读《卡门》前要掌握的40个英文单词
Carmen
普罗斯佩·梅里美在《卡门》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。
gipsy流浪书中出现75次
You must see I’m a gipsy!
cigar/sɪˈɡɑɹ/雪茄书中出现14次
At the same time I pulled out my cigar-case.
blunderbuss老式的大口径短枪, 蠢才书中出现13次
In the other he held a brass blunderbuss.
mantilla/mænˈtɪɫə/花边披肩头纱, 披风书中出现11次
When she drew near me, the woman let the mantilla which had covered her head drop on her shoulders, and “by the dim light falling from the stars” I perceived her to be young …
recognise/ˈɹɛkəɡˌnaɪz/认识, 辩认, 认出书中出现9次
I sat upright, and then I thought I recognised Antonio.
bull/ˈbʊɫ/公牛书中出现9次
“While I was hiding at Granada there were bull-fights there, to which Carmen went.
brigand土匪, 强盗书中出现8次
I had no doubt at all I was in the company of a smuggler, and possibly of a brigand.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/次日书中出现8次
So he’s to be garrotted the day after to-morrow, without fail.* So you see one theft more or less won’t affect his position.
dialect/ˈdaɪəˌɫɛkt/方言, 同源语书中出现8次
In every Romany dialect a number of Greek words appear.
smuggler/ˈsməɡəɫɝ/走私者, 走私船书中出现8次
The masons were working at it in the daytime, and at night a sentinel was posted on it, to prevent smugglers from getting in.
comrade/ˈkɑmˌɹæd/同志, 伙伴书中出现8次
Like him, perchance, my comrade was musing over the home he had forfeited, the exile he had earned, by some misdeed.
inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/询问, 问明, 查究书中出现8次
So I bestowed a friendly nod on the man with the blunderbuss, and inquired, with a smile, whether I had disturbed his nap.
fancy/ˈfænsi/想象, 设想, 相信书中出现8次
In the stable, I fancy.
devil/ˈdɛvəɫ/魔鬼书中出现8次
To-day I’ll go and eat ices with a servant of the devil.
gitana/dʒiˈtænə/吉普赛女子书中出现7次
I then had time to take a leisurely view of my gitana, while several worthy individuals, who were eating their ices, stared open-mouthed at beholding me in such gay company.
till/ˈtɪɫ/直到, 在...以前, 迄书中出现7次
His complexion, which may once have been fine, had been tanned by the sun till it was darker than his hair.
coin/ˈkɔɪn/硬币, 金钱, 货币书中出现7次
Then she bade me cross my left hand with a silver coin, and the magic ceremonies duly began.
traveller/ˈtɹævəɫɝ/旅行者书中出现6次
It was impossible to imagine any more delightful halting place for a traveller.
castanets响板书中出现6次
“The whole party was assembled in the patio, and in spite of the crowd I could see nearly everything that went on through the lattice.* I could hear the castanets and the tambourine, the laughter and applause.
delightful/dɪˈɫaɪtfəɫ/令人愉快的, 可爱的书中出现6次
He did not know the name of the delightful valley in which we were sitting, he could not tell me the names of any of the neighbouring villages …
cloak/ˈkɫoʊk/斗蓬, 大氅, 掩护书中出现6次
Meanwhile I had stretched myself out on the mule rugs, having carefully wrapped myself up in my own cloak, so as to avoid touching them.
sergeant/ˈsɑɹdʒənt/警察小队长, 军士书中出现6次
The old woman, when she was questioned by the sergeant, admitted that she knew Navarro …
acquaintance/əˈkweɪntəns/认识, 相识者书中出现6次
I had yet another motive for prosecuting her acquaintance.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/使惊吓书中出现6次
… because I told them that not all their Seville jacques,** and all their knives, would frighten an honest lad from our country, with his blue cap and his maquila!
seller/ˈsɛɫɝ/销售者书中出现6次
I have been insulted here, because I don’t belong to this land of rogues and sellers of rotten oranges; and those hussies are all banded together against me …
depart/dɪˈpɑɹt/离开, 出发, 背离书中出现6次
That instant he turned his back on me and departed at a great pace.
spite/ˈspaɪt/恶意, 怨恨, 使人烦恼的事物书中出现6次
I was hoping the stranger might gradually fall into a confidential mood, and in spite of my guide’s winks, I turned the conversation to the subject of highwaymen.
fool/ˈfuɫ/愚人, 受骗者, 奶油拌水果书中出现6次
How can you be such a fool as that?
whence/ˈhwɛns/从何处, 出于什么原因, 从哪个书中出现5次
… and I noticed that he did not pronounce the letter s* in the Andalusian fashion, whence I concluded he was a traveller, like myself …
quay/ˈkeɪ/码头, 驳岸书中出现5次
At Cordova a great many idlers collect, toward sunset, in the quay that runs along the right bank of the Guadalquivir.
acacia/əˈkeɪʃə/洋槐, 刺槐, 阿拉伯树胶书中出现5次
She had thrown her mantilla back, to show her shoulders, and a great bunch of acacia that was thrust into her chemise.
piastre皮阿斯特书中出现5次
Then the Englishman stood up, gave me a piastre, and offered his arm to Carmen, as if she couldn’t have walked alone.
lighted/ˈɫaɪtəd/light的过去式和过去分词书中出现5次
… most heartily, my eye lighted, at some distance from the path I was following …
astonished/əˈstɑnɪʃt/吃惊的书中出现5次
Her face astonished you, at first sight, but nobody could forget it.
robber/ˈɹɑbɝ/强盗, 盗贼书中出现5次
But I had heard so much about robbers, that, never seeing any, I had ceased to believe in their existence.
mistress/ˈmɪstɹəs/主妇, 女主人, 情妇书中出现5次
“I had often heard talk of certain smugglers who travelled about Andalusia, each riding a good horse, with his mistress behind him and his blunderbuss in his fist.
temper/ˈtɛmpɝ/硬度, 脾气, 心情书中出现5次
What he said I could not catch, but the tone of his voice revealed the fact that he was in a very evil temper.
fond/ˈfɑnd/喜欢的, 宠爱的, 温柔的书中出现5次
“Do me the kindness to sing me something,” I said to him, “I’m passionately fond of your national music.”
scarf/ˈskɑɹf/围巾, 头巾, 领带书中出现5次
“Do you happen to have a handkerchief, a scarf, or a mantilla, that he gave you?”
lieutenant/ɫuˈtɛnənt/中尉, 助理人员, 副官书中出现5次
… followed by a young man, a lieutenant in our regiment.
释义：ECDICT, English to Chinese (MIT) 音标：ipa-dict（MIT），来自维基词典。
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