Dorian Gray'in Portresi: okumadan önce öğrenilecek 40 kelime
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde, «Dorian Gray'in Portresi» 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.
charm/ˈtʃɑɹm/çekicilikkitapta 64 kez
You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
murmur/ˈmɝmɝ/homurdanma, homurtu, mırıldanmakitapta 44 kez
The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine …
dreadful/ˈdɹɛdfəɫ/dehşet verici, dehşetli, korkunçkitapta 43 kez
… there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people …
duchess/ˈdətʃəs/düşeskitapta 32 kez
… much liked by every one who knew her, and of those ample architectural proportions that in women who are not duchesses are described by contemporary historians as stoutness.
hideous/ˈhɪdiəs/cırtlak, dehşetengiz, gudubetkitapta 32 kez
How perfectly hideous they are!
coloured/ˈkəɫɝd/renklikitapta 30 kez
It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
delightful/dɪˈɫaɪtfəɫ/iç açıcıkitapta 29 kez
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful.
fancy/ˈfænsi/hoşlanmakkitapta 29 kez
… and made a little moue of discontent to Lord Henry, to whom he had rather taken a fancy.
exquisite/ˈɛkskwəzət/tarifsizkitapta 26 kez
I had a strange feeling that fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.
monstrous/ˈmɑnstɹəs/canavarcakitapta 25 kez
Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
worship/ˈwɝʃəp/tapmak, ibadet etmek, tapınmakkitapta 23 kez
No wonder Basil Hallward worshipped him.
till/ˈtɪɫ/-e kadarkitapta 23 kez
I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.
romance/ˈɹoʊmæns/romantizmkitapta 23 kez
It is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one’s life.
stain/ˈsteɪn/leke, lekelerkitapta 22 kez
… thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame—”
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/haykırmakkitapta 22 kez
exclaimed Hallward, frowning.
colour/ˈkəɫɝ/renkkitapta 21 kez
Some day you will look at your friend, and he will seem to you to be a little out of drawing, or you won’t like his tone of colour, or something.
theatre/ˈθiətɝ/tiyatrokitapta 19 kez
“Let us go to the theatre to-night,” said Lord Henry.
scarlet/ˈskɑɹɫət/kızılkitapta 18 kez
Yes, he was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair.
shudder/ˈʃədɝ/ürpermekkitapta 18 kez
It makes me shudder when I hear it.
sorrow/ˈsɑɹoʊ/keder, üzüntükitapta 18 kez
… whose joys seem to be remote from one, but whose sorrows stir one’s sense of beauty, and whose wounds are like red roses.
frown/ˈfɹaʊn/kaşlarını çatmakkitapta 18 kez
asked Hallward, with a slight frown.
marvellous/ˈmɑɹvəɫəs/olağanüstükitapta 17 kez
It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us.
pity/ˈpɪti/acıma, merhamet, şefkatkitapta 17 kez
It will be a great pity, for it will alter you.
mutter/ˈmətɝ/homurdanma, homurtu, mırıldanmakitapta 17 kez
“You should have gone away when I asked you,” he muttered.
horrid/ˈhɔɹəd/korkunçkitapta 16 kez
The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.
horribly/ˈhɔɹəbɫi/berbatçakitapta 16 kez
“How horribly unjust of you!”
poison/ˈpɔɪzən/zehirlemekkitapta 16 kez
Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.
tremble/ˈtɹɛmbəɫ/titremek, ürpermekkitapta 16 kez
His finely chiselled nostrils quivered, and some hidden nerve shook the scarlet of his lips and left them trembling.
fantastic/fænˈtæstɪk/harikakitapta 16 kez
He was brilliant, fantastic, irresponsible.
silly/ˈsɪɫi/aptal, safkitapta 16 kez
It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
vulgar/ˈvəɫɡɝ/kabakitapta 15 kez
The Academy is too large and too vulgar.
spoil/ˈspɔɪɫ/şımartmak, üzerine titremekkitapta 15 kez
Don’t spoil him.
jewel/ˈdʒuəɫ/cevher, değerli taş, mücevherkitapta 15 kez
The waving of crooked, false-jewelled fingers gave grotesqueness to the words.
absurd/əbˈsɝd/abes, saçma, absürtkitapta 15 kez
When we meet—we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke’s—we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces.
dull/ˈdəɫ/sıkıcıkitapta 15 kez
You never open your lips while you are painting, and it is horribly dull standing on a platform and trying to look pleasant.
terribly/ˈtɛɹəbɫi/korkunç derecedekitapta 15 kez
… Dorian Gray’s good looks—we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.”
upstairs/əpˈstɛɹz/yukarıdakitapta 15 kez
One could hear her singing as she ran upstairs.
shallow/ˈʃæɫoʊ/sığkitapta 15 kez
But the world might guess it, and I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes.
gilt/ˈɡɪɫt/yaldızlıkitapta 14 kez
The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive.
fascinating/ˈfæsəˌneɪtɪŋ/büyüleyici, etkileyici, hayran bırakankitapta 14 kez
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so …
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