读《奥勃洛莫夫》前要掌握的40个英文单词
Oblomov
伊万·亚历山德罗维奇·冈察洛夫在《奥勃洛莫夫》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。
inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/询问, 问明, 查究书中出现33次
Oblomov inquired.
landlady/ˈɫændˌɫeɪdi/女房东, 女地主书中出现28次
Your new landlady does not care for such tricks to be played upon her.
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/大叫, 呼喊, 大声叫书中出现27次
exclaimed Oblomov.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/次日书中出现23次
“Because each time you have sent me away, and then put matters off until the morrow.”
weep/ˈwip/哭, 哭泣书中出现23次
Rather, stretch out your hand to the fallen and raise him weep over him if he is lost beyond recall, but in no case make sport of him …
sofa/ˈsoʊfə/沙发书中出现22次
In it there stood a writing-table of redwood, a couple of sofas, upholstered in some silken material, and a handsome screen that was embroidered with birds and fruits unknown to Nature.
aunt/ˈænt/阿姨, 姨妈, 舅妈书中出现22次
Beside the table Oblomov could see seated the aunt of eighty who had always lived with them.
sorrow/ˈsɑɹoʊ/悲伤, 哀惜, 不幸书中出现21次
Involuntarily he would dream of Militrissa Kirbitievna, and feel attracted towards the country whereof nothing was known except that folk there went for walks, and were free from sorrow and care.
barin老爷书中出现18次
“You called me just now, barin?”
intellect/ˈɪnəˌɫɛkt/智力, 出众的才华, 知识分子书中出现18次
His intellect, his will, his feelings—what do they avail him?
scarcely/ˈskɛɹsɫi/简直不, 一定不, 仅仅书中出现18次
Zakhar retired to his room again, but had scarcely rested his hands against his pallet before stretching himself out, when once more there came a peremptory shout of “Zakhar!
courtyard/ˈkɔɹtˌjɑɹd/庭院, 天井书中出现17次
The courtyard looks quite dark.”
disturb/dɪˈstɝb/扰乱, 妨碍, 使不安书中出现17次
Indeed, no sooner had he received the starosta’s first disturbing letter (he had done so three years ago) than he had set about devising a plan for changing and improving the administration of his property.
depart/dɪˈpɑɹt/离开, 出发, 背离书中出现16次
Zakhar departed again, and Oblomov resumed his reverie.
peasant/ˈpɛzənt/农夫, 乡下人书中出现16次
Then the peasant, doffing his sheepskin, goes out in shirtsleeves alone, and shades his eyes with’ his hand as gladly he shrugs his shoulders and drinks his fill of the gleaming sunlight.
starosta村长书中出现14次
The fact of the matter was that, overnight, he had received from the starosta * of his country estate an exceedingly unpleasant letter.
yawn/ˈjɔn/打哈欠, 裂开书中出现14次
said Oblomov with a yawn.
gown/ˈɡaʊn/睡衣, 法衣, 大学全体师生书中出现14次
The costume in question consisted of a dressing-gown of some Persian material—a real Eastern dressing-gown—a garment that was devoid both of tassels and velvet facings and a waist, yet so roomy that Oblomov might have wrapped himself in it once or twice over.
valet/væˈɫeɪ/贴身男仆书中出现13次
… two other rooms lay at his disposal, but seldom did he look into them save on mornings (which did not comprise by any means every morning) when his old valet happened to be sweeping out the study.
wholly/ˈhoʊɫi/完全地, 整个, 统统书中出现13次
… now promoted to the dignity of a major-domo, and adorned with whiskers turned wholly grey, was laying a large …
attain/əˈteɪn/达到, 获得书中出现13次
When shall I attain the life of paradise—the life for which I yearn?
delight/dɪˈɫaɪt/高兴, 愉快书中出现13次
“Quite so,” said the delighted littérateur.
kindly/ˈkaɪndɫi/和蔼的, 温和的, 爽快的书中出现12次
… by February, detect the kindly odour of approaching spring.
mistress/ˈmɪstɹəs/主妇, 女主人, 情妇书中出现12次
… adjudicated upon in detail, and adopted or rejected according to the final decision of the mistress.
dull/ˈdəɫ/钝的, 无趣的, 呆滞的书中出现12次
Oblomov’s face was neither reddy nor dull nor pale, but of an indefinite hue.
wherefore/wɛɹˈfɔɹ/为此, 因此书中出现11次
… and indulge in wholesale immorality; wherefore the beatings have been a just retribution.”
verst俄里书中出现11次
Why, I know an estate, only fifty versts from yours, where the harvest of last year was so good that it cleared the owner completely of debt.
slumber/ˈsɫəmbɝ/微睡, 静止, 麻木书中出现11次
… and the path more and more tangled, while the consciousness of his condition kept awaking within him less and less frequently—to arouse only for a fleecing moment his slumbering faculties.
gentry/ˈdʒɛntɹi/贵族们书中出现11次
… so that none but the servants trod it, and at no time did the gentry walk there.
retort/ˈɹiˌtɔɹt/反驳, 回嘴, 反击书中出现11次
“I did not break it,” retorted Zakhar.
veranda/vɝˈændə/阳台, 走廊书中出现11次
The veranda actually overhangs the ravine, and to reach it one has with one hand to grasp the herbage, and, with the other, the gable before setting foot upon the structure itself.
hasten/ˈheɪsən/赶快, 急忙书中出现11次
Tarantiev hastened to cram the note into his pocket.
powerless/ˈpaʊɝɫəs/无力的, 无权的, 无效能的书中出现11次
On a fair summer’s evening he seemed to be sitting at a tea-table on the terrace of Oblomovka—sitting under a canopy of leafy shade which the sun was powerless to penetrate.
handkerchief/ˈhæŋkɝtʃif/手帕, 头巾, 围巾书中出现11次
“My handkerchief!”
utter/ˈətɝ/发出声音, 做声, 发表书中出现11次
Ever since the world began, they have voiced but the querulous lament of a monster which, everlastingly doomed to torment, utters a chorus of shrill, malicious cries.
torture/ˈtɔɹtʃɝ/拷问, 苦闷书中出现11次
Yet for another halfhour he lay prone under the torture of this resolve; until eventually he decided that such tackling could best be done after tea …
tremble/ˈtɹɛmbəɫ/战栗, 颤抖书中出现11次
On seeing his long-dead parent, the sleeping Oblomov’s form trembled with delight and affection, and from under his unconscious eyelids there stole and remained two burning tears....
interval/ˈɪntɝvəɫ/间隔, 距离, 间歇书中出现11次
“Why do you not give me the accounts at intervals instead of in a batch like this?”
cease/ˈsis/停止书中出现11次
Also we have been told that we are to cease to make out formal documents in duplicate.
ruin/ˈɹuən/毁灭, 衰败, 破坏书中出现11次
“That is tantamount to saying that once in that faulty vessel there dwelt the supreme element—that, ruined though the man may be, he is still a human being …
释义：ECDICT, English to Chinese (MIT) 音标：ipa-dict（MIT），来自维基词典。
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