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TOP 10 Scary Stories for Kids to Tell

For some reason, everyone loves a good scary story, and this includes kids. Children of every age, from toddlers to teens, love to shiver in response to something creepy or scary. Our selection of scary stories for kids includes not only some very short stories, but also some longer stories where the suspense builds. Make sure you choose one appropriate for the age and emotional maturity of the kids listening to the story. For very young children, we suggest you share your plans for telling a scary story with parents before doing so to avoid any problems.

Scary Short Stories for Kids

Scary stories do not need to be long and drawn out. Kids have short attention spans and our collection of short, scary stories for kids considers this fact and provides a good scare in a short amount of time.

The Clown Statue

A girl in her teens babysat for a wealthy family one night. The wealthy family had a very large house with many rooms. It was filled with lots of artefacts and old ornaments from all over the world. As the parents were leaving to go out, the father told the girl that once the she put the kids down, she must go down to the basement, watch TV there, and not go wandering around the house.

Once the kids are asleep, the girl retires to the basement room to watch TV. However, she cannot concentrate on her show because in the in the corner of the room is a life-size clown statue grinning at her. She finally decides to drape a blanket over the statue so she can ignore it. After a while she can’t stand looking at the clown statue’s over-sized feet sticking out from under the blanket. She decides to call the father and ask his permission to watch TV in another room, because she is freaked out by the giant clown statue in basement room.

“Listen very carefully,” says the man to the girl.

“Our children have been complaining about a clown that comes into their room in the middle of the night. We just thought it was nightmares. We don’t own a clown statue. You need to get the kids and get out of the house NOW! I’ll call the police.”

The girl hangs up the phone, turns around to look at the covered clown statue, but all there is a blanket on the floor! She hears steps coming down the basement stairs.

Hide and Seek

This scary story for kids ends with a question, the answers to which can make the story even scarier.

Two young brothers were at home alone in the apartment while their parents visited their neighbours next door for a while.

“Be good boys,” their parents said.

To keep themselves occupied the boys decided to play a game of hide and seek. The older boy turned his head to the wall and began to count. He could hear his little brother’s feet as he scampered about looking for a place to hide.

“Ready or not I’m coming,” cried the older brother and off he went looking for his brother. He looked in all the usual places, behind the sofa, in the bathroom behind the shower curtain, behind the curtains in every room, and under all the beds, but he couldn’t find him. The apartment was eerily silent.

Then he heard a scraping sound coming from the wardrobe. The boy was sure he’d already looked there, but he went anyway and called out, “Come out I’ve found you!” but there was only silence.

Again he called for his brother to come out and again nothing. Opening the door, the boy tried to peer behind the wall of dresses and coats hanging there. He bent down, but he did not see any feet standing there. He began to rise up and put his hand out into the mass of clothing to feel for his little brother when a small, white, icy cold hand came out, grabbed his wrist, and tried to pull him into the closet.

As he is trying to pull himself free, he hears a noise behind him, looks over his shoulder, and sees his brother behind him. “Couldn’t you find me?” asks the boy.

The older brother screams in fright and desperately tries to free himself from the grip of the hand, all the while being pulled into the wardrobe. The younger brother grabs him and together they manage to pull free. They both run screaming from the apartment.

Nobody knows what would have happened if the hand had managed to pull him in. Do you!

The Flying Dutchman

An old legend and famous scary story, there was even a movie based upon this legend in the 1950s. Some versions say the Dutchman must sail the seas until he finds the love of a good woman.

The legend of The Flying Dutchman began 1641, when a Dutch ship sank off the coast of the Cape of Good Hope. The captain, a Dutch man named VanderDecken, failed to notice the dark clouds looming. Only when he heard the lookout scream out in terror did he realise that they had sailed straight into a fierce storm.

The captain and his crew battled for hours to get out of the storm. At one point it seemed as if they would make it. Then they heard a sickening crunch; the ship had hit treacherous rocks and began to sink. As the ship plunged downwards, Captain VanderDecken knew that death was approaching. He was not ready to die and screamed out a curse: “I WILL round this Cape even if I have to keep sailing until the end of time!”

So, even today whenever a storm brews off the Cape of Good Hope, if you look into the eye of the storm, you will be able to see the ship and its captain – The Flying Dutchman. The legend goes that whoever sees the ship will die a terrible death.

Many people have claimed to have seen The Flying Dutchman, including the crew of a German submarine boat during World War II.

On 11 July 1881, the Royal Navy ship, the Bacchante, was rounding the tip of Africa when they were confronted with the sight of The Flying Dutchman. The midshipman, a prince who later became King George V, recorded that the lookout man and the officer of the watch had seen The Flying Dutchman and he used these words to describe the ship:

A strange red light as of a phantom ship all aglow, in the midst of which light the mast, spars and sails of a brig 200 yards distant stood out in strong relief.

It is pity that the lookout saw the Flying Dutchman. For, soon after, on the same trip, he accidentally fell from a mast and died. Fortunately for the English royal family, the young midshipman survived the curse to become The King of England!

The Vanishing Hitchhiker

This urban legend appears in many forms in different parts of the country. Resurrection Mary is the most famous and is associated with the southwest suburbs of Chicago and Resurrection Cemetery. Tell this story as if it happened to a personal friend.

My Uncle Joe was driving home late one night when he picked up a pretty girl hitchhiking in a white dress. The girl was very nice and they have a good conversation. He drove her home and dropped her off at her house. The next day, he realized she left her sweater in his car. He decided to drop the sweater off at her house. When he rang the bell, an old lady answered the door. He tells her his story and she tells him he must be mistaken – her daughter died in a car accident after a night of dancing many years ago.

Variation: The hitchhiker never gets to her house. She mysteriously vanishes from the car as they pass the cemetery gates.

The Big Toe

This is a story that is not too scary for young children and can actually be quite funny. This traditional Southern tale should be told in a serious tone.

A woman is gardening when she digs up a hairy toe. She brings it in the house and puts it in a jar. When she goes to bed that night, she hears the wind moaning and groaning and then she hears “Where is my Hair-r-r-y To-o-e?”

She creeps further under the covers as the house creaks and cracks and she again hears, “Where is my Hair-r-r-y To-o-e?”

Continue this story as long as you wish, with more details about the scary noises in the house and repeating the question “Where is my Hairy Toe” more forcibly and louder.

Finally, say “Where is my Hair-r-r-y To-o-e?” in a low, menacing voice and then jump up, point at the listeners, and scream, “You’ve got it!”

The following stories are a bit longer. To build the suspense, tell them slowly, with a great deal of vocal expression

The Lady with the Emerald Ring

A rich man’s wife became deathly ill the night before Christmas in 1798, so he called for the doctor. By the time the doctor arrived, his wife had died, or so it seemed. Her husband was so grief stricken that he locked himself in his room and did not attend the funeral the following day. The servants of the house carried the rich woman’s body to the Vicar who, in a drunken stupor, held the ceremony quickly. The veil was drawn across her face, the stone lid lowered, and the iron grille locked.

Just before the clergyman fell to sleep later that night, he remembered the beautiful emerald ring on the finger of the woman he had laid to rest. Wanting the ring and thinking no one would find out, he went downstairs, unlocked the lid, opened it, and tried to pry off the ring. It would not budge. He ran and brought back a file to cut the ring off her finger. When that did not work, he severed her finger and pulled the ring off. As he left, he turned around to pick up the iron lid, and screamed at the top of his lungs. He dropped the ring and ran. The woman had awakened, was moaning, and held her severed finger towards him with an evil smile on her face.

Wearing nothing but her fine silk dress, the woman walked back to her home, knocked on the door, and rang the bell, but to no avail. The servants had all gone to sleep, for it was late on Christmas Eve. She lifted a heavy stone, threw it at her husband’s window, and waited. He came to the window with a sorrowful look on his face.

Suddenly, to her surprise, he yelled, “Go away. Why must you torture me so? Don’t you know my wife has just died? Let me mourn and do not bother me again.”

With this he shut the window. He did not realize it was his wife who had thrown the rock at the window. She repeated her actions, again throwing a rock at the window. He opened the window again, and she yelled to him, “I am no one but your so-called dead wife. Now come down here and open this door, unless you’d like me to die a second time on our doorstep.”

“You are a ghost then?” he said to her.

She said, “No, for ghost’s don’t bleed. Now come down here before I catch my own death of cold.”

The man with a joyous look on his face came down to meet his wife and took her inside where he called the doctor once more and told him the news.

Meanwhile, the clergyman ran home and up the stairs. In a state of fright, he hung himself from the rafters of his home. If he had only known that the woman only wanted to thank him. She had not died after all but had gone into a coma. When he cut off her finger, the pain woke her up.

The Long-Dead Boy

Sometimes the occasion is perfect for a longer scary story for kids. The following story has been presented as “true” by many past storytellers.

Once upon a time, there was a 10 year old girl who lived in London in a very old house. She hated the house. It was cold and damp all of the time. Plus, none of her friends would visit because it was believed by everyone in the neighbourhood that a ghost lived in the house. The little girl was curious about the ghost, but nobody would talk to her when she asked questions about it or the history of the house.

The house was scary, and some nights were worse than others. One night, when she was in her room reading, the lamp suddenly went off. She thought the light bulb had died. She did not want to bother her mother, who was already sleeping, by asking for a new bulb. So she put down her book and prepared to sleep. All of a sudden, there was a quiet knocking on the window next to her bed. She saw the reflection of a boy, about her age, reflected on the window glass.

The girl turned to look in her room, but saw nothing. She got out of bed and went over to her lamp. She felt something wet on the ground. She flicked on the lamp, which now worked, and saw a red stain where she was standing. Then it disappeared. It wasn’t blood, because the red was too bright, almost pink, like paint. She scratched at the purple wall of her room and, believe it or not, behind the purple paint was pink, the same dark shade that had been on the floor.

The girl ran out of her room toward her parent’s room. But then she saw something that made her open her mouth to scream, though no sound came out. The attic door was right above her staircase, really high up; only her dad could reach it. Hanging from it was a noose, the thing they hung people on.

The girl ran back to her room and there was a body in her bed. She grabbed her phone to take a picture. She wanted proof. She wanted to know in the morning if what she saw was a dream or real. She took a picture of her bed, and, without looking at it, ran to get her mother.

Grumpily, her mother came up the stairs. The girl pointed to where the noose had been, but now it was just a piece of string from her mother’s sewing kit. She led her mother up to her room, to show her the child’s body, but now there was nothing. As her mother turned to leave the room, the girl remembered the camera. She grabbed it and turned it on, showing it to her mother.

There was no longer a photo of her bed. Instead there was a photo of a teenage boy, with a red mark around his neck, and pink paint all over his torn clothes.

Her mother told her stop joking around. However, her mother had an extremely worried look on her face. When asked what was wrong, she said, “He is back!”

The little girl never saw the boy again and her mother refused to tell her who he was.

The Piggy Back Ride

A married couple fought a great deal and finally began talking about getting a divorce. However, the wife discovered she was pregnant and, for the sake of the baby, they decided to give the marriage another try.

The boy was born and the family had a short period of tranquillity. Before long the old problems resurfaced and the father and mother were fighting all the time.

One night, when the boy was about 5 years old, the couple put the boy to bed and then got into an enormous fight. In a fit of rage, the father put his hands around his wife’s neck and choked the life out of her.

Eventually, when he realised what he had done, he began to panic. He knew he had to get rid of the body if he wasn’t going to get caught.

He bundled the body into the boot of his car and drove out of town to a swamp. He took the body from the car, but rigor mortis had started to set in and it was difficult to carry it. He slung his wife’s body across his back, as if he were giving her a piggy back ride, and waded out into the foul-smelling swamp. He let her go and watched the stiff hands and wretched face recede into the murky swamp water.

The man went home, and got in the shower to clean up, but he couldn’t get rid of the foul stench of the swamp. The smell made him sick to his stomach. No matter how hard he scrubbed or how often he showered, he could not get rid of the smell. It followed him wherever he went.

As the days passed the boy became anxious for his mother and asked all kinds of question. The father told the boy his mother had gone to stay with relatives.

The smell remained. The man began to ignore it as much as he could. One day the man noticed his son was looking at him in a strange way. Every time he approached his son, he recoiled in horror and would not let him touch him.

One day, he walked into his child’s room as he was playing on the floor.

“Son, there seems to be something bothering you. Is there something you want to say to me?”

“Is it about your mother?”

“Why is mommy’s face so pale?”

“Why do you give her a piggy-back ride every day?”

The Hitchhiker

This is a story definitely not suitable for younger kids, but for older ones (from age 10 up). Make sure you use discretion with this classic scary story.

A recently married couple were on a long road trip through the heart of the United States. One night it was raining hard and the headlights of their car flashed across a bearded man on the side of the road hitchhiking. Not usually one for picking up hitchhikers, the husband stopped and pulled over to offer the guy a lift because the weather was so bad. The man thanked the husband and climbed in the back of the car. He seemed agitated and edgy, barely speaking a word for the whole journey. Eventually the couple dropped him off where he asked, at a crossroads. The rain was still coming down in sheets.

The couple drove on for a good while and, to pass the time, the husband turned on the radio. The couple heard a news report about an escaped lunatic, considered very dangerous, who should not be approached under any circumstances. The description matched the hitchhiker and the couple looked at each other, clearly shocked, but happy nothing bad had occurred.

Just then the car gave out, and no amount of keying the ignition would make it start again. The husband tells his wife to stay in the car while he sets off through the rain to try and get help. The woman locks the doors and wants to listen to the radio, but the car battery seems dead. Eventually she doses off.

A while later, she wakes up seeing flashing police lights through the water coming down the windshield and a voice through a loud speaker, “Lady, open the door, get out of the car and run towards us as fast as you can. Do it NOW!”

The woman is confused, but she gets out of the car with her hands above her head.

“Run and don’t look back!” orders the police officer.

But the woman is curious and turns. In the flashing blue lights of the police car and illuminated by flashes of lightning she sees the top of the car where the hitchhiker with a machete is hacking at the dismembered corpse of her husband. Blood is streaming down the sides of the car. She screams and faints as a flurry of gunshots ring out.

Whether the occasion is a camp fire, a sleepover, or a Halloween party, a scary story sets the stage for a fun time. Turn off the lights, set the stage, use your creepiest voice, and be prepared for a late night with little sleep!

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Susan majored in English with a double minor in Humanities and Business at Arizona State University and earned a Master’s degree in Educational Administration from Liberty University. She taught grades four through twelve in both public and private schools. Subjects included English, U.S. and world history and geography, math, earth and physical science, Bible, information technologies, and creative writing.

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«Толстые воры» и «пойти по груше»: 12 самых странных английских идиом

Подтянуть английский язык помогает чтение в оригинале: так можно и словарный запас пополнить, и грамматику отработать. Однако часто возникает ситуация, когда все слова вроде и знакомы, но они как будто случайно оказались вместе. Вместе с руководителем онлайн-школы английского языка Wordika Вероникой Генераловой мы нашли самые необычные английские идиомы и разобрались, что они означают.

To be under the weather — Неважно себя чувствовать

Буквальный перевод: «быть под погодой».

Есть несколько версий происхождения выражения, но все они связаны с морем. В основе первой — особенности ведения бортового журнала: в нем капитан судна ежедневно отмечал погодные условия и состав команды корабля. Тех, кто не мог нести службу, записывали в специальную колонку. Во время шторма туда попадали и многочисленные страдальцы, сломленные морской болезнью. В ненастные дни эта секция часто переполнялась, поэтому моряков приходилось записывать в соседнюю колонку, в графу «Погода» (weather), то есть «under the weather».

Вторая версия связана с местом размещения больных моряков: во время качки всех, кому становилось плохо, отправляли «under the deck and away from the weather», то есть «под палубу, подальше от непогоды». Со временем из этой фразы выпали «палуба» и «подальше» — так появился современный вариант идиомы.

How did you know I was feeling so under the weather this evening? / Как ты узнал, что мне так нехорошо этим вечером?

Pot calling the kettle black — Кто бы говорил

Буквальный перевод: «горшок зовет котел черным (а сам не белее)».

Много лет назад люди готовили на открытом огне в чугунных горшках и медных котлах, после чего на них оставалась черная сажа. Медные котлы очищали и полировали после каждой готовки до блеска настолько, что стоящий рядом горшок отражался в нем, как в зеркале. Так и появилась идея о том, что горшок обвиняет чистый котел в нечистоплотности, хотя на самом деле именно он весь в саже.

Both game developers accuse each other for ripping their narratives: it’s like the pot calling the kettle black. / Оба разработчика игр обвиняют друг друга в плагиате сюжета, хотя чья бы корова мычала.

A hot potato — Щекотливый вопрос

Буквальный перевод: «горячая картошка».

Это выражение известно с середины XIX века и связано с другим фразеологизмом — «to drop like a hot potato» (стремительно от чего-либо избавиться). Ассоциация возникла на фоне того, как быстро из рук выскальзывает горячая картошка. Так словосочетание «hot potato» стало самостоятельно обозначать что-то не самое приятное, с чем хочется поскорее расправиться.

How will this crisis affect cinema production is a hot potato. / Как кризис повлияет на производство кино — щекотливый вопрос.

Cat got your tongue? — Язык проглотил?

Буквальный перевод: «кошка схватила тебя за язык?».

Изначально выражение звучало так: «Has the cat got your tongue?», позже его сократили до «Сat got your tongue». Точное происхождение выражения неизвестно, но есть несколько предположений.

Так, согласно первой версии, выражение пошло от плетки для наказания заключенных, которая по-английски называется «cat o’ nine tails» (буквально это можно перевести как «девятихвостая кошка»). Страх наказания этой плетью заставлял британских преступников держать язык за зубами.

Вторая версия отсылает к средневековой боязни ведьм и их верных спутников — черных котов. Поэтому, когда человек терял дар речи от удивления или шока, такую ситуацию сравнивали с проклятием, которое наложила чародейка явно не без помощи своего кота.

You could be more enthusiastic about the launch! Cat got your tongue? / Мог бы и порадоваться запуску проекта! Ты что, язык проглотил?

Neck of the woods — Трущобы, глушь

Буквальный перевод: «лесная шея».

Эта фраза характерна для американского английского. Впервые она появилась во времена колонистов, но варианты происхождения разнятся. По одной из версий, жители Нового Света старались максимально отстраниться от английских корней и использовали другие слова для обозначения привычных вещей: изначально «шеей» (а вернее, перешейком) называли узкий участок земли, окруженный с двух сторон водой. Американцы начали называть шеей еще и неширокую часть леса или пастбища, а позже и поселение, расположенное в такой местности.

Вторая версия связана с языком коренных американцев алгонкинов: их слово «naiack» означало «место» или «угол». Поселенцы могли перенять это выражение, но со временем его написание и произношение сблизилось с привычным англоязычным жителям Нового Света «neck».

Welcome to my neck of the woods. / Добро пожаловать в мою трущобу.

To go pear-shaped — Пойти наперекосяк

Буквальный перевод: «приобрести форму груши».

Одни лингвисты считают, что это выражение придумали пилоты Королевских военно-воздушных сил Великобритании в 1940-х годах: круги в воздухе — достаточно сложная фигура, поэтому часто вместо окружности у пилотов получалась груша. Другие полагают, что фразеологизм отсылает к Первой мировой войне: запуск воздушных шаров, использовавшихся в то время для наблюдения, шел наперекосяк, когда, надуваясь, они приобретали форму груши.

And when the main cast left, everything with the show went pear-shaped. / А когда основной актерский состав ушел, все в сериале пошло наперекосяк.

Blue in the face — До изнеможения

Буквальный перевод: «синее лицо».

Это выражение часто используется в описании разговоров и дискуссий. Фраза отсылает к ситуации, когда у непрерывно вещающего человека просто заканчивался воздух в легких и его лицо приобретало характерный синий оттенок.

She can talk about the history of feminism till she is blue in the face. / Она может говорить об истории феминизма до посинения.

Thick as thieves — Закадычные друзья

Буквальный перевод: «толстые, как воры».

Идиома появилась в начале XIX века и действительно имеет криминальное прошлое. В то время воры работали в бандах, и успех их планов зависел от уровня доверия внутри группировки, поэтому преступники знали друг о друге абсолютно все. Слово «thick» («толстый»), в данном случае означало «очень близкий», «тесно связанный». Изначально говорили «thick as two thieves», но позже числительное выпало, и получилось сегодняшнее выражение, которое означает близких друзей.

Hopper definitely knows Joyce’s whereabouts but he wouldn’t tell us anything — they are as thick as thieves. / Хоппер точно знает, где находится Джойс, но ничего не скажет: они закадычные друзья.

Wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole — Не приблизился бы и на километр

Буквальный перевод: «не стал бы трогать и баржевой палкой».

В XIX веке, когда многие баржи еще не могли плыть самостоятельно, люди использовали для их передвижения специальные толстые и длинные (около 3 м) палки или сучья. Они позволяли безбоязненно исследовать незнакомый или не очень презентабельный предмет, попадавшийся на пути следования, поэтому выражение стали использовать для обозначения чего-то особенно неприятного или опасного.

They don’t want any bad publicity, so they wouldn’t touch this influencer with a barge pole. / Им не нужны проблемы с репутацией, так что они и на километр не подойдут к этому блогеру.

Heart in one’s mouth — Сердце в пятки ушло

Буквальный перевод: «сердце во рту».

Считается, что впервые это выражение использовал Гомер в «Илиаде», чтобы передать чувство невероятного нервного напряжения. Древнегреческий поэт обратил внимание на ощущение, которое возникает в моменты страха и волнения: сердце бьется так часто, что вибрация начинает чувствоваться в горле.

When they told me my flight has been postponed, I had my heart in mouth. / Когда мне сказали, что мой рейс отложен, у меня сердце в пятки ушло.

Go bananas — Слететь с катушек

Буквальный перевод: «стать бананом».

Группа Little Big тут ни при чем. Историки и лингвисты полагают, что постарались студенты американских колледжей и обезьяны. Изначально существовал фразеологизм «go ape», который тоже означал сумасшествие и отсылал к образу обезьяны. Устойчивая ассоциация животных с их любимым лакомством в глазах американских студентов стала причиной изменения фразы.

Everybody went bananas when all the fitness clubs in the city opened again. / Все просто с катушек слетели, когда снова открылись все фитнес-клубы города.

Cool as a cucumber — Спокоен как удав

Буквальный перевод: «холодный, как огурец».

Даже в жару огурец обычно на несколько градусов холоднее воздуха — так и появилось сравнение хладнокровного человека, спокойного при любой ситуации, с плодом травянистого растения семейства тыквенных.

The passengers worried about possible speeding ticket, yet Victor was as cool as a cucumber. / Пассажиры переживали из-за возможного штрафа за превышение скорости, а Виктор все равно был спокоен как удав.

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Luke’s ENGLISH Podcast

Learn British English with Luke Thompson

29. Mystery Story / Narrative Tenses in English

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This podcast is about narrative tenses (past simple, past continuous & past perfect – see details below). We use these tenses to sequence stories about the past. To master the use of these tenses you have to deal with their form, their use and their pronunciation – both for listening and speaking. Use this podcast to help you deal with all of those things, and then start using narrative tenses fluently whenever you describe something. Make your descriptions more detailed and colourful!

Below you can read the mystery story from the podcast, and then grammar details and a tense review exercise.

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The mystery story:
Last night I was walking home next to the river Thames, when something strange happened to me. It was late at night and I’d had a long and difficult day at work. There was a large full moon in the sky and everything was quiet. I was tired and lonely and I’d just had a few pints of beer in my local pub, so I decided to stop by the riverside and look at the moon for a while. I sat on some steps very close to the water’s edge and looked up at the big yellow moon and wondered if it really was made of cheese. I felt very tired so I closed my eyes and after a few minutes, I fell asleep.

When I woke up, the moon had moved behind a cloud and it was very dark and cold. The wind was blowing and an owl hooted in a tree above me. I rubbed my eyes and started to get up, when suddenly I heard a splash. I looked down at the water and saw something. Something terrible and frightening, and unlike anything I’d ever seen before. Something was coming out of the water and moving towards me. Something green and strange and ugly. It was a long green arm and it was stretching out from the water to grab my leg. I was so scared that I couldn’t move. I’d never been so scared in my whole life. The cold green hand was moving closer and closer when suddenly there was a blue flash and a strange noise from behind me. Someone jumped onto the stairs next to me. He was wearing strange clothes and he had a crazy look in his eyes. He shouted “Get Back!” and pointed something at the monster in the water. There was a bright flash and the monster hissed and disappeared.

I looked up at the man. He looked strange, but kind. “Don’t fall asleep by the river when there’s a full moon”, he said “The Moon Goblins will get you.” I’d never heard of moon goblins before. I didn’t know what to do. “Who… who are you?” I asked him. “You can call me… The Doctor.” He said. I was trying to think of something else to say when he turned around and said, “Watch the stars at night, and be careful of the full moon”. I was trying to understand what he meant, when there was another blue flash and I closed my eyes. When I opened them again, he had gone.

I couldn’t believe what had happened. What on earth were Moon Goblins, and who was the mysterious Doctor? And why had he saved me? I was determined to find the answers to these strange questions. I stood up, looked at the moon and quickly walked home.

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Narrative Tenses
Past simple tense
Form: the simple past form of the verb. E.g. “We met on holiday, we talked about art and music, we fell in love, I asked her to marry me and when she said yes I kissed her passionately on the lips.”
Use: To explain the main events of the story in sequence. We use ‘then’, ‘after that’, ‘first’ and ‘finally’ to link them up. E.g. “First I finished work, then I went to the pub, after that I had a few pints, then I sat down by the river and then I fell asleep, after that the moon moved, and then I woke up and then an owl hooted and after that I heard a splash and then a monster tried to grab my leg and after that the Doctor rescued me and then he disappeared, and finally I went home.
We can also use conjunctions to link up clauses with past simple verb forms. ‘When’ is probably the most common. E.g. “When I woke up, and owl hooted.” Or “An owl hooted when I woke up”.

Past Perfect
Form: had + past participle E.g. “When I arrived at the airport I realised that she had stolen my wallet and passport”.
Use: To express that an action happened before the main events of the story. E.g. “When I woke up, the moon had moved” [the moon moved, then I woke up], which is different to “The moon moved when I woke up” [I woke up, then the moon moved].
Sometimes it is used a bit like present perfect, but when everything is in the past. E.g. “I’ve never heard of moon goblins before” But for yesterday it would be “I had never heard of moon goblins.”

Pronunciation drills:

1. Andrew had done the test before, so he found it very easy.

2. I didn’t laugh at the joke because I had heard it before.

3. We left the restaurant when we had finished dinner.

4. When I found my wallet, I discovered that somebody had taken all the money from it.

Practice:
Here’s the transcript to the mystery story, but with some of the verbs ‘gapped’. Try to put them in the correct tense. Listen again to check.
The mystery story:
Last night I _________________ (walk) home next to the river Thames, when something strange _________________ (happen) to me. It was late at night and I _________________ (have) a long and difficult day at work. There was a large full moon in the sky and everything was quiet. I was tired and lonely and I _________________ (just have) a few pints of beer in my local pub, so I decided to stop by the riverside and look at the moon for a while.

I _________________ (sit) on some steps very close to the water’s edge and looked up at the big yellow moon and wondered if it really was made of cheese. I felt very tired so I _________________ (close) my eyes and after a few minutes, I _________________ (fall) asleep. When I woke up, the moon _________________ (move) behind a cloud and it was very dark and cold. The wind _________________ (blow) and an owl _________________ (hoot) in a tree above me. I rubbed my eyes and started to get up, when suddenly I _________________ (hear) a splash. I _________________ (look) down at the water and saw something. Something terrible and frightening, and unlike anything I’d ever seen before. Something _________________ (come) out of the water and _________________ (move) towards me. Something green and strange and ugly. It was a long green arm and it _________________ (stretch) out from the water to grab my leg. I was so scared that I couldn’t move. I _________________ (never be) so scared in my whole life. The cold green hand _________________ (move) closer and closer when suddenly there was a blue flash and a strange noise from behind me. Someone _________________ (jump) onto the stairs next to me. He _________________ (wear) strange clothes and he had a crazy look in his eyes. He shouted “Get Back!” and _________________ (point) something at the monster in the water. There was a bright flash and the monster hissed and disappeared.

I looked up at the man. He looked strange, but kind. “Don’t fall asleep by the river when there’s a full moon”, he said “The Moon Goblins will get you.” I _________________ (never hear) of moon goblins before. I didn’t know what to do. “Who… who are you?” I asked him. “You can call me… The Doctor.” He said. I _________________ (try) to think of something else to say when he turned around and said, “Watch the stars at night, and be careful of the full moon”. I was trying to understand what he meant, when there was another blue flash and I closed my eyes. When I opened them again, he _________________ (go).

I couldn’t believe what _________________(happen). What on earth were Moon Goblins, and who was the mysterious Doctor? And why had he saved me? I was determined to find the answers to these strange questions. I stood up, looked at the moon and quickly walked home.

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Chapter 6 – A Terrible Murder

chapter – [ˈtʃæptə] – глава
terrible – [ˈterəbl̩] – жуткий, страшный, ужасный
murder – [ˈmɜ:də] – убийство

Thaddeus Sholto began to shake with fear. His face was very white.
‘What do you mean?’ he asked the housekeeper. ‘What is the matter with my brother?’

begin (began, begun) – [bɪˈɡɪn (bɪˈɡæn, bɪˈɡʌn)] – начать
shake (shook, shaken) – [ʃeɪk (ʃʊk, ˈʃeɪkən)] – дрожать
fear – [fɪə] – страх
white – [waɪt] – бледный
mean (meant, meant) – [mi:n (ment, ment)] – иметь в виду; хотеть сказать
ask – [ɑ:sk] – спрашивать
housekeeper – [ˈhaʊsˌki:pə] – экономка, домашняя хозяйка, домработница, домоправительница
What’s the matter? – [wɒts ðə ˈmætə] – Что случилось…?
brother – [ˈbrʌðə] – брат

‘He locked himself in his room. He was there all day. When I knocked on the door he would not answer me,’ she said.

lock – [lɒk] – запирать на замок
room – [ru:m] – комната
knock – [nɒk] – стучать
door – [dɔ:] – дверь
answer – [ˈɑ:nsə] – отвечать
say (said, said) – [ˈseɪ (ˈsed, ˈsed)] – сказать, говорить

‘I knew that something must be wrong. A short time ago, I went upstairs. I looked through the keyhole of the door of his room.

know (knew, known) – [nəʊ (nju:, nəʊn)] – знать
wrong – [rɒŋ] – неблагополучный, неладный
a short time ago – [ə ʃɔ:t ˈtaɪm əˈɡəʊ] – недавно, не так давно
go (went, gone) – [ɡəʊ (ˈwent, ɡɒn)] – идти, отправиться
upstairs – [ˌʌpˈsteəz] – вверх по лестнице, наверх, на верхний этаж
look – [lʊk] – смотреть
through – [θru:] – сквозь, через
keyhole – [ˈki:həʊl] – замочная скважина
door – [dɔ:] – дверь
room – [ru:m] – комната

I saw your brother’s face, Mr Thaddeus. It looks terrible. You must go up Mr Thaddeus, you must go up and see for yourself.’ The housekeeper started to cry again.

see (saw, seen) – [ˈsi: (ˈsɔ:, ˈsi:n)] – видеть
brother – [ˈbrʌðə] – брат
look – [ˈlʊk] – выглядеть
terrible – [ˈterəbl̩] – жуткий, страшный, ужасный
housekeeper – [ˈhaʊsˌki:pə] – экономка, домашняя хозяйка, домработница, домоправительница
start – [stɑ:t] – начать
cry – [kraɪ] – плакать

‘You must all go upstairs,’ said Miss Morstan. ‘I’ll stay here and look after this poor woman.’

upstairs – [ˌʌpˈsteəz] – вверх по лестнице, наверх, на верхний этаж
say (said, said) – [ˈseɪ (ˈsed, ˈsed)] – сказать, говорить
stay – [steɪ] – оставаться
look after – [lʊk ˈɑ:ftə] – присматривать
poor – [pʊə] – бедный
woman (women) – [ˈwʊmən (ˈwɪmɪn)] – женщина (женщины)

We left the two women – Miss Morstan and the housekeeper – downstairs. Holmes took the lamp and led the way. Thaddeus Sholto and I followed him.

leave (left, left) – [li:v (left, left)] – оставлять, покидать
woman (women) – [ˈwʊmən (ˈwɪmɪn)] – женщина (женщины)
housekeeper – [ˈhaʊsˌki:pə] – экономка, домашняя хозяйка, домработница, домоправительница
downstairs – [ˌdaʊnˈsteəz] – нижний этаж, внизу
take (took, taken) – [teɪk (tʊk, ˈteɪkən)] – брать, взять
lead (led, led) – [li:d (led, led)] – вести; идти первым
lead (led, led) way – [li:d (led, led) ˈweɪ] – показывать путь
follow – [ˈfɒləʊ] – идти за, следовать

We climbed up the stairs. There was a passage at the top of the stairs. At the end of the passage was a door. Thaddeus Sholto pointed to this door.

climb – [klaɪm] – подниматься
stairs – [steəz] – лестница, ступеньки
passage – [ˈpæsɪdʒ] – проход, коридор
top – [tɒp] – верх
at the end of – [ət ði end ɒv] – в конце
door – [dɔ:] – дверь
point – [pɔɪnt] – указать

‘That’s the door of my brother’s room,’ he whispered. We hurried forwards. Holmes turned the handle but the door was locked.

door – [dɔ:] – дверь
brother – [ˈbrʌðə] – брат
room – [ru:m] – комната
whisper – [ˈwɪspə] – шептать
hurry – [ˈhʌri] – торопиться, спешить
forwards – [ˈfɔ:wədz] – вперед
turn – [tɜ:n] – поворачивать
handle – [ˈhændl̩] – ручка
door – [dɔ:] – дверь
locked – [lɒkt] – запертый, закрытый

Then he bent down and looked through the keyhole. He stood up again quickly.
‘My God!’ he cried. ‘It’s the work of the Devil!’

bend (bent, bent) down – [bend (bent, bent) daʊn] – наклониться
look – [lʊk] – смотреть
through – [θru:] – сквозь, через
keyhole – [ˈki:həʊl] – замочная скважина
stand (stood, stood) up – [stænd (stʊd, stʊd) ʌp] – вставать
quickly – [ˈkwɪkli] – быстро
My God – [maɪ ɡɒd] – Боже мой!
cry (cried) – [kraɪ (kraɪd)] – восклицать
work – [ˈwɜ:k] – работа
devil – [ˈdevl̩] – дьявол

I bent down and put my eye to the keyhole. I felt very sick and afraid. The bright moonlight was shining into the room.

bend (bent, bent) down – [bend (bent, bent) daʊn] – наклониться
put (put, put) – [ˈpʊt (ˈpʊt, ˈpʊt)] – приложить
eye – [aɪ] – глаз
keyhole – [ˈki:həʊl] – замочная скважина
feel (felt, felt) sick – [fi:l (felt, felt) sɪk] – испытывать тошноту
afraid – [əˈfreɪd] – испуганный
bright – [braɪt] – яркий
moonlight – [mu:nlaɪt] – лунный свет
shine (shone, shone) – [ʃaɪn (ʃɒn, ʃɒn)] – светить, сиять
room – [ru:m] – комната

I could clearly see a face. This face was looking straight at me. It did not move. There was a horrible smile on the face.

clearly – [ˈklɪəli] – четко, ясно
see (saw, seen) – [ˈsi: (ˈsɔ:, ˈsi:n)] – видеть
look – [lʊk] – смотреть
straight – [streɪt] – прямо
move – [mu:v] – двигаться
horrible – [ˈhɒrəbl̩] – ужасный, страшный
smile – [smaɪl] – улыбка

‘This is terrible,’ I said to Holmes. ‘What shall we do?’
‘We must break down the door,’ he replied.

terrible – [ˈterəbl̩] – ужасный
say (said, said) – [ˈseɪ (ˈsed, ˈsed)] – сказать, говорить
break (broke, broken) down – [breɪk (brəʊk, ˈbrəʊkən) daʊn] – вышибить
door – [dɔ:] – дверь
reply – [rɪˈplaɪ] – отвечать

We threw ourselves at the door and it broke with a sudden crack. We were inside Bartholomew Sholto’s room.

throw (threw, thrown) oneself – [ˈθrəʊ (θru:, ˈθrəʊn) wʌnˈself] – бросаться, кидаться
door – [dɔ:] – дверь
break (broke, broken) – [breɪk (brəʊk, ˈbrəʊkən)] – ломаться
sudden – [ˈsʌdn̩] – неожиданный
crack – [kræk] – треск
inside – [ɪnˈsaɪd] – внутри
room – [ru:m] – комната

Bartholomew Sholto was dead. He was sitting in a chair by a table. His body was stiff and cold.

dead – [ded] – мертвый
sit (sat, sat) – [sɪt (sæt, sæt)] – сидеть
chair – [tʃeə] – стул
table – [ˈteɪbl̩] – стол
body – [ˈbɒdi] – тело
stiff – [stɪf] – одеревенелый
cold – [kəʊld] – холодный

I could see that he had been dead for many hours. The dead man’s body was twisted with pain. There was a horrible smile on his face.

see (saw, seen) – [ˈsi: (ˈsɔ:, ˈsi:n)] – видеть
be\am\is\are (was\were; been) – [bi\æm\ɪz\ɑ: (wəz\wɜ:, bi:n)] – быть
dead – [ded] – мертвый
hour – [ˈaʊə] – час
body – [ˈbɒdi] – тело
twisted – [ˈtwɪstɪd] – скрученный
pain – [peɪn] – боль
horrible – [ˈhɒrəbl̩] – ужасный, страшный
smile – [smaɪl] – улыбка

There was a piece of paper on the body. Holmes picked it up and read it.
‘Look,’ he said.

piece – [pi:s] – кусок, обрывок
paper – [ˈpeɪpə] – бумага
body – [ˈbɒdi] – тело
pick up – [pɪk ʌp] – подобрать, поднимать
read (read; read) – [ri:d (red; red)] – читать
say (said, said) – [ˈseɪ (ˈsed, ˈsed)] – сказать, говорить

In the light of the lamp, I read with horror – “The Sign of Four”.
‘What does it mean?’ I asked.

light – [laɪt] – свет
read (read; read) – [ri:d (red; red)] – читать
horror – [ˈhɒrə] – ужас
sign – [saɪn] – знак
mean (meant, meant) – [mi:n (ment, ment)] – значить
ask – [ɑ:sk] – спрашивать

‘It means murder,’ Holmes replied. He pointed to Bartholomew Sholto’s ear. ‘Look.’

mean (meant, meant) – [mi:n (ment, ment)] – значить; означать
murder – [ˈmɜ:də] – убийство
reply – [rɪˈplaɪ] – отвечать
point – [pɔɪnt] – указать
ear – [ɪə] – ухо

I looked. I saw something sticking in the dead man’s skin near his ear.
‘It looks like a thorn,’ I said.

see (saw, seen) – [ˈsi: (ˈsɔ:, ˈsi:n)] – видеть
stick (stuck, stuck) – [stɪk (stʌk, stʌk)] – торчать, застрять
dead – [ded] – мертвый
skin – [skɪn] – кожа
ear – [ɪə] – ухо
look like – [lʊk ˈlaɪk] – выглядеть, быть похожим
thorn – [θɔ:n] – шип
say (said, said) – [ˈseɪ (ˈsed, ˈsed)] – сказать, говорить

‘It is a thorn,’ said Holmes. ‘You can take it out. But be careful. It is poisoned.’

thorn – [θɔ:n] – шип
say (said, said) – [ˈseɪ (ˈsed, ˈsed)] – сказать, говорить
take (took, taken) out – [teɪk (tʊk, ˈteɪkən) aʊt] – вынимать, вытаскивать
be careful – [bi ˈkeəfʊl] – будь осторожен
poisoned – [ˈpɔɪzn̩d] – отравленный

I took the thorn between my finger and thumb. I pulled it away easily from the dead man’s skin. I looked at it.

take (took, taken) – [teɪk (tʊk, ˈteɪkən)] – брать, взять
thorn – [θɔ:n] – шип
between – [bɪˈtwi:n] – между
finger – [ˈfɪŋɡə] – палец
thumb – [θʌm] – большой палец
pull away – [pʊl əˈweɪ] – вытащить
easily – [ˈi:zəli] – без труда, легко
dead – [ded] – мертвый
skin – [skɪn] – кожа
look at – [ˈlʊk ət] – смотреть на

It was hard and sharp. I saw that it had poison on it.
‘So this is how Bartholomew Sholto died,’ I said. ‘What a terrible death. But who killed him? And why?’

We had forgotten about Thaddeus Sholto. He was still standing in the doorway. Suddenly he gave a cry.

forget (forgot, forgotten) – [fəˈɡet (fəˈɡɒt, fəˈɡɒtn̩)] – забывать
still – [stɪl] – по-прежнему, всё ещё, до сих пор
stand (stood, stood) – [stænd (stʊd, stʊd)] – стоять
doorway – [ˈdɔ:weɪ] – дверной проём
suddenly – [sʌdn̩li] – вдруг, неожиданно
give (gave, given) a cry – [ɡɪv (ɡeɪv, ɡɪvn̩) ə kraɪ] – вскрикнуть, закричать
give (gave, given) – [ɡɪv (ɡeɪv, ɡɪvn̩)] – быть источником, издавать
cry – [kraɪ] – крик, вопль, возглас

‘The treasure has gone!’ he said. ‘They have stolen the treasure. Look. Do you see that hole in the ceiling?

treasure – [ˈtreʒə] – сокровище, клад
go (went, gone) – [ɡəʊ (ˈwent, ɡɒn)] – исчезать, пропадать
say (said, said) – [ˈseɪ (ˈsed, ˈsed)] – сказать, говорить
steal (stole, stolen) – [sti:l (stəʊl, ˈstəʊlən)] – воровать, красть
see (saw, seen) – [ˈsi: (ˈsɔ:, ˈsi:n)] – видеть
hole – [həʊl] – дыра, отверстие
ceiling – [ˈsi:lɪŋ] – потолок

We lowered the treasure down through that hole last night. After I had helped my brother with the treasure, I left him here in this room.

lower – [ˈləʊə] – спускать, опускать
treasure – [ˈtreʒə] – сокровище, клад
through – [θru:] – сквозь, через
hole – [həʊl] – дыра, отверстие
last – [lɑ:st] – прошлый
night – [ˈnaɪt] – ночь
help – [help] – помогать
brother – [ˈbrʌðə] – брат
leave (left, left) – [li:v (left, left)] – оставлять, покидать
room – [ru:m] – комната

I was the last person to see my brother alive. I heard him lock the door as I came downstairs.’

last – [lɑ:st] – последний
person – [ˈpɜ:sn̩] – человек
see (saw, seen) – [ˈsi: (ˈsɔ:, ˈsi:n)] – видеть
brother – [ˈbrʌðə] – брат
alive – [əˈlaɪv] – живой
hear (heard, heard) – [hɪə (hɜ:d, hɜ:d)] – слышать
lock – [lɒk] – запирать на замок
door – [dɔ:] – дверь
come (came, come) – [kʌm (keɪm, kʌm)] – идти
downstairs – [ˌdaʊnˈsteəz] – нижний этаж, вниз

‘What time was that?’ asked Holmes.
‘It was ten o’clock. And now my brother, Bartholomew, is dead and the Great Agra Treasure has gone!’.

What time… – [ˈwɒt ˈtaɪm] – Когда …? В котором часу …?
ask – [ɑ:sk] – спрашивать
brother – [ˈbrʌðə] – брат
dead – [ded] – мертвый
great – [ˈɡreɪt] – большой; огромный; великий
treasure – [ˈtreʒə] – сокровище, клад
go (went, gone) – [ɡəʊ (ˈwent, ɡɒn)] – исчезать, пропадать

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Красивые и короткие цитаты на английском о жизни: с переводом и со смыслом

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Live in the now! — Живи настоящим!

Life is a Journey, not a Destination. — Жизнь — это путешествие, а не пункт назначения.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning. — Смысл жизни в том, чтобы дать жизни смысл.

Lessons in life will be repeated until they are learned. — Жизненные уроки будут повторяться до тех пор, пока они не будут усвоены.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. — Будь счастлив в этот момент (сейчас). Этот момент и есть твоя жизнь.

Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show. — Наполните свою жизнь опытом, а не вещами. Рассказывайте истории, а не хвастайтесь вещами.

You live only once. — Ты живёшь только раз.

Life is short. Do stuff that matters. — Жизнь коротка. Делай то, что имеет значение.

Try to find your happiness. Every day. In little things. — Попробуйте найти свое счастье. Каждый день. В мелочах.

You are either the creator or the destroyer of your life experience. — Ты или создатель, или разрушитель своего жизненного опыта.

Life is a series of choices. — Жизнь — это череда выборов.

Collect moments, not things. — Цени моменты, а не вещи.

Sometimes things that hurt you most, teach you the greatest lessons in life. — Иногда вещи, которые причиняют вам самую большую боль, учат вас самым большим урокам в жизни.

What good are wings without the courage to fly? — Что хорошего в крыльях без смелости летать?

Nothing stays forever because the only constant is change. — Ничто не остается навсегда, потому что единственная константа (постоянная) — это изменение.

Live your life with arms wide open. — Живи свою жизнь с широко открытыми руками.

You cannot save people, you can only love them. — Вы не можете спасти людей, вы можете только любить их.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life. — Страх не спасает нас от смерти. Но он не даёт жить полной жизнью.

Everyone underwent something that changed him… — Каждый пережил что-то, что изменило его …

Those seek for the meaning of life who found no happiness in it… — Те ищут смысл жизни, кто не находят в ней счастья …

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Как помогают статусы в изучении английского языка?

Позитивные цитаты и высказывания особенно полезно читать по утрам, чтобы настраивать, таким образом, свой день на хороший лад. А знание и запоминание статусов на английском языке позволяет чувствовать себя человеку героем вдвойне.

Для тех, кто занимается самостоятельным изучением английского с нуля, и тех, кто желает закрепить или совершенствовать уже имеющиеся знания, статусы являются не просто способом заявить о себе. Цитаты и различные изречения это, как правило, короткие и легкие предложения

При чтении и заучивании статусов важно обращать внимание на то, как грамматически сформировано предложение: какое время использовано, какова структура вопросительного предложения и т. д

Все статусы можно разделить на несколько категорий, согласно тематике: красивые статусы, статусы про любовь, про жизнь, прикольные статусы и др. Ниже представлена подборка самых популярных, трогательных и остроумных статусов.

Цитаты на английском из книг и фольклора

Литература — основной источник цитат на английском. Причем, вспоминая красивые английские цитаты, обращаются обычно к Шекспиру, как будто кроме Шекспира никто не оставил после себя цитаты со смыслом, который хочется запомнить и обдумать.

На самом деле, конечно, множество английских, американских и вообще англоговорящих писателей создали удивительные тексты. Более того: великие цитаты есть в переписке известных личностей, эпосе (легендах) и других источниках, традиционно относящихся к литературе.

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Цитаты на английском про успех и мотивацию

Success is the child of audacity. Benjamin Disraeli — Успех— дитя смелости. Бенджамин Дизраэли

Success is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas Edison— Успех — это один процент вдохновения и девяносто девять процентов пота. Томас Эдисон

Calamities are of two kinds. Misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. — Бедствия бывают двух сортов: неудачи, которые терпим мы и удачи, которые сопутствуют другим.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill— Успех — это умение двигаться от неудачи к неудаче, не теряя энтузиазма. Уинстон Черчилль

Destroy what destroys you. —Уничтожь, то что уничтожает тебя.

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. Farrah Gray — Воплощайте собственные мечты, или кто-то другой наймёт вас, чтобы воплощать свои. Фарра Грей

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. Confucius — Воля к победе, желание добиться успеха, стремление полностью раскрыть свои возможности… вот те ключи, которые откроют дверь к личному совершенству. Конфуций

Success is not in what you have, but who you are. — Успех не в том, что имеешь, а в том, что ты из себя представляешь.

Fall seven times and stand up eight. — Упади семь раз, поднимись восемь (Японская пословица).

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. Helen Keller — К достойной цели нет коротких путей. Хелен Келлер

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. Herman Cain — Успех — не ключ к счастью. Это счастье — ключ к успеху. Герман Кейн

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. Stephen Covey — Я не продукт моих обстоятельств. Я продукт моих решений. Стивен Кови

Failure does not mean I have disgraced; It does mean I have dared to try. — Неудача не означает, что я опозорен; Она означает, я имел смелость рискнуть

Цитаты на английском про жизнь

Your life is not a problem to be solved but a gift to be opened. — Твоя жизнь – это не проблема, которую нужно решить, а подарок, который нужно раскрыть.

Everyone is the creator of one’s own fate. — Каждый сам творец своей судьбы. «

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt— Помните: никто не может заставить вас почувствовать себя униженным без вашего согласия. Элеонора Рузвельт.

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln — Имеет значение не количество прожитых лет, а качество вашей жизни в эти годы. Авраам Линкольн

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Mae West— Мы живём один раз, но если правильно распорядиться жизнью, то и одного раза достаточно. Мэй Уэст

We do not remember days, we remember moments. — Мы не помни дни, мы помним моменты.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion. Abraham Lincoln — Когда я делаю добро, я чувствую себя хорошо. Когда я поступаю плохо, я чувствую себя плохо. Вот моя религия.Авраам Линкольн

Everyone has one’s own path — У каждого своя дорога.

Do not squander time – this is stuff life is made of. — Не тратьте время зря – из него состоит жизнь.

World belongs to the patient.. — Мир принадлежит терпеливым..

Everyone sees the world in one’s own way — Каждый человек видит мир по-своему.

Everyone is the creator of one’s own fate — Каждый сам творец своей судьбы.

Nobody’s perfect, but me. Никто не совершенен кроме меня.

Never look back — Никогда не оглядываюсь назад.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin — Выживает не самый сильный и не самый умный, а тот, кто лучше всех приспосабливается к изменениям. Чарльз Дарвин

Be careful with your thoughts – they are the beginning of deeds. — Будьте внимательны к своим мыслям — они начало поступков

Цитаты на английском про природу

Stretching his hand out to catch the stars, he forgets the flowers at his feet. — Вытягивая руку, чтобы поймать звёзды, он забывает о цветах у себя под ногами.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart — Пускай на дворе зима, но в сердце моем вечная весна.

An optimist is the human personification of spring. — Оптимизм – это человеческое олицетворение весны.

Spring time is nature at its best. — Весна – это природа в самом лучшем ее проявлении.

Life’s not about waiting for the storm to pass… it’s about learning to dance in the rain. — Жизнь – это не ожидание того, пока пройдет буря…Это умение танцевать прямо под дождем.

All art is an imitation of nature. — Все искусство – это подражание природе.

Spring breathes new life into the world around us. — Весна вдыхает новую жизнь в мир, окружающий нас.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. — Ни одна зима не длится вечно, ведь ни одна весна не упустит своей очереди.

After rain comes fair weather. — После дождя приходит отличная погода.

Wisdom comes with winters. — Мудрость приходит с началом зимы.

Мудрые изречения о жизни

Во все времена люди пытались постичь себя, общество, цель существования этого мира. Но подметить важные вещи в череде серых будней сможет только выдающийся мыслитель. В данном разделе мы приведем мудрые высказывания об устройстве мира, которые оставили после себя великие философы, ученые, писатели и другие знаменитые деятели различных исторических эпох, а также неизвестные авторы.

Эти мотивационные и умные фразы о жизни смогут вас ободрить и сподвигнуть на открытие чего-то нового в своей жизни. Кто-то посчитает, что подобные изречения слишком пафосные, а кому-то посчастливится найти здесь величайшее высказывание, ставшее девизом всей жизни.

В любом случае, мы приводим эти фразы на английском с переводом, и надеемся, что они никого не оставят равнодушным.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. — Стремление побеждать, жажда успеха, желание полностью раскрыть свой потенциал – это те ключи, которые открывают дверь к личному самосовершенствованию.

Followyour — Следуй за своим сердцем.

The mind is everything. What you think you become. — Ум – это всё. О чем ты думаешь, тем ты и становишься.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. — Ребенка, пугающегося темноты можно легко простить, но взрослые люди, скрывающиеся от света, – это настоящая драма жизни.

If you let your past go, it doesn’t mean that your past will let you go. — Если ты отрекся от своего прошлого, это еще не значит, что твое прошлое отреклось от тебя.

When you start thinking a lot about your past, it becomes your present and you can’t see your future without it. — Когда ты начинаешь думать о прошлом, оно превращается в твое настоящее, за которым не видно будущего.

Wisdom is knowing how little we know. — Мудрость – это понимание того, насколько мало мы знаем.

Everyone underwent something that changed him. — Каждый прошел через что-то такое, что изменило его.

We do not remember days, we remember moments. — Мы помним не дни, мы помним моменты.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all. — Настоящая жизнь – редчайшая вещь в мире. Большинство людей всего лишь существуют.

He, who makes a beast of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man. — Тот, кто пробуждает в себе зверя, больше не чувствует, как это больно – быть человеком.

Everyone has one’s own path. — У каждого свой собственный путь.

Trying about happiness others, we find own happiness. — Стараясь осчастливить других, мы находим собственное счастье.

When in doubt, tell the truth. — Когда сомневаешься – говори правду.

When life gives you lemons, drink tequila! — Когда жизнь подает тебе лимоны – пей текилу!

Everyone is the creator of one’s own fate — Каждый из нас – творец своей собственной судьбы.

Фразы про любовь и отношения

Все, наверное, замечали гламурные и модные фразочки о любви на страницах популярных социальных сетей? Согласитесь, от них часто веет фальшью и неискренностью. Прочувствовать настоящее переживание и выразить его в короткой фразе – редкая удача, которая сопутствует далеко не каждому.

Мы отобрали наиболее искренние и лучшие фразы о любви на английском языке с переводом, способные отогреть холодные сердца и разбудить в них самое светлое чувство.

We hate the ones we love because they can cause the deepest suffering. — Мы ненавидим тех, кого любит потому, что они могут причинить нам самые тяжелые страдания.

All we need is love. — Всё, что нам необходимо – это любовь.

Цитаты про жизнь на английском

When life gives you lemons, drink tequila!

Variety’s the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour.
Разнообразие — та самая приправа к жизни, которая придает ей весь аромат. Уильям Каупер 9

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
Красота — это сила, и улыбка — ее меч. 11

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Тот, кто не может изменить свои мысли, не может изменить ничего. Бернард Шоу 23

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
Одно слово освобождает нас от всех тяжестей и болей жизни: это слово — любовь. 2

Lost time is never found again.
Потерянное время не вернешь. 17

Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Наша жизнь это то, что мы думаем о ней. 11

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Два самых важных дня в вашей жизни: день, когда вы родились, и день, когда поняли зачем. Марк Твен 16

In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
В мире, который очень быстро меняется, стратегия без риска гарантирует провал. Марк Цукерберг 12

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
В центре трудности лежит возможность. Альберт Эйнштейн 9

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.
Жизнь была бы трагичной, если бы не была такой забавной. Стивен Хокинг 16

A day without laughter is a day wasted.
День без смеха – это напрасно прожитый день. Чарли Чаплин 19

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Мы живём один раз, но если правильно распорядиться жизнью, то и одного раза достаточно. Мэй Уэст 3

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
Глупец ищет счастье вдали, умный выращивает его рядом. 9

Success doesn’t come to you… you go to it.
Успех сам не приходит к Вам… Вы идете к нему. 3

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Красота – в глазах смотрящего. Оскар Уайльд 13

We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Мы не помни дни, мы помним моменты 18

Never look back.
Никогда не оглядываюсь назад. 11

There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.
Случайностей не существует. То, что мы ими называем — следствие некой причины, недоступной нашему взору. Вольтер 11

Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory.
Счастье — это хорошее здоровье и плохая память. Ингрид Бергман 11

Only my dream keeps me alive.
Меня греет только моя мечта. 9

You and I — belong.
Ты и я — одно. 9

Everyone is the creator of one’s own fate.
Каждый сам творец своей судьбы. 8

Everyone has one’s own path.
У каждого своя дорога. 10

If you wish to be loved, love!
Если хочешь быть любимым – люби! 8

Where there is love there is life.
Там, где любовь – там жизнь. Махатма Ганди 6

The best thing in our life is love.
Лучшее в жизни — это любовь. 11

While I’m breathing — I love and believe.
Пока дышу — люблю и верю. 7

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Каждый имеет право на собственное мнение, но не на свои собственные факты. 11

You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t.
Ты не можешь заставить свое сердце чувствовать то, что оно не чувствует. 9

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing.
Улыбайтесь, ведь жизнь — прекрасна. М. Монро 13

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Счастье — это не цель, а образ жизни. 6

I can resist anything except temptation.
Я могу устоять перед чем угодно, кроме соблазна. 8

Цитаты на английском языке с переводом

Категория: Учебник, АнглийскийЕще: Английские пословицы и поговорки на букву «A»

Английский язык — важнейший международный язык, что является следствием колониальной политики Британской империи в XIX веке и влияния США в XX—XXI веках.

Цитаты про любовь“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”

«То, о чем Вы мечтаете в одиночестве — лишь мечты. То, о чем Вы мечтаете вместе — реальность»,— Джон Леннон

“Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.”

“Лучше любить и потерять, чем не любить вовсе”,— Эрнест Хемингуэй

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

“ Любовь — это непреодолимое желание быть непреодолимо желаемым”,— Роберт Фрост

“One love, one heart, one destiny.”

“Одна любовь, одно сердце, одна судьба”,— Боб Марли

“Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”

“Другие мужчины говорят, что видели ангелов, но я видел тебя – и мне достаточно”,— Джордж Мур

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed.”

“Люди должны влюбляться с закрытыми глазами”,— Энди Уорхолл

“The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that’s that.”

«Сердце хочет то, что хочет. В этом нет никакой логики. Вы встречаете кого-то, вы влюбляетесь — и это все»,— Вуди Аллен

“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.”

“Любить и победить — лучшее в жизни. Любить и проиграть — следующее за этим”,— Уильям Теккерей

“To love is not to look at one another, but to look together in the same direction.”

“Любовь – это не смотреть друг на друга, а смотреть вместе в одном направлении”,— Антуан де Сент-Экзюпери

“True love stories never have endings.”

“У настоящих историй любви нет финалов”,— Ричард Бах

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”

“Мы любили любовью, что была чем-то большим любви”,— Эдгар Аллан По

Короткие английские фразыA day without laughter is a day wasted — День без смеха – это напрасно прожитый день.Be loyal to the one who is loyal to you — Будь верен тому, кто верен тебе.Books and friends should be few but good — Книг и друзей должно быть мало, но хороших.Every solution breeds new problems — Каждое решение порождает новые проблемы.

Everyone is the creator of one’s own fate — Каждый сам творец своей судьбы.Everyone sees the world in one’s own way — Каждый человек видит мир по своему.Follow your heart – Следовать за своим сердцем.Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things — Дружба это не что-то одно большое – это множество мелочей.

I can resist anything except temptation – Я могу устоять перед чем угодно, кроме соблазна.Life is beautiful — Жизнь прекрасна.Live without regrets — Живи без сожалений.Love is never wrong — Любовь никогда не ошибается.Never look back — Никогда не оглядываюсь назад.Nobody’s perfect, but me — Никто не совершенен кроме меня.

My guardian is always with me — Мой хранитель всегда со мной.My life – my rules — Моя жизнь — мои правила.One lifelong love — Одна любовь на всю жизнь. Respect the past, create the future! — Уважай прошлое, создавай будущее! – Tears are the silent language — Слезы – это немая речь.The best thing in our life is love — Лучшее в нашей жизни — это любовь.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction — Истина более странная, чем вымысел.Tolerance is more powerful than force — У терпения больше власти, чем у силы.When you want it, it goes away too fast — Желанные моменты пролетают мгновенно.While I’m breathing – I love and believe — Пока дышу – люблю и верю.You and I – belong — Ты и я – одно.

Цитаты про жизнь“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”

“Весь мир сделан из веры, доверия и пыльцы фей”,— Джеймс Мэтью Барри “Питер Пэн»”

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”

“Быть до конца честным с самим собой — непростая задача.”,— Фрейд, Зигмунд

“Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.”

“Каждый английский поэт должен овладеть правилами грамматики, прежде чем пытаться изменить или нарушить их.”,— Роберт Грейвс

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

“Все, что вы можете представить – реально.”,— Пабло Пикассо

“Nothing, everything, anything, something: if you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.”

“Ничего, все, что угодно, что-то: если у тебя ничего нет, значит – у тебя есть все, потому что ты имеешь свободу делать что угодно, без страха потерять что-то.”,— Джарод Кинц

“Success doesn’t come to you… you go to it.”

“Успех сам не приходит, если вы не идете к нему”,— Марва Коллинз

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle”

“Есть только два способа прожить свою жизнь. Первый – это полагать, что ничего не чудо. Второй – полагать, что все – это чудо”,— Альберт Эйнштейн

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“Кто не может изменить свои воззрения, не может изменить ничего.”,— Бернард Шоу

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A day without laughter is a day wasted. – День без смеха – это напрасно прожитый день.

When you want it, it goes away too fast. — Желанные моменты пролетают мгновенно.

Популярны и высказывания о самом процессе размышления, о воспоминаниях и мечтах.

Memories take us back, dreams take us forward. Воспоминания тянут нас назад, мечты заставляют двигаться вперед.

Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth Жизнь коротка. Улыбайтесь, пока у вас еще есть зубы.

The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams. Будущее принадлежит тем, кто верит в свои мечты.

И конечно, самые красивые фразы рождаются благодаря самому красивому чувству на свете любви.

For the world you may be just one person, but for one person you may be the whole world. Для мира ты можешь быть просто кем-то, но для кого-то ты целый мир.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny Жизнь была бы трагичной, если бы не была такой забавной (Стивен Хокинг)

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions Я не продукт моих обстоятельств. Я продукт моих решений (Стивен Кови)

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Be careful with your thoughts. they are the beginning of deeds. Будь осторожен со своими мыслями. Они начало поступков. 10

Live each day as if it’s your last. Живи каждый день так, будто он последний. 9

Memories take us back, dreams take us forward. Воспоминания тянут нас назад, мечты заставляют двигаться вперед. 9

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. Красота это сила, а улыбка ее меч. 9

When you want it, it goes away too fast. Самые приятные моменты пролетают мгновенно. 9

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Цитаты на английском языке про жизнь с переводом на русский язык

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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind. — Счастливая жизнь состоит из спокойствия духа. Цицерон

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. — Человек не может быть доволен жизнью, если он не доволен собой. Марк Твен

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. — Возраст таков, каким ты его видишь. Тебе столько лет, сколько ты считаешь. Мухаммед Али

All would live long, but none would be old. — Все хотят жить долго, но никто не хочет быть старым. Бенджамин Франклин

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. — Довольствуйся своей судьбой; нельзя быть первым во всем. Эзоп

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. — Лучшая награда в нашей жизни — это возможность заниматься делом, которое того стоит. Теодор Рузвельт

I love writing, it’s the center of my life. If you don’t love what you do, you’d better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don’t have a reason for living. — Я люблю писать, это смысл моей жизни. Если вы не любите то, что делаете, лучше найдите себе другое занятие. Иначе, не будет смысла жизни. Рэй Брэдбери

In order to write about life first you must live it. — Для того, чтобы написать о жизни, нужно сначала ее прожить. Эрнест Хемингуэй

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about. — Улыбайся, потому что жизнь прекрасная штука, и есть много причин для улыбки. Мэрилин Монро

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. — Жизнь была бы прекрасна, если бы люди оставили вас в покое. Чарли Чаплин

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. — Жизнь — слишком серьезная штука, чтобы говорить о ней всерьез. Оскар Уайльд

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering — and it’s all over much too soon. — Жизнь полна несчастий, одиночества и страданий – и она слишком быстро заканчивается. Вуди Аллен

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. — Жизнь — это то, что происходит с тобой, пока ты оживлённо строишь другие планы. Джон Леннон

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. — В жизни важно уметь воспользоваться случаем, но еще важнее знать, когда случаем не надо пользоваться. Бенджамин Дизраэли

One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late. — Мы слишком поздно распознаем, что является самым главным в нашей жизни. Агата Кристи

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life. — Только тот понял жизнь, кто видел свет и тьму, войну и мир, победы и падения. Стефан Цвейг

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. — Наша продолжительность жизни коротка, но достаточно долгая для того, чтобы жить хорошо и честно. Цицерон

Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on. — Никто не живет вечно, но все к этому стремятся. Стивен Кинг

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. — Мы зарабатываем на жизнь тем, что у нас есть; но мы создаем жизнь тем, что отдаем. Уинстон Черчиль

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. — Зачем вам нужен смысл? Жизнь — это только желание, и никакого смысла. Чарли Чаплин

While there’s life, there’s hope. — Пока есть жизнь, есть и надежда. Цицерон

Wish not so much to live long as to live well. — Не желай прожить долгую жизнь — желай прожить жить прекрасно. Бенджамин Франклин

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. — Вы можете прожить 100 лет, если вы откажитесь от того, ради чего люди и хотят жить 100 лет. Вуди Аллен

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Death… And Me

Chapter 1724 What A Terrible Story

Chapter 1724 What A Terrible Story

‘So, you’ve finally come, huh?’

Kentucky was taken aback as he heard that message. He could tell it was a Divine Sense message, but he couldn’t feel the Divine Sense, which showed that the other party’s cultivation was much higher than his. ‘Right, the Divine Sense bending skill!’

With that, Kentucky immediately activated Rean’s ability, and what he saw terrified him. As mentioned before, the stronger the Divine Sense, the more obvious it became once it touched Rean’s skill. The Divine Sense Kentucky was feeling with the Divine Sense bending skill was by far the strongest he had ever seen. Even the experts of the Jhiod Sect couldn’t hold a candle to it.

Unfortunately, Kentucky couldn’t endure it anymore and began to fall. or so he expected that would happen. However, some force seemed to catch his body midair and pull it in the island’s direction. Not only that, but the pressure that assaulted Kentucky’s body also disappeared at the same time. «Who are you?!»

The voice immediately replied, ‘You’ll see once you get here.’

Eventually, Kentucky was pulled into the floating island, which wasn’t affected by the pressure of the Realm of Gods’ barrier.

The island, other than the fact it was floating in the sky, didn’t have much difference from a normal one. Some trees here and there, rocks, things like that. However, there was an exception. At the very center, Kentucky could see what seemed to be a feather floating above the ground.

«A Minokawa’s feather?» Kentucky murmured. It didn’t matter how he looked at it. Other than its greater size, the feather was pretty much identical to his own.

‘You’re correct,’ the Divine Sense voice talked again. ‘Come closer. Let me take a look at you.’

Kentucky narrowed his eyes in response but approached the floating feather nonetheless. He could tell with Rean’s Divine Sense bending skill that the Divine Sense was still there. Not only that, the Divine Sense was coming from the feather itself. «A sentient feather? Is that even possible?»

The feather couldn’t help but laugh, saying, ‘Hahaha! Of course not! The feather is from my original body. It’s just that I imbued some of my own Divine Sense into it before leaving this place. I knew you would come here one day, so I thought it was better to leave some countermeasures.’

Kentucky was surprised to hear that. «Imbue Divine Sense? You can leave your own sentience behind through Divine Sense? That’s crazy! No, wait! You said you’ve been waiting for me? I’m sorry to disappoint you, but I’m most likely not the Minokawa you were waiting for. I came from the Mortal Realm.»

‘Of course, you did! After all, that’s where my wife and I sent our egg. If you weren’t from there, then you definitely wouldn’t be the right Minokawa. Besides, there’s absolutely no way I can’t feel the bloodline of my descendant. In fact, you should have been able to feel me as well. After all, there’s some remnant of my original body’s blood on the quill of this feather,’ the feather explained.

«Ah!» Now Kentucky was truly shocked. «So that’s why my bloodline seemed so excited. You and I are related. No, wait! Doesn’t that mean you’re my father?»

‘That’s pretty much the case,’ the feather confirmed Kentucky’s words. ‘Still, what has happened to you? What’s that feather crown on your head? It’s as if you had gone through some mutation or sorts.’

Kentucky shook his head in response. «Don’t you think you should be the one to answer my questions first? Let’s leave aside how you got access to the Mortal Realm or anything like that. Instead, let’s start with your reason for you and your wife abandoning me on Sunkan Planet. From what I heard, Minokawas were supposed to be very protective of their offspring. Does that sound familiar at all?»

The feather made a nodding motion. although it didn’t have a head or anything. ‘Sigh. I guess you’re right. We do owe you an explanation. To cut it short, that was your only chance to survive.’

«Survive?» Kentucky narrowed his eyes as he found it absurd. «Survive what? If not for the two idiots who found me, I might have been dead already.» Indeed, Kentucky still remembered the Sunkan Planet explosion, so he would have died there if the twins weren’t the ones who took him. Well, the planet also exploded because of their presence.

‘You don’t understand. It’s still a lot better than if you had stayed in the Realm of Gods. I had to go to great lengths to enter the Mortal Realm and leave you there. Not only that, I didn’t even have the time to choose a planet. I just picked the first populated planet I found and left you there before someone noticed what I tried to do.’

«And why exactly would anyone want to kill me? No, wait, did they want to kill you or me?» Kentucky asked back.

‘You,’ the feather replied. ‘That’s because you were conceived with a Regal Minokawa Bloodline.’

«Regal Minokawa Bloodline?» Kentucky’s eyes lit up after that. «I didn’t know I was some kind of prince.»

The feather’s Divine Sense almost dissipated from that remark. ‘Not that kind of regality, idiot!’

«Hahaha!» Kentucky nodded. «I’m joking, I’m joking. This Regal Minokawa Bloodline is probably some rank higher than normal Minokawas, I presume?»

‘Sigh. ‘ The feather couldn’t really breathe, though. ‘That’s correct.’

Kentucky couldn’t help but remember Rean and Roan’s words. «This seems very cliche, no? Let me guess. One of you must be a Regal Minokawa, while the other is a normal Minokawa. The Minokawas probably have a very strong sense of hierarchy, so the Regal Minokawas couldn’t accept the mixed blood of a normal Minokawa and a Regal Minokawa. Am I doing well so far?»

‘Where did you get that bullshit from? That’s no fun at all,’ the feather answered. ‘Also, you’re wrong. I’ve never mentioned you have a mixed bloodline either.’

«Eh?! Was I wrong?!» Kentucky’s confidence suffered a hit now. «Tch, and here I thought I was doing great. In any case. you now have my full attention.»

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Identity V Full Game Completed Story Theory 2020

Identity V Full Game Completed Story Theory 2020

Identity V Full Game Completed Story Theory 2020

How do all the survivors and the hunter’s stories connect with each other in this game, where survivors must escape from the evil bullies of the hunters.

The Chinese version of the gameplay has much more details into the whole story’s lore, but I will try my best to interpret each story and piece them together with only the English version of the game.

All information I used can be found on https://identityv.gamepedia.com/Lore but more links about the information can be found at the bottom of this site.

The Beginning

The story begins with Orpheus, a detective who receives a letter discussing Mr. Reichenbach’s, a father searching for his lost daughter in the Oletus Manor.

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However, the story is incomplete, and there are many times that aren’t answered. So far the game has only made the diary deductions for the main 4 survivors (plus Forward William Ellis) but that’s about it.

Due to the lack of updates on the other character’s deduction videos, some characters will remain listless (especially the newer ones) since there is little to no information about them.

The Game

Although is no “confirmed” owner of the manor, I will go on the two most popular theories. Starting with Orpheus. So far we know that the survivors are playing is no later than the 1920s, because the Wild West ended around 1910. With the arms factory in ruins, making sense as, after WWI, all the weapons being produced were no longer needed after 1918.

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Orpheus is a detective who has two souls in his body. He starts an investigation to a mansion looking for a missing girl, but only comes upon many journals throughout the game. He begins reading each journal and starts to piece together what happened in the manor. The games play out as Orpheus’s memories, stating that each player in the game was doll-like. Which explains why the survivors in the game appear to have button eyes.

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Trying to understand the concept of the game, Orpheus enters the memories of these games as the “Lucky Guy” (as he isn’t actually a real player and is theorized to be the second soul in his body). Upon entering, he discovers that many of the hunters in the game were actually survivors first. With each player arriving at the manor at their own free will, in exchange for the Owner to give them something.

For example, according to the diary, Leo Beck had been a survivor like everyone else but had broken one of the rules by not writing in his diary, thus returning to the game as a hunter. Now I believe that every hunter started as a survivor but they lost the game and are now forced to work with Miss Nightingale.

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The Mysterious Owner of the Manor (or the creator of the “Game” is also the one who organizes the events). Inviting troubled people into the “Game” in exchange for some kind of grand prize to whoever wins it. No one can leave the manor until the game has been completed, even if the survivors die during a match.

The manor also has the ability to reincarnate survivors, just as they were able to bring Hell Ember (Leo Beck) back after the factory fire. Bringing him back as a hunter to guard and prevent any new survivors from escaping.

Deduction Videos

The gameplay sets out with 1v4 (one hunter versus 4 survivors) and there are already set groups in the lore, so I will organize each of the characters by their deduction groups.

Video Theory #1

Manor Owner is Leo Beck (Hell Ember) who is the creator of the “game”. Leo Beck and Martha Remington (Beck) got married and had a daughter Lisa Beck, who has now renamed Emma Woods.

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But Lawyer (Freddy Riley) and Martha Becks had an affair and ran off together. Causing Leo Beck to grow in anger, and probably burned down the arms factory due to this. Which explains why in Lawyer’s deduction story there appeared a big man resembling Hell Ember and tried to attack him.

The Doctor (Emily Dyer) for some odd reason wears the clothes of a nurse. But as innocent as she may look, she is hiding a secret, but soon enough the Lawyer finds out. Discovering that Emily Dyer is actually Lydia Jones, a doctor, who did illegal surgery on Martha Beck, killing her in the process.

Due to this guilt, the Lawyer must have killed the Doctor to avenge Martha. Which explains why the Doctor has an “Angel” costume… because she’s dead.

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Afterwards, the Thief (Kreacher Pierson) suddenly disappeared and many fans believe that he’s the one inside the scarecrow. The one that the Gardener (Emma Woods) burns down.

Video Theory #2

After ever four survivors, the game resets and the Owner brings in four new survivors to the “game”. But for some odd reason, this winter the game has five survivors… the Forward, Explorer, Magician, Mercenary, and the Wilding.

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Forward (William Ellis) and Magician (Servais Le Roy) have had some past conflict, involving ruining William’s future career in rugby. So far everyone else in the team is suspicious of the Magician. Meanwhile, the Forward begins checking around the mansion to see what everyone else is doing, when he catches Servais Le Roy and the Mercenary (Naib Subedar) dragging a boar’s body outside the mansion.

Discussing how they want to get rid of the “uncivilized one” which is the Forward (William Ellis)… The Magician (Servais Le Roy) had already been rumored to kill his own mentor, who’s to say what he’ll do to William. But one day Servais Le Roy goes missing, and the rest of the group theorized that if Servais is truly gone, then the Wilding (Murro) will take his place in the game.

Later the Forward gets hungry and decided that he wants to eat the pig, asking the Mercenary to cook it for him, so he agrees. Upon finishing cooking the meal, he begins to question “Do you really want to eat that? It looks kind of disgusting” as a way to prevent Forward from actually eating it. Since the Magician probably told him to poison the Forward’s food. But the Mercenary doesn’t wish that fate upon him.

Characters and their Connections

Hell Ember (Leo Beck) is Gardener’s (Emma Woods) father.

Lawyer (Freddy Riley) was “friends” with Leo Beck and convinced him to buy a failing arms factory. But he burned it down with him inside it when it failed. The Gardener (Emma Woods) was sent to an orphanage managed by the Thief (Kreacher Pierson). After the death of her parents, Doctor (Lydia Jones/Emily Dyer) decided to perform electroshock therapy on her but backfired when it caused Emma to go insane.

How he arrived at the manor:

Every hunter has their own motivations and reasons for going to the manor. Hell Ember (Leo Beck), went to the manor because the Owner promised him he could find what he had lost, his daughter.

Thief (Kreacher Pierson)

He claims to be a nice guy, who cares about the kids in the orphanage he runs. But he isn’t. He is a thief and a bit of a psycho. He opened White Sand Aslyum Street or how we call it “The Maze”. The children there were sent out to beg and work.

H also had 11 children with mental problems, which is not hard to believe. Yet, he had a crush on Gardener (Emma Woods), even though she is a minor. At one point, the Church bought the place, running the, and actually helped the children there. Later, he is given money to make another orphanage, but no one knows what he actually did with that money, because he was killed.

How he arrived at the manor:

Perhaps he wanted to make his wrongs rights, and fix all his mistakes and wrongdoings he did on those orphans.

Axe Boy (Robbie)

After losing both of his parents at the age of six, he becomes an orphan under the White Sand Asylum where he works his life away. Until one day his head is chopped off with a bloody axe. We know that the Thief (Kreacher Pierson) owned this orphanage, so they must have had a connection together.

How he arrived at the manor:

Maybe give life to Robbie again, since he doesn’t have his head.

The Geisha (Michiko)

Michiko fell in love with Miles, a foreign army, and soon got married. But his dad didn’t like her and claimed Michiko had run away. But Miles refused to believe him and began searching for her, but she was never found. Perhaps his father had killed her in an attempt to rid of her.

How she arrived at the manor:

We know Michiko was first a survivor before becoming a hunter, in The Lawyer’s (Freddy Riley) deduction video, he encountered the Geisha mask.

Meaning she had been inside the manor, prior to being a hunter. She probably got an invitation from the Owner who promised to help her find her lost husband.

Jack the Ripper and the Dancer (Margaretha Zelle)

Jack the Ripper is on the hunt to kill the Dancer (Margaretha Zelle). Many fans assume that the Dancer is implied to mimic prostitutes, which Jack is known for killing.

The Ripper, being inspired by the real serial killer of the same name, hunted down and killed prostitutes. In the game, they are seen as dancers, just like our survivor, the female dancer, who went to the manor after her friends were found murdered and felt unsafe where she lived.

How she arrived at the manor:

The manor Owner promised her security, however, she did not know the Ripper was there as well.

Smiley Face (Joker)

Before being Smiley Face, there was once a hard-working Sad Clown who worked at Hullabaloo Circus at the Moonlit River Park. He worked alongside Natalie, an animal trainer, Mike Morton, the Acrobat, Murro, and “Smiley Face” (another clown, named Sergei). The Sad Clown had fallen in love with Natalie, but she was with the other clown.

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Since Sergei and Natalie were in an abusive relationship together, Sad Clown offered for them to run away together, he even was the one who gave Natalie the music box. The Sad Clown then grew tired of working when no one appreciated him, so he killed Sergei (the abusive clown) and took over his role, becoming the new “Smiley Face”.

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But now with Mike’s new letter, we now know that “Natalie” is an alias for the Dancer (Margaretha Zelle, who’s actual name is Fiona!). Also that the Acrobat (Mike Morton) was most likely the one who burned down the circus, giving our Smiley Face, that scar.

How he arrived at the manor:

The Smiley Face is there to finally get some recognition, as he wasn’t really praised when he worked as a clown.

Mechanic (Tracy Reznik) and the Soul Weaver (Violetta).

Soul Weaver was working in a circus as part of the freak show. It was her ultimate goal to perform on stage and gain the attention of many. Until the Ringleader (one of Dancer’s skins in the game) found her act “uninteresting”.

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So the Mechanic (Tracy Reznik) helped her build the robotic limbs for Soul Weaver. Now Violetta and Tracy seem to have a good connection together.

How she arrived at the manor:

The Soul Weaver arrived at the manor so she could finally perform her Human-Spider Performance and Mechanic wanted spare parts for her creations.

The Priestess (Fiona Gilman) and The Feaster (Hastur).

The Priestess (Fiona Gilman) is a follower of Yog-Sothoth, who is related to The Feaster (Hastur). Fiona is also involved in the Lakeside Village Investigation with the Dream Witch (Yidhra) and the Evil Reptillian (Luchino).

Also, although not confirmed, theories say that the Priestess (Fiona Gilman) and the Seer (Eli Clark) are engaged. Even though it may or may not be true, I don’t doubt their connections since they seem to both be involved with mystic magics.

How she arrived at the manor:

Fiona Gilman is a mystic who claims that her spirit guided her to the Oletus Manor.

Coordinator (Martha Behamfil) and Mercenary (Naib Subedar)

Coordinator (Martha Behamfil) and Mercenary (Naib Subedar) were war veterans together.

Theories say that the Coordinator lost her fiance in a plane crash shortly before coming to the manor. And that the Mercenary used to be in the army but had hurt his elbows and dropped out.

Mercenary (Naib Subedar) also supposedly has ties to the Explorer (Kurt Frank) in being comrades in arms together.

How they arrived at the manor:

All three characters had much experience on the real battlefield, so they all joined the game in high hopes they would take the grand-prize home.

Dream Witch (Yidhra) and Evil Reptilian (Luchino)

Both grand deities with reptilian aspects, they must connect in some sense. For example, Dream Witch’s deduction is confusing but it may have some small relation to Evil Reptilian just because of the name, Dr. Luchino, is mentioned there.

How they arrived at the manor:

Now I have no idea how or why hey decided to join the game, but the fact they are deities and are forced to pay the Owner of manor’s games, truly tells you how powerful he can be.

First Officer (Jose Baden) and Bloody Queen (Mary)

There was a theory that First Officer was the merchant along with his father who may have bought Wu Chang’s umbrella onto his ship, and may or may not have been involved with Hastur.

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Jose Baden was known as the famous Chief Officer who escorted the British Queen’s Marine Empire along with his father who was the captain of the ship. They were rich, powerful, and punctual, and never failed in serving the queen.

Legend said that the secret of the family was related to a pocket watch that was blessed by the Sea God (Hastur). The tides and waves always obeyed him and never delay his journey, because of this his family was highly valued by the Queen.

One day after attending an emergency, Jose waited for his father at the port but the ship that had served for the Queen had never arrived and seemingly disappeared. The Queen was enraged and thought the family has stolen her treasure and ordered all her wealth she granted to Jose to be returned.

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Sometime later, Jose received news about the ship, and on the list of the missing items, there was an ancient umbrella from China (Wu Chang) which was about to be delivered to a place called Oletus Manor.

How they arrived at the manor:

Jose Baden probably arrived at the manor to retrieve their family and the Queen’s items. Although Bloody Queen had been executed by guillotine she most likely went to the manor to retrieve all her items back as well.

Wu Chang (White/Black Guard)

Wu Chang brothers are twins who really loved and cared for each other. But one day, while it was raining one of the brothers waited under a bridge while the other went to get an umbrella. Yet, when the brother returned, he found out his other brother had drowned.

How they arrived at the manor:

The Umbrella is obviously a very important item to them, but the manor must have gotten it somehow from the First Officer’s (Jose Baden) ship. Manipulating the Wu Chang brothers to join the game.

The Other Survivors

Although they may not connect with other characters in the game, they all somehow found their way to the Oletus manor.

Perfumer (Vera Nair)

The Perfumer is actually Chlor Nair, a girl well known for her talents in perfume making, but was often criticized by others. Vera Nair, her twin sister, noticed the situation and began advertising Chloe’s brand in an attempt to help her, as she was the more beautiful and charismatic sister.

However, Chloe saw this as Vera taking advantage of her, so she killed Vera, then taking her sister’s name and claiming “Chloe” had gone missing. But after learning the truth, she felt guilty of her actions and created “Euphoria” to make her forget everything that happened.

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Perfumer is also a native from France, so she might have some connections with Joseph or Bloody Queen.

How she arrived at the manor:

Perfumer arrived to the manor by invitation, as the owner claimed he could help rid of her worries.

The Mind’s Eye (Helena Adam)

Helena Adam has a long life dream of attending college, so she enters the manor’s game in hopes of winning the grand prize to pay for college.

Embalmer (Aesop Carl)

Embalmer was adopted by an old embalmer and pulled out of school because he claimed he had autism. The old embalmer became his mentor and taught him how to murder people before embalming them. Where Aesop now prefers the dead over the living.

Cowboy (Kevin Ayusa)

Although he’s from the Wild West 1910s, he meets a young native American girl and joins their tribe. However, as he grew older, he left the tribe and decided to roam Europe. Which may be where the Oletus Manor is located.

Prospector (Norton Campbell)

After surviving a terrible mining disaster, he finds a meteorite based magnet which he uses to his advantage and gains more cash.

Enchantress (Patricia Dorval)

Born on a slave ship, arrived in New Orleans with her mother, who taught her everything to know about witchcraft. However, after her mother’s, she discovers a curse within her blood. Trying to find her origins to rid of the curse, she encounters the Oletus Manor instead.

The Other Hunters

Although they may not connect with other characters in the game, they all somehow found their way to the Oletus manor.

Gamekeeper (Bane)

Bane Perez was one of the first hunters in the game that worked at the Oletus Manor before the game was even created. Being in charge of the forest farm and patrol cabin at the Manor. He raised a black-nosed moose like a child. However, accidents always happen, and a new hunting season was coming. Bane was wondering how he could hide the black-nose to ensure its safety, but he was too late. A team of fully armed poachers had already arrived.

The gunshots rang through the forest. When Bane arrived, he saw that the black-nose had fallen to the ground. He recognized a familiar face from the poacher’s team. It was the boy that he had rescued a few years prior. However, when Bane pleaded with him, they cruelly threatened to turn him into a Minotaur. They even cut off his tongue and put the head of the black-nose moose on him. They locked him up with a steel-jaw leghold trap and began a massacre in the forest.

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After the poachers had left, the dogs dragged Bane back to the manor, where he somehow recovered. No one thought that his humiliation would turn Bane into a demon. He was transformed into a real Minotaur, and the mountain forest was his maze. Since that day, Bane shows no mercy to anyone who sets foot on his land.

How he arrived at the manor:

Bane, the Gamekeeper, is there to get revenge on those who once abused his kindness.

Photographer (Joseph)

After the pain of losing his twin brother, Claude, he becomes obsessed with art and “capturing the moment” in time. To never waste more of it, by losing the time spent with loved ones, Joseph began to kidnapped people to hold forever in his memory. So the trauma of losing his brother can fade away.

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Although both he and the hunter Bloody Queen are from France, they are from two different eras, so they are not related in that sense.

How he arrived at the manor:

However, by now he would be 100+ years old, so it’s truly a mystery why he ever came to the manor.

Mad Eyes (Burke)

Burke was hired by a married couple with kids to renovate the manor, he was also living there. As he worked on the manor he was also working on some of his projects, like robots and limb enhancers (similar to Mechanic). The family he was working for meddled with his work sometimes and teased him, but he hated it.

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Yet, eventually they grew on him. He didn’t realize this until a mob broke into the manor and executed the couple and the kids. after that day he made adjustments to his enhancers (adding weapons) and swore that he would never let anyone on the Manor’s grounds again.

The Oletus Manor

Whoever this “Owner” was, he obviously had a lot of power. Being able to call elder gods from Cthulhu myths (Hastur and Yidhra) for his game and control the rage in Hell Ember so he can use to fuel his own power. As well as time travel powers, with having Joseph join the game when he is from the 1800s era.

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The Owner most likely offers players promises of anything they wish.

Just like survivors, each one could have there on intentions. For example, the Mechanic (Tracy Reznik) wants to know more about the machines on the manor instead of money.

Yet the Dancer (Margaretha Zelle) wants to be a millionaire and the Theif (Kreacher Pierson) wanted to build an orphanage if not mistaken. Too bad he burned alive on his first game.

However, the name of the manor itself is interesting. According to the game lore, sometimes the name is even mistaken as the “Orpheus” Manor…

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Thank you so much for reading! Comment down below any theories I may have missed or any other interesting facts.

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Xie and Bian are NOT twins. In fact, it was confirmed that they used to be dating thanks to Wu Chang’s character day letter. Also, Burke, (mad eyes) is Helena (minds eye) grandparent. They share the same last name.As far as I know, Burke had always tried to find something to help Helena, coz ya know she’s almost blind.

Thank you for that insight! I had no idea, but I’ll be sure to make an updated version in the future!

if they actually were dating thats kinda gross considering they look like brothers LMAO

I think the reason they look the same or look like twins is because they share one body. Remember Wujiu (the black guard) drowned at the bottom of the bridge and Bi’an (the white guard) hanged him self. I think Wujiu’s sprit emblemed itself on the umbrella, and when Bi’an died, it resulted in them share a body, and exchanging their souls through the umbrella.

Mad Eyes actually works for a family, and a mob kidnapped that family causing Mad Eyes to grieve and sorrow (which is why he occasionally drinks) and makes robots to protect the house if ever the family would return. The reason he was hired was because he was a professional architect helping the family find a suitable home for themselves

uh…..you do realize that date also means to meet up, right? In the character day letter Xie and Bian were meeting up together, not romantically. But you are right

I don’t think that they are twins

You forgot did Mary had a relationship with Joseph because i search up Bloody Queen Idv and there she was bowing down in front of Joseph

Hi Really good post note. God bless,cure,invention You writers

Sorry, but the entire lore is wrong. You got some parts right, but you missed a lot of things.
1) Emily wore nurse clothes to calm children down.
2) Thief NEVER managed the orphanage. He was forced to hand it to the Church, which is something he never wanted. He is, in fact, a good person. He went into the games for the sake of the children, because he wanted to take over the orphanage. Emma Woods never knew Kreacher as a child.
3) Wu Chang are not twins. The devs pointed out multiple times they might be lovers, but they are sworn brothers.
4) Martha and Naib were NOT veterans together. Martha is a cavalry rank and doesn’t know of war. Naib is involved in the Sepoy Mutiny.

And the list goes on. Please do your research next time.

Yes, I do realize that many of the theories I wrote were incorrect, but at the time, that was all the information I could find about the lore (I started this theory in 2019, only posted it last year). Of course, everything I said is still in fact a “theory” but I try will correct all the mistakes I wrote about the lore in an updated version!

This is interesting. I’ve been digging info regarding the game for awhile now,as it’s my new obsession. Shame that that’s what we’ll only get until NetEase decides to give us more.
Also I don’t know why,but I keep getting vibes from the previous comments correcting you as aggressive vibes. Not sure if it’s really the case,but I hope you’re not too discouraged by that and continue what you do. It’s already hard to find a website that has gathered bits and pieces of Identity V lore.

AH thank you for your kind words! Don’t worry, I’m sure the other comments mean well, they only want to correct the misinformation I’ve written. But I’ll be sure to try to update this blog (when I have the time) with the new updated information I have received.

Hey! Here is a video about Mike Morton’s lore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKSgoeLEZfU
Warning its quite long

This would make sense, because kreacher was obsessed with Emma, so he probably did, go into the scarecrow and when he [scarecrow] screamed it kinda did sound like him.. and Emma was waiting for The Lawyer & Emily, but they never showed up, so entirely Summing it up, yes all of this does have plenty of evidence, and I was only focusing on the main ones.

wait, i’m a bit confused, i might be wrong but i believe that kreacher wasn’t attracted to emma when she was a kid at his orphanage. he only started liking emma after they were both at the manor together (i think she’s 22 now), and he doesn’t know that she was one of the orphans. i don’t know exactly why he’s attracted to her, but it must have had something to do with the fact that he disliked freddy and emily because they were in the “higher class” and the fact that emma was more kind to him.

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Учебник Spotlight 4. Student’s Book. Часть 2. Страница 85

Further Writing Practice — Дополнительная практика письма

1. Correct the mistakes. — Исправь ошибки

Writing a story. Writing Tips! — Пишем рассказ. Советы!

When we write a story, we use time words like first, then, suddenly, finally to show the order of events. — Когда мы пишем рассказ, мы используем слова, которые указывают на время повествования: сначала, затем, вдруг, наконец — чтобы показать порядок событий.

1. Read the story. Underline the words first, then, suddenly and finally. — Прочитай рассказ. Подчеркни слова сначала, затем, вдруг и в конце.

Я с отцом отлично провел прошлую субботу! Сначала мы позавтракали. Затем, мы взяли нашу лодку и пошли на рыбалку. Мы были на нашей лодке несколько часов. Вдруг мы увидели что-то в воде. Это было похоже на рыбу-монстра! Я сильно испугался! «Помогите!» — закричал я. В итоге рыба-монстер подплыла ближе. Это не была рыба-монстр, это был дельфин. Это было круто!

2. Put the story in the correct order. — Поставь части истории в правильный порядок.

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Death Stranding is a terrible story, but a wonderful puzzle

Kojima’s writing is clumsy, yet somehow he’s delivered a great game

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[Minor spoilers in this piece, mostly thematic. There are no specific plot spoilers in this article, but if you’re sensitive to spoilers of any kind, and you plan to play Death Stranding, turn back now.]

The news that Hideo Kojima wants to make a movie fills me with dread.

Having recently slogged through Death Stranding’s tedious story, I strongly suspect he’ll struggle to create a film that’s worth watching. To put it bluntly, I think he’s a bad writer.

And yet, here’s a troubling contradiction. Death Stranding is an excellent game. It’s a clever work of interactive-narrative originality. How do I accommodate my conflicting opinions?

Where Kojima stumbles

I’m far from the first person to complain about Kojima’s tendency toward verbosity. His weakness as a writer is on full display in Death Stranding. (To be clear, narrative design is “writing,” but I’m speaking specifically here of story construction, dialog, and character development.)

The reviews have already noted that Death Stranding’s monotone characters talk too much. They over-explain their motivations, detail obvious plot directives, and grind us down with references to sophomoric themes of togetherness.

Kojima has little interest in brevity or subtlety. He’s overly keen on tired horror tropes, like creepy, abandoned baby dolls, spider webs as sources of evil, and masks as motifs of hidden motives. He leans heavily into sci-fi drivel about demi-gods, government conspiracies, and phony science.

And where he excels

Kojima is awful at telling a recognizably, coherent linear story, but he’s highly skilled at creating a vast narrative landscape of intrigue and then smashing it up into a million little pieces, before allowing us to see each of them, one at a time. The initial confusion is part of the thrill.

This game isn’t a story as you might expect to find at the movies or in a novel. It’s not even like a standard video game in which one scene leads to another, and then on to an ending. It’s more of a giant jigsaw puzzle made up of tiny little stories.

Kojima offers an illusion that, at some point, we can put the pieces back together and they’ll provide resolution. This illusion turns out to be a trick, but it doesn’t matter. Illusions can be clever and entertaining.

Why are we eating bugs? Where do these ghosts come from? What’s on the other side of that mountain? Who are these jack-asses attacking me? What’s it like to have a motorbike? Why am I carrying a baby in a box?

Kojima is good at replacing one mystery with an answer that leads to another question. Kojima’s uber-story is overwrought, partly as a result of being constructed from so many quivering little mini-stories, none of which really fit with any of the others. It’s like trying to make a beehive out of bees.

In the end, Kojima can’t fully explain it all, because so much of his work is inexplicable. His starting point is a muddled canvas of blurry ideas, so how can his end-point be anything other than a mess?

Of course, this won’t stop speculation about what it all means. Many will try to make sense of the mosaic. That in itself is a game which he has teased with tiny narrative pieces, and I’ll enjoy watching it play out on social media in the weeks ahead. Much of his work is evocative of emotions and themes that may or may not show up in the story itself. Perhaps a unified theory of Death Stranding will emerge, but I doubt it. Kojima’s business is mystery and illusion.

Ultimately, Death Stranding is a world piled with glittering treats of the imagination. They intrigue me enough to play on. I’m captured not by the humanity of his characters, nor by the arc of an original story, but by lots and lots of shiny little things that I pick up and examine and want to know more about.

And that story, of course, is not the entire experience. Death Stranding is set in a singularly beautiful world. The central activity of walking is executed superbly. Its well-constructed fetch quests are finely tuned. Kojima’s casting choices are inspired, displaying his genuine adoration of film and omnivorous taste in pop culture.

I enjoy inhabiting his world, experiencing the game’s challenges and surprises. I enjoy uncovering its myriad mysteries, one by one. I believe the social, sharing elements of the game will be rewarding to players.

As the game’s story grinds to an end, and as I think back on the long hours I spent in its company, I find I’m unable to fathom this world’s narrative entirety, despite it being explained to me at least three times. I remain unconvinced that Kojima fully understands it as a truly coherent story, as opposed to a collection of psychedelic anecdotes, glued together with a paste of mumbo-jumbo and distracting verbosity.

I’m not sure it matters. Despite his literary shortcomings, Kojima is a great game designer.

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A terrible story he is a dead

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A man had to go to court, and he asked his lawyer which judge would be hearing his case. His lawyer told him and then said, ‘Do you know him?’ The mall answered, ‘No, but I wanted to know his name so that I could send him a dozen bottles of good wine.’
The lawyer was terribly shocked. ‘You can’t do that,’ he said. ‘You would bc breaking the law very seriously, and you would be sure to lose the case.’
Some weeks later the case was heard, and the man won it. As he was leaving the court, he said to his lawyer, \’My present to the judge was quite successful, wasn’t it?’
The lawyer was even more shocked than before, and said, ‘What? Did you really send him that wine after what I told you?’ ‘Yes, certainly,’ answered the man. ‘But I put my opponent’s name on the card which I sent with the wine.’

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Can you think of a sentence in which the word ‘and’ appears five times, without any words in between? There is one at the end of this story.
There was once all inn which was called ‘The Horse and Cart’. It had a sign outside it which had a picture of a horse and cart on it, but the sign was getting very old, so the owner of the inn decided to have a new one made. He went to a painter and asked him to paint one, and to write ‘The Horse and Cad’ on it in large letters.
A few days later, he went to see how the painter was getting on. He liked the picture of thc horse and cart very much, but he did not like the writing at all. He said to the painter, ‘No, no! There’s too much space between HORSE and AND and AND and CART! ‘

«Oh, yes,» answered the fisherman. » I know every rock on this part of the coast.» Suddenly there was a terrible tearing sound from under the ship. At once the fisherman added, «And that’s one of them.»

«Oh thank you very much,» Mrs Grey answered politely. «Please tell him that I’ll have a glass of beer.»

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Some people were queuing outside the Scala Theater for tickets for a very popular show. They had to wait for several hours, and during that time they were entertained by a young man who was playing very nicely on a trumpet. The queue enjoyed his music and put quite lot of money in the box that he had o the ground in front of him.
At last one of the people in the queue said to him ‘You play too well to be a beggar.’
‘I’m not a beggar,’ the young man said. ‘I’m studying to be a trumpet player in a big band, and have to practiSE (именно ‘s’) several hours every day, so I thought it would be nice to do it in the fresh air instead of in my small room on days when the weather was nice-and also to get a bit of money at the same time.’

В связи с этим есть вероятность, что следующая аудиозапись (№6) будет такой:

Mr Richards worked in a shop which sold, cleaned and repaired hearing-aids. One day an old gentleman entered and put one down in front of him withou saying a word.
‘What’s the matter with it?’ Mr Richards said. The man did not answer. Of course Mr Richards thought that the man must be deaf and that his hearing-aid must be faulty, so he said again, more loudly, ‘What’s wrong with your hearing-aid, sir?’ Again the man said nothing, so Mr Richards shouted his question again as loudly as he could.
The man then took a pen and a piece of paper and wrote: ‘It isn’t necessary to shout when you’re speaking to me. My ears are as good as yours. This hearing-aid is my wife’s, not mine. I’ve just had a throat operation, and my problem is not that I can’t hear, but that I can’t speak.’

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The Mexican

Мексиканец

Jack London/Джек Лондон

NOBODY knew his history – they of the Junta least of all. He was their «little mystery,» their «big patriot,» and in his way he worked as hard for the coming Mexican Revolution as did they. They were tardy in recognizing this, for not one of the Junta liked him. The day he first drifted into their crowded, busy rooms, they all suspected him of being a spy – one of the bought tools of the Diaz secret service. Too many of the comrades were in civil an military prisons scattered over the United States, and others of them, in irons, were even then being taken across the border to be lined up against adobe walls and shot.

Никто не знал его прошлого, а люди из Хунты и подавно. Он был их «маленькой загадкой», их «великим патриотом» и по-своему работал для грядущей мексиканской революции не менее рьяно, чем они. Признано это было не сразу, ибо в Хунте его не любили. В день, когда он впервые появился в их людном помещении, все заподозрили в нем шпиона – одного из платных агентов Диаса. Ведь сколько товарищей было рассеяно по гражданским и военным тюрьмам Соединенных Штатов! Некоторые из них были закованы в кандалы, но и закованными их переправляли через границу, выстраивали у стены и расстреливали.

they of the Junta least of all – а люди из Хунты и подавно (досл.: они (те, которые) из Хунты меньше всех) (Хунта – по-испански Совет); здесь they– это замена слову them, например: Blessedaretheythatmourn. – Благословенны будут те, которые скорбят;

as hard for the coming Mexican Revolution as did they – для грядущей мексиканской революции не менее рьяно, чем они (досл.: так же тяжело для прихода мексиканской революции, как делали они). Здесь стоит конструкция as. as, что означает так же. как, например: It tasted as lemon juice but not as acid. – На вкус он был как лимонный сок, но не такой кислый;

of being a spy – являющимся шпионом (здесь being– герундий). He’s of being a writer – Онтожеписатель;

Too many of the comrades – Ведь сколько товарищей (досл.: слишком много товарищей; не путать с too – тоже). Itistoo good to be true. – Это слишком хорошо, чтобы можно было поверить;

were even then being taken across the border – их переправляли через границу (досл.: были даже затем будучи взятыми через границу); здесь глагол to beстоит в прошедшем времени мн. числа.

At the first sight the boy did not impress them favorably. Boy he was, not more than eighteen and not over large for his years. He announced that he was Felipe Rivera, and that it was his wish to work for the Revolution. That was all – not a wasted word, no further explanation. He stood waiting. There was no smile on his lips, no geniality in his eyes. Big dashing Paulino Vera felt an inward shudder. Here was something forbidding, terrible, inscrutable. There was something venomous and snakelike in the boy’s black eyes. They burned like cold fire, as with a vast, concentrated bitterness. He flashed them from the faces of the conspirators to the typewriter which little Mrs. Sethby was industriously operating. His eyes rested on hers but an instant – she had chanced to look up – and she, too, sensed the nameless something that made her pause. She was compelled to read back in order to regain the swing of the letter she was writing.

На первый взгляд мальчик производил неблагоприятное впечатление. Это был действительно мальчик, лет восемнадцати, не больше, и не слишком рослый для своего возраста. Он объявил, что его зовут Фелипе Ривера и что он хочет, работать для революции. Вот и все – ни слова больше, никаких дальнейших разъяснений. Он стоял и ждал. На губах его не было улыбки, в глазах – привета. Рослый, стремительный Паулино Вэра внутренне содрогнулся. Этот мальчик показался ему замкнутым, мрачным. Что-то ядовитое, змеиное таилось в его черных глазах. В них горел холодный огонь, громадная, сосредоточенная злоба. Мальчик перевел взор с революционеров на пишущую машинку, на которой деловито отстукивала маленькая миссис Сэтби. Его глаза на мгновение остановились на ней, она поймала этот взгляд и тоже почувствовала безыменное нечто, заставившее ее прервать свое занятие. Ей пришлось перечитать письмо, которое она запечатала, чтобы снова войти в ритм работы.

did not impress them favorably – производил неблагоприятное впечатление (досл.: не поразил их благоприятно); здесь отрицание переходит от глагола к существительному;

Boy he was – Это был действительно мальчик (досл.: мальчик он был);

not a wasted word, no further explanation – ни слова больше, никаких дальнейших разъяснений (досл.: ни растраченного понапрасну слова, нет более объяснений); такие конструкции переводятся как ни. ни, ни. никаких и т.д. Например: I’m sorry, you’ve had a wasted journey. – Мне очень жаль, но вы зря потратили время на дорогу сюда;

felt an inward shudder – внутренне содрогнулся (досл.: почувствовал находящееся внутри содрогание);

They burned like cold fire – В них горел холодный огонь (досл.: они горели подобно холодному огню); слово likeпереводится не только, как глагол любить, нравиться, но и как наречие подобно, например: He was burned on that deal. – Его насадили на этом деле;

flashed them – перевел взгляд (досл.: метнул им), например: Toflashalookather. – Метнуть на неё взгляд;

She was compelled – Ей пришлось (досл.: она была принуждена (вынуждена)), например: You cannot compel good work from unwilling students. – Вытянуть хороший результат из студента, который не хочет работать, невозможно.

Paulino Vera looked questioningly at Arrellano and Ramos, and questioningly they looked back and to each other. The indecision of doubt brooded in their eyes. This slender boy was the Unknown, vested with all the menace of the Unknown. He was unrecognizable, something quite beyond the ken of honest, ordinary revolutionists whose fiercest hatred for Diaz and his tyranny after all was only that of honest and ordinary patriots. Here was something else, they knew not what. But Vera, always the most impulsive, the quickest to act, stepped into the breach.

Паулино Вэра вопросительно взглянул на Ареллано и Рамоса, которые, в свою очередь, вопросительно взглянули на него и затем друг на друга. Их лица выражали нерешительность и сомнение. Этот худенький мальчик был Неизвестностью, и Неизвестностью, полной угрозы. Он был непостижимой загадкой для всех этих революционеров, чья свирепая ненависть к Диасу и его тирании была в конце концов только чувством честных патриотов. Здесь крылось нечто другое, что – они не знали. Но Вэра, самый импульсивный и решительный из всех, прервал молчание.

indecision of doubt brooded – выражали нерешительность и сомнение (досл.: нерешительность сомнения нависла), например: All his doubts about the project disappeared. – Все его сомнения о проекте исчезли;

vested with all the menace – полной угрозы (досл.: наделенной всеми угрозами), например: The Mianma Government was vested with the power of sovereignty. – Мьянманское правительство получило суверенитет;

«Very well,» he said coldly. «You say you want to work for the Revolution. Take off your coat. Hang it over there. I will show you, come – where are the buckets and cloths. The floor is dirty. You will begin by scrubbing it, and by scrubbing the floors of the other rooms. The spittoons need to be cleaned. Then there are the windows.»

– Отлично, – холодно произнес он, – ты сказал, что хочешь работать для революции. Сними куртку. Повесь ее вон там. Пойдем, я покажу тебе, где ведро и тряпка. Видишь, пол у нас грязный. Ты начнешь с того, что хорошенько его вымоешь, и в других комнатах тоже. Плевательницы надо вычистить. Потом займешься окнами.

Take off – Сними (предлог off в комбинации с глаголом to take обозначает снятие предмета одежды).

«Is it for the Revolution?» the boy asked. «It is for the Revolution,» Vera answered.

– Это для революции? – спросил мальчик. – Да, для революции, – отвечал Паулино.

Is it – вспомогат.глагол «is», вынесенный на первое место, указывает на вопросит.конструкцию, It is – утвердит.конструкция (в ответе) (внимание на порядок слов, глагол tobe ставится на первое место).

Rivera looked cold suspicion at all of them, then proceeded to take off his coat.

«It is well,» he said.

Ривера с холодной подозрительностью посмотрел на них всех и стал снимать куртку.

looked cold suspicion – с холодной подозрительностью посмотрел (досл.: посмотрел холодную подозрительность), в английском варианте не нужно использовать предлог with – с.

And nothing more. Day after day he came to his work – sweeping, scrubbing, cleaning. He emptied the ashes from the stoves, brought up the coal and kindling, and lighted the fires before the most energetic one of them was at his desk. «Can I sleep here?» he asked once.

И ничего больше. День за днем он являлся на работу – подметал, скреб, чистил. Он выгребал золу из печей, приносил уголь и растопку, разводил огонь раньше, чем самый усердный из них усаживался за свою конторку. – Можно мне переночевать здесь? – спросил он однажды.

was at his desk – усаживался за свою конторку (досл.: был за своей конторкой).

Ah, ha! So that was it – the hand of Diaz showing through! To sleep in the rooms of the Junta meant access to their secrets, to the lists of names, to the addresses of comrades down on Mexican soil. The request was denied, and Rivera never spoke of it again. He slept they knew not where, and ate they knew not where nor how. Once, Arrellano offered him a couple of dollars. Rivera declined the money with a shake of the head. When Vera joined in and tried to press it upon him, he said: «I am working for the Revolution.»

Ага! Вот они и обнаружились – когти Диаса. Ночевать в помещении Хунты – значит найти доступ к ее тайнам, к спискам имен, к адресам товарищей в Мексике. Просьбу отклонили, и Ривера никогда больше не возобновлял ее. Где он спал, они не знали; не знали также, когда и где он ел. Однажды Ареллано предложил ему несколько долларов. Ривера покачал головой в знак отказа. Когда Вэра вмешался и стал уговаривать его, он сказал: – Я работаю для революции.

So that was it – Вот они и обнаружились (Так вот оно что!);

down on Mexican soil – в Мексике (досл.: внизу на мексиканской почве), здесь down– означает доведение до какого-нибудь предела, до конца, например: Heread down to the last page. – Он дочитал до последней страницы.

not where nor how – когда и где (досл.: ни где, ни как), например: Nor he nor she was there. – Ни его, ни ее там не было.

It takes money to raise a modern revolution. and always the Junta was pressed. The members starved and toiled, and the longest day was none too long, and yet there were times when it appeared as if the Revolution stood or fell on no more than the matter of a few dollars. Once, the first time, when the rent of the house was two months behind and the landlord was threatening dispossession, it was Felipe Rivera, the scrub-boy in the poor, cheap clothes, worn and threadbare, who laid sixty dollars in gold on May Sethby’s desk. There were other times. Three hundred letters, clicked out on the busy typewriters (appeals for assistance, for sanctions from the organized labor groups, requests for square news deals to the editors of newspapers, protests against the high-handed treatment of revolutionists by the United States courts), lay unmailed, awaiting postage. Vera’s watch had disappeared – the old-fashioned gold repeater that had been his father’s. Likewise had gone the plain gold band from May Setbby’s third finger. Things were desperate. Ramos and Arrellano pulled their long mustaches in despair. The letters must go off, and the Post Office allowed no credit to purchasers of stamps. Then it was that Rivera put on his hat and went out. When he came back he laid a thousand two-cent stamps on May Sethby’s desk.

Нужно много денег для того, чтобы в наше время поднять революцию, и Хунта постоянно находилась в стесненных обстоятельствах. Члены Хунты голодали, но не жалели сил для дела; самый долгий день был для них недостаточно долог, и все же временами казалось, что быть или не быть революции – вопрос нескольких долларов. Однажды, когда плата за помещение впервые не была внесена в течение двух месяцев и хозяин угрожал выселением, не кто иной, как Фелипе Ривера, поломойка в жалкой, дешевой, изношенной одежде, положил шестьдесят золотых долларов на конторку Мэй Сэтби. Это стало повторяться и впредь. Триста писем, отпечатанных на машинке (воззвания о помощи, призывы к рабочим организациям, возражения на газетные статьи, неправильно освещающие события, протесты против судебного произвола и преследований революционеров в Соединенных Штатах), лежали неотосланные, в ожидании марок. Исчезли часы Вэры, старомодные золотые часы с репетиром, принадлежавшие еще его отцу. Исчезло также и простенькое золотое колечко с руки Мэй Сэтби. Положение было отчаянное. Рамос и Ареллано безнадежно теребили свои длинные усы. Письма должны быть отправлены, а почта не дает марок в кредит. Тогда Ривера надел шляпу и вышел. Вернувшись, он положил на конторку Мэй Сэтби тысячу двухцентовых марок.

It takes money – Нужно много денег (досл.: это берет деньги); глагол take может употребляться в значении требовать, например, It takes four men to lift a piano. – Нужно четверо мужчин, чтобы поднять пианино. It takes money to make money. – Чтобы делать деньги, нужны деньги;

the longest day was none too long – самый долгий день был для них недостаточно долог (слово noneупотреблено в значении недостаточно);

the rent of the house was two months behind – плата за помещение впервые не была внесена в течение двух месяцев (досл.: плата за помещение была два месяца с промедлением); здесь behind имеет значение с отставанием, с промедлением, например: She is behind other girls of his age. – Она отстает в развитии от девочек своего возраста;

There were other times – Это стало повторяться и впредь (досл.: Так было другие разы); глагол be в сочетании с формальным элементом there, занимающим место подлежащего перед глаголом be, образует оборот there + to be, в котором be обязательно следует переводить словами иметься, находиться, существовать. Слово there, поскольку оно является в смысловом отношении формальным членом, не переводится, например: There were many people at the meeting. – На собрании было много народу;

must go off – должны быть отправлены; go offимеет много значений, например: ухудшаться, портиться, выключаться, отключаться, переставать работать, выстреливать, взрываться, проходить (гладко), например: The concert went off well. – Концерт прошёл хорошо;

Then it was that Rivera – Тогда Ривера (досл.: тогда было так, что Ривера).

«I wonder if it is the cursed gold of Diaz?» said Vera to the comrades.

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And That’s Terrible

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When the bad guy’s acts are unquestionably evil, but the show’s writers feel the need to have characters or the narrator say this out loud. This can be a sign of a Designated Villain: in this case, the sentence is used to make sure that the reader knows that what the villain does is wrong, when out of context it wouldn’t seem particularly evil.

This could be considered a villains-only Sub-Trope of Anvilicious. Named for a page from »The Super Dictionary», where even though we see that Lex Luthor has stolen forty cakes, the panel still reminds us, «And that’s terrible.»

If they’re established as bad by an actual action, see Kick the Dog and Moral Event Horizon. If this is used as most of what is supposed to make the villain bad, it’s Offstage Villainy. You’re Insane! can often be used as an alternative.

When used unironically, it can be bad writing as a Sub-Trope of Show, Don’t Tell. Might be justified if the villain in question is edging toward Draco in Leather Pants territory. Certainly justified if there is controversy about whether an evil thing is really so bad (the page quote, for example, was about a book published shortly before an entire civil war was fought over whether or not slavery was acceptable). Also justified for works aimed at young children (such as the aforementioned Super Dictionary) who have just started to wrap their minds around the whole «morality» thing.

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Enfant Terrible

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The Enfant Terrible is an adorable child. An angel, one might say, with a cherubic face. One just wants to pick them up and hug them.

But they’re dangerous. An Enfant Terrible knows people think they’re cute, and will use that to their advantage. When one person finds out, said hero usually has a hard time convincing others, who will turn on them for even suggesting such a thing about the poor, poor child.

An Enfant Terrible may be supernatural, or simply a child born without a conscience. They may also be a Self-Made Orphan.

A form of the Devil in Plain Sight. Might overlap with Girl Scouts Are Evil, if they do more than just sell you cookies, and with Kids Are Cruel, if the kid’s behaviour also transpires in his relationship to other children. Akin to the Creepy Child, except Enfants Terribles are truly dangerous and vicious at heart, whereas a Creepy Child isn’t necessarily psychopathic or evil.

It is common for an Abusive Offspring to be an Enfant Terrible, although they are not exclusively this, or vice versa.

Of course, such a character almost always plays the Wouldn’t Hurt a Child and Children Are Innocent cards to get away with their actions, which almost always works—for a while. They’re unlikely to be directly killed by any heroic character in the story, but they have a habit of becoming Self Disposing Villains.

Virtually defenseless in a direct physical battle and hindered by their undeveloped bodies, Enfants Terribles with no super powers are usually obliged to operate by proxy. Thus, Corruption by a Minor is often their favourite technique to get what they want.

See also Undead Child and Evil Orphan, which are common subtypes. Often the nemesis of a Kid Hero. Not related to Child Soldier but the two can overlap.

Compare Tyke-Bomb, Little Miss Badass, Cute Is Evil, Fetus Terrible, Cute and Psycho, Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon. Contrast with Psychopathic Manchild, where an already-grown psycho behaves like a child. Contrast Goo-Goo-Godlike, in which the child is not evil, just playful and way too powerful. See also Teens Are Monsters, the aggregate adolescent equivalent of this trope.

Not to be confused with Les Enfants Terribles, which instead both fall under Tyke-Bomb.

It is sufficient to say that psychopathy manifests itself from a very young age, and there is some Truth in Television in this trope. However, any specific Real Life examples no, thanks.

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12 английских пословиц, которые не имеют аналога в русском языке

Пословицы и поговорки – это отражение народной мысли, установок, моральных ценностей. Обычно они имеют аналоги в других языках, поскольку воспроизводят “простые истины”, свойственные любому человеку каждой нации. Пословица может иметь другие образы, но будет доносить тот же смысл:

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Но есть высказывания, которые вообще не имеют эквивалента в русском языке. Такие пословицы в наибольшей степени отражают отличия менталитета, поэтому составляют для нас особый интерес.

Кстати, сегодня мы узнаем не только смысл этих английских пословиц, но и связанные с ними занимательные истории.

Обрати внимание: если вдруг ты не согласен с описанным примером и точно знаешь русский аналог, то обязательно пиши об этом в комментариях – подискутируем! 🙂

Уникальное наследие: пословицы на английском языке с переводом

1. If you can’t be good, be careful.

Дословный перевод: Если не можешь быть хорошим, будь осторожен.

Если ты собираешься делать безнравственные вещи, убедись, что они не опасны для тебя или общества. Когда ты планируешь сделать что-то аморальное, удостоверься, что об этом никто не узнает.

Первое упоминание именно этой формулировки датируется 1903-м годом, но смысл выражения намного старше и берет свое начало из латинской пословицы “Si non caste, tamen caute” (если не целомудренно, то по крайней мере осторожно).

2. A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

Дословный перевод: Один доброволец стоит двадцати принужденных.

Значение пословицы по сути прямое: даже маленькая группа людей может быть полезнее, если у нее есть энтузиазм, стремление и т.д. Зародилась эта пословица в начале 18-го века.

В то время Королевский флот имел группу матросов, вооруженных дубинками, чья цель была “насобирать” моряков на флот. Они могли делать это, рассказывая о небывалых преимуществах службы, или же просто силой (все же вооружены дубинками они были неспроста).

Такое стечение обстоятельств не делало принужденного хорошим моряком. Отсюда и “вытекло” это умозаключение.

Заметь, что в этой пословице можно менять соотношение цифр:

100 volunteers are worth 200 press’d men.

One volunteer is worth two pressed men

3. Suffering for a friend doubleth friendship.

Дословный перевод: Страдание за друга удваивает дружбу.

Значение этой шотландской пословицы понятно без особых объяснений. Казалось бы, в русском языке есть довольно похожая пословица “друг познается в беде”. При этом очень интересен сам смысл “страдания за друга”. Если в русском варианте говорится о том, чтобы не отвернуться от друга и помочь ему в трудной ситуации, то здесь именно страдать вместе с ним, тем самым усиливая дружбу.

Еще одна интересная с точки зрения образов английская пословица о дружбе: Friends are made in wine and proven in tears (дружба рождается в вине, а проверяется в слезах).

4. A woman’s work is never done.

Дословный перевод: Женский труд никогда не заканчивается.

Ну вот и о нашей нелегкой женской доле английские пословицы позаботились 🙂 Выражение пошло от старинного двустишия:

Man may work from sun to sun,
But woman’s work is never done.

Получается, значение пословицы в том, что женские дела (в отличие от мужских) длятся бесконечно. Видно это из примера:

“A woman’s work is never done!”, said Leila. She added: “As soon as I finish washing the breakfast dishes, it’s time to start preparing lunch. Then I have to go shopping and when the kids are back home I have to help them with their homework.”

(“Женский труд никогда не заканчивается!”, – Сказала Лейла. Она добавила: “Как только я заканчиваю мыть посуду после завтрака, приходит время готовить обед. Потом я должна идти по магазинам и, когда дети возвращаются домой, я должна помогать им с домашним заданием”.)

5. Comparisons are odious / odorous.

Дословный перевод: Сравнения отвратительны / воняют.

Люди должны оцениваться по их собственным заслугам, не стоит кого-либо или что-либо сравнивать между собой.

Два варианта пословица имеет не просто так. Первый вариант (Comparisons are odious) очень древний, и впервые он был запечатлен еще в 1440 году. А вот измененный вариант (Comparisons are odorous) был “создан” Шекспиром и использован им в пьесе “Много шума из ничего”.

6. Money talks.

Дословный перевод: Деньги говорят (сами за себя).

Значение – деньги решают все. Происхождение выражения является предметом споров среди лингвистов. Одни считают, что пословица зародилась в Америке 19-го века, другие – что в средневековой Англии.

Кстати, пословица использована в названии песни австралийской рок-группы AC/DC.