40 كلمة تتعلمها قبل قراءة «كارمن»
Carmen
40 كلمة يكررها بروسبير ميريميه في «كارمن»، وليست بين أكثر 4000 كلمة شيوعًا في الإنجليزية. تعلّمها أولًا تصبح الفصول الأولى أسهل بكثير. لكل كلمة نطقها ومعناها وجملة من الكتاب.
gipsyغجرية75 مرة في الكتاب
You must see I’m a gipsy!
cigar/sɪˈɡɑɹ/سيجار، سيكار14 مرة في الكتاب
At the same time I pulled out my cigar-case.
blunderbussبندقية قصيرة13 مرة في الكتاب
In the other he held a brass blunderbuss.
mantilla/mænˈtɪɫə/منديل رأس11 مرة في الكتاب
When she drew near me, the woman let the mantilla which had covered her head drop on her shoulders, and “by the dim light falling from the stars” I perceived her to be young …
recognise/ˈɹɛkəɡˌnaɪz/تعرفت على9 مرة في الكتاب
I sat upright, and then I thought I recognised Antonio.
bull/ˈbʊɫ/ثور9 مرة في الكتاب
“While I was hiding at Granada there were bull-fights there, to which Carmen went.
brigandقاطع طريق8 مرة في الكتاب
I had no doubt at all I was in the company of a smuggler, and possibly of a brigand.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/غد8 مرة في الكتاب
So he’s to be garrotted the day after to-morrow, without fail.* So you see one theft more or less won’t affect his position.
dialect/ˈdaɪəˌɫɛkt/لهجة، العامية، الدارجة8 مرة في الكتاب
In every Romany dialect a number of Greek words appear.
smuggler/ˈsməɡəɫɝ/مهرب8 مرة في الكتاب
The masons were working at it in the daytime, and at night a sentinel was posted on it, to prevent smugglers from getting in.
comrade/ˈkɑmˌɹæd/رفيق، رفيقة، صديق، صديقة8 مرة في الكتاب
Like him, perchance, my comrade was musing over the home he had forfeited, the exile he had earned, by some misdeed.
inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/استعلم، سأل8 مرة في الكتاب
So I bestowed a friendly nod on the man with the blunderbuss, and inquired, with a smile, whether I had disturbed his nap.
fancy/ˈfænsi/خيال، تخيل8 مرة في الكتاب
In the stable, I fancy.
devil/ˈdɛvəɫ/الشيطان، إبليس8 مرة في الكتاب
To-day I’ll go and eat ices with a servant of the devil.
gitana/dʒiˈtænə/غجرية7 مرة في الكتاب
I then had time to take a leisurely view of my gitana, while several worthy individuals, who were eating their ices, stared open-mouthed at beholding me in such gay company.
till/ˈtɪɫ/حتى، إلى أن، ريثما7 مرة في الكتاب
His complexion, which may once have been fine, had been tanned by the sun till it was darker than his hair.
coin/ˈkɔɪn/قرش، عملة، سكة7 مرة في الكتاب
Then she bade me cross my left hand with a silver coin, and the magic ceremonies duly began.
traveller/ˈtɹævəɫɝ/مسافر، مسافرة، سائح، سياح6 مرة في الكتاب
It was impossible to imagine any more delightful halting place for a traveller.
castanetsصنوج6 مرة في الكتاب
“The whole party was assembled in the patio, and in spite of the crowd I could see nearly everything that went on through the lattice.* I could hear the castanets and the tambourine, the laughter and applause.
delightful/dɪˈɫaɪtfəɫ/بهيج6 مرة في الكتاب
He did not know the name of the delightful valley in which we were sitting, he could not tell me the names of any of the neighbouring villages …
cloak/ˈkɫoʊk/معطف فضفاض6 مرة في الكتاب
Meanwhile I had stretched myself out on the mule rugs, having carefully wrapped myself up in my own cloak, so as to avoid touching them.
sergeant/ˈsɑɹdʒənt/رقيب، عريف6 مرة في الكتاب
The old woman, when she was questioned by the sergeant, admitted that she knew Navarro …
acquaintance/əˈkweɪntəns/معرفة6 مرة في الكتاب
I had yet another motive for prosecuting her acquaintance.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/خشى، أفزع6 مرة في الكتاب
… because I told them that not all their Seville jacques,** and all their knives, would frighten an honest lad from our country, with his blue cap and his maquila!
seller/ˈsɛɫɝ/بائع، بائعة6 مرة في الكتاب
I have been insulted here, because I don’t belong to this land of rogues and sellers of rotten oranges; and those hussies are all banded together against me …
depart/dɪˈpɑɹt/غادر، رحل6 مرة في الكتاب
That instant he turned his back on me and departed at a great pace.
spite/ˈspaɪt/رغم6 مرة في الكتاب
I was hoping the stranger might gradually fall into a confidential mood, and in spite of my guide’s winks, I turned the conversation to the subject of highwaymen.
fool/ˈfuɫ/مغفل، أحمق، سفيه6 مرة في الكتاب
How can you be such a fool as that?
whence/ˈhwɛns/أنى، من أين، من حيث5 مرة في الكتاب
… and I noticed that he did not pronounce the letter s* in the Andalusian fashion, whence I concluded he was a traveller, like myself …
quay/ˈkeɪ/رصيف الميناء5 مرة في الكتاب
At Cordova a great many idlers collect, toward sunset, in the quay that runs along the right bank of the Guadalquivir.
acacia/əˈkeɪʃə/أقاقيا، سنط، طلح، قرظ5 مرة في الكتاب
She had thrown her mantilla back, to show her shoulders, and a great bunch of acacia that was thrust into her chemise.
piastreقرش5 مرة في الكتاب
Then the Englishman stood up, gave me a piastre, and offered his arm to Carmen, as if she couldn’t have walked alone.
lighted/ˈɫaɪtəd/وقعت5 مرة في الكتاب
… most heartily, my eye lighted, at some distance from the path I was following …
astonished/əˈstɑnɪʃt/مذهول5 مرة في الكتاب
Her face astonished you, at first sight, but nobody could forget it.
robber/ˈɹɑbɝ/سارق، سارقة، لص، لصة5 مرة في الكتاب
But I had heard so much about robbers, that, never seeing any, I had ceased to believe in their existence.
mistress/ˈmɪstɹəs/خليلة، عشيقة5 مرة في الكتاب
“I had often heard talk of certain smugglers who travelled about Andalusia, each riding a good horse, with his mistress behind him and his blunderbuss in his fist.
temper/ˈtɛmpɝ/مزاج5 مرة في الكتاب
What he said I could not catch, but the tone of his voice revealed the fact that he was in a very evil temper.
fond/ˈfɑnd/مولع5 مرة في الكتاب
“Do me the kindness to sing me something,” I said to him, “I’m passionately fond of your national music.”
scarf/ˈskɑɹf/وشاح، لفاع5 مرة في الكتاب
“Do you happen to have a handkerchief, a scarf, or a mantilla, that he gave you?”
lieutenant/ɫuˈtɛnənt/ملازم5 مرة في الكتاب
… followed by a young man, a lieutenant in our regiment.
المعاني: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org, English to Arabic (CC-BY-SA) النطق: ipa-dict (MIT)، من ويكاموس.
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