读《拿破仑致约瑟芬书信集》前要掌握的40个英文单词
Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812
拿破仑一世在《拿破仑致约瑟芬书信集》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。
surrender/sɝˈɛndɝ/投降, 自首书中出现46次
You cannot have inspired a boundless love without sharing it, for a cultured mind and a soul like yours cannot requite complete surrender and devotion with the death-blow.
cannon/ˈkænən/大炮, 加农炮书中出现43次
Austrians lose 2000 men and 20 cannon.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/次日书中出现32次
I am at Port Maurice, near Oneille; to-morrow I shall be at Albenga.
cheerful/ˈtʃɪɹfəɫ/快活的, 高兴的, 兴高采烈的书中出现32次
Tell me you are cheerful, in good health, and very affectionate.
bulletin/ˈbʊɫɪtən/公告, 布告, 公报书中出现30次
For generations it was the fashion to consider "as false as a bulletin" peculiar to Napoleon's despatches; but the publication of Napoleon's correspondence, by order of Napoleon III., has changed all that.
affection/əˈfɛkʃən/影响, 病, 喜爱书中出现28次
… and the Emperor felt and spoke, not in his discourses or his proclamations—the official garb of his thought—but in the free outpourings of the most passionate or the most tender affections....
mil/ˈmɪɫ/英里书中出现27次
Napoleon was sometimes 1200 miles away from home; he had to gauge the effect of his bulletins from one end to the other of the largest effective empire that the world has ever seen …
charm/ˈtʃɑɹm/用符咒, 有魅力书中出现27次
A child as charming as its mamma will soon see the daylight, and will pass many years in your arms.
till/ˈtɪɫ/直到, 在...以前, 迄书中出现25次
Napoleon raged and stormed about the Tallien friendship, till his final mandate in 1806; and then it was too late.
retreat/ɹiˈtɹit/撤退, 隐退, 向后倾书中出现24次
The enemy made a general sortie on June 16th; it has killed or wounded two hundred of our men, but lost five hundred of its own in a precipitous retreat.
correspondence/ˌkɔɹəˈspɑndəns/相符, 通信, 信件书中出现23次
… in the words of an eminent but unsympathetic divine, know something of the "domestic side of the monster," first hand from his own correspondence, confirmed or corrected by contemporaries.
grief/ˈɡɹif/伤心, 忧愁, 悲痛书中出现23次
My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.
honour/ˈɑnɝ/荣誉, 头衔, 信用书中出现21次
Like Medea, one of whose other exploits he had evoked in a bulletin, he could say—but to his honour and not to his shame—
wretched/ˈɹɛtʃɪd/可怜的, 不幸的, 卑鄙的书中出现20次
You do not speak of your wretched indigestion—I hate it.
despatch派遣书中出现19次
Carlyle was the first to point out that his despatches are as instinct with genius as his conquests—his very words have "Austerlitz battles" in them.
favour/ˈfeɪvɝ/好感, 偏爱, 喜爱书中出现19次
From the days of his new power—political power, first the Consulate and then the Empire—he lavished gifts and favours even on the most undeserving of his early comrades.
beloved/bɪˈɫəvd/心爱的人书中出现19次
Every moment separates me further from you, my beloved, and every moment I have less energy to exist so far from you.
spite/ˈspaɪt/恶意, 怨恨, 使人烦恼的事物书中出现19次
He appeared to have no relish for anything gay; and in spite of the prepossessing amenity of his manners, an observation struck me often, he seemed to be of bronze.
subjoin附上书中出现18次
I shall subjoin a copy of it."
franc/ˈfɹæŋk/法郎书中出现18次
May 9th.—Capitulation of Parma by the Grand Duke, who pays ransom of 2 million francs, 1600 artillery horses, food, and 20 paintings.
artillery/ɑɹˈtɪɫɝi/火炮, 炮兵, 炮术书中出现17次
The Emperor will have to create a second army: artillery, pontoons, baggage, everything is taken.
glory/ˈɡɫɔɹi/光荣, 荣耀, 荣誉书中出现17次
"The letters of Napoleon can add nothing to his glory, but they better enable us to comprehend his prodigious destiny …
courier/ˈkɝiɝ/送快信的人, 伴游服务员书中出现16次
Soul of my life, write me by every courier, else I shall not know how to exist.
siege/ˈsidʒ/包围, 围攻书中出现16次
"By declaring that his public life dated from the siege of Toulon, Napoleon has himself determined the point of departure which the Commission should choose.
jealous/ˈdʒɛɫəs/嫉妒的, 羡慕的, 留心的书中出现16次
… to go into the country; and in spite of that you give me to understand that you are jealous of me, who am here …
afterwards/ˈæftɝwɝdz/然后, 后来书中出现16次
At last when Bonaparte drew up plans—afterwards followed—for the invasion of Piedmont, Schérer replied roughly that he who had drawn up the plan of campaign had better come and execute it.
thee/ˈði/你书中出现15次
My waking thoughts are all of thee.
grieve/ˈɡɹiv/悲痛, 伤心书中出现15次
But I am most truly grieved to know that you are in pain.
prosper/ˈpɹɑspɝ/繁荣, 兴隆, 成功书中出现15次
We must admire The Man[3] who found within the fields of France the command of the Tropics, and who needed nothing but time to prosper Corsican cotton and Solingen steel.
destiny/ˈdɛstəni/命运, 定数书中出现15次
"The letters of Napoleon can add nothing to his glory, but they better enable us to comprehend his prodigious destiny, the prestige that he exercised over his contemporaries—'le culte universel dont sa mémoire est l'objet …
realise/ˈɹiəˌɫaɪz/实现, 认识到, 体会到书中出现14次
It has realised that the most conspicuous (éclatant) homage to render to this incomparable genius was to make him known in his entirety.
affectionate/əˈfɛkʃənət/深情的, 充满情爱的书中出现14次
… and to arrive at Brescia on July 25th, where the most affectionate of lovers awaits you.
cavalry/ˈkævəɫɹi/骑兵书中出现14次
May 30th-31st.—Bonaparte defeats Beaulieu at Borghetto, crosses the Mincio, and makes French cavalry fight (a new feature for the Republican troops).
conquer/ˈkɑŋkɝ/克服, 征服, 战胜书中出现14次
Beaten at sea, he has but two weapons left against England—to "conquer her by land," or to stir up a maritime rival who will sooner or later avenge him.
uneasy/əˈnizi/心神不安的, 不自在的, 不稳定的书中出现14次
Yes, my kind, kind love, I am not jealous, but sometimes uneasy.
vexed/ˈvɛkst/烦恼的, 焦急的, 生气的书中出现13次
Are you vexed?
splendid/ˈspɫɛndɪd/光亮的, 了不起的, 灿烂的书中出现13次
Of his goodness we have the well-weighed verdict of Lord Acton, that it was "the most splendid that has appeared on earth."
reinforcement/ˌɹiɪnˈfɔɹsmənt/加强, 增援, 补充书中出现13次
July 9th.—Bonaparte asks Kellermann for reinforcements.
genius/ˈdʒinjəs/天才, 天赋, 精神书中出现13次
Let us then each to his task, and each try, as best he may, to weigh in honest scales the modern Hannibal—"our last great man,"[4] "the mightiest genius of two thousand years."[5]
heir/ˈɛɹ/继承人, 嗣子, 后嗣书中出现12次
This is the third pilgrimage Josephine has made, under the doctor's orders, to Plombières; but the longed-for heir will have to be sought for elsewhere, by fair means or foul.
释义：ECDICT, English to Chinese (MIT) 音标：ipa-dict（MIT），来自维基词典。
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