Orman Kitabı: okumadan önce öğrenilecek 40 kelime
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling, «Orman Kitabı» 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.
elephant/ˈɛɫəfənt/filkitapta 131 kez
The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches.
jungle/ˈdʒəŋɡəɫ/cengelkitapta 101 kez
… because Tabaqui, more than anyone else in the jungle, is apt to go mad …
seal/ˈsiɫ/fokkitapta 94 kez
Nobody comes to Novastoshnah except on business, and the only people who have regular business there are the seals.
thou/ˈðaʊ/senkitapta 89 kez
… or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle …
thee/ˈði/sanakitapta 76 kez
He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs—frog-eater—fish-killer—he shall hunt thee!
till/ˈtɪɫ/kadarkitapta 71 kez
For loosed till dawn are we.
monkey/ˈməŋki/maymunkitapta 46 kez
We do not drink where the monkeys drink; we do not go where the monkeys go; we do not hunt where they hunt; we do not die where they die.
wolves/ˈwʊɫvz/kurtlarkitapta 39 kez
“Good luck go with you, O chief of the wolves.”
herd/ˈhɝd/sürükitapta 38 kez
The herds are shut in byre and hut
wolf/ˈwʊɫf/kurt, börükitapta 38 kez
“For a wolf, no,” said Tabaqui, “but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast.
mule/ˈmjuɫ/katırkitapta 37 kez
Just as I was getting ready to go to sleep I heard a jingle of harness and a grunt, and a mule passed me shaking his wet ears.
tiger/ˈtaɪɡɝ/kaplankitapta 36 kez
Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
camel/ˈkæməɫ/deve, hecinkitapta 33 kez
Thorn for the camel, fodder for the kine,
buffalo/ˈbəfəˌɫoʊ/bufalo, mandakitapta 33 kez
Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path; for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant.
bull/ˈbʊɫ/boğakitapta 32 kez
By the bull that I killed, am I to stand nosing into your dog’s den for my fair dues?
bullock/ˈbʊɫək/genç boğa tosunkitapta 31 kez
Does he think that our buck are like his fat Waingunga bullocks?”
cub/ˈkəb/yavrukitapta 30 kez
Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived.
beast/ˈbist/hayvan, canavarkitapta 29 kez
… which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/milkitapta 25 kez
Shere Khan was the tiger who lived near the Waingunga River, twenty miles away.
ravine/ɹəˈvin/kanyon, vadikitapta 22 kez
When he comes back wait for me in the ravine by the dhâk tree in the center of the plain.
roar/ˈɹɔɹ/kükremekitapta 21 kez
The tiger’s roar filled the cave with thunder.
cobra/ˈkoʊbɹə/kobra, gözlüklü yılankitapta 20 kez
said half a dozen low voices (every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summerhouse was alive with cobras).
mongoose/ˈmɑŋɡus/kuyruksüren, firavun faresikitapta 20 kez
He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits.
grunt/ˈɡɹənt/homurdanma, homurtukitapta 18 kez
“The fool has had no more sense than to jump at a woodcutter’s campfire, and has burned his feet,” said Father Wolf with a grunt.
flipper/ˈfɫɪpɝ/yüzgeçkitapta 17 kez
When he heaved himself up on his front flippers he stood more than four feet clear of the ground, and his weight …
trumpet/ˈtɹəmpət/trompet, trampetkitapta 16 kez
And as soon as there was a lull you could hear his high-pitched yells of encouragement to Kala Nag, above the trumpeting and crashing, and snapping of ropes …
foolish/ˈfuɫɪʃ/ahmak, akılsız, angutkitapta 16 kez
Baloo knows it; I know it; the Pack know it; and even the foolish, foolish deer know.
nursery/ˈnɝsɝi/yuvakitapta 16 kez
He only wanted room by the sea for his nursery.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/korkutmakkitapta 16 kez
He will frighten every head of game within ten miles, and I—I have to kill for two, these days.”
scratch/ˈskɹætʃ/çizmek, kaşımakkitapta 16 kez
It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned …
hind/ˈhaɪnd/maralkitapta 15 kez
… old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey—rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.
howl/ˈhaʊɫ/uluma, iniltikitapta 15 kez
Then there was a howl—an untigerish howl—from Shere Khan.
picket/ˈpɪkɪt/direkkitapta 14 kez
I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake.
graze/ˈɡɹeɪz/otlamak, çayırlamakkitapta 14 kez
At one end stood a little village, and at the other the thick jungle came down in a sweep to the grazing-grounds, and stopped there as though it had been cut off with a hoe.
frog/ˈfɹɑɡ/kurbağakitapta 14 kez
Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat Man, and on our ground too!”
tusk/ˈtəsk/dişkitapta 13 kez
… fat-necked, long-tusked walrus of the North Pacific, who has no manners except when he is asleep—as he was then …
snort/ˈsnɔɹt/burnundan solumakitapta 13 kez
There he checked, for he heard the yell of the Pack hunting, heard the bellow of a hunted Sambhur, and the snort as the buck turned at bay.
obey/oʊˈbeɪ/itaat etmekkitapta 13 kez
Mowgli obeyed faithfully.
mile/ˈmaɪɫ/milkitapta 12 kez
Now to Baloo’s word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed, not half a mile from here, if ye will accept the man’s cub according to the Law.
yoke/ˈjoʊk/boyundurukkitapta 12 kez
I heard a chain dragging along the ground, and a yoke of the great sulky white bullocks that drag the heavy siege guns when the elephants won’t go any nearer to the firing, came shouldering along together.
Anlamlar: WikDict, English to Turkish (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Telaffuz: ipa-dict (MIT), Vikisözlük verisinden.
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