İki Şehrin Hikayesi: okumadan önce öğrenilecek 40 kelime
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens, «İki Şehrin Hikayesi» 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.
knit/ˈnɪt/kırışmakkitapta 61 kez
… white with what they suppressed; nor foreheads knitted into the likeness of the gallows-rope they mused about enduring, or inflicting.
carriage/ˈkæɹɪdʒ/fayton, arabakitapta 51 kez
Say, shall I hire a carriage and post-horses?”
menderyol onarıcısıkitapta 48 kez
… as the like of himself had drooped before Monseigneur of the Court—only the difference was, that these faces drooped merely to suffer and not to propitiate—when a grizzled mender of the roads joined the group.
fountain/ˈfaʊntən/çeşme, şadırvankitapta 42 kez
At last, swooping at a street corner by a fountain, one of its wheels came to a sickening little jolt …
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/sabahkitapta 37 kez
… the iron gates were being closed with a jar and a rattle, and the dismal place was deserted until to-morrow morning’s interest of gallows, pillory …
courtyard/ˈkɔɹtˌjɑɹd/avlu, hayatkitapta 35 kez
The doorway of the staircase gives on the little courtyard close to the left here,” pointing with his hand, “near to the window of my establishment.
patriot/ˈpeɪtɹiət/yurtsever, vatanseverkitapta 30 kez
That, this patriot would be produced before them.
bless/ˈbɫɛs/mübarekkitapta 29 kez
Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster.
honour/ˈɑnɝ/onurkitapta 28 kez
… and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards.
pity/ˈpɪti/acıma, merhamet, şefkatkitapta 26 kez
As he said the words he looked down, with an admiring pity, on the flowing golden hair; as if he pictured to himself that it might have been already tinged with grey.
afterwards/ˈæftɝwɝdz/sonra, sonraları, daha sonrakitapta 25 kez
She quickly brought them down and handed them in;—and immediately afterwards leaned against the door-post, knitting, and saw nothing.
stairs/ˈstɛɹz/merdiven, basamakkitapta 24 kez
Thus, Monsieur Defarge, in a stern voice, to Mr. Lorry, as they began ascending the stairs.
dreadful/ˈdɹɛdfəɫ/dehşet verici, dehşetli, korkunçkitapta 24 kez
The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful.
nephew/ˈnɛfju/erkek yeğen, yeğenkitapta 24 kez
“My nephew,” said the Marquis, glancing at the supper preparation; “they said he was not arrived.”
gaolergardiyankitapta 23 kez
“You are not the gaoler’s daughter?”
dread/ˈdɹɛd/korkmakkitapta 23 kez
… and always going on the side which Mr. Lorry took, as though he dreaded to be asked any question by the young lady, turned himself about here …
staircase/ˈstɛɹˌkeɪs/merdivenkitapta 23 kez
In the gloomy tile-paved entry to the gloomy tile-paved staircase, Monsieur Defarge bent down on one knee to the child of his old master, and put her hand to his lips.
escort/ˈɛskɔɹt/eşlik etmekkitapta 23 kez
The great bell of Saint Paul’s was striking one in the cleared air, when Mr. Lorry, escorted by Jerry, high-booted and bearing a lantern, set forth on his return-passage to Clerkenwell.
summon/ˈsəmən/çağrılmakkitapta 22 kez
“She had laid her head upon my shoulder, that night when I was summoned out—she had a fear of my going, though I had none—and when I was brought to the North Tower they found these upon my sleeve.
favour/ˈfeɪvɝ/destekkitapta 21 kez
… in combination, had read that article of war which forbade a purpose otherwise strongly in favour of the argument, that some brute animals are endued with Reason …
vain/ˈveɪn/kibirlikitapta 20 kez
He had a good leg, and was a little vain of it, for his brown stockings fitted sleek and close …
heap/ˈhip/öbekkitapta 20 kez
The beach was a desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling wildly about, and the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction.
straw/ˈstɹɔ/saman, hasırkitapta 20 kez
… he had only to shut himself up inside, keep the flint and steel sparks well off the straw, and get a light with tolerable safety and ease (if he were lucky) in five minutes.
faint/ˈfeɪnt/zayıfkitapta 20 kez
A faint voice answered something.
emigrant/ˈɛməɡɹənt/muhacirkitapta 19 kez
… treason against the majesty of the people, in that I have acted against them for an emigrant.
lighted/ˈɫaɪtəd/aydınlanmışkitapta 19 kez
A face habitually suppressed and quieted, was still lighted up under the quaint wig by a pair of moist bright eyes that it must have cost their owner, in years gone by …
weep/ˈwip/ağlamakkitapta 19 kez
… but I hope it is—if you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears, weep for it, weep for it!
fancy/ˈfænsi/hayalkitapta 19 kez
After such imaginary discourse, the passenger in his fancy would dig, and dig, dig—now with a spade, now with a great key, now with his hands—to dig this wretched creature out.
tumbrilarabakitapta 18 kez
… Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution.
colour/ˈkəɫɝ/renkkitapta 18 kez
… being of a surface black, with no depth in the colour or form, and much too near together—as if they were afraid of being found out in something …
bosom/ˈbʊzəm/bağırkitapta 18 kez
… at once in an auspicious and an evil hour detecting his infamy, had resolved to immolate the traitor he could no longer cherish in his bosom, on the sacred altar of his country.
messenger/ˈmɛsəndʒɝ/haberci, elçi, peykkitapta 18 kez
“I know this messenger, guard,” said Mr. Lorry …
footstep/ˈfʊtˌstɛp/ayak sesikitapta 18 kez
On hearing footsteps close at hand, these three turned, and rose, and showed themselves to be the three of one name who had been drinking in the wine-shop.
softly/ˈsɔfɫi/yumuşakçakitapta 18 kez
softly over the coach roof.
shoemaker/ˈʃuˌmeɪkɝ/ayakkabıcı, pabuççu, başmakçıkitapta 17 kez
“I want,” said Defarge, who had not removed his gaze from the shoemaker, “to let in a little more light here.
clasp/ˈkɫæsp/kavramakkitapta 17 kez
… in a soothing tone, bringing his left hand from the back of the chair to lay it on the supplicatory fingers that clasped him in so violent a tremble: “pray control your agitation—a matter of business.
darling/ˈdɑɹɫɪŋ/biricik, canım, sevgilikitapta 17 kez
… my love, the darling of my soul, is dead …
mist/ˈmɪst/dumankitapta 17 kez
There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none.
cruel/ˈkɹuəɫ/acımasız, zalim, merhametsizkitapta 17 kez
The deepened marks in the nose, and the lengthening of the fine straight lines in the cruel face, looked ominous as to that …
spare/ˈspɛɹ/esirgemekkitapta 17 kez
… if the poor lady had suffered so intensely before her little child was born, that she came to the determination of sparing the poor child the inheritance of any part of the agony she had known the pains of, by rearing her in the belief that her father was dead—No …
Anlamlar: WikDict, English to Turkish (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Telaffuz: ipa-dict (MIT), Vikisözlük verisinden.
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