40 كلمة تتعلمها قبل قراءة «رسائل نابليون إلى جوزفين، 1796-1812»
Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812
40 كلمة يكررها الإمبراطور نابليون الأول في «رسائل نابليون إلى جوزفين، 1796-1812»، وليست بين أكثر 4000 كلمة شيوعًا في الإنجليزية. تعلّمها أولًا تصبح الفصول الأولى أسهل بكثير. لكل كلمة نطقها ومعناها وجملة من الكتاب.
surrender/sɝˈɛndɝ/استسلام46 مرة في الكتاب
You cannot have inspired a boundless love without sharing it, for a cultured mind and a soul like yours cannot requite complete surrender and devotion with the death-blow.
cannon/ˈkænən/مدفع43 مرة في الكتاب
Austrians lose 2000 men and 20 cannon.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/الغد32 مرة في الكتاب
I am at Port Maurice, near Oneille; to-morrow I shall be at Albenga.
cheerful/ˈtʃɪɹfəɫ/مسرور، فرح32 مرة في الكتاب
Tell me you are cheerful, in good health, and very affectionate.
bulletin/ˈbʊɫɪtən/نشرة، بيان30 مرة في الكتاب
For generations it was the fashion to consider "as false as a bulletin" peculiar to Napoleon's despatches; but the publication of Napoleon's correspondence, by order of Napoleon III., has changed all that.
affection/əˈfɛkʃən/عواطف، محبة28 مرة في الكتاب
… and the Emperor felt and spoke, not in his discourses or his proclamations—the official garb of his thought—but in the free outpourings of the most passionate or the most tender affections....
mil/ˈmɪɫ/ميل، أميال27 مرة في الكتاب
Napoleon was sometimes 1200 miles away from home; he had to gauge the effect of his bulletins from one end to the other of the largest effective empire that the world has ever seen …
charm/ˈtʃɑɹm/يسحر، يجذب27 مرة في الكتاب
A child as charming as its mamma will soon see the daylight, and will pass many years in your arms.
till/ˈtɪɫ/حتى، إلى أن، ريثما25 مرة في الكتاب
Napoleon raged and stormed about the Tallien friendship, till his final mandate in 1806; and then it was too late.
retreat/ɹiˈtɹit/تراجع، انسحاب24 مرة في الكتاب
The enemy made a general sortie on June 16th; it has killed or wounded two hundred of our men, but lost five hundred of its own in a precipitous retreat.
correspondence/ˌkɔɹəˈspɑndəns/مراسلة23 مرة في الكتاب
… in the words of an eminent but unsympathetic divine, know something of the "domestic side of the monster," first hand from his own correspondence, confirmed or corrected by contemporaries.
grief/ˈɡɹif/غم، حزن، كآبة، كدر، أسى23 مرة في الكتاب
My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.
honour/ˈɑnɝ/شرف، تكريم، احترام21 مرة في الكتاب
Like Medea, one of whose other exploits he had evoked in a bulletin, he could say—but to his honour and not to his shame—
wretched/ˈɹɛtʃɪd/بائس، سيئ20 مرة في الكتاب
You do not speak of your wretched indigestion—I hate it.
despatchرسائل، بلاغات19 مرة في الكتاب
Carlyle was the first to point out that his despatches are as instinct with genius as his conquests—his very words have "Austerlitz battles" in them.
favour/ˈfeɪvɝ/معروف، خدمة، لطف19 مرة في الكتاب
From the days of his new power—political power, first the Consulate and then the Empire—he lavished gifts and favours even on the most undeserving of his early comrades.
beloved/bɪˈɫəvd/حبيب19 مرة في الكتاب
Every moment separates me further from you, my beloved, and every moment I have less energy to exist so far from you.
spite/ˈspaɪt/رغم19 مرة في الكتاب
He appeared to have no relish for anything gay; and in spite of the prepossessing amenity of his manners, an observation struck me often, he seemed to be of bronze.
subjoinأضيف، ألحق18 مرة في الكتاب
I shall subjoin a copy of it."
franc/ˈfɹæŋk/فرنك18 مرة في الكتاب
May 9th.—Capitulation of Parma by the Grand Duke, who pays ransom of 2 million francs, 1600 artillery horses, food, and 20 paintings.
artillery/ɑɹˈtɪɫɝi/مدفعية17 مرة في الكتاب
The Emperor will have to create a second army: artillery, pontoons, baggage, everything is taken.
glory/ˈɡɫɔɹi/مجد، جلال17 مرة في الكتاب
"The letters of Napoleon can add nothing to his glory, but they better enable us to comprehend his prodigious destiny …
courier/ˈkɝiɝ/مرسل، ساع16 مرة في الكتاب
Soul of my life, write me by every courier, else I shall not know how to exist.
siege/ˈsidʒ/حصار، محاصرة16 مرة في الكتاب
"By declaring that his public life dated from the siege of Toulon, Napoleon has himself determined the point of departure which the Commission should choose.
jealous/ˈdʒɛɫəs/غيور16 مرة في الكتاب
… to go into the country; and in spite of that you give me to understand that you are jealous of me, who am here …
afterwards/ˈæftɝwɝdz/أخير، بعد ذلك16 مرة في الكتاب
At last when Bonaparte drew up plans—afterwards followed—for the invasion of Piedmont, Schérer replied roughly that he who had drawn up the plan of campaign had better come and execute it.
thee/ˈði/إياك15 مرة في الكتاب
My waking thoughts are all of thee.
grieve/ˈɡɹiv/أحزن، يؤلم15 مرة في الكتاب
But I am most truly grieved to know that you are in pain.
prosper/ˈpɹɑspɝ/ازدهر15 مرة في الكتاب
We must admire The Man[3] who found within the fields of France the command of the Tropics, and who needed nothing but time to prosper Corsican cotton and Solingen steel.
destiny/ˈdɛstəni/قدر، مصير، نصيب15 مرة في الكتاب
"The letters of Napoleon can add nothing to his glory, but they better enable us to comprehend his prodigious destiny, the prestige that he exercised over his contemporaries—'le culte universel dont sa mémoire est l'objet …
realise/ˈɹiəˌɫaɪz/أدرك، حقق14 مرة في الكتاب
It has realised that the most conspicuous (éclatant) homage to render to this incomparable genius was to make him known in his entirety.
affectionate/əˈfɛkʃənət/محب، حنون14 مرة في الكتاب
… and to arrive at Brescia on July 25th, where the most affectionate of lovers awaits you.
cavalry/ˈkævəɫɹi/فارس، سلاح الفرسان14 مرة في الكتاب
May 30th-31st.—Bonaparte defeats Beaulieu at Borghetto, crosses the Mincio, and makes French cavalry fight (a new feature for the Republican troops).
conquer/ˈkɑŋkɝ/قهر، انتصر14 مرة في الكتاب
Beaten at sea, he has but two weapons left against England—to "conquer her by land," or to stir up a maritime rival who will sooner or later avenge him.
uneasy/əˈnizi/قلق، مضطرب14 مرة في الكتاب
Yes, my kind, kind love, I am not jealous, but sometimes uneasy.
vexed/ˈvɛkst/زعلان13 مرة في الكتاب
Are you vexed?
splendid/ˈspɫɛndɪd/رائع، باهر13 مرة في الكتاب
Of his goodness we have the well-weighed verdict of Lord Acton, that it was "the most splendid that has appeared on earth."
reinforcement/ˌɹiɪnˈfɔɹsmənt/تعزيزات، إمدادات13 مرة في الكتاب
July 9th.—Bonaparte asks Kellermann for reinforcements.
genius/ˈdʒinjəs/عبقرية13 مرة في الكتاب
Let us then each to his task, and each try, as best he may, to weigh in honest scales the modern Hannibal—"our last great man,"[4] "the mightiest genius of two thousand years."[5]
heir/ˈɛɹ/وارث، وارثة، وريث12 مرة في الكتاب
This is the third pilgrimage Josephine has made, under the doctor's orders, to Plombières; but the longed-for heir will have to be sought for elsewhere, by fair means or foul.
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