40 كلمة تتعلمها قبل قراءة «قصة الدكتور دوليتل»
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
40 كلمة يكررها هيو لوفتنغ في «قصة الدكتور دوليتل»، وليست بين أكثر 4000 كلمة شيوعًا في الإنجليزية. تعلّمها أولًا تصبح الفصول الأولى أسهل بكثير. لكل كلمة نطقها ومعناها وجملة من الكتاب.
monkey/ˈməŋki/يعبث58 مرة في الكتاب
And when that red-faced booby started to monkey with me, I just couldn’t bear it any more.”
parrot/ˈpɛɹət/ببغاء35 مرة في الكتاب
But his favorite pets were Dab-Dab the duck, Jip the dog, Gub-Gub the baby pig, Polynesia the parrot, and the owl Too-Too.
sail/ˈseɪɫ/أبحر27 مرة في الكتاب
And I sail the ocean Blue.
till/ˈtɪɫ/حتى، إلى أن، ريثما20 مرة في الكتاب
… like the dormice and the water-voles and the bats, they will have to go back and live in the fields where they were born till we come home again.
sailor/ˈseɪɫɝ/بحار، بحري، ملاح، نوتي17 مرة في الكتاب
The parrot, Polynesia, was sitting in the window looking out at the rain and singing a sailor-song to herself.
jungle/ˈdʒəŋɡəɫ/أجمة، أدغال، دغل، غابة17 مرة في الكتاب
I hear footsteps in the jungle!”
snuff/ˈsnəf/نشوق16 مرة في الكتاب
“Snuff, by Jingo!—Black Rappee snuff.
downstairs/ˈdaʊnˈstɛɹz/إلى الطابق السفلي14 مرة في الكتاب
So Polynesia took him downstairs into the inside of the ship and showed him the beds, set all on top of one another like book-shelves against a wall.
crocodile/ˈkɹɑkəˌdaɪɫ/تمساح13 مرة في الكتاب
And another time, when the circus came to Puddleby, the crocodile who had a bad toothache escaped at night and came into the Doctor’s garden.
pirate/ˈpaɪɹət/قرصان12 مرة في الكتاب
When they reached the shore they saw the pirate-ship, with the three red sails …
anchor/ˈæŋkɝ/مرساة، أنجر12 مرة في الكتاب
And you must have beef in cans—and an anchor.”
shark/ˈʃɑɹk/لخم، قرش، سمكة القرش، ركان12 مرة في الكتاب
“The sharks!
palace/ˈpæɫəs/قصر، بلاط، سراي11 مرة في الكتاب
WHEN they had gone a little way through the thick forest, they came to a wide, clear space; and they saw the King’s palace which was made of mud.
lion/ˈɫaɪən/أسد، ليث11 مرة في الكتاب
So he sent messages to the other animals, like the lions and the leopards and the antelopes, to come and help with the nursing.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/أميال10 مرة في الكتاب
… but drove every Saturday all the way to Oxenthorpe, another town ten miles off, to see a different doctor.
terribly/ˈtɛɹəbɫi/جدا10 مرة في الكتاب
One day a plow-horse was brought to him; and the poor thing was terribly glad to find a man who could talk in horse-language.
clever/ˈkɫɛvɝ/ذكي9 مرة في الكتاب
And whenever he walked down the street in his high hat everyone would say, “There goes the Doctor!—He’s a clever man.”
drown/ˈdɹaʊn/غرق9 مرة في الكتاب
And then, just at that moment, the old man’s hat came floating by; and I got into it because I did not want to be drowned.”
dreadfully/ˈdɹɛdfəɫi/بشدة8 مرة في الكتاب
Oh, sometimes people annoy me dreadfully—such airs they put on—talking about ‘the dumb animals.’
presently/ˈpɹɛzəntɫi/قريبا، بعد قليل8 مرة في الكتاب
They all listened; and presently they heard the sound of some one running.
canary/kəˈnɛɹi/كناري7 مرة في الكتاب
“Don’t you hear the canaries singing?”
seashore/ˈsiˌʃɔɹ/ساحل، شاطئ6 مرة في الكتاب
And when they had seen that there was plenty of hay in the loft to last the horse through the Winter, they carried all their luggage down to the seashore and got on to the boat.
leopard/ˈɫɛpɝd/نمر، فهد6 مرة في الكتاب
Then the leopards got proud too and said they wouldn’t help.
circus/ˈsɝkəs/سيرك6 مرة في الكتاب
When the circus-men came to take him back he got so wild and savage that he frightened them away.
prince/ˈpɹɪns/أمير6 مرة في الكتاب
“If I were only a white prince!”
upstairs/əpˈstɛɹz/إلى الطابق العلوي6 مرة في الكتاب
I want to go upstairs again and see them start.”
fisherman/ˈfɪʃɝˌmæn/صياد، صيادة6 مرة في الكتاب
But he said he didn’t want to be a pirate, because killing people and stealing was no work for a good fisherman to do.
dungeon/ˈdəndʒən/زنزانة، ديماس5 مرة في الكتاب
So six of the black men led the Doctor and all his pets away and shut them up in a stone dungeon.
din/ˈdɪn/لا معنى مناسب5 مرة في الكتاب
They looked under the mat; they looked under all the carpets; they looked in all the cupboards and drawers and lockers—in the big chests in the ship’s dining-room; they looked everywhere.
roast/ˈɹoʊst/شوى، صلى، قلى، حمر5 مرة في الكتاب
“I smell roast beef cooking,” he mumbled—“underdone roast beef—with brown gravy over it.”
swift/ˈswɪft/سريع5 مرة في الكتاب
“They are bad sailors,” said Jip; “and their ship is very swift.
sniff/ˈsnɪf/يشم5 مرة في الكتاب
She found Gub-Gub poking his nose through the bars of the window, trying to sniff the cooking-smells that came from the palace-kitchen.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/خشى، أفزع5 مرة في الكتاب
When she flew down to get it, she found one of the white mice, very frightened, sitting inside it.
unhappy/ənˈhæpi/حزين5 مرة في الكتاب
The Doctor saw at once that the monkey’s collar was too tight and that he was dirty and unhappy.
cliff/ˈkɫɪf/جرف5 مرة في الكتاب
Then they all took shelter in a nice dry cave they found, high up in the cliffs, till the storm was over.
drawer/ˈdɹɔɹ/جارور، درج5 مرة في الكتاب
Then he sold his piano, and let the mice live in a bureau-drawer.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/غدا4 مرة في الكتاب
Just think—it’ll be a hundred and sixty-nine years to-morrow since I was here!
conceited/kənˈsitəd/مغرور4 مرة في الكتاب
“They’re just conceited.
stairs/ˈstɛɹz/سلالم4 مرة في الكتاب
And she went back up the stairs of the ship, humming this song to herself,
grinder/ˈɡɹaɪndɝ/عازف الأرغن4 مرة في الكتاب
Once when he was sitting on his garden wall, smoking a pipe in the evening, an Italian organ-grinder came round with a monkey on a string.
المعاني: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org, English to Arabic (CC-BY-SA) النطق: ipa-dict (MIT)، من ويكاموس.
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