Our new project aims at development of reading comprehension skills via translating difficult words and expressions of the original literature version into simple language.
This way our pre-intermediate students will be able to aquire new vocabulary and enjoy famous English and American novels at the same time.
To start strong we've chosen H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds.
Students divide each chapter into short paragraphs and prepare glossaries to them.
They sign their posts starting with the chapter number then the number of the paragraph folowed by three first letters of their surnames and their class number.
For example: ch1p3kow1ad means: chapter 1 paragraph 3 Jan Kowalski class 1ad
Deadline for chapter 1 and 2 is set for: Oct 15 2010
We do invite teachers from other schools to join in, so our library will grow faster and enhance public domain.
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ReplyDeleteThe end of the cylinder was being screwed out from within. Nearly two feet of shining screw projected. Somebody blundered against me, and I narrowly missed being pitched onto the top of the screw. I turned, and as I did so the screw must have come out, for the lid of the cylinder fell upon the gravel with a ringing concussion. I stuck my elbow into the person behind me, and turned my head towards the Thing again. For a moment that circular cavity seemed perfectly black. I had the sunset in my eyes.
ReplyDeleteI think everyone expected to see a man emerge—possibly something a little unlike us terrestrial men, but in all essentials a man. I know I did. But, looking, I presently saw something stirring within the shadow: greyish billowy movements, one above another, and then two luminous disks—like eyes. Then something resembling a little grey snake, about the thickness of a walking stick, coiled up out of the writhing middle, and wriggled in the air towards me—and then another.
Glossary;
blundered-to make a mistake
pitched-it's the sam what thrown
circular cavity-round hollow
terrestrial-earthly
essentials a man-the things what needs a man
stirring-ming up
resembling-being similar
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Suddenly the monster vanished. It had toppled over the brim of the cylinder and fallen into the pit, with a thud like the fall of a great mass of leather. I heard it give a peculiar thick cry, and forthwith another of these creatures appeared darkly in the deep shadow of the aperture.
ReplyDeleteI turned and, running madly, made for the first group of trees, perhaps a hundred yards away; but I ran slantingly and stumbling, for I could not avert my face from these things.
Glossary:
vanished - disappeared
toppled over - upseted
leather - specific;special;unique
forthwith - immediately
modly - not wise;not intelligently
tress - coiffure with hair
slantingly - on the bias
avert - find a solution
There, among some young pine trees and furze bushes, I stopped, panting, and waited further developments. The common round the sand pits was dotted with people, standing like myself in a half-fascinated terror, staring at these creatures, or rather at the heaped gravel at the edge of the pit in which they lay. And then, with a renewed horror, I saw a round, black object bobbing up and down on the edge of the pit. It was the head of the shopman who had fallen in, but showing as a little black object against the hot western sun. Now he got his shoulder and knee up, and again he seemed to slip back until only his head was visible. Suddenly he vanished, and I could have fancied a faint shriek had reached me. I had a momentary impulse to go back and help him that my fears overruled.
ReplyDeleteEverything was then quite invisible, hidden by the deep pit and the heap of sand that the fall of the cylinder had made. Anyone coming along the road from Chobham or Woking would have been amazed at the sight—a dwindling multitude of perhaps a hundred people or more standing in a great irregular circle, in ditches, behind bushes, behind gates and hedges, saying little to one another and that in short, excited shouts, and staring, staring hard at a few heaps of sand. The barrow of ginger beer stood, a queer derelict, black against the burning sky, and in the sand pits was a row of deserted vehicles with their horses feeding out of nosebags or pawing the ground.
Glossary:
panting - gasping
dotted - long
staring at - curious
gravel - debris
bobbing - swing
visible - noticeable
vanished - dissappeared
overruled - annulment
heap of sand - much sand
derelict - ownerless
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Two large dark-coloured eyes were regarding me steadfastly. The mass that framed them, the head of the thing, was rounded, and had, one might say, a face. There was a mouth under the eyes, the lipless brim of which quivered and panted, and dropped saliva. The whole creature heaved and pulsated convulsively. A lank tentacular appendage gripped the edge of the cylinder, another swayed in the air.
ReplyDeleteThose who have never seen a living Martian can scarcely imagine the strange horror of its apparance. The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atmosphere, the evident heaviness and painfulness of movement due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth-above all, the extraordinary intensity of the immense eyes – were at once vital, intense, inhuman, crippled and monstrous, There was something fungoid in the oily brown skin, something in the clumsy deliberation of the tedious movements unspeakably nasty. Even at this first encounter, this first glimpse, I was overcome with disgust and dread.
GLOSSARY:
regard- to consider or have an opinion about something or someone
steadfastly- strongly or without stopping
brim- the bottom part of a hat sticks out all round
quiver- to shake slightly often because of strong emotion
pant- to breathe quickly and loudly through your mouth usually because you have been doing something very energetic
saliva- the liquid produced in your mouth
creature- any large or small living thing which can move independently
heave- to move something heavy using a lot of effort
pulsate- to beat or move with a strong regulat rhythm
appendage- something which exists as a smaller and less important part of something larger
sway-to move slowly said to said
peculiar- unusual and strange sometimes in an unpleasant way
ridge- a long narrow raised part of surface
lower- positioned below one or more similar things or of the bottom part of someething
incessant- never stopping ecpecially in an annoying or unpleasant way
tentacle- one of the long thin arm, like parts of some sea creatures which are used for feeling and holding
tumultuous- very loud or fullof confusion
movement- a change of position
due- owed as a debt or as a right
immense-extremely large
cripple- to injure someone so that they are unable to walk or move properly
deliberate- to talk or think seriously about something
nasty- bad or very unpleasant
glimpse- to see something or someone for a very short time
dread- to feel extremely anxious or frightened about something
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There were half a dozen flies or more from the Woking station standing in the road by the sand pits, a basket-chaise from Chobham*, and a rather lordly carriage. Besides that, there was quite a heap of bicycles. In addition, a large number of people must have walked, in spite of the heat of the day, from Woking** and Chertsey**, so that there was altogether quite a considerable crowd—one or two gaily dressed ladies among the others.
ReplyDeleteIt was glaringly hot, not a cloud in the sky nor a breath of wind, and the only shadow was that of the few scattered pine trees. The burning heather had been extinguished, but the level ground towards Ottershaw* was blackened as far as one could see, and still giving off vertical streamers of smoke. An enterprising sweet-stuff dealer in the Chobham Road had sent up his son with a barrow-load of green apples and ginger beer.
Glossary:
Dozen – twelve
sand pits – place with sand, where kids play
basket-chaise - a wooden chair
carriage – transport
heap – many
In addition – otherwise
in spite – although
Woking
considerable – big
crowd – many people
gaily – here “colorful”
among – inside
glaringly – so very
nor – any
scattered - rarely deployed
pine trees – kind of trees
heather – small bush with purple flowers
extinguished – the fire’s gone
towards – in the direction
blackened – it’s mostly black
vertical streamers – opposite to horizontally, so they're clouds which goes up
enterprising – energetic
barrow– kind of cart
ginger – spice
*Chobham, Ottershaw –villages in England
** Woking, Chertsey – cities in England
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ReplyDeleteAmong these were a couple of cyclists, a jobbing gardener I employed sometimes, a girl carrying a baby, Gregg the butcher and his little boy, and two or three loafers and golf caddies who were accustomed to hang about the railway station. There was very little talking. Few of the common people in England had anything but the vaguest astronomical ideas in those days. Most of them were staring quietly at the big tablelike end of the cylinder, which was still as Ogilvy and Henderson had left it. I fancy the popular expectation of a heap of charred corpses was disappointed at this inanimate bulk. Some went away while I was there, and other people came. I clambered into the pit and fancied I heard a faint movement under my feet. The top had certainly ceased to rotate.
It was only when I got thus close to it that the strangeness of this object was at all evident to me. At the first glance it was really no more exciting than an overturned carriage or a tree blown across the road. Not so much so, indeed. It looked like a rusty gas float. It required a certain amount of scientific education to perceive that the grey scale of the Thing was no common oxide, that the yellowish-white metal that gleamed in the crack between the lid and the cylinder had an unfamiliar hue. "Extra-terrestrial" had no meaning for most of the onlookers.
Glossary
+Among- inside
+Couple- pair
+Employed- work
+Loafers- Slip-ons are typically low lace-less shoes
+Caddies->Caddy- is the person in golf who gives in sightful advice and moral support
+Railway- train
+Vaguest- incompreshensible
+Henderson- is a City of Nevada
+Charred- offside
+Corpses- deays / deceased men
+Inanimate- deceased
+Bulk- mass / volume
+Clambered- entered
+Fancied- phantasty / to dream
+Certain- confident / sure
+Ceased- aborted / to stop / to notcomplete
+Rotate- to turn / around
+Thus- so / them
+Evident- clear / light / bright
+Glance- look / gaze
+Overturned- to knock over
+Indeed- actually / absolutely / in fact
+Rusty- rust-colored
+Amount- Number
+Scientific- academic
+Perceive- to see / to descry
+Scale- weight / balance scales
+Oxide- substance arising in the oxidation or of burning
+Gleamed- to shine / to flash
+Lid- kitchenware to the pot
+Hue- colour / Tint
+Onlookers- viewer / spectators
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.
ReplyDeleteGlossary-
Nineteenth century- nineteenth age
Mortal- somebody who id deadly
Various concerns- different relationships
Narrowly- only just
Scrutinise- to research work
Transient- passing or disappearing
Swarm- a large number of insects
Multiply- to grow in number
Complacency- a feeling of contented self satisfaction
Affair- that which is done or is to be done
Infusoria- the many minute aquatic creatures
Source- the point at which something springs into being a from which it derives or is obtained
Dismiss- to direct or allow to leave
Upon- being above and in contact which another
Recall- to call back
Habits- characteristic appearance
Terrestrial- an inhabitant of the planet earth
Envious- desire or good fortune of another
Disillusionment- the act of freeing from an illusion
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Chapter 2 p. 10
ReplyDeleteOf course the two were quite unable to do anything. They shouted consolation and promises, and went off back to the town again to get help. One can imagine them, covered with sand, excited and disordered, running up the little street in the bright sunlight just as the shop folks were taking down their shutters and people were opening their bedroom windows. Henderson went into the railway station at once, in order to telegraph the news to London. The newspaper articles had prepared men’s minds for the reception of the idea.
By eight o’clock a number of boys and unemployed men had already started for the common to see the “dead men from Mars.” That was the form the story took. I heard of it first from my newspaper boy about a quarter to nine when I went out to get my DAILY CHRONICLE. I was naturally startled, and lost no time in going out and across the Ottershaw bridge to the sand pits.
Glossary:
Ottershaw - Ottershaw is a village in the Runnymede district of Surrey, England about 20 miles to the south-west of London.
The Daily Chronicle -was a British newspaper that was published from 1872 to 1930 when it merged with the Daily News to become the News Chronicle
Consolation – help
disordered – confused
shutters - see curtain
reception- reaction
common -popular
startled -scare
sand pits -hole of sand
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ReplyDeleteGoing to the edge of the pit, I foundit occupied by a group of about half a dozen--man Henderson, Ogilvy, and a tall, fair-haired man that I afterwards learnd was Stent, the Astronomer Royal, with several workmen wielding spades and pickaxes. Stent was giving directions in a clear, high-pitched voice. He was standing on the cylinder, witch was now evidently much cooler; his face was crimson and streaming with perspiration, and something seemed to have irritated him.
A large portion of the cylinder had been uncovered, though it's lower end was still embedded. As soon as Ogilvy saw me among the starting crowd on the edge of the pit he called me to come down, and asked me if I would mind going over to see Lord Hilton, the lord of manor.
GLOSARY:
dozen- twelve
fair-haired- someone has a lot of hair
pickaxes- tools for digging
crimson- colour like purple
irritated- annoyed
portion- piece of something
embedded- ingrained
among- in the middle
staring crowd- group of spectators
manor- big house
The planet Mars, I scarcely need remind the reader, re- volves about the sun at a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world. It must be, if the nebular hypothesis has any truth, older than our world; and long before this earth ceased to be molten, life upon its surface must have begun its course. The fact that it is scarcely one seventh of the volume of the earth must have accelerated its cooling to the temperature at which life could begin. It has air and water and all that is necessary for the support of animated existence.
ReplyDeleteYet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, ex- pressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all, beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that since Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from time's beginning but nearer its end.
Glossary:
receives - get something from someone
barely - almost failed
nebular - set of galaxies
upon - being above
accelerate - increase speed
blinded - someone who lost his sight
vanity - for high self-esteem
indeed - really
distant - faraway
quarter - quarter,three months
surface - set of points in the plane
moltem- liquid
ceased - used to
remoter - something faraway
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Then suddenly he noticed with a start that some of the grey clinker, the ashy incrustation that covered the meteorite, was falling off the circular edge of the end. It was dropping off in flakes and raining down upon the sand. A large piece suddenly came off and fell with a sharp noise that brought his heart into his mouth.
ReplyDeleteFor a minute he scarely realised what this meant, and, although the heat was excessive, he clambered down into the pit close to the bulk to see the Thing more clearly. He fancied even then that the cooling of the body might account for this, but what disturbed that idea was the fact that the ash was falling only from the end of the cylinder.
Glossary:
covered- coated
circular- round
pit-hole
bulk- full
account- budget
fancy- luxury
He remained standing at the edge of the pit that the Thing had made for itself, staring at its strange appearance, astonished chiefly at its unusual shape and colour, and dimly perceiving even then some evidence of design in its arrival. The early morning was wonderfully still, and the sun, just clearing the pine trees towards Weybridge, was already warm. He did not remember hearing any birds that morning, there was certainly no breeze stirring, and the only sounds were the faint movements from within the cindery cylinder. He was all alone on the common.
ReplyDeletethe edge-strand
strange-atypical
astonished-suprised
chiefly-mostly
breeze stirring-easily blending
faint-weak
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The growing crowd, he said, was becoming a serious impediment to their excavations, especially the boys. They wanted light railing put up, and help to keep people back. He told me that the faint stirring was occasionally still audible within the case, but that workmen had failed to unscrew the top, as it afforded no grip to them. The case appeared to be enormously thick, and it was possible that the faint sounds we heard represented a noisy tumult in the interior.
ReplyDeleteI was very glad to do as he asked, and so become one of the privileged spectators within the contemplated enclousure. I failed to find Lord Hilton at his house, but I was told he was expected from London by the six o'clock train from Waterloo; and as it was then about a quarter past five, I went home, had some tea, and walked up to the station to waylay him.
Glossary:
growing crowd- group of people which is becoming bigger
serious impediment- real objection
excavations- archeologist jobs
especially- specially
railing- while descending the stairs, stick to it
faint- weak
stirring- exciting
occasionally- by chance
audible within- heard in
case- the box
afforded- something for sure
grip- something that you are keeping for
appeared- suddnely show
enormously- hugely
thick- fat/ heavy
tumult- noise
interior- a place inside
glad- happy
privileged- entitled to something
spectators- viewers
contemplated- think of
I failed to find- I have not found anyone
expected- waiting for something
waylay- wait fo somebody
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When I returned to the common the sun was setting. Scattered groups were hurrying from the direction of Woking, and one or two persons were returning. The crowd about the pit had increased, and stood out black against the lemon yellow of the sky—a couple of hundred people, perhaps. There were raised voices, and some sort of struggle appeared to be going on about the pit. Strange imaginings passed through my mind. As I drew nearer I heard Stent’s voice:
ReplyDelete“Keep back! Keep back!”
A boy came running towards me.
“It’s a-movin’,” he said to me as he passed; “a-screwin’ and a-screwin’ out. I don’t like it. I’m a-goin’ ’ome, I am.”
I went on to the crowd. There were really, I should think, two or three hundred people elbowing and jostling one another, the one or two ladies there being by no means the least active.
“He’s fallen in the pit!” cried some one.
“Keep back!” said several.
The crowd swayed a little, and I elbowed my way through. Every one seemed greatly excited. I heard a peculiar humming sound from the pit.
“I say!” said Ogilvy; “help keep these idiots back. We don’t know what’s in the confounded thing, you know!”
I saw a young man, a shop assistant in Woking I believe he was, standing on the cylinder and trying to scramble out of the hole again. The crowd had pushed him in.
GLOSSARY:
It’s a-movin’- It moves
a-screwin’- throw
I’m a-goin’ ’ome- I’m going home
went on -going in
jostling - wrangling
struggle-fight
scattered- distributed
direction of Woking -work toward
pit-hole
increased- sublime
imaginings –visions
drew nearer- came closer
Keep back- Stand back
peculiar- special
humming- buzz
pushed him in -pushed him back
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Then came the night of the first falling star. It was seen early in the morning, rushing over Winchester eastward, a line of flame high in the atmosphere. Hundreds must have seen it, and taken it for an ordinary falling star. Albin described it as leaving a greenish streak behind it that glowed for some seconds. Denning, our greatest authority on meteorites, stated that the height of its first appearance was about ninety or one hundred miles. It seemed to him that it fell to earth about one hundred miles east of him.
ReplyDeleteGlossary:
falling - drops
ordinary - normal
described - description
authority - body
appearance - outside
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I found a little crowd of perhaps twenty people surrounding the huge hole in which the cylinder lay. I have already described the apperance of that colossal bulk, embedded in the ground. The turf and gravel about it seemed charred as if by a sudden explosion. No doubt its impact had caused a flash of fire. Henderson and Ogilvy were not there. I think they perceived that nothing was to be done for the present, and had gone away to be breakfast at Henderson's house. There were four or five boys sitting on the edge of the Pit, with their feet dangling, and amusing themselves- until I stopped them-by throwing stones at the giant mass. After I had spoken to them about it, they began playing at "touch" in and out of the group of bystanders.
ReplyDeleteGLOSSARY:
crowd - many people
apperance - somebodys look
colossal - very big
bulk - in large numbers
embedded - attached to something
turf - dust
gravel- sand
charred - as if painted with coal
perceived - seen as
pit - hole
dangling - playing with feet when they are in the air
amusing - playing with somebody to make him happy
bystanders - strangers in a group.
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And we men, the creatures who inhabit this Earth, must be to them at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. The intellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessant struggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief of the minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and this world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard as inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them.
ReplyDeleteAnd before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?
Glossary:
to inhabit – to settle on a particular area
to admit – to agree with our stand/opinion
incessant – something that never ends/stops
to struggle – to fight for something
to regard – to consider
inferior animals – animals which are not highly developed
harshly – as in “we can judge someone harshly” means that we judge someone very strictly(in a way which is very often unfair)
to be ruthless – to do something no matter what consequences it will bring
utter – completely,wholy
wrought / wrought iron - worked,done / produced or shaped by beating with a hammer
something that has been swept out – something that has been deleted or even killed ( depends on the context) and no longer exist
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I was at home at that hour and writing in my study; and although my French windows face towards Ottershaw and the blind was up (for I loved in those days to look up at the night sky), I saw nothing of it. Yet this strangest of all things that ever came to earth from outer space must have fallen while I was sitting there, visible to me had I only looked up as it passed. Some of those who saw its flight say it travelled with a hissing sound. I myself heard nothing of that. Many people in Berkshire, Surrey, and Middlesex must have seen the fall of it, and, at most, have thought that another meteorite had descended. No one seems to have troubled to look for the fallen mass that night.
ReplyDeleteGlossary:
towards-in the direction
descended-replace
fallen - beat
Middlesex- people
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The storm burst upon us six years ago now. As Mars approached opposition, Lavelle of Java set the wires of the astronomical exchange palpitating with the amazing intelligence of a huge outbreak of incandescent gas upon the planet. It had occurred towards midnight of the twelfth; and the spectroscope, to which he had at once resorted, indicated a mass of flaming gas, chiefly hydrogen, moving with an enormous velocity towards this earth. This jet of fire had become invisible about a quarter past twelve. He compared it to a colossal puff of flame suddenly and violently squirted out of the planet, "as flaming gases rushed out of a gun".
ReplyDeleteA singularly appropriate phrase it proved. Yet the next day there was nothing of this in the papers except a little note in the DAILY TELEGRAPH, and the world went in ignorance of one of the gravest dangers that ever threatened the human race. I might not have heard of the eruption at all had I not met Ogilvy, the well-known astronomer, at Ottershaw. He was immensely excited at the news, and in the excess of his feelings invited me up to take a turn with him that night in a scrutiny of the red planet.
Glossary
upon us – on us
approached – near
palpitating - drub, banging on about something
outbreak – explosion
incandescent - blazing white light
occurred – happen
mass – weight
chiefly – especially
hydrogen - element of a 1 group and a 1 period
velocity towards – with huge speed
violently squirted - rapid stream
singularly – especially
gravest - the most serious
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In spite of all that has happened since, I still remember that vigil very distinctly : the black and silent observatory, the shadowed lantern throwing a feeble glow upon the floor in the corner, the steady ticking of the clockwork of the telescope, the little slit in the roof-an oblong profundity with the stardust streaked across it. Ogilvy moved about, invisible but audible. Looking through the telescope, one saw a circle of deep blue and the little round planet swimming in the field. It seemed such a little thing, so bright and small and still, faintly marked with transverse stripes, and slightly flattened from the perfect round. But so little it was, so silvery warm-a pin's-head of light! It was as if it quivered, but really this was the telescope vibrating with the activity of the clockwork that kept the planet in view.
ReplyDeleteGLOSSARY:
view- landscape (widok)
telescope- instrument for viewing the stars (teleskop)
warm- not cold (ciepły)
perfect- ideal (perfekcyjny)
field- place of cultivation (pole)
stardust-the dust of the stars (gwiezdny pył)
slit-crack(szczelina)
little -small(niewielki)
steady-permanent (stały)
glow-light (poświata)
feeble -weak (słaby)
lantern-illuminated pole (latarnia)
observatory-observation point (obserwatorium)
silent- quiet (cichy)
A sudden chill came over me. There was a loud shriek from a woman behind. I half turned, keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still, from which other tentacles were now projecting, and began pushing my way back from the edge of the pit. I saw astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me. I heard inarticulate exclamations on all sides. There was a general movement backwards. I saw the shopman struggling still on the edge of the pit. I found myself alone, and saw the people on the other side of the pit running off, Stent among them. I looked again at the cylinder, and ungovernable terror gripped me. I stood petrified and staring.
ReplyDeleteA big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder. As it bulged up and caught the light, it glistened like wet leather.
GLOSSARY:
chill-cold, cool
loud-noisy
shriek-scream
upon-on
tentacles-authorities
edge-verge
astonishment-amazement
inarticulate-incomprehensible
exclamations-shout
among-amid
petrified-petrify
bulk-enormity
painfully-sore
bulged-swelling
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ReplyDelete"A message received form Mars."
ReplyDelete"REMARKABLE story from WOKING,"
and so FORTH. In ADDITION, Ogilvy's WIRE to the Astronomical Exchange had ROUSED every observatory in the three KINGDOMS.
GLOSSARY:
glossary - is a list of rare words
remarkable - other than anything else, extraordinary but in the literary language
woking - unusual wake up, in this case awakening
so forth - and what's next, et cetera, and so on
in addition - hm... that's more difficult. I'll back to this compound word.
to wire - send a message, send a dispatch
roused - wake up, to put on alert (in this case)
kingdoms - medieval state where king held authorities
Astronomical Exchange - it's a invented name of agency which attends issues related to the Cosmos
And now a haples 'in addition'. So, it's mean: something extra, appurtenance. But in sentence this means not completely happy news. Or, something about it.
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The thing itself lay almost entirely buried in Sand, amidst the scattered splinters of a fir tree it had shivered to fragments in its descent. The uncovered part had the appearance of a huge cylinder, caked over and its outline softened by a thick scaly dun-coloured incrustation.. It had a diameter of about thirty yards. He approached the mass, surprised at the size and more so at the shape, since most meteorites are rounded more or less completely. It was, however, still so hot from its flight through the air as to forbid his near approach. A stirring noise within its cylinder he ascribed to the unequal cooling of its surface; for at that time it had not occurred to him that it might be hollow.
ReplyDeleteGlossary:
Entirely – completely
Amidst – among
Splinter – piece
Scattered - diffuse
Shivered – trembles
Descent – provenance
Approach – closeness
Shape – form
Flight – fly
Stirring – motional
Unequal – irregular
Occurred – place
Hollow – empty
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