Йэти ещё помнит то время, когда ваша цепкость приводила к позитивным результатам..
Хорошее было время.
Модератор: zymbronia
А для British English чего-то посвежее нет? Расстроилась, что BNC уже, скорее, outdated, честно говоря. Остаётся лишь уповать на чтение прессы и contemporary prose? Ну, и лекции лингвистов слушать (нельзя недооценивать, да?) И/или специализированная литература какая-то?gavenkoa пишет: ↑22 сен 2020, 18:40 Пол составил список на основании BNC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Corpus (100-million-word) + COCA (560-million-word), но "давно".
Т.е. данные на сайте COCA - "свежее".
For nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men, disgusted with the carking cares of earth, and seeking sentiment in tar and blubber.
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Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
Сначала про колобка. Потом адаптированные, потом оригинальные. Но это все быстро, тк. я читал везде - в метро, в очереди, ночью - каждую свободную минуту. А словарем пользовался редко - только те слова, что не позволяли понять общий смысл. Никогда не пытался понимать дословно.
-"Already arisen?" repeated Mr. Bennet. "What, has she frightened away some of your lovers? Poor little Lizzy! But do not be cast down. Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. Come, let me see the list of pitiful fellows who have been kept aloof by Lydia's folly."
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Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
-The different conduct of these two people is pointed out respectfully to the attention of persons commencing the world. Praise everybody, I say to such: never be squeamish, but speak out your compliment both point-blank in a man’s face, and behind his back, when you know there is a reasonable chance of his hearing it again.
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Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
-I shook hands with him; it seemed silly not to, for I felt suddenly as though I were talking to a child. Then he went into the jewelry store to buy a pearl necklace - or perhaps only a pair of cuff buttons - rid of my provincial squeamishness forever.
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The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
-From his earliest boyhood, he was absolutely fearless, but was squeamish and wary of 'natural history,' could not make himself touch wriggly things, could not endure the amusing emprisoned tickle of a small frog groping about in one's fist like a person, or the discreet, pleasantly cool, rhythmically undulating caress of a caterpillar ascending one's bare shin.
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Speak, Memory, by Vladimir Nabokov
-Siegfried took the syringe and quickly infiltrated the area. "This is where we go inside, Hubert. I hope you aren't squeamish."
The colonel beamed. "Oh, I've seen blood before. You needn't worry, I shan't faint."
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All Creatures Great and Small, by James Herriot
-It may come as a surprise to learn that plant seeds can resist digestion by your gut and nonetheless germinate out of your feces. But any adventurous readers who are not too squeamish can make the test and prove it for themselves.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
Mrs. Ferris insisted on being aboard for the first ride, despite Gronau's attempts to dissuade her. Gronau inspected the wheel to make sure the car would swing without obstruction. The engineer in the pit started the engines and rotated the wheel to bring the test car to one of the platforms. "I did not enter the carriage with the easiest feeling at heart," Gronau said. "I felt squeamish; yet I could not refuse to take the trip. So I put on a bold face and walked into the car."
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The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson