Один язык - два мира: примеры из книг
Часть первая: еда
У британского и американского английского есть много общего, английский, как никак. Но в тоже время, это два абсолютно разных мира. Грамматика, произношение, правописание и даже наименования могут отличаться с точностью до наоборот.
- Babies were weaned at an earlier age – they could be fed on porridge and gruel. (Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind)
- Within seconds it was the grayish white of old porridge. (Joanne Kathleen Rowling. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
- And Don Smith's four-year-old daughter Jenny had taken to hiding in it when there was oatmeal for breakfast or spinach for supper. (Stephen King. The Lawnmower Man)
- Why don't you eat? he demanded, as Martin dipped dolefully into the cold, half-cooked oatmeal mush. (Jack London. Martin Eden)
- "Nine." "Chocolate biscuit?" "A hundred and twenty-one". (Helen Fielding. Bridget Jones's Diary)
- He supposed she hadn't such a thing as a glass of claret and a biscuit — he had had no lunch! (John Galsworthy. The Man of Property)
- Unlike the waifish, cookie-cutter blondes that adorned Harvard dorm room walls, this woman was healthy with an unembellished beauty and genuineness that radiated a striking personal confidence. (Dan Brown. The Da Vinci Code)
- Ere, you, cookie! Trot out your mixing-pan and sling the kettle for' ot water. (Jack London. A Daughter of the Snows)
- We also have no proper regional cookery; families no longer eat together but instead consume junk food in front of the television; our diet consists mainly of salty or sweet snack foods – chips, crisps, chocolate bars, ready-meals, microwave pizzas and other rubbish. (Kate Fox. Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of Behaviour)
- Uncle Vernon's rations turned out to be a bag of chips each and four bananas. (Joanne Kathleen Rowling. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
- Chips, Patriotism and English Empiricism Although chips were invented in Belgium, and are popular (as French-fries, frites, patate frite, patatas fritas, etc.) in many other parts of the world, we found that English people tend to think of them as British or, rather more specifically, English. (Kate Fox. Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of Behaviour)
- The simple purchase of a drink and a packet of crisps in a pub also typically requires two pleases and three thank-yous. (Kate Fox. Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of Behaviour)
- I knew the barman and sat on a high stool and ate salted almonds and potato chips. (Ernest Hemingway. Farewell to Arms)
- Jame had the most atrocious room imaginable in this San Francisco flophouse, sort of aubergine walls with smears of psychedelic Day-Glo here and there from the hippie years, terribly battered everything". (Thomas Harris. The Silence of the Lambs)
- But before they go, one of the goons say Curtis an me should get on fine cause both of us have about as much brains as a eggplant. (Winston Groom. Forrest Gump)
- And they've got this son ― I saw him kicking his mother all the way up the street, screaming for sweets. (Joanne Kathleen Rowling. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
- A teapot, boxes of chocolate candy, dry biscuits, and freshly picked chanterelles sit on the living room table alongside a carefully placed little plastic doll. (Ilaria Parogni. The Strategic Savvy of Russia’s Growing Anti-Abortion Movement)
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