读《双城记》前要掌握的40个英文单词
A Tale of Two Cities
查尔斯·狄更斯在《双城记》中反复使用、又不在英语最常用4000词之内的40个单词。先学会它们，前几章会读得轻松很多。每个单词都附有音标、释义和原书例句。
knit/ˈnɪt/编织, 结合书中出现61次
… white with what they suppressed; nor foreheads knitted into the likeness of the gallows-rope they mused about enduring, or inflicting.
carriage/ˈkæɹɪdʒ/马车, 客车, 举止书中出现51次
Say, shall I hire a carriage and post-horses?”
mender修缮者, 修理者, 修改者书中出现48次
… as the like of himself had drooped before Monseigneur of the Court—only the difference was, that these faces drooped merely to suffer and not to propitiate—when a grizzled mender of the roads joined the group.
fountain/ˈfaʊntən/水源, 源, 喷泉书中出现42次
At last, swooping at a street corner by a fountain, one of its wheels came to a sickening little jolt …
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/次日书中出现37次
… the iron gates were being closed with a jar and a rattle, and the dismal place was deserted until to-morrow morning’s interest of gallows, pillory …
courtyard/ˈkɔɹtˌjɑɹd/庭院, 天井书中出现35次
The doorway of the staircase gives on the little courtyard close to the left here,” pointing with his hand, “near to the window of my establishment.
patriot/ˈpeɪtɹiət/爱国者, 爱国主义者书中出现30次
That, this patriot would be produced before them.
bless/ˈbɫɛs/祝福, 祈佑, 使神圣化书中出现29次
Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster.
honour/ˈɑnɝ/尊敬, 授予荣誉, 承兑书中出现28次
… and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards.
pity/ˈpɪti/遗憾, 同情, 怜悯书中出现26次
As he said the words he looked down, with an admiring pity, on the flowing golden hair; as if he pictured to himself that it might have been already tinged with grey.
afterwards/ˈæftɝwɝdz/然后, 后来书中出现25次
She quickly brought them down and handed them in;—and immediately afterwards leaned against the door-post, knitting, and saw nothing.
stairs/ˈstɛɹz/楼梯书中出现24次
Thus, Monsieur Defarge, in a stern voice, to Mr. Lorry, as they began ascending the stairs.
dreadful/ˈdɹɛdfəɫ/可怕的书中出现24次
The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful.
nephew/ˈnɛfju/侄子, 外甥书中出现24次
“My nephew,” said the Marquis, glancing at the supper preparation; “they said he was not arrived.”
gaoler监狱看守书中出现23次
“You are not the gaoler’s daughter?”
dread/ˈdɹɛd/恐惧, 害怕书中出现23次
… and always going on the side which Mr. Lorry took, as though he dreaded to be asked any question by the young lady, turned himself about here …
staircase/ˈstɛɹˌkeɪs/楼梯, 梯子, 楼梯部分书中出现23次
In the gloomy tile-paved entry to the gloomy tile-paved staircase, Monsieur Defarge bent down on one knee to the child of his old master, and put her hand to his lips.
escort/ˈɛskɔɹt/护卫, 护送书中出现23次
The great bell of Saint Paul’s was striking one in the cleared air, when Mr. Lorry, escorted by Jerry, high-booted and bearing a lantern, set forth on his return-passage to Clerkenwell.
summon/ˈsəmən/召唤, 召集, 号召书中出现22次
“She had laid her head upon my shoulder, that night when I was summoned out—she had a fear of my going, though I had none—and when I was brought to the North Tower they found these upon my sleeve.
favour/ˈfeɪvɝ/好感, 偏爱, 喜爱书中出现21次
… in combination, had read that article of war which forbade a purpose otherwise strongly in favour of the argument, that some brute animals are endued with Reason …
vain/ˈveɪn/无价值的, 徒然的, 空虚的书中出现20次
He had a good leg, and was a little vain of it, for his brown stockings fitted sleek and close …
heap/ˈhip/堆, 许多, 累积书中出现20次
The beach was a desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling wildly about, and the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction.
straw/ˈstɹɔ/稻草, 麦管, 吸管书中出现20次
… he had only to shut himself up inside, keep the flint and steel sparks well off the straw, and get a light with tolerable safety and ease (if he were lucky) in five minutes.
faint/ˈfeɪnt/模糊的, 微弱的, 无力的书中出现20次
A faint voice answered something.
emigrant/ˈɛməɡɹənt/移民, 侨民书中出现19次
… treason against the majesty of the people, in that I have acted against them for an emigrant.
lighted/ˈɫaɪtəd/light的过去式和过去分词书中出现19次
A face habitually suppressed and quieted, was still lighted up under the quaint wig by a pair of moist bright eyes that it must have cost their owner, in years gone by …
weep/ˈwip/哭泣, 流泪, 哀悼书中出现19次
… but I hope it is—if you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears, weep for it, weep for it!
fancy/ˈfænsi/想象, 幻想书中出现19次
After such imaginary discourse, the passenger in his fancy would dig, and dig, dig—now with a spade, now with a great key, now with his hands—to dig this wretched creature out.
tumbril囚车书中出现18次
… Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution.
colour/ˈkəɫɝ/颜色, 面色, 颜料书中出现18次
… being of a surface black, with no depth in the colour or form, and much too near together—as if they were afraid of being found out in something …
bosom/ˈbʊzəm/胸部, 胸, 胸怀书中出现18次
… at once in an auspicious and an evil hour detecting his infamy, had resolved to immolate the traitor he could no longer cherish in his bosom, on the sacred altar of his country.
messenger/ˈmɛsəndʒɝ/报信者, 使者书中出现18次
“I know this messenger, guard,” said Mr. Lorry …
footstep/ˈfʊtˌstɛp/脚步, 脚步声, 足迹书中出现18次
On hearing footsteps close at hand, these three turned, and rose, and showed themselves to be the three of one name who had been drinking in the wine-shop.
softly/ˈsɔfɫi/柔和地, 静静地, 温柔地书中出现18次
softly over the coach roof.
shoemaker/ˈʃuˌmeɪkɝ/鞋店营业员, 皮鞋匠书中出现17次
“I want,” said Defarge, who had not removed his gaze from the shoemaker, “to let in a little more light here.
clasp/ˈkɫæsp/扣紧, 紧握书中出现17次
… in a soothing tone, bringing his left hand from the back of the chair to lay it on the supplicatory fingers that clasped him in so violent a tremble: “pray control your agitation—a matter of business.
darling/ˈdɑɹɫɪŋ/亲爱的, 可爱的人, 可爱的物书中出现17次
… my love, the darling of my soul, is dead …
mist/ˈmɪst/雾, 迷蒙, 朦胧不清书中出现17次
There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none.
cruel/ˈkɹuəɫ/残酷的, 令人极痛苦的书中出现17次
The deepened marks in the nose, and the lengthening of the fine straight lines in the cruel face, looked ominous as to that …
spare/ˈspɛɹ/节约, 省掉, 宽恕书中出现17次
… if the poor lady had suffered so intensely before her little child was born, that she came to the determination of sparing the poor child the inheritance of any part of the agony she had known the pains of, by rearing her in the belief that her father was dead—No …
释义：ECDICT, English to Chinese (MIT) 音标：ipa-dict（MIT），来自维基词典。
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