40 كلمة تتعلمها قبل قراءة «بوليانا»
Pollyanna
40 كلمة يكررها إليانور هـ. بورتر في «بوليانا»، وليست بين أكثر 4000 كلمة شيوعًا في الإنجليزية. تعلّمها أولًا تصبح الفصول الأولى أسهل بكثير. لكل كلمة نطقها ومعناها وجملة من الكتاب.
aunt/ˈænt/عمة، خالة، زوجة العم، زوجة الخال76 مرة في الكتاب
You know she's all the aunt I've got, and I didn't know I had her for ever so long.
frown/ˈfɹaʊn/عبس، عقد حاجبيه44 مرة في الكتاب
Her mistress frowned.
jelly/ˈdʒɛɫi/هلام42 مرة في الكتاب
Pollyanna was carrying calf's-foot jelly to Mrs. Snow to-day.
reckon/ˈɹɛkən/أظن40 مرة في الكتاب
“After all, I—I reckon I'm glad she doesn't want me to talk about father,” Pollyanna was thinking.
stairs/ˈstɛɹz/سلالم36 مرة في الكتاب
… Nancy,” Miss Polly was saying now, “you may clear the little room at the head of the stairs in the attic, and make up the cot bed.
niece/ˈnis/بنت أخ، بنت أخت32 مرة في الكتاب
My niece, Miss Pollyanna Whittier, is coming to live with me.
anyhow/ˈɛniˌhaʊ/على أي حال30 مرة في الكتاب
“Well, it's done—my part, anyhow,” she sighed.
jest/ˈdʒɛst/أمزح28 مرة في الكتاب
But some day—some day I shall jest b'ile over; and when I do, of course it'll be good-by Nancy for me.
attic/ˈætɪk/علية26 مرة في الكتاب
“In the front attic.”
stern/ˈstɝn/صارم، متشدد22 مرة في الكتاب
“Nancy,”—Miss Polly's voice was very stern now—“when I'm talking to you, I wish you to stop your work and listen to what I have to say.”
retort/ˈɹiˌtɔɹt/رد بسرعة21 مرة في الكتاب
“You don't seem ter see any trouble bein' glad about everythin',” retorted Nancy, choking a little over her remembrance of Pollyanna's brave attempts to like the bare little attic room.
till/ˈtɪɫ/حتى، إلى أن، ريثما20 مرة في الكتاب
Father and the Ladies' Aid used to do it, too, till they found I always came back all right.”
queer/ˈkwɪɹ/غريب18 مرة في الكتاب
She said you'd think 'twas queer.
chuckle/ˈtʃəkəɫ/ضحك بخفوت18 مرة في الكتاب
Timothy chuckled softly; but Nancy was too disturbed to answer the merry flash from his eyes.
abruptly/əˈbɹəptɫi/فجأة18 مرة في الكتاب
Then, abruptly, her aunt opened a door and ascended another stairway.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/الغد17 مرة في الكتاب
My niece will arrive to-morrow at four o'clock.
murmur/ˈmɝmɝ/غمغم، تغمغم، تمتم، دمدم17 مرة في الكتاب
“I'm so glad now that the screens didn't come,” she murmured, blinking up at the stars; “else I couldn't have had this!”
lamb/ˈɫæm/حمل، خروف17 مرة في الكتاب
Mrs. White had pictures, too, perfectly beautiful ones of roses and little girls kneeling and a kitty and some lambs and a lion—not together, you know—the lambs and the lion.
bang/ˈbæŋ/صفق بعنف17 مرة في الكتاب
… severe-faced woman who frowned if a knife clattered to the floor, or if a door banged—but who never thought to smile even when knives and doors were still.
carpet/ˈkɑɹpət/سجادة، بساط، زربية، فرش16 مرة في الكتاب
The Ladies' Aid bought it for me—and wasn't it lovely of them, when they wanted the carpet so?
stammer/ˈstæmɝ/تلجلج، تلعثم15 مرة في الكتاب
“Yes, ma'am; I will, ma'am,” she stammered, righting the pitcher, and turning hastily.
hurriedly/ˈhɝidɫi/بسرعة15 مرة في الكتاب
Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning.
crutch/ˈkɹətʃ/عكاز، عكازة15 مرة في الكتاب
“Why, we began it on some crutches that came in a missionary barrel.”
gasp/ˈɡæsp/شهقت15 مرة في الكتاب
gasped Nancy, surprised into an interruption.
choke/ˈtʃoʊk/اختنق15 مرة في الكتاب
She stopped with a little choking breath.
rejoin/ɹiˈdʒɔɪn/رد قائلا14 مرة في الكتاب
Well, that isn't exactly the word I should use,” rejoined Miss Polly, stiffly.
falter/ˈfɔɫtɝ/تلعثم14 مرة في الكتاب
“Of course, ma'am; it was only that I thought a little girl here might—might brighten things up for you,” she faltered.
mistress/ˈmɪstɹəs/سيدة14 مرة في الكتاب
Nancy had been working in Miss Polly's kitchen only two months, but already she knew that her mistress did not usually hurry.
aloud/əˈɫaʊd/بصوت مسموع14 مرة في الكتاب
“When I ask a question, Pollyanna, I prefer that you should answer aloud not merely with your head.”
missionary/ˈmɪʃəˌnɛɹi/مبشر، منصر، مبلغ14 مرة في الكتاب
Jennie had preferred these—quite naturally, perhaps; so she had married the minister, and had gone south with him as a home missionary's wife.
bless/ˈbɫɛs/المبارك14 مرة في الكتاب
The idea of stickin' that blessed child 'way off up here in this hot little room—with no fire in the winter, too, and all this big house ter pick and choose from!
pillow/ˈpɪɫoʊ/وسادة، مخدة14 مرة في الكتاب
… selected a nice fat soft one (it contained Miss Polly's sealskin coat) for a bed; and a thinner one to be doubled up for a pillow, and still another (which was so thin it seemed almost empty) for a covering.
clap/ˈkɫæp/صفق13 مرة في الكتاب
At one of the windows, a few minutes later, Pollyanna gave a glad cry and clapped her hands joyously.
parlor/ˈpɑɹɫɝ/غرفة استقبال13 مرة في الكتاب
… the wide, flat tin roof of Miss Polly's sun parlor built over the porte-cochere.
ejaculate/ɪˈdʒækjuˌɫeɪt/هتفت12 مرة في الكتاب
she ejaculated, biting her lip.
heathen/ˈhiðən/وثني، وثنية، مشرك12 مرة في الكتاب
“Oh, for the heathen,” surmised Pollyanna.
prism/ˈpɹɪzəm/منشور، موشور12 مرة في الكتاب
It came from the prism pendants encircling the old-fashioned candelabrum in her hand.
homestead/ˈhoʊmˌstɛd/منزل كبير12 مرة في الكتاب
Fifteen minutes later the great clock in the hallway of the Harrington homestead struck six.
erect/ɪˈɹɛkt/منتصبا12 مرة في الكتاب
The old man drew himself erect.
calf/ˈkæf/بطة، ربلة12 مرة في الكتاب
Aunt Polly says she hopes you are comfortable to-day, and she's sent you some calf's-foot jelly.”
المعاني: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org, English to Arabic (CC-BY-SA) النطق: ipa-dict (MIT)، من ويكاموس.
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