40 كلمة تتعلمها قبل قراءة «كتاب الأدغال»
The Jungle Book
40 كلمة يكررها روديارد كبلينغ في «كتاب الأدغال»، وليست بين أكثر 4000 كلمة شيوعًا في الإنجليزية. تعلّمها أولًا تصبح الفصول الأولى أسهل بكثير. لكل كلمة نطقها ومعناها وجملة من الكتاب.
elephant/ˈɛɫəfənt/فيل131 مرة في الكتاب
The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches.
jungle/ˈdʒəŋɡəɫ/أجمة، أدغال، دغل، غابة101 مرة في الكتاب
… because Tabaqui, more than anyone else in the jungle, is apt to go mad …
seal/ˈsiɫ/فقمة94 مرة في الكتاب
Nobody comes to Novastoshnah except on business, and the only people who have regular business there are the seals.
thou/ˈðaʊ/أنت89 مرة في الكتاب
… or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle …
thee/ˈði/إياك76 مرة في الكتاب
He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs—frog-eater—fish-killer—he shall hunt thee!
till/ˈtɪɫ/حتى، إلى أن، ريثما71 مرة في الكتاب
For loosed till dawn are we.
monkey/ˈməŋki/سعدان، قرد، حبن، نسناس، ميمون46 مرة في الكتاب
We do not drink where the monkeys drink; we do not go where the monkeys go; we do not hunt where they hunt; we do not die where they die.
wolves/ˈwʊɫvz/ذئاب39 مرة في الكتاب
“Good luck go with you, O chief of the wolves.”
herd/ˈhɝd/قطيع38 مرة في الكتاب
The herds are shut in byre and hut
wolf/ˈwʊɫf/ذئب38 مرة في الكتاب
“For a wolf, no,” said Tabaqui, “but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast.
mule/ˈmjuɫ/بغل37 مرة في الكتاب
Just as I was getting ready to go to sleep I heard a jingle of harness and a grunt, and a mule passed me shaking his wet ears.
tiger/ˈtaɪɡɝ/نمر، ببر36 مرة في الكتاب
Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
camel/ˈkæməɫ/جمل، ناقة، بعير، إبل33 مرة في الكتاب
Thorn for the camel, fodder for the kine,
buffalo/ˈbəfəˌɫoʊ/جاموس، جاموسة33 مرة في الكتاب
Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path; for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant.
bull/ˈbʊɫ/ثور32 مرة في الكتاب
By the bull that I killed, am I to stand nosing into your dog’s den for my fair dues?
bullock/ˈbʊɫək/ثيران31 مرة في الكتاب
Does he think that our buck are like his fat Waingunga bullocks?”
cub/ˈkəb/شبل، ديسم30 مرة في الكتاب
Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived.
beast/ˈbist/وحش29 مرة في الكتاب
… which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/أميال25 مرة في الكتاب
Shere Khan was the tiger who lived near the Waingunga River, twenty miles away.
ravine/ɹəˈvin/وهدة22 مرة في الكتاب
When he comes back wait for me in the ravine by the dhâk tree in the center of the plain.
roar/ˈɹɔɹ/زئير21 مرة في الكتاب
The tiger’s roar filled the cave with thunder.
cobra/ˈkoʊbɹə/كوبرا، بزاقة20 مرة في الكتاب
said half a dozen low voices (every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summerhouse was alive with cobras).
mongoose/ˈmɑŋɡus/نمس20 مرة في الكتاب
He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits.
grunt/ˈɡɹənt/دمدمة18 مرة في الكتاب
“The fool has had no more sense than to jump at a woodcutter’s campfire, and has burned his feet,” said Father Wolf with a grunt.
flipper/ˈfɫɪpɝ/زعانف17 مرة في الكتاب
When he heaved himself up on his front flippers he stood more than four feet clear of the ground, and his weight …
trumpet/ˈtɹəmpət/نفخ البوق16 مرة في الكتاب
And as soon as there was a lull you could hear his high-pitched yells of encouragement to Kala Nag, above the trumpeting and crashing, and snapping of ropes …
foolish/ˈfuɫɪʃ/أحمق، غبي، سفيه، مغفل16 مرة في الكتاب
Baloo knows it; I know it; the Pack know it; and even the foolish, foolish deer know.
nursery/ˈnɝsɝi/روضة، حضانة16 مرة في الكتاب
He only wanted room by the sea for his nursery.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/خشى، أفزع16 مرة في الكتاب
He will frighten every head of game within ten miles, and I—I have to kill for two, these days.”
scratch/ˈskɹætʃ/خربش16 مرة في الكتاب
It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned …
hind/ˈhaɪnd/خلفي15 مرة في الكتاب
… old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey—rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.
howl/ˈhaʊɫ/عواء15 مرة في الكتاب
Then there was a howl—an untigerish howl—from Shere Khan.
picket/ˈpɪkɪt/وتد، شاخص، لكاز14 مرة في الكتاب
I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake.
graze/ˈɡɹeɪz/رعى14 مرة في الكتاب
At one end stood a little village, and at the other the thick jungle came down in a sweep to the grazing-grounds, and stopped there as though it had been cut off with a hoe.
frog/ˈfɹɑɡ/ضفدع14 مرة في الكتاب
Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat Man, and on our ground too!”
tusk/ˈtəsk/ناب13 مرة في الكتاب
… fat-necked, long-tusked walrus of the North Pacific, who has no manners except when he is asleep—as he was then …
snort/ˈsnɔɹt/شخير13 مرة في الكتاب
There he checked, for he heard the yell of the Pack hunting, heard the bellow of a hunted Sambhur, and the snort as the buck turned at bay.
obey/oʊˈbeɪ/أطاع13 مرة في الكتاب
Mowgli obeyed faithfully.
mile/ˈmaɪɫ/ميل12 مرة في الكتاب
Now to Baloo’s word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed, not half a mile from here, if ye will accept the man’s cub according to the Law.
yoke/ˈjoʊk/نير12 مرة في الكتاب
I heard a chain dragging along the ground, and a yoke of the great sulky white bullocks that drag the heavy siege guns when the elephants won’t go any nearer to the firing, came shouldering along together.
المعاني: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org, English to Arabic (CC-BY-SA) النطق: ipa-dict (MIT)، من ويكاموس.
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