Middlemarch: okumadan önce öğrenilecek 40 kelime
George Eliot, «Middlemarch» 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.
oblige/əˈbɫaɪdʒ/memnun etmekkitapta 81 kez
He’s very hot on new sorts; to oblige you.”
hinder/ˈhɪndɝ/alıkoymakkitapta 75 kez
Certainly such elements in the character of a marriageable girl tended to interfere with her lot, and hinder it from being decided according to custom, by good looks …
till/ˈtɪɫ/o zamana kadarkitapta 75 kez
You know, he said that he had forgotten them till then.
fond/ˈfɑnd/düşkünkitapta 70 kez
“No, I have other things of mamma’s—her sandal-wood box which I am so fond of—plenty of things.
inward/ˈɪnwɝd/dahilîkitapta 68 kez
If Miss Brooke ever attained perfect meekness, it would not be for lack of inward fire.
pity/ˈpɪti/acıma, merhamet, şefkatkitapta 63 kez
Celia felt that this was a pity.
clergyman/ˈkɫɝdʒiˌmæn/papazkitapta 61 kez
… not excepting even Monsieur Liret, the Vaudois clergyman who had given conferences on the history of the Waldenses.
dislike/dɪˈsɫaɪk/antipatikitapta 61 kez
So Miss Brooke presided in her uncle’s household, and did not at all dislike her new authority, with the homage that belonged to it.
delight/dɪˈɫaɪt/sevinç, mutluluk, neşekitapta 60 kez
… and was taking her usual place in the pretty sitting-room which divided the bedrooms of the sisters, bent on finishing a plan for some buildings (a kind of work which she delighted in), when Celia …
dread/ˈdɹɛd/korkmakkitapta 59 kez
But he himself dreaded so much the sort of superior woman likely to be available for such a position, that he allowed himself to be dissuaded by Dorothea’s objections …
disagreeable/ˌdɪsəˈɡɹiəbəɫ/nahoş, tatsız, uyuzkitapta 50 kez
But he was positively obtrusive at this moment, and his dimpled hands were quite disagreeable.
temper/ˈtɛmpɝ/mizaçkitapta 50 kez
It was hardly a year since they had come to live at Tipton Grange with their uncle, a man nearly sixty, of acquiescent temper, miscellaneous opinions, and uncertain vote.
peculiar/pəkˈjuɫjɝ/tuhaf, olağandışıkitapta 50 kez
… her eyes following the same direction as her uncle’s, she was struck with the peculiar effect of the announcement on Dorothea.
spite/ˈspaɪt/rağmenkitapta 50 kez
Riding was an indulgence which she allowed herself in spite of conscientious qualms; she felt that she enjoyed it in a pagan sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it.
agreeable/əˈɡɹiəbəɫ/hoşkitapta 48 kez
But there may be good reasons for choosing not to do what is very agreeable,” said Dorothea.
chiefly/ˈtʃifɫi/özelliklekitapta 47 kez
… and did not regard his future wife in the light of prey, valuable chiefly for the excitements of the chase.
beforehand/bɪˈfɔɹˌhænd/önceden, öncesindekitapta 46 kez
You couldn’t put the thing better—couldn’t put it better, beforehand, you know.
thoroughly/ˈθɝoʊɫi/enine boyunakitapta 45 kez
She was thoroughly charming to him, but of course he theorized a little about his attachment.
clever/ˈkɫɛvɝ/akıllı, zeki, afacankitapta 44 kez
She was usually spoken of as being remarkably clever, but with the addition that her sister Celia had more common-sense.
ignorance/ˈɪɡnɝəns/cehalet, bilgisizlikkitapta 43 kez
This elevating thought lifted her above her annoyance at being twitted with her ignorance of political economy, that never-explained science which was thrust as an extinguisher over all her lights.
charm/ˈtʃɑɹm/çekicilikkitapta 43 kez
Yet those who approached Dorothea, though prejudiced against her by this alarming hearsay, found that she had a charm unaccountably reconcilable with it.
carriage/ˈkæɹɪdʒ/fayton, arabakitapta 41 kez
When she got out of the carriage, her cheeks were pale and her eyelids red.
unpleasant/ənˈpɫɛzənt/nahoş, sevimsiz, tatsızkitapta 41 kez
He was not going to renounce his ride because of his friend’s unpleasant news—only to ride the faster in some other direction than that of Tipton Grange.
affection/əˈfɛkʃən/duygulanmak, duygusal yakınlık, eğilimkitapta 41 kez
… vanity, and merely canine affection.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/yarınkitapta 40 kez
“You can go with me to-morrow, if you like.
banker/ˈbæŋkɝ/bankacıkitapta 40 kez
… who happened to be a manufacturer; the philanthropic banker his brother-in-law, who predominated so much in the town that some called him a Methodist …
disposition/ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən/mizaçkitapta 38 kez
Miss Brooke argued from words and dispositions not less unhesitatingly than other young ladies of her age.
conscience/ˈkɑnʃəns/vicdan, insafkitapta 37 kez
… hardly more than a budding woman, but yet with an active conscience and a great mental need, not to be satisfied by a girlish instruction comparable to the nibblings and judgments of a discursive mouse.
uneasy/əˈnizi/huzursuzkitapta 36 kez
Dorothea felt a little more uneasy than usual.
afterwards/ˈæftɝwɝdz/sonra, sonraları, daha sonrakitapta 36 kez
… on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition.
contrary/ˈkɑntɹɛɹi/aksinekitapta 36 kez
“On the contrary, I am often unable to decide.
bill/ˈbɪɫ/hesap, faturakitapta 35 kez
For the creditor to whom he owed a hundred and sixty held a firmer security in the shape of a bill signed by Mary’s father.
aunt/ˈænt/hala, teyze, yengekitapta 35 kez
“My aunt made an unfortunate marriage.
disgust/dɪsˈɡəst/iğrenme, iğrenti, tiksinmekitapta 34 kez
All her dear plans were embittered, and she thought with disgust of Sir James’s conceiving that she recognized him as her lover.
ignorant/ˈɪɡnɝənt/cahilkitapta 34 kez
“I am very ignorant—you will quite wonder at my ignorance,” said Dorothea.
utter/ˈətɝ/söylenmişkitapta 34 kez
… present in the king’s mind, but not uttered,” said Mr. Casaubon, smiling and bending his head towards Celia …
offend/əˈfɛnd/hakaret etmekkitapta 34 kez
… and was unhappy: she saw that she had offended her sister, and dared not say even anything pretty about the gift of the ornaments which she put back into the box and carried away.
fool/ˈfuɫ/salak, ahmak, aptalkitapta 34 kez
A man always makes a fool of himself, speechifying: there’s no excuse but being on the right side, so that you can ask a blessing on your humming and hawing.
lately/ˈɫeɪtɫi/son zamanlarda, son günlerdekitapta 34 kez
I have been using up my eyesight on old characters lately; the fact is …
backward/ˈbækwɝd/gerikitapta 33 kez
… the color rose in her cheeks, and her straw bonnet (which our contemporaries might look at with conjectural curiosity as at an obsolete form of basket) fell a little backward.
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