40 كلمة تتعلمها قبل قراءة «قصة مدينتين»
A Tale of Two Cities
40 كلمة يكررها تشارلز ديكنز في «قصة مدينتين»، وليست بين أكثر 4000 كلمة شيوعًا في الإنجليزية. تعلّمها أولًا تصبح الفصول الأولى أسهل بكثير. لكل كلمة نطقها ومعناها وجملة من الكتاب.
knit/ˈnɪt/تقطب61 مرة في الكتاب
… white with what they suppressed; nor foreheads knitted into the likeness of the gallows-rope they mused about enduring, or inflicting.
carriage/ˈkæɹɪdʒ/عربة51 مرة في الكتاب
Say, shall I hire a carriage and post-horses?”
menderمصلح48 مرة في الكتاب
… as the like of himself had drooped before Monseigneur of the Court—only the difference was, that these faces drooped merely to suffer and not to propitiate—when a grizzled mender of the roads joined the group.
fountain/ˈfaʊntən/نافورة، فوارة42 مرة في الكتاب
At last, swooping at a street corner by a fountain, one of its wheels came to a sickening little jolt …
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/غد37 مرة في الكتاب
… the iron gates were being closed with a jar and a rattle, and the dismal place was deserted until to-morrow morning’s interest of gallows, pillory …
courtyard/ˈkɔɹtˌjɑɹd/فناء، حوش، صحن35 مرة في الكتاب
The doorway of the staircase gives on the little courtyard close to the left here,” pointing with his hand, “near to the window of my establishment.
patriot/ˈpeɪtɹiət/وطني، وطنية30 مرة في الكتاب
That, this patriot would be produced before them.
bless/ˈbɫɛs/مبارك29 مرة في الكتاب
Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster.
honour/ˈɑnɝ/يكرم، يحترم، يفي بـ28 مرة في الكتاب
… and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards.
pity/ˈpɪti/شفقة26 مرة في الكتاب
As he said the words he looked down, with an admiring pity, on the flowing golden hair; as if he pictured to himself that it might have been already tinged with grey.
afterwards/ˈæftɝwɝdz/أخير، بعد ذلك25 مرة في الكتاب
She quickly brought them down and handed them in;—and immediately afterwards leaned against the door-post, knitting, and saw nothing.
stairs/ˈstɛɹz/سلالم24 مرة في الكتاب
Thus, Monsieur Defarge, in a stern voice, to Mr. Lorry, as they began ascending the stairs.
dreadful/ˈdɹɛdfəɫ/فظيع24 مرة في الكتاب
The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful.
nephew/ˈnɛfju/ابن أخ، ابن أخت24 مرة في الكتاب
“My nephew,” said the Marquis, glancing at the supper preparation; “they said he was not arrived.”
gaolerسجان23 مرة في الكتاب
“You are not the gaoler’s daughter?”
dread/ˈdɹɛd/يخشى23 مرة في الكتاب
… and always going on the side which Mr. Lorry took, as though he dreaded to be asked any question by the young lady, turned himself about here …
staircase/ˈstɛɹˌkeɪs/بيت الدرج، درج، سلم23 مرة في الكتاب
In the gloomy tile-paved entry to the gloomy tile-paved staircase, Monsieur Defarge bent down on one knee to the child of his old master, and put her hand to his lips.
escort/ˈɛskɔɹt/رافق23 مرة في الكتاب
The great bell of Saint Paul’s was striking one in the cleared air, when Mr. Lorry, escorted by Jerry, high-booted and bearing a lantern, set forth on his return-passage to Clerkenwell.
summon/ˈsəmən/يستحضر، يستدعي22 مرة في الكتاب
“She had laid her head upon my shoulder, that night when I was summoned out—she had a fear of my going, though I had none—and when I was brought to the North Tower they found these upon my sleeve.
favour/ˈfeɪvɝ/تأييد، موافقة21 مرة في الكتاب
… in combination, had read that article of war which forbade a purpose otherwise strongly in favour of the argument, that some brute animals are endued with Reason …
vain/ˈveɪn/مغرور20 مرة في الكتاب
He had a good leg, and was a little vain of it, for his brown stockings fitted sleek and close …
heap/ˈhip/كومة20 مرة في الكتاب
The beach was a desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling wildly about, and the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction.
straw/ˈstɹɔ/قش20 مرة في الكتاب
… he had only to shut himself up inside, keep the flint and steel sparks well off the straw, and get a light with tolerable safety and ease (if he were lucky) in five minutes.
faint/ˈfeɪnt/ضعيف20 مرة في الكتاب
A faint voice answered something.
emigrant/ˈɛməɡɹənt/مهاجر، مهاجرة19 مرة في الكتاب
… treason against the majesty of the people, in that I have acted against them for an emigrant.
lighted/ˈɫaɪtəd/أضاء19 مرة في الكتاب
A face habitually suppressed and quieted, was still lighted up under the quaint wig by a pair of moist bright eyes that it must have cost their owner, in years gone by …
weep/ˈwip/بكى، يبكي19 مرة في الكتاب
… but I hope it is—if you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears, weep for it, weep for it!
fancy/ˈfænsi/خيال، تخيل19 مرة في الكتاب
After such imaginary discourse, the passenger in his fancy would dig, and dig, dig—now with a spade, now with a great key, now with his hands—to dig this wretched creature out.
tumbrilعربة الموت18 مرة في الكتاب
… Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution.
colour/ˈkəɫɝ/لون18 مرة في الكتاب
… being of a surface black, with no depth in the colour or form, and much too near together—as if they were afraid of being found out in something …
bosom/ˈbʊzəm/قلب18 مرة في الكتاب
… at once in an auspicious and an evil hour detecting his infamy, had resolved to immolate the traitor he could no longer cherish in his bosom, on the sacred altar of his country.
messenger/ˈmɛsəndʒɝ/رسول، قاصد18 مرة في الكتاب
“I know this messenger, guard,” said Mr. Lorry …
footstep/ˈfʊtˌstɛp/خطوات18 مرة في الكتاب
On hearing footsteps close at hand, these three turned, and rose, and showed themselves to be the three of one name who had been drinking in the wine-shop.
softly/ˈsɔfɫi/بلطف18 مرة في الكتاب
softly over the coach roof.
shoemaker/ˈʃuˌmeɪkɝ/إسكاف، إسكافي، سكاف، حذاء، خفاف17 مرة في الكتاب
“I want,” said Defarge, who had not removed his gaze from the shoemaker, “to let in a little more light here.
clasp/ˈkɫæsp/طوق17 مرة في الكتاب
… in a soothing tone, bringing his left hand from the back of the chair to lay it on the supplicatory fingers that clasped him in so violent a tremble: “pray control your agitation—a matter of business.
darling/ˈdɑɹɫɪŋ/حبيب، حبيبة17 مرة في الكتاب
… my love, the darling of my soul, is dead …
mist/ˈmɪst/سديم17 مرة في الكتاب
There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none.
cruel/ˈkɹuəɫ/قاس، القاسي17 مرة في الكتاب
The deepened marks in the nose, and the lengthening of the fine straight lines in the cruel face, looked ominous as to that …
spare/ˈspɛɹ/يجنب17 مرة في الكتاب
… if the poor lady had suffered so intensely before her little child was born, that she came to the determination of sparing the poor child the inheritance of any part of the agony she had known the pains of, by rearing her in the belief that her father was dead—No …
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