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      the Law Courts – the main building of the House of Justice where all important judicial decisions are adopted

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      New Oxford Street – a street in central London, the shopping centre of the city

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      Lincoln’s Inn Fields – a street in central London

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      inamorata = sweetheart, beloved (Italian)

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      Knightsbridge – an area in west-central London with expensive jewellers’ and antique shops

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      sine qua non – necessary conditions (Latin)

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      St. George and his Dragon – a Christian martyr of the 3d century and the patron saint of England; St. George saved a Libyan king’s daughter from the dragon and killed the monster in return for the promise that the people of Libya would be baptized.

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      cromlechs – in prehistoric architecture, a cromlech is an acircle of stones enclosed by a broad rampant

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      Cornwall – a historic county on the Atlantic coast in southwestern England

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      St. Yves – a coastal town in Cornwall

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      Wesleyanism – the Wesleyan church, one of the Protestant churches, founded by John Wesley (1703–1791), a clergyman and church reformer; the members of the Wesleyan church promise to live a sinless life.

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      Sarah – a biblical figure, in the Old Testament, the wife of Abraham and the mother of Isaac

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      Abraham – in the Old Testament, the first of the Hebrew patriarchs, revered in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

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      Hagar – in the Old Testament, Sarah’s maid and Abraham’s mistress, the mother of his illegitimate son, Ishmael

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      Britannia metal – the alloy composed of tin, antimony and copper, used for making household utensils

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      Penzance – a town in Cornwall where the English Channel joins the Atlantic Ocean

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      escutcheon – a metal plate placed on a wooden article either to decorate it or to protect the wood

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      chartreuse – the liqueur made from more than 130 different plants by the monks of La Grande Chartreuse in France

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      Derby – one of the most famous English horse races, an annual event since 1730; the Derby is run on the first Saturday of June.

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      cheroot – a thin cigar open at both ends

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      claret – famous Bordeaux wine made since Roman times in the region around the city of Bordeaux in France; the word claret is not used in modern French.

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      hansom – a low two-wheeled open carriage with the elevated driver’s seat

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      West Kensington – a fashionable district in central London

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      W. – West

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      brougham – a four-wheeled one-horse carriage designed in 1838 by Henry Brougham, a former lord chancellor of England

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      kept me on tenter-hooksidiom kept me in a state of anxiety

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