75 лучших рассказов / 75 Best Short Stories

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le Sous-préfet = sub-prefect (French)

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le GarÇon = waiter, servant (French)

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proces verbal – transcript of interrogation

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au revoir = goodbye (French)

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myrmidons – here: accomplices

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compagnons de voyage = voyage companions (French)

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olla podrida = ragout made of red beans, pork and sausage (Spanish)

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ulster – a long, loose overcoat with a belt

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quartermaster – an officer responsible for the quartering and movement of troops; on a ship, an officer in charge of steering and signals.

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mal de mer = seasickness (French)

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the New York Herald – an American daily newspaper published from 1835 till 1924

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R. N. – Royal Navy

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Kent – a county in England facing the European continent across the Strait of Dover

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Sussex – a historic county in southeastern England along the English Channel coast

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Salisbury Plain – a treeless area, a chalk plateau, in the county of Wiltshire, famous for its prehistoric monuments, the best known of which is Stonehenge

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Rheims – a city in northeastern France; most French kings were crowned there since 1429.

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the Pau-Biarritz district – a district along the Bay of Biscay in southwestern France, near the Spanish border

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the Homburg-Wiesbaden district – a district in the south and southwest of Germany

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Bayonne – a town in southwestern France

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Leicestershire – a county in England, in the East Midlands region

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Venetian blind – a wind screen made of horizontal stripes of wood or plastic

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barograph – a barometer that records changes of barometric pressure

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tourbillon – whirlwind, turbulence (French)

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Mannheim – a city in southwestern Germany on the Rhine River, famous for the manufacture of instruments and equipment

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aerolite – a stony meteorite

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the Bristol Channel – an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean separating England from Wales

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crepuscular – seen during twilight

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Northman – 1) hist. a Viking, a Scandinavian seafaring warrior; 2) a Danish, Norwegian or Swede.

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India ink – special black-colour pigment mixed with gum or glue, used for drawing or writing