40 كلمة تتعلمها قبل قراءة «ملحمة المريخ»
A Martian Odyssey
40 كلمة يكررها ستانلي ج. فاينباوم في «ملحمة المريخ»، وليست بين أكثر 4000 كلمة شيوعًا في الإنجليزية. تعلّمها أولًا تصبح الفصول الأولى أسهل بكثير. لكل كلمة نطقها ومعناها وجملة من الكتاب.
beast/ˈbist/وحش19 مرة في الكتاب
The arm heaved the body out of the hole; the beast crashed to the sand.
beak/ˈbik/منقار15 مرة في الكتاب
"But the bird-like thing was putting up a good battle, dealing vicious blows with an eighteen-inch beak, between screeches.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/ميل14 مرة في الكتاب
… just as we figured, the wings haven't much lift in this air at less than a hundred miles per hour, and even then I had to use the under-jets.
pyramid/ˈpɪɹəmɪd/هرم، أهرام13 مرة في الكتاب
"There was a line of little pyramids—tiny ones, not more than six inches high, stretching across Xanthus as far as I could see!
queer/ˈkwɪɹ/غريب10 مرة في الكتاب
Yet, in spite of all difficulties, I liked Tweel, and I have a queer certainty that he liked me."
canal/kəˈnæɫ/قناة9 مرة في الكتاب
"Twenty miles into Thyle—believe it or not—I crossed a canal!"
cliff/ˈkɫɪf/جرف9 مرة في الكتاب
Well, I figured I might as well use what was left of daylight in getting down the cliff that bounded Thyle.
trilling/ˈtɹɪɫɪŋ/تغريد8 مرة في الكتاب
He poked his beak at it, and with a great deal of trilling and clucking, he added Deimos and Phobos to Mars, and then sketched in the earth's moon!
pushcartعربة دفع8 مرة في الكتاب
and gave its pushcart a vicious poke at me!
silicon/ˈsɪɫəkən/سيليكون m or سلكون8 مرة في الكتاب
There must have been pure silicon in the sand, and it lived on that.
sail/ˈseɪɫ/أبحر8 مرة في الكتاب
… though, to distinguish that what I sailed over was just more of this grey plain that we'd been examining the whole week since our landing—same blobby growths and the same eternal carpet of crawling little plant-animals, or biopods …
rocket/ˈɹɑkət/صاروخ8 مرة في الكتاب
… learning to breathe the air as tenuous as that of Mars, the challenging of the void in the tiny rocket driven by the cranky reaction motors of the twenty-first century, and mostly the facing of an absolutely unknown world.
cart/ˈkɑɹt/عربة نقل، عربة8 مرة في الكتاب
It was pushing a little coppery cart and tore right past us like the proverbial bat out of Hell.
grey/ˈɡɹeɪ/رمادي، أغبر7 مرة في الكتاب
3 in our guess, then, and this grey plain we dropped on was really the Mare Cimmerium which would make my orange desert the region called Xanthus.
dash/ˈdæʃ/انطلق بسرعة7 مرة في الكتاب
They droned out their friendly greeting, which didn't really sound so friendly, and dashed on.
daylight/ˈdeɪˌɫaɪt/ضوء النهار6 مرة في الكتاب
"I knew that I had sixteen hours of daylight at this season, so eight hours—eight hundred miles—from here, I decided to turn back.
plug/ˈpɫəɡ/يتقدم بجهد6 مرة في الكتاب
It got tiresome, of course—plugging along over a soft sand desert with nothing to see, not even Leroy's crawling biopods.
mound/ˈmaʊnd/تل6 مرة في الكتاب
The mound city I'd noticed from the rocket was a mile or so to the right and I was curious enough to want to take a look at it.
silica/ˈsɪɫəkə/سيليكا5 مرة في الكتاب
I examined a brick or two as well; they were silica, and old as creation itself!"
rubbish/ˈɹəbɪʃ/نفايات5 مرة في الكتاب
Their pushcarts were full of stones, sand, chunks of rubbery plants, and such rubbish as that.
inch/ˈɪntʃ/بوصة، شبر5 مرة في الكتاب
It stood an inch or so taller than I, and—well, Putz saw it!"
heap/ˈhip/كومة5 مرة في الكتاب
… we don't get a peep for ten days, and finally Putz here picks you out of a lunatic ant-heap with a freak ostrich as your pal!
drum/ˈdɹəm/طبلة5 مرة في الكتاب
The top end of the barrel-body was a diaphragm stretched as tight as a drum head, and that was all.
trill/ˈtɹɪɫ/تكرير4 مرة في الكتاب
There was a racket like a flock of crows eating a bunch of canaries—whistles, cackles, caws, trills, and what have you.
dart/ˈdɑɹt/انطلق4 مرة في الكتاب
The road simply dived into an opening, and slanted down like an old mine, and in and out darted the barrel-people, greeting us with their eternal phrase.
biologist/baɪˈɑɫədʒɪst/أحيائي4 مرة في الكتاب
The other three stared at him sympathetically—Putz, the engineer, Leroy, the biologist, and Harrison, the astronomer and captain of the expedition.
blast/ˈbɫæst/انفجار، عصف4 مرة في الكتاب
… was in the old days, less than twenty years after the mad American Doheny perfected the atomic blast at the cost of his life, and only a decade after the equally mad Cardoza rode on it to the moon.
builder/ˈbɪɫdɝ/بناء، بناءة، معمار، معمارة4 مرة في الكتاب
Tweel was telling me that the builders of the pyramids weren't people—or that they weren't intelligent, that they weren't reasoning creatures!
damn/ˈdæm/لعن4 مرة في الكتاب
The fire hadn't kept me any too warm, but that damned sleeping bag did.
ours/ˈaʊɝz/لنا4 مرة في الكتاب
Our minds simply looked at the world from different viewpoints, and perhaps his viewpoint is as true as ours.
ostrich/ˈɔstɹɪtʃ/نعامة، ظليم3 مرة في الكتاب
"That freak ostrich," explained the narrator.
ejaculate/ɪˈdʒækjuˌɫeɪt/هتف3 مرة في الكتاب
ejaculated the engineer.
cuss/ˈkəs/سب3 مرة في الكتاب
"I plugged steadily along, cussing the sand that made going so tiresome, and, incidentally, cussing that cranky motor of yours, Karl.
clack/ˈkɫæk/طقطقة3 مرة في الكتاب
The other let out a series of clacks, staggered around on legs about as thick as golf sticks, and turned suddenly to face me.
cluck/ˈkɫək/قرقرة3 مرة في الكتاب
He set up a negative sort of clucking and said, 'No, no, no. No one-one-two.
north/ˈnɔɹθ/شمال3 مرة في الكتاب
I pointed to myself and toward the north, and he pointed at himself and toward the south, but when I loaded up and started away, he came along.
ouch/ˈaʊtʃ/أح، حلية3 مرة في الكتاب
They paid no attention at all, except to assure us they were friends—ouch!
diaphragm/ˈdaɪəˌfɹæm/حجاب حاجز3 مرة في الكتاب
It stopped and set up a sort of drumming from the diaphragm on top.
prowl/ˈpɹaʊɫ/يتجول3 مرة في الكتاب
I decided to sleep on the plateau if possible; anything dangerous, I reasoned, would be more likely to prowl through the vegetation of the Mare Chronium than the sand of Xanthus.
drone/ˈdɹoʊn/أزير3 مرة في الكتاب
But this sound was the drone of a rocket, and sure enough, there went our second auxiliary about ten miles to westward, between me and the sunset!"
المعاني: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org, English to Arabic (CC-BY-SA) النطق: ipa-dict (MIT)، من ويكاموس.
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