Mars'ta Bir Odysseia: okumadan önce öğrenilecek 40 kelime
A Martian Odyssey
Stanley G. Weinbaum, «Mars'ta Bir Odysseia» kitabında bu 40 kelimeyi tekrar tekrar kullanıyor ve hiçbiri İngilizcenin en sık 4.000 kelimesi arasında değil. Önceden öğrenirseniz ilk bölümler çok daha kolay okunur. Her kelimenin telaffuzu, anlamı ve kitaptan bir cümlesi var.
beast/ˈbist/hayvan, canavarkitapta 19 kez
The arm heaved the body out of the hole; the beast crashed to the sand.
beak/ˈbik/gagakitapta 15 kez
"But the bird-like thing was putting up a good battle, dealing vicious blows with an eighteen-inch beak, between screeches.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/milkitapta 14 kez
… just as we figured, the wings haven't much lift in this air at less than a hundred miles per hour, and even then I had to use the under-jets.
pyramid/ˈpɪɹəmɪd/piramitkitapta 13 kez
"There was a line of little pyramids—tiny ones, not more than six inches high, stretching across Xanthus as far as I could see!
queer/ˈkwɪɹ/kuirkitapta 10 kez
Yet, in spite of all difficulties, I liked Tweel, and I have a queer certainty that he liked me."
canal/kəˈnæɫ/kanalkitapta 9 kez
"Twenty miles into Thyle—believe it or not—I crossed a canal!"
cliff/ˈkɫɪf/dikey kaya yüzü uçurum, yar, falezkitapta 9 kez
Well, I figured I might as well use what was left of daylight in getting down the cliff that bounded Thyle.
trilling/ˈtɹɪɫɪŋ/ötüşkitapta 8 kez
He poked his beak at it, and with a great deal of trilling and clucking, he added Deimos and Phobos to Mars, and then sketched in the earth's moon!
pushcartel arabasıkitapta 8 kez
and gave its pushcart a vicious poke at me!
silicon/ˈsɪɫəkən/silisyumkitapta 8 kez
There must have been pure silicon in the sand, and it lived on that.
sail/ˈseɪɫ/açılmak, denize açılmakkitapta 8 kez
… though, to distinguish that what I sailed over was just more of this grey plain that we'd been examining the whole week since our landing—same blobby growths and the same eternal carpet of crawling little plant-animals, or biopods …
rocket/ˈɹɑkət/roketkitapta 8 kez
… learning to breathe the air as tenuous as that of Mars, the challenging of the void in the tiny rocket driven by the cranky reaction motors of the twenty-first century, and mostly the facing of an absolutely unknown world.
cart/ˈkɑɹt/alışveriş arabası, kağnıkitapta 8 kez
It was pushing a little coppery cart and tore right past us like the proverbial bat out of Hell.
grey/ˈɡɹeɪ/bozkitapta 7 kez
3 in our guess, then, and this grey plain we dropped on was really the Mare Cimmerium which would make my orange desert the region called Xanthus.
dash/ˈdæʃ/hızla gitmekkitapta 7 kez
They droned out their friendly greeting, which didn't really sound so friendly, and dashed on.
daylight/ˈdeɪˌɫaɪt/gün ışığıkitapta 6 kez
"I knew that I had sixteen hours of daylight at this season, so eight hours—eight hundred miles—from here, I decided to turn back.
plug/ˈpɫəɡ/ağır ağır gitmekkitapta 6 kez
It got tiresome, of course—plugging along over a soft sand desert with nothing to see, not even Leroy's crawling biopods.
mound/ˈmaʊnd/höyük, yığın, öbekkitapta 6 kez
The mound city I'd noticed from the rocket was a mile or so to the right and I was curious enough to want to take a look at it.
silica/ˈsɪɫəkə/siliskitapta 5 kez
I examined a brick or two as well; they were silica, and old as creation itself!"
rubbish/ˈɹəbɪʃ/çöpkitapta 5 kez
Their pushcarts were full of stones, sand, chunks of rubbery plants, and such rubbish as that.
inch/ˈɪntʃ/inçkitapta 5 kez
It stood an inch or so taller than I, and—well, Putz saw it!"
heap/ˈhip/öbekkitapta 5 kez
… we don't get a peep for ten days, and finally Putz here picks you out of a lunatic ant-heap with a freak ostrich as your pal!
drum/ˈdɹəm/davulkitapta 5 kez
The top end of the barrel-body was a diaphragm stretched as tight as a drum head, and that was all.
trill/ˈtɹɪɫ/ötüşkitapta 4 kez
There was a racket like a flock of crows eating a bunch of canaries—whistles, cackles, caws, trills, and what have you.
dart/ˈdɑɹt/hızla fırlamakkitapta 4 kez
The road simply dived into an opening, and slanted down like an old mine, and in and out darted the barrel-people, greeting us with their eternal phrase.
biologist/baɪˈɑɫədʒɪst/biyoloji öğrencisikitapta 4 kez
The other three stared at him sympathetically—Putz, the engineer, Leroy, the biologist, and Harrison, the astronomer and captain of the expedition.
blast/ˈbɫæst/patlamakitapta 4 kez
… was in the old days, less than twenty years after the mad American Doheny perfected the atomic blast at the cost of his life, and only a decade after the equally mad Cardoza rode on it to the moon.
builder/ˈbɪɫdɝ/inşaatçı, kurucu, yapı kurucukitapta 4 kez
Tweel was telling me that the builders of the pyramids weren't people—or that they weren't intelligent, that they weren't reasoning creatures!
damn/ˈdæm/kahrolasıcakitapta 4 kez
The fire hadn't kept me any too warm, but that damned sleeping bag did.
ours/ˈaʊɝz/bizimkikitapta 4 kez
Our minds simply looked at the world from different viewpoints, and perhaps his viewpoint is as true as ours.
ostrich/ˈɔstɹɪtʃ/deve kuşukitapta 3 kez
"That freak ostrich," explained the narrator.
ejaculate/ɪˈdʒækjuˌɫeɪt/haykırmakkitapta 3 kez
ejaculated the engineer.
cuss/ˈkəs/küfretmekkitapta 3 kez
"I plugged steadily along, cussing the sand that made going so tiresome, and, incidentally, cussing that cranky motor of yours, Karl.
clack/ˈkɫæk/takırdamakkitapta 3 kez
The other let out a series of clacks, staggered around on legs about as thick as golf sticks, and turned suddenly to face me.
cluck/ˈkɫək/gıdaklamakitapta 3 kez
He set up a negative sort of clucking and said, 'No, no, no. No one-one-two.
north/ˈnɔɹθ/kuzey, şimalkitapta 3 kez
I pointed to myself and toward the north, and he pointed at himself and toward the south, but when I loaded up and started away, he came along.
ouch/ˈaʊtʃ/ahkitapta 3 kez
They paid no attention at all, except to assure us they were friends—ouch!
diaphragm/ˈdaɪəˌfɹæm/diyaframkitapta 3 kez
It stopped and set up a sort of drumming from the diaphragm on top.
prowl/ˈpɹaʊɫ/dolaşmakkitapta 3 kez
I decided to sleep on the plateau if possible; anything dangerous, I reasoned, would be more likely to prowl through the vegetation of the Mare Chronium than the sand of Xanthus.
drone/ˈdɹoʊn/cızırtı, vızıltıkitapta 3 kez
But this sound was the drone of a rocket, and sure enough, there went our second auxiliary about ten miles to westward, between me and the sunset!"
Anlamlar: WikDict, English to Turkish (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Telaffuz: ipa-dict (MIT), Vikisözlük verisinden.
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