Doktor Dolittle'in Öyküsü: okumadan önce öğrenilecek 40 kelime
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Hugh Lofting, «Doktor Dolittle'in Öyküsü» 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.
monkey/ˈməŋki/oynamakkitapta 58 kez
And when that red-faced booby started to monkey with me, I just couldn’t bear it any more.”
parrot/ˈpɛɹət/papağan, dudukitapta 35 kez
But his favorite pets were Dab-Dab the duck, Jip the dog, Gub-Gub the baby pig, Polynesia the parrot, and the owl Too-Too.
sail/ˈseɪɫ/açılmak, denize açılmakkitapta 27 kez
And I sail the ocean Blue.
till/ˈtɪɫ/kadarkitapta 20 kez
… like the dormice and the water-voles and the bats, they will have to go back and live in the fields where they were born till we come home again.
sailor/ˈseɪɫɝ/denizci, kalyoncu, gemicikitapta 17 kez
The parrot, Polynesia, was sitting in the window looking out at the rain and singing a sailor-song to herself.
jungle/ˈdʒəŋɡəɫ/cengelkitapta 17 kez
I hear footsteps in the jungle!”
snuff/ˈsnəf/burun otu, enfiyekitapta 16 kez
“Snuff, by Jingo!—Black Rappee snuff.
downstairs/ˈdaʊnˈstɛɹz/aşağıkitapta 14 kez
So Polynesia took him downstairs into the inside of the ship and showed him the beds, set all on top of one another like book-shelves against a wall.
crocodile/ˈkɹɑkəˌdaɪɫ/timsahkitapta 13 kez
And another time, when the circus came to Puddleby, the crocodile who had a bad toothache escaped at night and came into the Doctor’s garden.
pirate/ˈpaɪɹət/korsankitapta 12 kez
When they reached the shore they saw the pirate-ship, with the three red sails …
anchor/ˈæŋkɝ/çıpa, demirkitapta 12 kez
And you must have beef in cans—and an anchor.”
shark/ˈʃɑɹk/köpek balığıkitapta 12 kez
“The sharks!
palace/ˈpæɫəs/saray, palaskitapta 11 kez
WHEN they had gone a little way through the thick forest, they came to a wide, clear space; and they saw the King’s palace which was made of mud.
lion/ˈɫaɪən/aslan, arslankitapta 11 kez
So he sent messages to the other animals, like the lions and the leopards and the antelopes, to come and help with the nursing.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/milkitapta 10 kez
… but drove every Saturday all the way to Oxenthorpe, another town ten miles off, to see a different doctor.
terribly/ˈtɛɹəbɫi/çokkitapta 10 kez
One day a plow-horse was brought to him; and the poor thing was terribly glad to find a man who could talk in horse-language.
clever/ˈkɫɛvɝ/akıllı, zeki, afacankitapta 9 kez
And whenever he walked down the street in his high hat everyone would say, “There goes the Doctor!—He’s a clever man.”
drown/ˈdɹaʊn/boğulmakkitapta 9 kez
And then, just at that moment, the old man’s hat came floating by; and I got into it because I did not want to be drowned.”
dreadfully/ˈdɹɛdfəɫi/çokkitapta 8 kez
Oh, sometimes people annoy me dreadfully—such airs they put on—talking about ‘the dumb animals.’
presently/ˈpɹɛzəntɫi/biraz sonrakitapta 8 kez
They all listened; and presently they heard the sound of some one running.
canary/kəˈnɛɹi/kanarya, sarı bülbülkitapta 7 kez
“Don’t you hear the canaries singing?”
seashore/ˈsiˌʃɔɹ/deniz kıyısıkitapta 6 kez
And when they had seen that there was plenty of hay in the loft to last the horse through the Winter, they carried all their luggage down to the seashore and got on to the boat.
leopard/ˈɫɛpɝd/pars, leoparkitapta 6 kez
Then the leopards got proud too and said they wouldn’t help.
circus/ˈsɝkəs/sirkkitapta 6 kez
When the circus-men came to take him back he got so wild and savage that he frightened them away.
prince/ˈpɹɪns/prens, beyrek, şehzadekitapta 6 kez
“If I were only a white prince!”
upstairs/əpˈstɛɹz/yukarıkitapta 6 kez
I want to go upstairs again and see them start.”
fisherman/ˈfɪʃɝˌmæn/balıkçıkitapta 6 kez
But he said he didn’t want to be a pirate, because killing people and stealing was no work for a good fisherman to do.
dungeon/ˈdəndʒən/zindankitapta 5 kez
So six of the black men led the Doctor and all his pets away and shut them up in a stone dungeon.
din/ˈdɪn/gürültükitapta 5 kez
They looked under the mat; they looked under all the carpets; they looked in all the cupboards and drawers and lockers—in the big chests in the ship’s dining-room; they looked everywhere.
roast/ˈɹoʊst/rostokitapta 5 kez
“I smell roast beef cooking,” he mumbled—“underdone roast beef—with brown gravy over it.”
swift/ˈswɪft/hızlıkitapta 5 kez
“They are bad sailors,” said Jip; “and their ship is very swift.
sniff/ˈsnɪf/koklamakkitapta 5 kez
She found Gub-Gub poking his nose through the bars of the window, trying to sniff the cooking-smells that came from the palace-kitchen.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/korkutmakkitapta 5 kez
When she flew down to get it, she found one of the white mice, very frightened, sitting inside it.
unhappy/ənˈhæpi/mutsuzkitapta 5 kez
The Doctor saw at once that the monkey’s collar was too tight and that he was dirty and unhappy.
cliff/ˈkɫɪf/dikey kaya yüzü uçurum, yar, falezkitapta 5 kez
Then they all took shelter in a nice dry cave they found, high up in the cliffs, till the storm was over.
drawer/ˈdɹɔɹ/çekmece, gözkitapta 5 kez
Then he sold his piano, and let the mice live in a bureau-drawer.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/yarınkitapta 4 kez
Just think—it’ll be a hundred and sixty-nine years to-morrow since I was here!
conceited/kənˈsitəd/kendini beğenmişkitapta 4 kez
“They’re just conceited.
stairs/ˈstɛɹz/merdiven, basamakkitapta 4 kez
And she went back up the stairs of the ship, humming this song to herself,
grinder/ˈɡɹaɪndɝ/laterna çalgıcısıkitapta 4 kez
Once when he was sitting on his garden wall, smoking a pipe in the evening, an Italian organ-grinder came round with a monkey on a string.
Anlamlar: WikDict, English to Turkish (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Telaffuz: ipa-dict (MIT), Vikisözlük verisinden.
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