40 كلمة تتعلمها قبل قراءة «الخطوات التسع والثلاثون»

The Thirty-Nine Steps

جون بوشان B1

40 كلمة يكررها جون بوشان في «الخطوات التسع والثلاثون»، وليست بين أكثر 4000 كلمة شيوعًا في الإنجليزية. تعلّمها أولًا تصبح الفصول الأولى أسهل بكثير. لكل كلمة نطقها ومعناها وجملة من الكتاب.

1. till/ˈtɪɫ/حتى، إلى أن، ريثما43 مرة في الكتاب

   I watched from my window till I saw you come home, and then slipped down the stair to meet you....

2. glen/ˈɡɫɛn/واد ضيق، غلين25 مرة في الكتاب

   We rumbled slowly into a land of little wooded glens and then to a great wide moorland place, gleaming with lochs, with high blue hills showing northwards.

3. moor/ˈmʊɹ/أرض جرداء22 مرة في الكتاب

   A child of ten received my ticket, and I emerged on a white road that straggled over the brown moor.

4. mil/ˈmɪɫ/أميال17 مرة في الكتاب

   Not tonight, for they’ll follow me forty miles along the road, but first thing tomorrow morning.

5. moorland/ˈmʊɹˌɫænd/أرض خلنجية16 مرة في الكتاب

   A brown-faced woman was standing by the door, and greeted me with the kindly shyness of moorland places.

6. heather/ˈhɛðɝ/خلنج16 مرة في الكتاب

   By-and-by I came to a swell of moorland which dipped to the vale of a little river, and a mile away in the heather I saw the smoke of a train.

7. fool/ˈfuɫ/مغفل، أحمق، سفيه16 مرة في الكتاب

   I found that out—not that it was difficult, for any fool could guess as much.

8. chap/ˈtʃæp/شاب، رجل15 مرة في الكتاب

   I rather fancied the chap.

9. reckon/ˈɹɛkən/أظن15 مرة في الكتاب

   Say, sir, I’ve been watching you, and I reckon you’re a cool customer.

10. mile/ˈmaɪɫ/ميل14 مرة في الكتاب

    There was no plan of campaign in my head, only just to go on and on in this blessed, honest-smelling hill country, for every mile put me in better humour with myself.

11. herd/ˈhɝd/راع14 مرة في الكتاب

    It was some hours since I had tasted food, and I was getting very hungry when I came to a herd’s cottage set in a nook beside a waterfall.

12. cottage/ˈkɑtədʒ/كوخ، منيزل، عشة14 مرة في الكتاب

    The moor surged up around it and left room only for the single line, the slender siding, a waiting-room, an office, the station-master’s cottage, and a tiny yard of gooseberries and sweet-william.

13. mill/ˈmɪɫ/مطحنة14 مرة في الكتاب

    A small mill-lade ran in a wooden aqueduct at the other side of the yard, and into this I fell.

14. tide/ˈtaɪd/مد وجزر14 مرة في الكتاب

    (“Thirty-nine steps”) was the phrase; and at its last time of use it ran—(“Thirty-nine steps, I counted them—high tide 10.17 p.m.”).

15. roadmanعامل الطريق13 مرة في الكتاب

    Then in a tiny bight of road, beside a heap of stones, I found the roadman.

16. ridge/ˈɹɪdʒ/سلسلة جبال13 مرة في الكتاب

    Over a long ridge of moorland I took my road, skirting the side of a high hill which the herd had called Cairnsmore of Fleet.

17. collar/ˈkɑɫɝ/ياقة، قبة13 مرة في الكتاب

    I hunted out a well-used tweed suit, a pair of strong nailed boots, and a flannel shirt with a collar.

18. queer/ˈkwɪɹ/غريب12 مرة في الكتاب

    He seemed to brace himself for a great effort, and then started on the queerest rigmarole.

19. butler/ˈbətɫɝ/كبير خدم12 مرة في الكتاب

    The back door stood open, and a grave butler was awaiting me.

20. clever/ˈkɫɛvɝ/ذكي12 مرة في الكتاب

    A clever man can make big profits on a falling market, and it suited the book of both classes to set Europe by the ears.

21. milkman/ˈmɪɫkˌmæn/بائع لبن11 مرة في الكتاب

    But about twenty minutes to seven, as I knew from bitter experience, the milkman turned up with a great clatter of cans, and deposited my share outside my door.

22. aeroplaneطائرة11 مرة في الكتاب

    I was as certain as if I had been told that that aeroplane was looking for me, and that it did not belong to the police.

23. whistle/ˈhwɪsəɫ/صفر11 مرة في الكتاب

    I opened the front door, and there was my man, singling out my cans from a bunch he carried and whistling through his teeth.

24. murderer/ˈmɝdɝɝ/قاتل، قاتلة11 مرة في الكتاب

    … for, unless the murderer came back, I had till about six o’clock in the morning for my cogitations.

25. cliff/ˈkɫɪf/جرف11 مرة في الكتاب

    I think it’s a piece of open coast with biggish cliffs, somewhere between the Wash and the Channel.

26. din/ˈdɪn/غرفة الطعام10 مرة في الكتاب

    … even the pockets of the clothes in my wardrobe, and the sideboard in the dining-room.

27. yarn/ˈjɑɹn/حديث، قصة10 مرة في الكتاب

    “Get on with your yarn,” I said, “and I’ll tell you.”

28. plump/ˈpɫəmp/سمين10 مرة في الكتاب

    two plump thrushes had blundered into it.

29. cigar/sɪˈɡɑɹ/سيجار، سيكار10 مرة في الكتاب

    I left him with the newspaper and a box of cigars, and went down to the City till luncheon.

30. policeman/pəˈɫismən/شرطي10 مرة في الكتاب

    Then I caught sight of a policeman a hundred yards down, and a loafer shuffling past on the other side.

31. puzzle/ˈpəzəɫ/حير10 مرة في الكتاب

    He told me some queer things that explained a lot that had puzzled me—things that happened in the Balkan War, how one state suddenly came out on top …

32. whisky/ˈhwɪski/ويسكي9 مرة في الكتاب

    There was a tray of drinks on a table beside him, from which he filled himself a stiff whisky-and-soda.

33. harbour/ˈhɑɹbɝ/ميناء، مرفأ9 مرة في الكتاب

    If it was a harbour it must be some little place where the tide mattered, or else it was a heavy-draught boat.

34. occupant/ˈɑkjəpənt/ساكن، شاغل9 مرة في الكتاب

    I recognized him as the occupant of a flat on the top floor, with whom I had passed the time of day on the stairs.

35. presently/ˈpɹɛzəntɫi/حاليا، الآن9 مرة في الكتاب

    “Not Mr Scudder,” he corrected; “Captain Theophilus Digby, of the 40th Gurkhas, presently home on leave.

36. descend/dɪˈsɛnd/نزل9 مرة في الكتاب

    The potato-digging station-master had been gingered up into some activity, for the west-going train was waiting to let us pass, and from it had descended three men who were asking him questions.

37. grey/ˈɡɹeɪ/رمادي، أغبر8 مرة في الكتاب

    There seemed no road to it from anywhere, and to increase the desolation the waves of a tarn lapped on their grey granite beach half a mile away.

38. innkeeper/ˈɪnˌkipɝ/صاحب نزل8 مرة في الكتاب

    “You’re young to be an innkeeper,” I said.

39. dovecotبرج حمام8 مرة في الكتاب

    From another window I saw that on the far side of the mill stood an old stone dovecot.

40. villa/ˈvɪɫə/فيلا، دارة8 مرة في الكتاب

    I walked back through fields and lines of villas and terraces and then slums and mean streets, and it took me pretty nearly two hours.

المعاني: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org, English to Arabic (CC-BY-SA) النطق: ipa-dict (MIT)، من ويكاموس.

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