Pollyanna: okumadan önce öğrenilecek 40 kelime
Eleanor H. Porter, «Pollyanna» 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.
aunt/ˈænt/hala, teyze, yengekitapta 76 kez
You know she's all the aunt I've got, and I didn't know I had her for ever so long.
frown/ˈfɹaʊn/kaşlarını çatmakkitapta 44 kez
Her mistress frowned.
jelly/ˈdʒɛɫi/jölekitapta 42 kez
Pollyanna was carrying calf's-foot jelly to Mrs. Snow to-day.
reckon/ˈɹɛkən/sanırımkitapta 40 kez
“After all, I—I reckon I'm glad she doesn't want me to talk about father,” Pollyanna was thinking.
stairs/ˈstɛɹz/merdiven, basamakkitapta 36 kez
… Nancy,” Miss Polly was saying now, “you may clear the little room at the head of the stairs in the attic, and make up the cot bed.
niece/ˈnis/yeğenkitapta 32 kez
My niece, Miss Pollyanna Whittier, is coming to live with me.
anyhow/ˈɛniˌhaʊ/ne olursa olsunkitapta 30 kez
“Well, it's done—my part, anyhow,” she sighed.
jest/ˈdʒɛst/şaka yapmakkitapta 28 kez
But some day—some day I shall jest b'ile over; and when I do, of course it'll be good-by Nancy for me.
attic/ˈætɪk/tavanarası, çatı katıkitapta 26 kez
“In the front attic.”
stern/ˈstɝn/haşin, katı, sertkitapta 22 kez
“Nancy,”—Miss Polly's voice was very stern now—“when I'm talking to you, I wish you to stop your work and listen to what I have to say.”
retort/ˈɹiˌtɔɹt/karşılık vermekkitapta 21 kez
“You don't seem ter see any trouble bein' glad about everythin',” retorted Nancy, choking a little over her remembrance of Pollyanna's brave attempts to like the bare little attic room.
till/ˈtɪɫ/kadar, değinkitapta 20 kez
Father and the Ladies' Aid used to do it, too, till they found I always came back all right.”
queer/ˈkwɪɹ/tuhafkitapta 18 kez
She said you'd think 'twas queer.
chuckle/ˈtʃəkəɫ/gevrek gevrek gülmekkitapta 18 kez
Timothy chuckled softly; but Nancy was too disturbed to answer the merry flash from his eyes.
abruptly/əˈbɹəptɫi/birdenbirekitapta 18 kez
Then, abruptly, her aunt opened a door and ascended another stairway.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/yarınkitapta 17 kez
My niece will arrive to-morrow at four o'clock.
murmur/ˈmɝmɝ/homurdanma, homurtu, mırıldanmakitapta 17 kez
“I'm so glad now that the screens didn't come,” she murmured, blinking up at the stars; “else I couldn't have had this!”
lamb/ˈɫæm/kuzukitapta 17 kez
Mrs. White had pictures, too, perfectly beautiful ones of roses and little girls kneeling and a kitty and some lambs and a lion—not together, you know—the lambs and the lion.
bang/ˈbæŋ/patkitapta 17 kez
… severe-faced woman who frowned if a knife clattered to the floor, or if a door banged—but who never thought to smile even when knives and doors were still.
carpet/ˈkɑɹpət/halı, kilimkitapta 16 kez
The Ladies' Aid bought it for me—and wasn't it lovely of them, when they wanted the carpet so?
stammer/ˈstæmɝ/kekelemek, pepelemekkitapta 15 kez
“Yes, ma'am; I will, ma'am,” she stammered, righting the pitcher, and turning hastily.
hurriedly/ˈhɝidɫi/acele acelekitapta 15 kez
Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning.
crutch/ˈkɹətʃ/koltuk değneğikitapta 15 kez
“Why, we began it on some crutches that came in a missionary barrel.”
gasp/ˈɡæsp/nefes nefese söylemekkitapta 15 kez
gasped Nancy, surprised into an interruption.
choke/ˈtʃoʊk/boğmakkitapta 15 kez
She stopped with a little choking breath.
rejoin/ɹiˈdʒɔɪn/karşılık vermekkitapta 14 kez
Well, that isn't exactly the word I should use,” rejoined Miss Polly, stiffly.
falter/ˈfɔɫtɝ/bocalamakkitapta 14 kez
“Of course, ma'am; it was only that I thought a little girl here might—might brighten things up for you,” she faltered.
mistress/ˈmɪstɹəs/hanımefendikitapta 14 kez
Nancy had been working in Miss Polly's kitchen only two months, but already she knew that her mistress did not usually hurry.
aloud/əˈɫaʊd/yüksek seslekitapta 14 kez
“When I ask a question, Pollyanna, I prefer that you should answer aloud not merely with your head.”
missionary/ˈmɪʃəˌnɛɹi/misyoner, mübelliğkitapta 14 kez
Jennie had preferred these—quite naturally, perhaps; so she had married the minister, and had gone south with him as a home missionary's wife.
bless/ˈbɫɛs/mübarekkitapta 14 kez
The idea of stickin' that blessed child 'way off up here in this hot little room—with no fire in the winter, too, and all this big house ter pick and choose from!
pillow/ˈpɪɫoʊ/yastıkkitapta 14 kez
… selected a nice fat soft one (it contained Miss Polly's sealskin coat) for a bed; and a thinner one to be doubled up for a pillow, and still another (which was so thin it seemed almost empty) for a covering.
clap/ˈkɫæp/çırpmakkitapta 13 kez
At one of the windows, a few minutes later, Pollyanna gave a glad cry and clapped her hands joyously.
parlor/ˈpɑɹɫɝ/oturma odası, salonkitapta 13 kez
… the wide, flat tin roof of Miss Polly's sun parlor built over the porte-cochere.
ejaculate/ɪˈdʒækjuˌɫeɪt/birden söylemekkitapta 12 kez
she ejaculated, biting her lip.
heathen/ˈhiðən/pagan, müşrik, putperestkitapta 12 kez
“Oh, for the heathen,” surmised Pollyanna.
prism/ˈpɹɪzəm/prizmakitapta 12 kez
It came from the prism pendants encircling the old-fashioned candelabrum in her hand.
homestead/ˈhoʊmˌstɛd/konakkitapta 12 kez
Fifteen minutes later the great clock in the hallway of the Harrington homestead struck six.
erect/ɪˈɹɛkt/doğrulmakkitapta 12 kez
The old man drew himself erect.
calf/ˈkæf/dana, buzağıkitapta 12 kez
Aunt Polly says she hopes you are comfortable to-day, and she's sent you some calf's-foot jelly.”
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