40 كلمة تتعلمها قبل قراءة «التأملات»
Meditations
40 كلمة يكررها ماركوس أوريليوس في «التأملات»، وليست بين أكثر 4000 كلمة شيوعًا في الإنجليزية. تعلّمها أولًا تصبح الفصول الأولى أسهل بكثير. لكل كلمة نطقها ومعناها وجملة من الكتاب.
thou/ˈðaʊ/أنت857 مرة في الكتاب
'If thou may not continually gather thyself together, namely sometimes do it, at least once a day, the morning or the evening.
unto/ˈəntu/إلى474 مرة في الكتاب
The ideal Wise Man is sufficient unto himself in all things (αὐταρκής); and knowing these truths, he will be happy even when stretched upon the rack.
thee/ˈði/إياك343 مرة في الكتاب
'Why doth a little thing said or done against thee make thee sorry?
doth/ˈdɔθ/يفعل268 مرة في الكتاب
'Whatsoever any man either doth or saith, thou must be good;' 'doth any man offend?
thyself/ˌðaɪˈsɛɫf/نفسك223 مرة في الكتاب
Whensoever thou wilt rejoice thyself, think and meditate upon those good parts and especial gifts, which thou hast observed in any of them that live with thee:
whatsoever/ˌhwətsoʊˈɛvɝ/مهما كان149 مرة في الكتاب
… and to do my business, whatsoever it be, thoroughly …
thine/ˈðaɪn/لك71 مرة في الكتاب
… like the Roman, bids 'study to withdraw thine heart from the love of things visible'; but it is not the busy life of duty he has in mind so much as the contempt of all worldly things …
wilt/ˈwɪɫt/تشاء42 مرة في الكتاب
At what time soever thou wilt, it is in thy power to retire into thyself, and to be at rest, and free from all businesses.
disposition/ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən/مزاج، طبع، نزعة42 مرة في الكتاب
… as the resemblances and parallels of several virtues, eminent in the dispositions of them that live with thee, especially when all at once …
rational/ˈɹæʃənəɫ/عقلاني41 مرة في الكتاب
… by how much that which ministers unto it doth excel; the one being a rational substance, and a spirit …
philosopher/fəˈɫɑsəfɝ/فيلسوف38 مرة في الكتاب
Cyprus has been from time immemorial a meeting-place of the East and West, and although we cannot grant any importance to a possible strain of Phœnician blood in him (for the Phoenicians were no philosophers), yet it is quite likely that through Asia Minor he may have come in touch with the Far East.
affection/əˈfɛkʃən/عاطفة، ميل38 مرة في الكتاب
Desire and dislike, opinion and affection, are within the power of the will; whereas health, wealth, honour, and other such are generally not so.
hinder/ˈhɪndɝ/عاق، عرقل، منع34 مرة في الكتاب
… of what kind of universe it is: And that there is nobody that can hinder thee, but that thou mayest always both do and speak those things which are agreeable to that nature …
presently/ˈpɹɛzəntɫi/قريبا، بعد قليل34 مرة في الكتاب
For all these things, if once though but for a while, they begin to please, they presently prevail, and pervert a man's mind, or turn a man from the right way.
worldly/ˈwɝɫdɫi/دنيوي33 مرة في الكتاب
… bids 'study to withdraw thine heart from the love of things visible'; but it is not the busy life of duty he has in mind so much as the contempt of all worldly things, and the 'cutting away of all lower delectations.'
honour/ˈɑnɝ/شرف، تكريم، احترام31 مرة في الكتاب
Two years later Faustina brought him a daughter; and soon after the tribunate and other imperial honours were conferred upon him.
conceit/kənˈsit/فكرة، تصور30 مرة في الكتاب
To Rusticus I am beholding, that I first entered into the conceit that my life wanted some redress and cure.
behold/bɪˈhoʊɫd/هوذا30 مرة في الكتاب
Every man's happiness depends from himself, but behold thy life is almost at an end, whiles affording thyself no respect …
contrary/ˈkɑntɹɛɹi/معاكس، مضاد29 مرة في الكتاب
Secondly, when she either is averse from any man, or led by contrary desires or affections, tending to his hurt and prejudice; such as are the souls of them that are angry.
grieve/ˈɡɹiv/يحزن28 مرة في الكتاب
… and as it were an excrescency of the world, for to be grieved and displeased with anything that happens in the world, is direct apostacy from the nature of the universe …
indifferent/ˌɪnˈdɪfɝənt/لا يهم، محايد28 مرة في الكتاب
Those outside things which are commonly called good or bad, such as health and sickness, wealth and poverty, pleasure and pain, are to him indifferent (ἀδιάφορα).
fancy/ˈfænsi/خيال، تخيل28 مرة في الكتاب
Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other men, when it is not in relation to some common good …
conceive/kənˈsiv/خرج ب28 مرة في الكتاب
By whatever means induced, he had conceived the project of proclaiming himself emperor as soon as Marcus, who was then in feeble health …
soeverما25 مرة في الكتاب
… whatsoever it be, and in what respect soever it be, that it is fair and goodly …
offend/əˈfɛnd/أهان25 مرة في الكتاب
It is against himself that he doth offend: why should it trouble thee?'
divine/dɪˈvaɪn/تنبأ، حدس25 مرة في الكتاب
The Emperor Hadrian divined the fine character of the lad, whom he used to call not Verus but Verissimus, more Truthful than his own name.
esteem/əˈstim/تقدير، احترام24 مرة في الكتاب
… (not interrupted, with any other cares and distractions,) in the study and esteem of philosophy: to be bountiful and liberal in the largest measure …
grief/ˈɡɹif/غم، حزن، كآبة، كدر، أسى24 مرة في الكتاب
The emperors great grief was that he must needs engage in the horrors of civil strife.
apprehension/ˌæpɹɪˈhɛnʃən/إدراك، تصور22 مرة في الكتاب
He would not hastily give over the search of the matter, as one easy to be satisfied with sudden notions and apprehensions.
whereofالذي منه20 مرة في الكتاب
… but that thou mayest always both do and speak those things which are agreeable to that nature, whereof thou art a part.
perchance/pɝˈtʃæns/ربما19 مرة في الكتاب
… and of other faculties, which perchance I might have dwelt upon, if I had found myself to go on in them with success.
commend/kəˈmɛnd/أثنى على19 مرة في الكتاب
Moreover, that he was never commended by any man, as either a learned acute man …
depart/dɪˈpɑɹt/غادر، رحل19 مرة في الكتاب
Whatsoever thou dost affect, whatsoever thou dost project, so do, and so project all, as one who, for aught thou knowest, may at this very present depart out of this life.
sociable/ˈsoʊʃəbəɫ/اجتماعي، أنيس18 مرة في الكتاب
… an aged man; a sociable man; a Roman …
whereby/hwɛɹˈbaɪ/الذي به، بذلك18 مرة في الكتاب
… but also because that intellective faculty in thee, whereby thou art enabled to know the true nature of things, and to order all thy actions by that knowledge …
deed/ˈdid/عمل، فعل18 مرة في الكتاب
… that whatsoever it is that hath happened unto thee, is in very deed no such thing of itself, as a misfortune …
providence/ˈpɹɑvədəns/عناية، تدبير17 مرة في الكتاب
… or if all things go by chance and fortune, yet mayest thou use thine own providence in those things that concern thee properly; and then art thou well.'
endeavour/ɪnˈdɛvɝ/يجتهد، يسعى17 مرة في الكتاب
From Claudius Maximus, in all things to endeavour to have power of myself, and in nothing to be carried about …
emperor/ˈɛmpɝɝ/قيصر، إمبراطور17 مرة في الكتاب
Thus the most religious of emperors came of the blood of the most pious of early kings.
likewise/ˈɫaɪˌkwaɪz/كذلك، أيضا، على حد سواء، بالمثل17 مرة في الكتاب
and how many already, who once likewise prosecuted their enmities, suspected, hated, and fiercely contended, are now long ago stretched out, and reduced unto ashes?
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