40 كلمة تتعلمها قبل قراءة «صورة دوريان غراي»
The Picture of Dorian Gray
40 كلمة يكررها أوسكار وايلد في «صورة دوريان غراي»، وليست بين أكثر 4000 كلمة شيوعًا في الإنجليزية. تعلّمها أولًا تصبح الفصول الأولى أسهل بكثير. لكل كلمة نطقها ومعناها وجملة من الكتاب.
charm/ˈtʃɑɹm/سحر، جاذبية64 مرة في الكتاب
You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
murmur/ˈmɝmɝ/لغط، طبطبة44 مرة في الكتاب
The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine …
dreadful/ˈdɹɛdfəɫ/فظيع43 مرة في الكتاب
… there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people …
duchess/ˈdətʃəs/دوقة32 مرة في الكتاب
… much liked by every one who knew her, and of those ample architectural proportions that in women who are not duchesses are described by contemporary historians as stoutness.
hideous/ˈhɪdiəs/بشع32 مرة في الكتاب
How perfectly hideous they are!
coloured/ˈkəɫɝd/ملون30 مرة في الكتاب
It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
delightful/dɪˈɫaɪtfəɫ/بهيج29 مرة في الكتاب
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful.
fancy/ˈfænsi/ميل29 مرة في الكتاب
… and made a little moue of discontent to Lord Henry, to whom he had rather taken a fancy.
exquisite/ˈɛkskwəzət/بالغ الروعة26 مرة في الكتاب
I had a strange feeling that fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.
monstrous/ˈmɑnstɹəs/وحشي25 مرة في الكتاب
Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
worship/ˈwɝʃəp/عبد، سجد23 مرة في الكتاب
No wonder Basil Hallward worshipped him.
till/ˈtɪɫ/حتى، إلى أن، ريثما23 مرة في الكتاب
I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.
romance/ˈɹoʊmæns/رومانسية23 مرة في الكتاب
It is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one’s life.
stain/ˈsteɪn/يلطخ22 مرة في الكتاب
… thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame—”
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/صاح، صرخ22 مرة في الكتاب
exclaimed Hallward, frowning.
colour/ˈkəɫɝ/لون21 مرة في الكتاب
Some day you will look at your friend, and he will seem to you to be a little out of drawing, or you won’t like his tone of colour, or something.
theatre/ˈθiətɝ/مسرح، مسرحية19 مرة في الكتاب
“Let us go to the theatre to-night,” said Lord Henry.
scarlet/ˈskɑɹɫət/سقلاتي، قرمزي18 مرة في الكتاب
Yes, he was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair.
shudder/ˈʃədɝ/يرتجف18 مرة في الكتاب
It makes me shudder when I hear it.
sorrow/ˈsɑɹoʊ/حزن18 مرة في الكتاب
… whose joys seem to be remote from one, but whose sorrows stir one’s sense of beauty, and whose wounds are like red roses.
frown/ˈfɹaʊn/عبوسة، عبوس18 مرة في الكتاب
asked Hallward, with a slight frown.
marvellous/ˈmɑɹvəɫəs/عجيب17 مرة في الكتاب
It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us.
pity/ˈpɪti/شفقة17 مرة في الكتاب
It will be a great pity, for it will alter you.
mutter/ˈmətɝ/تمتم، همهم، غمغم17 مرة في الكتاب
“You should have gone away when I asked you,” he muttered.
horrid/ˈhɔɹəd/بشع16 مرة في الكتاب
The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.
horribly/ˈhɔɹəbɫi/بشكل فظيع16 مرة في الكتاب
“How horribly unjust of you!”
poison/ˈpɔɪzən/سمم، سم16 مرة في الكتاب
Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.
tremble/ˈtɹɛmbəɫ/اختلج، ارتجف16 مرة في الكتاب
His finely chiselled nostrils quivered, and some hidden nerve shook the scarlet of his lips and left them trembling.
fantastic/fænˈtæstɪk/رائع16 مرة في الكتاب
He was brilliant, fantastic, irresponsible.
silly/ˈsɪɫi/سخيف16 مرة في الكتاب
It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
vulgar/ˈvəɫɡɝ/بذيء15 مرة في الكتاب
The Academy is too large and too vulgar.
spoil/ˈspɔɪɫ/دلل، غنج15 مرة في الكتاب
Don’t spoil him.
jewel/ˈdʒuəɫ/جوهر، جوهرة15 مرة في الكتاب
The waving of crooked, false-jewelled fingers gave grotesqueness to the words.
absurd/əbˈsɝd/عبثي، سخيف15 مرة في الكتاب
When we meet—we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke’s—we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces.
dull/ˈdəɫ/ممل15 مرة في الكتاب
You never open your lips while you are painting, and it is horribly dull standing on a platform and trying to look pleasant.
terribly/ˈtɛɹəbɫi/بشدة15 مرة في الكتاب
… Dorian Gray’s good looks—we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.”
upstairs/əpˈstɛɹz/إلى الطابق الأعلى15 مرة في الكتاب
One could hear her singing as she ran upstairs.
shallow/ˈʃæɫoʊ/ضحل15 مرة في الكتاب
But the world might guess it, and I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes.
gilt/ˈɡɪɫt/مطلي بالذهب14 مرة في الكتاب
The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive.
fascinating/ˈfæsəˌneɪtɪŋ/ساحر14 مرة في الكتاب
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so …
المعاني: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org, English to Arabic (CC-BY-SA) النطق: ipa-dict (MIT)، من ويكاموس.
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