40 كلمة تتعلمها قبل قراءة «غاتسبي العظيم»
The Great Gatsby
40 كلمة يكررها ف. سكوت فيتزجيرالد في «غاتسبي العظيم»، وليست بين أكثر 4000 كلمة شيوعًا في الإنجليزية. تعلّمها أولًا تصبح الفصول الأولى أسهل بكثير. لكل كلمة نطقها ومعناها وجملة من الكتاب.
inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/استعلم، سأل27 مرة في الكتاب
I inquired innocently.
butler/ˈbətɫɝ/كبير خدم20 مرة في الكتاب
When, almost immediately, the telephone rang inside and the butler left the porch Daisy seized upon the momentary interruption and leaned toward me.
grey/ˈɡɹeɪ/رمادي، أغبر17 مرة في الكتاب
Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming discontented face.
murmur/ˈmɝmɝ/غمغم، تغمغم، تمتم، دمدم16 مرة في الكتاب
If she saw me out of the corner of her eyes she gave no hint of it—indeed, I was almost surprised into murmuring an apology for having disturbed her by coming in.
policeman/pəˈɫismən/شرطي14 مرة في الكتاب
When we came into the station he was next to me and his white shirt-front pressed against my arm—and so I told him I'd have to call a policeman, but he knew I lied.
taxi/ˈtæksi/تاكسي، سيارة أجرة12 مرة في الكتاب
Upstairs, in the solemn echoing drive she let four taxi cabs drive away before she selected a new one, lavender-colored with grey upholstery …
coup/ˈku/سيارة كوبيه12 مرة في الكتاب
In the ditch beside the road, right side up but violently shorn of one wheel, rested a new coupé which had left Gatsby's drive not two minutes before.
faint/ˈfeɪnt/خفيف12 مرة في الكتاب
… when that certain girl played tennis, a faint mustache of perspiration appeared on her upper lip.
tremble/ˈtɹɛmbəɫ/اختلج، ارتجف11 مرة في الكتاب
The murmur trembled on the verge of coherence, sank down, mounted excitedly, and then ceased altogether.
chauffeur/ˈʃoʊfɝ/سائق10 مرة في الكتاب
A chauffeur in a uniform of robin's egg blue crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer—the honor would be entirely Gatsby's, it said …
anyhow/ˈɛniˌhaʊ/على أي حال10 مرة في الكتاب
"You see I think everything's terrible anyhow," she went on in a convinced way.
faintly/ˈfeɪntɫi/قليلا10 مرة في الكتاب
I am not even faintly like a rose.
glow/ˈɡɫoʊ/أشع10 مرة في الكتاب
The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold, and wide open to the warm windy afternoon …
eagerly/ˈiɡɝɫi/بلهفة9 مرة في الكتاب
asked Mrs. Wilson eagerly as he came to the taxi-window.
twilight/ˈtwaɪˌɫaɪt/شفق9 مرة في الكتاب
Tom and Miss Baker, with several feet of twilight between them strolled back into the library, as if to a vigil beside a perfectly tangible body …
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/صاح، صرخ9 مرة في الكتاب
she exclaimed surprisingly.
unfamiliar/ˌənfəˈmɪɫjɝ/غير مألوف9 مرة في الكتاب
They shook hands briefly and a strained, unfamiliar look of embarrassment came over Gatsby's face.
upstairs/əpˈstɛɹz/في الطابق العلوي9 مرة في الكتاب
The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive …
fool/ˈfuɫ/مغفل، أحمق، سفيه9 مرة في الكتاب
"I'd be a God Damned fool to live anywhere else."
whereupon/ˈhwɛɹəˈpɑn/عندئذ8 مرة في الكتاب
The butler came back and murmured something close to Tom's ear whereupon Tom frowned, pushed back his chair and without a word went inside.
incredulous/ˌɪnˈkɹɛdʒəɫəs/بشك8 مرة في الكتاب
Her host looked at her incredulously.
politely/pəˈɫaɪtɫi/بلطف8 مرة في الكتاب
He turned me around again, politely and abruptly.
yacht/ˈjɑt/يخت8 مرة في الكتاب
A large photograph of an elderly man in yachting costume attracted me, hung on the wall over his desk.
groan/ˈɡɹoʊn/آهة، أنين8 مرة في الكتاب
I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall.
supper/ˈsəpɝ/عشاء8 مرة في الكتاب
Tom rang for the janitor and sent him for some celebrated sandwiches, which were a complete supper in themselves.
cocktail/ˈkɑkˌteɪɫ/كوكتيل8 مرة في الكتاب
"No, thanks," said Miss Baker to the four cocktails just in from the pantry, "I'm absolutely in training."
conceal/kənˈsiɫ/أخفى8 مرة في الكتاب
She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
mutter/ˈmətɝ/تمتم، همهم، غمغم8 مرة في الكتاب
… at least I had him for a few days until he ran away, and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.
impatiently/ˌɪmˈpeɪʃəntɫi/بنفاد صبر7 مرة في الكتاب
What was that word we—" "Well, these books are all scientific," insisted Tom, glancing at her impatiently.
solemn/ˈsɑɫəm/جادة7 مرة في الكتاب
I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the "Yale News"—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man."
cheerful/ˈtʃɪɹfəɫ/مسرور، فرح7 مرة في الكتاب
Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay.
restless/ˈɹɛstɫəs/قلق7 مرة في الكتاب
I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came back restless.
whiskey/ˈhwɪski/ويسكي، وسكي7 مرة في الكتاب
Meanwhile Tom brought out a bottle of whiskey from a locked bureau door.
scarcely/ˈskɛɹsɫi/بالكاد7 مرة في الكتاب
And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.
goodbye/ˌɡʊdˈbaɪ/مع السلامة، إلى اللقاء، وداع، وداعا، في أمان الله7 مرة في الكتاب
He was saying some last word to her but the eagerness in his manner tightened abruptly into formality as several people approached him to say goodbye.
overhead/ˈoʊvɝˈhɛd/فوق الرأس، في الأعلى7 مرة في الكتاب
They are not perfect ovals—like the egg in the Columbus story they are both crushed flat at the contact end—but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead.
champagne/ʃæmˈpeɪn/شمبانيا7 مرة في الكتاب
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
orchestra/ˈɔɹkəstɹə/أوركسترا7 مرة في الكتاب
By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived—no thin five-piece affair but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums.
frown/ˈfɹaʊn/عبس، عقد حاجبيه7 مرة في الكتاب
objected Daisy, frowning.
fantastic/fænˈtæstɪk/رائع7 مرة في الكتاب
This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort …
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