40 كلمة تتعلمها قبل قراءة «ميدل مارش»
Middlemarch
40 كلمة يكررها جورج إليوت في «ميدل مارش»، وليست بين أكثر 4000 كلمة شيوعًا في الإنجليزية. تعلّمها أولًا تصبح الفصول الأولى أسهل بكثير. لكل كلمة نطقها ومعناها وجملة من الكتاب.
oblige/əˈbɫaɪdʒ/يساعدك81 مرة في الكتاب
He’s very hot on new sorts; to oblige you.”
hinder/ˈhɪndɝ/عاق، عرقل، منع75 مرة في الكتاب
Certainly such elements in the character of a marriageable girl tended to interfere with her lot, and hinder it from being decided according to custom, by good looks …
till/ˈtɪɫ/حتى، إلى أن، ريثما75 مرة في الكتاب
You know, he said that he had forgotten them till then.
fond/ˈfɑnd/مغرمة70 مرة في الكتاب
“No, I have other things of mamma’s—her sandal-wood box which I am so fond of—plenty of things.
inward/ˈɪnwɝd/باطني68 مرة في الكتاب
If Miss Brooke ever attained perfect meekness, it would not be for lack of inward fire.
pity/ˈpɪti/شفقة63 مرة في الكتاب
Celia felt that this was a pity.
clergyman/ˈkɫɝdʒiˌmæn/قسيس، كاهن61 مرة في الكتاب
… not excepting even Monsieur Liret, the Vaudois clergyman who had given conferences on the history of the Waldenses.
dislike/dɪˈsɫaɪk/كره61 مرة في الكتاب
So Miss Brooke presided in her uncle’s household, and did not at all dislike her new authority, with the homage that belonged to it.
delight/dɪˈɫaɪt/تتلذذ60 مرة في الكتاب
… and was taking her usual place in the pretty sitting-room which divided the bedrooms of the sisters, bent on finishing a plan for some buildings (a kind of work which she delighted in), when Celia …
dread/ˈdɹɛd/يخشى59 مرة في الكتاب
But he himself dreaded so much the sort of superior woman likely to be available for such a position, that he allowed himself to be dissuaded by Dorothea’s objections …
disagreeable/ˌdɪsəˈɡɹiəbəɫ/بغيضة50 مرة في الكتاب
But he was positively obtrusive at this moment, and his dimpled hands were quite disagreeable.
temper/ˈtɛmpɝ/مزاج50 مرة في الكتاب
It was hardly a year since they had come to live at Tipton Grange with their uncle, a man nearly sixty, of acquiescent temper, miscellaneous opinions, and uncertain vote.
peculiar/pəkˈjuɫjɝ/غريب50 مرة في الكتاب
… her eyes following the same direction as her uncle’s, she was struck with the peculiar effect of the announcement on Dorothea.
spite/ˈspaɪt/رغم50 مرة في الكتاب
Riding was an indulgence which she allowed herself in spite of conscientious qualms; she felt that she enjoyed it in a pagan sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it.
agreeable/əˈɡɹiəbəɫ/مقبول48 مرة في الكتاب
But there may be good reasons for choosing not to do what is very agreeable,” said Dorothea.
chiefly/ˈtʃifɫi/غالبا47 مرة في الكتاب
… and did not regard his future wife in the light of prey, valuable chiefly for the excitements of the chase.
beforehand/bɪˈfɔɹˌhænd/مسبقا46 مرة في الكتاب
You couldn’t put the thing better—couldn’t put it better, beforehand, you know.
thoroughly/ˈθɝoʊɫi/تماما، كليا45 مرة في الكتاب
She was thoroughly charming to him, but of course he theorized a little about his attachment.
clever/ˈkɫɛvɝ/ذكي44 مرة في الكتاب
She was usually spoken of as being remarkably clever, but with the addition that her sister Celia had more common-sense.
ignorance/ˈɪɡnɝəns/جهل، جهالة43 مرة في الكتاب
This elevating thought lifted her above her annoyance at being twitted with her ignorance of political economy, that never-explained science which was thrust as an extinguisher over all her lights.
charm/ˈtʃɑɹm/سحر، جاذبية43 مرة في الكتاب
Yet those who approached Dorothea, though prejudiced against her by this alarming hearsay, found that she had a charm unaccountably reconcilable with it.
carriage/ˈkæɹɪdʒ/عربة41 مرة في الكتاب
When she got out of the carriage, her cheeks were pale and her eyelids red.
unpleasant/ənˈpɫɛzənt/مزعج41 مرة في الكتاب
He was not going to renounce his ride because of his friend’s unpleasant news—only to ride the faster in some other direction than that of Tipton Grange.
affection/əˈfɛkʃən/محبة41 مرة في الكتاب
… vanity, and merely canine affection.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/الغد40 مرة في الكتاب
“You can go with me to-morrow, if you like.
banker/ˈbæŋkɝ/مصرفي، بنكي40 مرة في الكتاب
… who happened to be a manufacturer; the philanthropic banker his brother-in-law, who predominated so much in the town that some called him a Methodist …
disposition/ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən/مزاج، طبع، نزعة38 مرة في الكتاب
Miss Brooke argued from words and dispositions not less unhesitatingly than other young ladies of her age.
conscience/ˈkɑnʃəns/ضمير، طوية، وجدان37 مرة في الكتاب
… hardly more than a budding woman, but yet with an active conscience and a great mental need, not to be satisfied by a girlish instruction comparable to the nibblings and judgments of a discursive mouse.
uneasy/əˈnizi/قلقة36 مرة في الكتاب
Dorothea felt a little more uneasy than usual.
afterwards/ˈæftɝwɝdz/أخير، بعد ذلك36 مرة في الكتاب
… on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition.
contrary/ˈkɑntɹɛɹi/عكس، نقيض36 مرة في الكتاب
“On the contrary, I am often unable to decide.
bill/ˈbɪɫ/فاتورة، حساب35 مرة في الكتاب
For the creditor to whom he owed a hundred and sixty held a firmer security in the shape of a bill signed by Mary’s father.
aunt/ˈænt/عمة، خالة، زوجة العم، زوجة الخال35 مرة في الكتاب
“My aunt made an unfortunate marriage.
disgust/dɪsˈɡəst/اشمئزاز34 مرة في الكتاب
All her dear plans were embittered, and she thought with disgust of Sir James’s conceiving that she recognized him as her lover.
ignorant/ˈɪɡnɝənt/جاهل34 مرة في الكتاب
“I am very ignorant—you will quite wonder at my ignorance,” said Dorothea.
utter/ˈətɝ/ينطق أو يصدر صوتا أو كلاما بالصوت نطق ب34 مرة في الكتاب
… present in the king’s mind, but not uttered,” said Mr. Casaubon, smiling and bending his head towards Celia …
offend/əˈfɛnd/أهان34 مرة في الكتاب
… and was unhappy: she saw that she had offended her sister, and dared not say even anything pretty about the gift of the ornaments which she put back into the box and carried away.
fool/ˈfuɫ/مغفل، أحمق، سفيه34 مرة في الكتاب
A man always makes a fool of himself, speechifying: there’s no excuse but being on the right side, so that you can ask a blessing on your humming and hawing.
lately/ˈɫeɪtɫi/مؤخرا، حديثا، في الآونة الأخيرة34 مرة في الكتاب
I have been using up my eyesight on old characters lately; the fact is …
backward/ˈbækwɝd/إلى الوراء33 مرة في الكتاب
… the color rose in her cheeks, and her straw bonnet (which our contemporaries might look at with conjectural curiosity as at an obsolete form of basket) fell a little backward.
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