Kimin Cesedi?: okumadan önce öğrenilecek 40 kelime
Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel
Dorothy L. Sayers, «Kimin Cesedi?» 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.
lord/ˈɫɔɹd/beyefendi, toyunkitapta 75 kez
“Her Grace has just called up from Denver, my lord.
lordship/ˈɫɔɹdʃɪp/lord hazretlerikitapta 45 kez
“I believe that’s his lordship just coming in again—if your Grace would kindly hold the line a moment.”
till/ˈtɪɫ/kadarkitapta 36 kez
“Inspector Sugg said nothing was to be touched till his men came in to move it.
inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/sormakkitapta 24 kez
“I didn’t hear Inspector Sugg inquire,” he said, with some agitation.
workhouseyoksullar evikitapta 18 kez
Died workhouse Monday.
taxi/ˈtæksi/taksikitapta 18 kez
The taxi man, irritated at receiving this appeal while negotiating the intricacies of turning into Lower Regent Street across the route of a 19 ’bus …
dissect/daɪˈsɛkt/teşrih etmekkitapta 17 kez
thought one of the young medical gentlemen at the hospital might have brought the corpse round for a joke, as you might say, they always having bodies in the dissecting-room.
deceased/dɪˈsist/merhumkitapta 15 kez
He had never seen the deceased before.
corpse/ˈkɔɹps/ceset, naaşkitapta 13 kez
—if the Church of Rome went to pot or Switzerland invaded Italy—whereas a strange corpse doesn’t turn up in a suburban bathroom more than once in a lifetime—at least, I should think not—at any rate …
beard/ˈbɪɹd/sakalkitapta 13 kez
Oddly enough, though, he would be really extraordinarily like Sir Reuben if he had a beard, and as Lady Levy
inquest/ˈɪnˌkwɛst/sorgukitapta 12 kez
“I see they adjourned the inquest,” said Parker presently.
awfully/ˈɑfɫi/çokkitapta 12 kez
Well, thanks awfully for tellin’ me.
oblige/əˈbɫaɪdʒ/zorunlu kılmakkitapta 12 kez
Noblesse oblige—for a consideration.
umbrella/ˈəmˌbɹɛɫə/şemsiye, güncekkitapta 12 kez
He walked upstairs, leaving his greatcoat on the hall peg and his umbrella in the stand—you remember how it rained last night.
downstairs/ˈdaʊnˈstɛɹz/aşağıkitapta 12 kez
… and seeing that it was already a quarter to three, ran briskly downstairs, and …
pauper/ˈpɔpɝ/düşkün, fukarakitapta 11 kez
“Then the man was a pauper from the workhouse?”
brandy/ˈbɹændi/konyakkitapta 11 kez
… and I get that sinking feeling sometimes in the morning, and what with one thing and another I ’ad—had to send the girl for a stiff brandy, or I don’t know what mightn’t have happened.
respectable/ɹiˈspɛktəbəɫ/saygıdeğer, saygınkitapta 11 kez
He’s such a respectable little man—and having the police in the house and so on, really worried him.”
murmur/ˈmɝmɝ/homurdanma, homurtu, mırıldanmakitapta 11 kez
“That’s all, I think,” he murmured to himself.
afterwards/ˈæftɝwɝdz/sonra, sonraları, daha sonrakitapta 11 kez
“I’ll tell you afterwards.
waiter/ˈweɪtɝ/garsonkitapta 11 kez
inquired the waiter of the Honourable Freddy.
rubber/ˈɹəbɝ/kauçukkitapta 11 kez
I say, Parker, I suppose yours are rubber-soled.
fool/ˈfuɫ/salak, ahmak, aptalkitapta 11 kez
a bally fool all the time.
cheerfully/ˈtʃɪɹfəɫi/neşeylekitapta 10 kez
“Very wise of you,” said Lord Peter, cheerfully.
devil/ˈdɛvəɫ/şeytan, İbliskitapta 10 kez
But as a matter of fact, the man in the bath is no more Sir Reuben Levy than Adolf Beck, poor devil, was John Smith.
ladder/ˈɫædɝ/merdivenkitapta 10 kez
There were no ladder marks or footmarks in the yard; the yard was paved with asphalt.
mysterious/mɪˈstɪɹiəs/gizemli, esrarlıkitapta 10 kez
… cheque-book, and—most mysterious and important of all—his spectacles, without which he can’t see a step …
recognise/ˈɹɛkəɡˌnaɪz/tanınmakkitapta 9 kez
The little book off the night table, my lord, has only the marks of one set of fingers—there’s a little scar on the right thumb which makes them easy recognised.
cistern/ˈsɪstɝn/rezervuarkitapta 9 kez
Me and my wife sleep next to the cistern-room.
eyeglass/ˈaɪˌɡɫæs/gözlükkitapta 9 kez
… too, except for a pair of eyeglasses, I assure you …
valet/væˈɫeɪ/uşakkitapta 9 kez
The valet, cook, parlourmaid, housemaid and kitchenmaid were the only people in the house, and naturally wasted an hour or two squawking and gossiping.
jolly/ˈdʒɑɫi/pekâlâkitapta 9 kez
Gin a body jolly well knows who murdered a body
railway/ˈɹeɪɫˌweɪ/demir yolu, şimendiferkitapta 9 kez
He’s afraid those railway people will get in now, and then it’ll be all U.
groan/ˈɡɹoʊn/inlemek, inilti, inlemekitapta 9 kez
“Any amount,” replied Mr. Bunter, with a groan calculated to appeal to Mr. Graves’s heart and unlock his confidence.
advertisement/ˌædvɝˈtaɪzmənt/reklam, ilan, duyurukitapta 9 kez
“I’ve just put an advertisement in the Times about it,” said Lord Peter.
distress/dɪˈstɹɛs/bun, kaygı, sıkıntıkitapta 9 kez
… always living very retired, and it’s most distressing to a man of regular habits, my lord …
sensation/sɛnˈseɪʃən/sansasyonkitapta 9 kez
To go in for cheap sensations
uncommonly/ˌənˈkɑmənɫi/son derecekitapta 8 kez
“I’m sure it must have been uncommonly distressin’,” said Lord Peter, sympathetically, “especially comin’ like that before breakfast.
beastly/ˈbistˌɫi/berbatkitapta 8 kez
What a beastly foggy night, ain’t it?
linoleum/ɫəˈnoʊɫiəm/linolyumkitapta 8 kez
Her visitor placed on the table a basket, containing a water-bottle, a silver-backed hair-brush, a pair of boots, a small roll of linoleum, and the “Letters of a Self-made
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