Carmen: okumadan önce öğrenilecek 40 kelime
Prosper Mérimée, «Carmen» 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.
gipsyÇingenekitapta 75 kez
You must see I’m a gipsy!
cigar/sɪˈɡɑɹ/puro, sigarakitapta 14 kez
At the same time I pulled out my cigar-case.
blunderbussalaybozankitapta 13 kez
In the other he held a brass blunderbuss.
mantilla/mænˈtɪɫə/mantillakitapta 11 kez
When she drew near me, the woman let the mantilla which had covered her head drop on her shoulders, and “by the dim light falling from the stars” I perceived her to be young …
recognise/ˈɹɛkəɡˌnaɪz/tanımakkitapta 9 kez
I sat upright, and then I thought I recognised Antonio.
bull/ˈbʊɫ/boğakitapta 9 kez
“While I was hiding at Granada there were bull-fights there, to which Carmen went.
brigandeşkıya, haydutkitapta 8 kez
I had no doubt at all I was in the company of a smuggler, and possibly of a brigand.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/yarınkitapta 8 kez
So he’s to be garrotted the day after to-morrow, without fail.* So you see one theft more or less won’t affect his position.
dialect/ˈdaɪəˌɫɛkt/lehçe, ağız, diyalektkitapta 8 kez
In every Romany dialect a number of Greek words appear.
smuggler/ˈsməɡəɫɝ/kaçakçıkitapta 8 kez
The masons were working at it in the daytime, and at night a sentinel was posted on it, to prevent smugglers from getting in.
comrade/ˈkɑmˌɹæd/yoldaşkitapta 8 kez
Like him, perchance, my comrade was musing over the home he had forfeited, the exile he had earned, by some misdeed.
inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/sormakkitapta 8 kez
So I bestowed a friendly nod on the man with the blunderbuss, and inquired, with a smile, whether I had disturbed his nap.
fancy/ˈfænsi/sanırımkitapta 8 kez
In the stable, I fancy.
devil/ˈdɛvəɫ/şeytan, İbliskitapta 8 kez
To-day I’ll go and eat ices with a servant of the devil.
gitana/dʒiˈtænə/Çingene kızkitapta 7 kez
I then had time to take a leisurely view of my gitana, while several worthy individuals, who were eating their ices, stared open-mouthed at beholding me in such gay company.
till/ˈtɪɫ/kadarkitapta 7 kez
His complexion, which may once have been fine, had been tanned by the sun till it was darker than his hair.
coin/ˈkɔɪn/bir parça madeni para sikke, demir para, madenî parakitapta 7 kez
Then she bade me cross my left hand with a silver coin, and the magic ceremonies duly began.
traveller/ˈtɹævəɫɝ/yolcu, gezgin, seyyahkitapta 6 kez
It was impossible to imagine any more delightful halting place for a traveller.
castanetskastanyetkitapta 6 kez
“The whole party was assembled in the patio, and in spite of the crowd I could see nearly everything that went on through the lattice.* I could hear the castanets and the tambourine, the laughter and applause.
delightful/dɪˈɫaɪtfəɫ/iç açıcıkitapta 6 kez
He did not know the name of the delightful valley in which we were sitting, he could not tell me the names of any of the neighbouring villages …
cloak/ˈkɫoʊk/pelerinkitapta 6 kez
Meanwhile I had stretched myself out on the mule rugs, having carefully wrapped myself up in my own cloak, so as to avoid touching them.
sergeant/ˈsɑɹdʒənt/çavuşkitapta 6 kez
The old woman, when she was questioned by the sergeant, admitted that she knew Navarro …
acquaintance/əˈkweɪntəns/eş dost, tanıdıkkitapta 6 kez
I had yet another motive for prosecuting her acquaintance.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/korkutmakkitapta 6 kez
… because I told them that not all their Seville jacques,** and all their knives, would frighten an honest lad from our country, with his blue cap and his maquila!
seller/ˈsɛɫɝ/satıcı, bayikitapta 6 kez
I have been insulted here, because I don’t belong to this land of rogues and sellers of rotten oranges; and those hussies are all banded together against me …
depart/dɪˈpɑɹt/gitmekkitapta 6 kez
That instant he turned his back on me and departed at a great pace.
spite/ˈspaɪt/garez, kinkitapta 6 kez
I was hoping the stranger might gradually fall into a confidential mood, and in spite of my guide’s winks, I turned the conversation to the subject of highwaymen.
fool/ˈfuɫ/salak, ahmak, aptalkitapta 6 kez
How can you be such a fool as that?
whence/ˈhwɛns/bu yüzdenkitapta 5 kez
… and I noticed that he did not pronounce the letter s* in the Andalusian fashion, whence I concluded he was a traveller, like myself …
quay/ˈkeɪ/rıhtım, iskelekitapta 5 kez
At Cordova a great many idlers collect, toward sunset, in the quay that runs along the right bank of the Guadalquivir.
acacia/əˈkeɪʃə/akasyakitapta 5 kez
She had thrown her mantilla back, to show her shoulders, and a great bunch of acacia that was thrust into her chemise.
piastrekuruşkitapta 5 kez
Then the Englishman stood up, gave me a piastre, and offered his arm to Carmen, as if she couldn’t have walked alone.
lighted/ˈɫaɪtəd/iliştikitapta 5 kez
… most heartily, my eye lighted, at some distance from the path I was following …
astonished/əˈstɑnɪʃt/hayret verdikitapta 5 kez
Her face astonished you, at first sight, but nobody could forget it.
robber/ˈɹɑbɝ/soyguncu, harami, hırsızkitapta 5 kez
But I had heard so much about robbers, that, never seeing any, I had ceased to believe in their existence.
mistress/ˈmɪstɹəs/sevgilikitapta 5 kez
“I had often heard talk of certain smugglers who travelled about Andalusia, each riding a good horse, with his mistress behind him and his blunderbuss in his fist.
temper/ˈtɛmpɝ/öfkelikitapta 5 kez
What he said I could not catch, but the tone of his voice revealed the fact that he was in a very evil temper.
fond/ˈfɑnd/düşkünkitapta 5 kez
“Do me the kindness to sing me something,” I said to him, “I’m passionately fond of your national music.”
scarf/ˈskɑɹf/fular, atkıkitapta 5 kez
“Do you happen to have a handkerchief, a scarf, or a mantilla, that he gave you?”
lieutenant/ɫuˈtɛnənt/teğmenkitapta 5 kez
… followed by a young man, a lieutenant in our regiment.
Anlamlar: WikDict, English to Turkish (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Telaffuz: ipa-dict (MIT), Vikisözlük verisinden.
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