读《沉思录》前要掌握的40个英文单词
Meditations
马可·奥勒留在《沉思录》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。
thou/ˈðaʊ/汝, 你, 尔书中出现857次
'If thou may not continually gather thyself together, namely sometimes do it, at least once a day, the morning or the evening.
unto/ˈəntu/到, 对, 直到书中出现474次
The ideal Wise Man is sufficient unto himself in all things (αὐταρκής); and knowing these truths, he will be happy even when stretched upon the rack.
thee/ˈði/你书中出现343次
'Why doth a little thing said or done against thee make thee sorry?
doth/ˈdɔθ/做书中出现268次
'Whatsoever any man either doth or saith, thou must be good;' 'doth any man offend?
thyself/ˌðaɪˈsɛɫf/你自己书中出现223次
Whensoever thou wilt rejoice thyself, think and meditate upon those good parts and especial gifts, which thou hast observed in any of them that live with thee:
whatsoever/ˌhwətsoʊˈɛvɝ/无论什么书中出现149次
… and to do my business, whatsoever it be, thoroughly …
thine/ˈðaɪn/你的东西, 你的书中出现71次
… like the Roman, bids 'study to withdraw thine heart from the love of things visible'; but it is not the busy life of duty he has in mind so much as the contempt of all worldly things …
wilt/ˈwɪɫt/愿意书中出现42次
At what time soever thou wilt, it is in thy power to retire into thyself, and to be at rest, and free from all businesses.
disposition/ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən/性情, 处置, 处理书中出现42次
… as the resemblances and parallels of several virtues, eminent in the dispositions of them that live with thee, especially when all at once …
rational/ˈɹæʃənəɫ/理性的, 合理的书中出现41次
… by how much that which ministers unto it doth excel; the one being a rational substance, and a spirit …
philosopher/fəˈɫɑsəfɝ/哲学家, 哲人, 思想开创人书中出现38次
Cyprus has been from time immemorial a meeting-place of the East and West, and although we cannot grant any importance to a possible strain of Phœnician blood in him (for the Phoenicians were no philosophers), yet it is quite likely that through Asia Minor he may have come in touch with the Far East.
affection/əˈfɛkʃən/影响, 病, 喜爱书中出现38次
Desire and dislike, opinion and affection, are within the power of the will; whereas health, wealth, honour, and other such are generally not so.
hinder/ˈhɪndɝ/阻碍, 打扰书中出现34次
… of what kind of universe it is: And that there is nobody that can hinder thee, but that thou mayest always both do and speak those things which are agreeable to that nature …
presently/ˈpɹɛzəntɫi/目前, 不久书中出现34次
For all these things, if once though but for a while, they begin to please, they presently prevail, and pervert a man's mind, or turn a man from the right way.
worldly/ˈwɝɫdɫi/世间的, 世俗的, 世上的书中出现33次
… bids 'study to withdraw thine heart from the love of things visible'; but it is not the busy life of duty he has in mind so much as the contempt of all worldly things, and the 'cutting away of all lower delectations.'
honour/ˈɑnɝ/荣誉, 头衔, 信用书中出现31次
Two years later Faustina brought him a daughter; and soon after the tribunate and other imperial honours were conferred upon him.
conceit/kənˈsit/自负, 空想, 狂妄书中出现30次
To Rusticus I am beholding, that I first entered into the conceit that my life wanted some redress and cure.
behold/bɪˈhoʊɫd/看到, 注视书中出现30次
Every man's happiness depends from himself, but behold thy life is almost at an end, whiles affording thyself no respect …
contrary/ˈkɑntɹɛɹi/相反的, 矛盾的, 对立的书中出现29次
Secondly, when she either is averse from any man, or led by contrary desires or affections, tending to his hurt and prejudice; such as are the souls of them that are angry.
grieve/ˈɡɹiv/悲痛, 伤心书中出现28次
… and as it were an excrescency of the world, for to be grieved and displeased with anything that happens in the world, is direct apostacy from the nature of the universe …
indifferent/ˌɪnˈdɪfɝənt/漠不关心的, 无重要性的, 中立的书中出现28次
Those outside things which are commonly called good or bad, such as health and sickness, wealth and poverty, pleasure and pain, are to him indifferent (ἀδιάφορα).
fancy/ˈfænsi/想象力, 幻想, 喜好书中出现28次
Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other men, when it is not in relation to some common good …
conceive/kənˈsiv/构思, 认为书中出现28次
By whatever means induced, he had conceived the project of proclaiming himself emperor as soon as Marcus, who was then in feeble health …
soever无论书中出现25次
… whatsoever it be, and in what respect soever it be, that it is fair and goodly …
offend/əˈfɛnd/犯罪, 冒犯, 违反书中出现25次
It is against himself that he doth offend: why should it trouble thee?'
divine/dɪˈvaɪn/占卜, 看出书中出现25次
The Emperor Hadrian divined the fine character of the lad, whom he used to call not Verus but Verissimus, more Truthful than his own name.
esteem/əˈstim/尊敬, 尊重书中出现24次
… (not interrupted, with any other cares and distractions,) in the study and esteem of philosophy: to be bountiful and liberal in the largest measure …
grief/ˈɡɹif/伤心, 忧愁, 悲痛书中出现24次
The emperors great grief was that he must needs engage in the horrors of civil strife.
apprehension/ˌæpɹɪˈhɛnʃən/理解, 忧惧, 逮捕书中出现22次
He would not hastily give over the search of the matter, as one easy to be satisfied with sudden notions and apprehensions.
whereof关于什么, 关于那事书中出现20次
… but that thou mayest always both do and speak those things which are agreeable to that nature, whereof thou art a part.
perchance/pɝˈtʃæns/偶然, 恐怕, 间或书中出现19次
… and of other faculties, which perchance I might have dwelt upon, if I had found myself to go on in them with success.
commend/kəˈmɛnd/嘉奖, 委托给, 推荐书中出现19次
Moreover, that he was never commended by any man, as either a learned acute man …
depart/dɪˈpɑɹt/离开, 出发, 背离书中出现19次
Whatsoever thou dost affect, whatsoever thou dost project, so do, and so project all, as one who, for aught thou knowest, may at this very present depart out of this life.
sociable/ˈsoʊʃəbəɫ/好交际的, 社交的, 过社会生活的书中出现18次
… an aged man; a sociable man; a Roman …
whereby/hwɛɹˈbaɪ/靠什么, 如何, 为何书中出现18次
… but also because that intellective faculty in thee, whereby thou art enabled to know the true nature of things, and to order all thy actions by that knowledge …
deed/ˈdid/行为, 实行, 契约书中出现18次
… that whatsoever it is that hath happened unto thee, is in very deed no such thing of itself, as a misfortune …
providence/ˈpɹɑvədəns/深谋远虑, 天意, 天命书中出现17次
… or if all things go by chance and fortune, yet mayest thou use thine own providence in those things that concern thee properly; and then art thou well.'
endeavour/ɪnˈdɛvɝ/努力, 力图, 尽力书中出现17次
From Claudius Maximus, in all things to endeavour to have power of myself, and in nothing to be carried about …
emperor/ˈɛmpɝɝ/皇帝, 君主书中出现17次
Thus the most religious of emperors came of the blood of the most pious of early kings.
likewise/ˈɫaɪˌkwaɪz/同样地, 也书中出现17次
and how many already, who once likewise prosecuted their enmities, suspected, hated, and fiercely contended, are now long ago stretched out, and reduced unto ashes?
释义：ECDICT, English to Chinese (MIT) 音标：ipa-dict（MIT），来自维基词典。
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