Yaşlı Hanım Uçuyor: okumadan önce öğrenilecek 24 kelime
The Old Lady flies
Raoul Whitfield, «Yaşlı Hanım Uçuyor» kitabında bu 24 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.
grin/ˈɡɹɪn/sırıtmakkitapta 9 kez
He grinned, and so did we.
stunt/ˈstənt/marifet, numarakitapta 8 kez
He’d joy-hopped her, taken a chance on air advertising, smoke writing, stunting.
sore/ˈsɔɹ/kızmakkitapta 7 kez
I saw then that Brooks was getting sore.
cheerfully/ˈtʃɪɹfəɫi/neşeylekitapta 6 kez
It isn’t easy to crash a ship, and get away cheerfully.
wreck/ˈɹɛk/enkazkitapta 5 kez
You don’t expect me to let a new plane drop—and hang on to a rambling wreck?
groan/ˈɡɹoʊn/inlemek, inilti, inlemekitapta 5 kez
I groaned.
cockpit/ˈkɑkˌpɪt/kokpitkitapta 5 kez
Charlie Ryan crashed on a landing, and both he and his mechanic, riding in the rear cockpit, were badly smashed up.
outfit/ˈaʊtˌfɪt/birlik, ekipkitapta 5 kez
“You’re cutting loose the most popular guy in the outfit—and just because he sticks by his old bus.”
throttle/ˈθɹɑtəɫ/gazkitapta 4 kez
We both climbed up on a wing as Russ Healy cut the throttle and eliminated most of the exhaust roar.
glare/ˈɡɫɛɹ/öfkeyle bakmakkitapta 4 kez
Bob Brooks glared at Russ.
prop/ˈpɹɑp/pervanekitapta 4 kez
Just an old lady, that was all she was—an old lady, still turning a prop and taking the air, but pretty far out of date.
loop/ˈɫup/döngükitapta 4 kez
“Well, I’ll just take her up there now—and loop you ragged, and then I’ll come down in the tightest spin——”
rear/ˈɹɪɹ/arkakitapta 4 kez
Bob Brooks was already seated in the rear cockpit.
hangar/ˈhæŋɝ/hangarkitapta 3 kez
He could store that ship up at Al Garvin’s hangar.
dummy/ˈdəmi/sahtekitapta 3 kez
Probably they were rigging up a couple of dummy guns, or trying to make her look like a D.H.
flyer/ˈfɫaɪɝ/pilotkitapta 3 kez
But Russ was that rare sort of creature—a flyer who was sentimental.
rig/ˈɹɪɡ/donatmakkitapta 3 kez
But her flying wires were right; she was rigged properly for the air.
dove/ˈdəv/dalmakkitapta 3 kez
A screaming, wire-whistling shape dove past the D.H.
bust/ˈbəst/kırmak, bozmakkitapta 3 kez
Russ would be sore, furious—when we flew in and busted things up.
chuckle/ˈtʃəkəɫ/gevrek gevrek gülmekkitapta 3 kez
I chuckled.
taxi/ˈtæksi/taksi yapmakkitapta 3 kez
Then we climbed the five ships, and taxied out.
frown/ˈfɹaʊn/kaşlarını çatmakkitapta 3 kez
Bob Brooks frowned.
exhaust/ɪɡˈzɔst/egzozkitapta 3 kez
An exhaust roar cut me short.
softly/ˈsɔfɫi/alçak seslekitapta 3 kez
I swore softly.
Anlamlar: WikDict, English to Turkish (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Telaffuz: ipa-dict (MIT), Vikisözlük verisinden.
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