Muhteşem Gatsby: okumadan önce öğrenilecek 40 kelime
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald, «Muhteşem Gatsby» 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.
inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/sormakkitapta 27 kez
I inquired innocently.
butler/ˈbətɫɝ/kahyakitapta 20 kez
When, almost immediately, the telephone rang inside and the butler left the porch Daisy seized upon the momentary interruption and leaned toward me.
grey/ˈɡɹeɪ/bozkitapta 17 kez
Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming discontented face.
murmur/ˈmɝmɝ/homurdanma, homurtu, mırıldanmakitapta 16 kez
If she saw me out of the corner of her eyes she gave no hint of it—indeed, I was almost surprised into murmuring an apology for having disturbed her by coming in.
policeman/pəˈɫismən/poliskitapta 14 kez
When we came into the station he was next to me and his white shirt-front pressed against my arm—and so I told him I'd have to call a policeman, but he knew I lied.
taxi/ˈtæksi/taksikitapta 12 kez
Upstairs, in the solemn echoing drive she let four taxi cabs drive away before she selected a new one, lavender-colored with grey upholstery …
coup/ˈku/kupekitapta 12 kez
In the ditch beside the road, right side up but violently shorn of one wheel, rested a new coupé which had left Gatsby's drive not two minutes before.
faint/ˈfeɪnt/hafifkitapta 12 kez
… when that certain girl played tennis, a faint mustache of perspiration appeared on her upper lip.
tremble/ˈtɹɛmbəɫ/titremek, ürpermekkitapta 11 kez
The murmur trembled on the verge of coherence, sank down, mounted excitedly, and then ceased altogether.
chauffeur/ˈʃoʊfɝ/şoför, sürücükitapta 10 kez
A chauffeur in a uniform of robin's egg blue crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer—the honor would be entirely Gatsby's, it said …
anyhow/ˈɛniˌhaʊ/ne olursa olsunkitapta 10 kez
"You see I think everything's terrible anyhow," she went on in a convinced way.
faintly/ˈfeɪntɫi/birazkitapta 10 kez
I am not even faintly like a rose.
glow/ˈɡɫoʊ/parlamakkitapta 10 kez
The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold, and wide open to the warm windy afternoon …
eagerly/ˈiɡɝɫi/isteklekitapta 9 kez
asked Mrs. Wilson eagerly as he came to the taxi-window.
twilight/ˈtwaɪˌɫaɪt/alacakaranlık, tankitapta 9 kez
Tom and Miss Baker, with several feet of twilight between them strolled back into the library, as if to a vigil beside a perfectly tangible body …
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/haykırmakkitapta 9 kez
she exclaimed surprisingly.
unfamiliar/ˌənfəˈmɪɫjɝ/yabancıkitapta 9 kez
They shook hands briefly and a strained, unfamiliar look of embarrassment came over Gatsby's face.
upstairs/əpˈstɛɹz/yukarıdakitapta 9 kez
The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive …
fool/ˈfuɫ/salak, ahmak, aptalkitapta 9 kez
"I'd be a God Damned fool to live anywhere else."
whereupon/ˈhwɛɹəˈpɑn/bunun üzerinekitapta 8 kez
The butler came back and murmured something close to Tom's ear whereupon Tom frowned, pushed back his chair and without a word went inside.
incredulous/ˌɪnˈkɹɛdʒəɫəs/inanmazkitapta 8 kez
Her host looked at her incredulously.
politely/pəˈɫaɪtɫi/kibarcakitapta 8 kez
He turned me around again, politely and abruptly.
yacht/ˈjɑt/yatkitapta 8 kez
A large photograph of an elderly man in yachting costume attracted me, hung on the wall over his desk.
groan/ˈɡɹoʊn/inlemek, inilti, inlemekitapta 8 kez
I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall.
supper/ˈsəpɝ/akşam yemeğikitapta 8 kez
Tom rang for the janitor and sent him for some celebrated sandwiches, which were a complete supper in themselves.
cocktail/ˈkɑkˌteɪɫ/kokteylkitapta 8 kez
"No, thanks," said Miss Baker to the four cocktails just in from the pantry, "I'm absolutely in training."
conceal/kənˈsiɫ/gizlemekkitapta 8 kez
She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
mutter/ˈmətɝ/homurdanma, homurtu, mırıldanmakitapta 8 kez
… at least I had him for a few days until he ran away, and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.
impatiently/ˌɪmˈpeɪʃəntɫi/sabırsızcakitapta 7 kez
What was that word we—" "Well, these books are all scientific," insisted Tom, glancing at her impatiently.
solemn/ˈsɑɫəm/ciddi, vahimkitapta 7 kez
I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the "Yale News"—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man."
cheerful/ˈtʃɪɹfəɫ/neşelikitapta 7 kez
Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay.
restless/ˈɹɛstɫəs/huzursuzkitapta 7 kez
I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came back restless.
whiskey/ˈhwɪski/viskikitapta 7 kez
Meanwhile Tom brought out a bottle of whiskey from a locked bureau door.
scarcely/ˈskɛɹsɫi/neredeyse hiçkitapta 7 kez
And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.
goodbye/ˌɡʊdˈbaɪ/güle güle, görüşürüz, Allah'a ısmarladıkkitapta 7 kez
He was saying some last word to her but the eagerness in his manner tightened abruptly into formality as several people approached him to say goodbye.
overhead/ˈoʊvɝˈhɛd/başdan yukarıda, havada, yukarıdakitapta 7 kez
They are not perfect ovals—like the egg in the Columbus story they are both crushed flat at the contact end—but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead.
champagne/ʃæmˈpeɪn/şampanyakitapta 7 kez
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
orchestra/ˈɔɹkəstɹə/orkestrakitapta 7 kez
By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived—no thin five-piece affair but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums.
frown/ˈfɹaʊn/kaşlarını çatmakkitapta 7 kez
objected Daisy, frowning.
fantastic/fænˈtæstɪk/hayalikitapta 7 kez
This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort …
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