读《绿山墙的安妮》前要掌握的40个英文单词
Anne of Green Gables
露西·莫德·蒙哥马利在《绿山墙的安妮》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。
splendid/ˈspɫɛndɪd/光亮的, 了不起的, 灿烂的书中出现47次
Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?
brook/ˈbɹʊk/小溪书中出现40次
Thomas Lynde—a meek little man whom Avonlea people called “Rachel Lynde’s husband”—was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn; and Matthew Cuthbert ought to have been sowing his on the big red brook field away over by Green Gables.
asylum/əˈsaɪɫəm/庇护, 收容所书中出现38次
We’re getting a little boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia and he’s coming on the train tonight.”
gable/ˈɡeɪbəɫ/山形墙, 人字板书中出现36次
But the spare room was out of the question for such a stray waif, so there remained only the east gable room.
picnic/ˈpɪkˌnɪk/野餐, 远足, 愉快的经历书中出现35次
He felt as he had once felt in his rash youth when another boy had enticed him on the merry-go-round at a picnic.
brooch/ˈbɹoʊtʃ/胸针, 领针书中出现34次
Marilla wore her amethyst brooch to church that day as usual.
thrill/ˈθɹɪɫ/震颤, 激动, 刺激性书中出现34次
I know because of the thrill.
orphan/ˈɔɹfən/孤儿书中出现30次
… of course,” said Marilla, as if getting boys from orphan asylums in Nova Scotia were part of the usual spring work on any well-regulated Avonlea farm instead of being an unheard of innovation.
lane/ˈɫeɪn/小路, 巷, 弄书中出现29次
To be sure, the long lane made it a good deal further.
wicked/ˈwɪkəd/坏的, 邪恶的, 缺德的书中出现28次
Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked.
delight/dɪˈɫaɪt/感到高兴书中出现28次
You don’t know how delighted I was.
dreadful/ˈdɹɛdfəɫ/可怕的书中出现27次
I guess that’s why I’m so thin—I am dreadful thin, ain’t I?
orchard/ˈɔɹtʃɝd/果园, 果树林书中出现27次
The sun was coming in at the window warm and bright; the orchard on the slope below the house was in a bridal flush of pinky-white bloom, hummed over by a myriad of bees.
temper/ˈtɛmpɝ/硬度, 脾气, 心情书中出现26次
“A terrible worker and driver,” Mrs. Peter was said to be; and discharged servant girls told fearsome tales of her temper and stinginess, and her family of pert, quarrelsome children.
recite/ɹəˈsaɪt/背诵, 朗读, 叙述书中出现26次
Then all the other little girls recited a paraphrase.
spare/ˈspɛɹ/节约, 省用, 剩下书中出现25次
… however, was spared the ordeal of speaking first, for as soon as she concluded that he was coming to her she stood up …
puff/ˈpəf/喷出, 张开, 吹捧书中出现24次
“But I’d be ever so much gratefuller if—if you’d made just one of them with puffed sleeves.
pity/ˈpɪti/同情, 怜悯书中出现23次
My, but I pity him, that’s what.”
blossom/ˈbɫɑsəm/开花, 兴旺, 发展书中出现23次
At last they lingered on one away to the left, far back from the road, dimly white with blossoming trees in the twilight of the surrounding woods.
spell/ˈspɛɫ/拼写, 拼成, 琢磨书中出现23次
But if you call me Anne please call me Anne spelled with an E.”
anyhow/ˈɛniˌhaʊ/无论如何, 至少书中出现22次
She couldn’t be left at Bright River anyhow, no matter what mistake had been made …
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/大叫, 呼喊, 大声叫书中出现21次
“Dear, dear,” she exclaimed, “you’re the last folks I was looking for today, but I’m real glad to see you.
clasp/ˈkɫæsp/扣紧, 紧握书中出现20次
She leaned back in the buggy, her thin hands clasped before her, her face lifted rapturously to the white splendor above.
awfully/ˈɑfɫi/恶劣地, 非常地, 极端地书中出现20次
“It sounds awfully disrespectful to just say Marilla,” protested Anne.
geometry/dʒiˈɑmətɹi/几何学书中出现20次
By the end of the term Anne and Gilbert were both promoted into the fifth class and allowed to begin studying the elements of “the branches”—by which Latin, geometry, French …
twilight/ˈtwaɪˌɫaɪt/暮光, 曙光, 黎明书中出现20次
Below the boughs the air was full of a purple twilight and far ahead a glimpse of painted sunset sky shone like a great rose window at the end of a cathedral aisle.
gasp/ˈɡæsp/气喘吁吁地说书中出现20次
“Spelled with an E,” gasped Anne, who, tremulous and excited as she was, was determined there should be no misunderstanding on that important point.
cherry/ˈtʃɛɹi/樱桃, 樱桃树, 樱桃色书中出现20次
… but the east one, whence you got a glimpse of the bloom white cherry-trees in the left orchard and nodding, slender birches down in the hollow by the brook …
lily/ˈɫɪɫi/百合, 百合花书中出现19次
I think it must have had honeysuckle over the parlor window and lilacs in the front yard and lilies of the valley just inside the gate.
fairy/ˈfɛɹi/仙女, 精灵书中出现19次
And then Katie Maurice would have taken me by the hand and led me out into a wonderful place, all flowers and sunshine and fairies, and we would have lived there happy for ever after.
hollow/ˈhɑɫoʊ/洞, 窟窿, 山谷书中出现18次
… knitting “cotton warp” quilts—she had knitted sixteen of them, as Avonlea housekeepers were wont to tell in awed voices—and keeping a sharp eye on the main road that crossed the hollow and wound up the steep red hill beyond.
cordial/ˈkɔɹdʒəɫ/兴奋剂, 补品书中出现17次
But there’s a bottle half full of raspberry cordial that was left over from the church social the other night.
ambition/æmˈbɪʃən/野心, 志向书中出现17次
That is the height of their ambition.
bough/ˈbaʊ/大树枝书中出现16次
A huge cherry-tree grew outside, so close that its boughs tapped against the house, and it was so thick-set with blossoms that hardly a leaf was to be seen.
spruce/ˈspɹus/云杉书中出现16次
Beyond it was a hill, green and feathery with spruce and fir; there was a gap in it where the gray gable end of the little house she had seen from the other side of the Lake of Shining Waters was visible.
birch/ˈbɝtʃ/桦树, 桦木, 桦条书中出现16次
… whence you got a glimpse of the bloom white cherry-trees in the left orchard and nodding, slender birches down in the hollow by the brook, was greened over by a tangle of vines.
fir/ˈfɝ/枞树, 杉木书中出现16次
On the right hand, scrub firs, their spirits quite unbroken by long years of tussle with the gulf winds, grew thickly.
raspberry/ˈɹæzˌbɛɹi/悬钩子, 呸声书中出现16次
… toothsome, raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls how many bites each girl would have.
delightful/dɪˈɫaɪtfəɫ/令人愉快的, 可爱的书中出现16次
It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?
sensible/ˈsɛnsəbəɫ/有感觉的, 敏感的, 明智的书中出现16次
I’d ruther Jane or Mary or some sensible name like that.
释义：ECDICT, English to Chinese (MIT) 音标：ipa-dict（MIT），来自维基词典。
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