Otuz Dokuz Basamak: okumadan önce öğrenilecek 40 kelime
The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan, «Otuz Dokuz Basamak» 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.
till/ˈtɪɫ/yazar kasakitapta 43 kez
I watched from my window till I saw you come home, and then slipped down the stair to meet you....
glen/ˈɡɫɛn/çukurkitapta 25 kez
We rumbled slowly into a land of little wooded glens and then to a great wide moorland place, gleaming with lochs, with high blue hills showing northwards.
moor/ˈmʊɹ/kırkitapta 22 kez
A child of ten received my ticket, and I emerged on a white road that straggled over the brown moor.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/milkitapta 17 kez
Not tonight, for they’ll follow me forty miles along the road, but first thing tomorrow morning.
moorland/ˈmʊɹˌɫænd/kırlık bölgekitapta 16 kez
A brown-faced woman was standing by the door, and greeted me with the kindly shyness of moorland places.
heather/ˈhɛðɝ/süpürge otu, süpürge çalısıkitapta 16 kez
By-and-by I came to a swell of moorland which dipped to the vale of a little river, and a mile away in the heather I saw the smoke of a train.
fool/ˈfuɫ/salak, ahmak, aptalkitapta 16 kez
I found that out—not that it was difficult, for any fool could guess as much.
chap/ˈtʃæp/adamkitapta 15 kez
I rather fancied the chap.
reckon/ˈɹɛkən/sanmak, düşünmekkitapta 15 kez
Say, sir, I’ve been watching you, and I reckon you’re a cool customer.
mile/ˈmaɪɫ/milkitapta 14 kez
There was no plan of campaign in my head, only just to go on and on in this blessed, honest-smelling hill country, for every mile put me in better humour with myself.
herd/ˈhɝd/çobankitapta 14 kez
It was some hours since I had tasted food, and I was getting very hungry when I came to a herd’s cottage set in a nook beside a waterfall.
cottage/ˈkɑtədʒ/evcikkitapta 14 kez
The moor surged up around it and left room only for the single line, the slender siding, a waiting-room, an office, the station-master’s cottage, and a tiny yard of gooseberries and sweet-william.
mill/ˈmɪɫ/değirmenkitapta 14 kez
A small mill-lade ran in a wooden aqueduct at the other side of the yard, and into this I fell.
tide/ˈtaɪd/gelgitkitapta 14 kez
(“Thirty-nine steps”) was the phrase; and at its last time of use it ran—(“Thirty-nine steps, I counted them—high tide 10.17 p.m.”).
roadmanyol bakım işçisikitapta 13 kez
Then in a tiny bight of road, beside a heap of stones, I found the roadman.
ridge/ˈɹɪdʒ/sırtkitapta 13 kez
Over a long ridge of moorland I took my road, skirting the side of a high hill which the herd had called Cairnsmore of Fleet.
collar/ˈkɑɫɝ/yakakitapta 13 kez
I hunted out a well-used tweed suit, a pair of strong nailed boots, and a flannel shirt with a collar.
queer/ˈkwɪɹ/tuhaf, acayipkitapta 12 kez
He seemed to brace himself for a great effort, and then started on the queerest rigmarole.
butler/ˈbətɫɝ/kahyakitapta 12 kez
The back door stood open, and a grave butler was awaiting me.
clever/ˈkɫɛvɝ/akıllı, zeki, afacankitapta 12 kez
A clever man can make big profits on a falling market, and it suited the book of both classes to set Europe by the ears.
milkman/ˈmɪɫkˌmæn/sütçükitapta 11 kez
But about twenty minutes to seven, as I knew from bitter experience, the milkman turned up with a great clatter of cans, and deposited my share outside my door.
aeroplaneuçakkitapta 11 kez
I was as certain as if I had been told that that aeroplane was looking for me, and that it did not belong to the police.
whistle/ˈhwɪsəɫ/ıslık çalmakkitapta 11 kez
I opened the front door, and there was my man, singling out my cans from a bunch he carried and whistling through his teeth.
murderer/ˈmɝdɝɝ/katilkitapta 11 kez
… for, unless the murderer came back, I had till about six o’clock in the morning for my cogitations.
cliff/ˈkɫɪf/dikey kaya yüzü uçurum, yar, falezkitapta 11 kez
I think it’s a piece of open coast with biggish cliffs, somewhere between the Wash and the Channel.
din/ˈdɪn/yemek odasıkitapta 10 kez
… even the pockets of the clothes in my wardrobe, and the sideboard in the dining-room.
yarn/ˈjɑɹn/hikaye, masalkitapta 10 kez
“Get on with your yarn,” I said, “and I’ll tell you.”
plump/ˈpɫəmp/balıketli, besili, dolgunkitapta 10 kez
two plump thrushes had blundered into it.
cigar/sɪˈɡɑɹ/puro, sigarakitapta 10 kez
I left him with the newspaper and a box of cigars, and went down to the City till luncheon.
policeman/pəˈɫismən/poliskitapta 10 kez
Then I caught sight of a policeman a hundred yards down, and a loafer shuffling past on the other side.
puzzle/ˈpəzəɫ/şaşırtmak, hayrete düşürmekkitapta 10 kez
He told me some queer things that explained a lot that had puzzled me—things that happened in the Balkan War, how one state suddenly came out on top …
whisky/ˈhwɪski/viskikitapta 9 kez
There was a tray of drinks on a table beside him, from which he filled himself a stiff whisky-and-soda.
harbour/ˈhɑɹbɝ/limankitapta 9 kez
If it was a harbour it must be some little place where the tide mattered, or else it was a heavy-draught boat.
occupant/ˈɑkjəpənt/oturmankitapta 9 kez
I recognized him as the occupant of a flat on the top floor, with whom I had passed the time of day on the stairs.
presently/ˈpɹɛzəntɫi/yakındakitapta 9 kez
“Not Mr Scudder,” he corrected; “Captain Theophilus Digby, of the 40th Gurkhas, presently home on leave.
descend/dɪˈsɛnd/alçalmak, inmekkitapta 9 kez
The potato-digging station-master had been gingered up into some activity, for the west-going train was waiting to let us pass, and from it had descended three men who were asking him questions.
grey/ˈɡɹeɪ/bozkitapta 8 kez
There seemed no road to it from anywhere, and to increase the desolation the waves of a tarn lapped on their grey granite beach half a mile away.
innkeeper/ˈɪnˌkipɝ/hancı, meyhanecikitapta 8 kez
“You’re young to be an innkeeper,” I said.
dovecotgüvercinlikkitapta 8 kez
From another window I saw that on the far side of the mill stood an old stone dovecot.
villa/ˈvɪɫə/villa, kasır, köşkkitapta 8 kez
I walked back through fields and lines of villas and terraces and then slums and mean streets, and it took me pretty nearly two hours.
Anlamlar: WikDict, English to Turkish (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Telaffuz: ipa-dict (MIT), Vikisözlük verisinden.
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