读《波莉安娜》前要掌握的40个英文单词
Pollyanna
埃莉诺·H·波特在《波莉安娜》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。
aunt/ˈænt/阿姨, 姨妈, 舅妈书中出现76次
You know she's all the aunt I've got, and I didn't know I had her for ever so long.
frown/ˈfɹaʊn/皱眉书中出现44次
Her mistress frowned.
jelly/ˈdʒɛɫi/果冻, 果冻甜食, 胶状物书中出现42次
Pollyanna was carrying calf's-foot jelly to Mrs. Snow to-day.
reckon/ˈɹɛkən/计算, 总计, 估计书中出现40次
“After all, I—I reckon I'm glad she doesn't want me to talk about father,” Pollyanna was thinking.
stairs/ˈstɛɹz/楼梯书中出现36次
… Nancy,” Miss Polly was saying now, “you may clear the little room at the head of the stairs in the attic, and make up the cot bed.
niece/ˈnis/侄女, 甥女书中出现32次
My niece, Miss Pollyanna Whittier, is coming to live with me.
anyhow/ˈɛniˌhaʊ/无论如何, 至少书中出现30次
“Well, it's done—my part, anyhow,” she sighed.
jest/ˈdʒɛst/讲笑话, 嘲笑, 开玩笑书中出现28次
But some day—some day I shall jest b'ile over; and when I do, of course it'll be good-by Nancy for me.
attic/ˈætɪk/阁楼, 顶楼书中出现26次
“In the front attic.”
stern/ˈstɝn/严厉的, 严格的, 坚定的书中出现22次
“Nancy,”—Miss Polly's voice was very stern now—“when I'm talking to you, I wish you to stop your work and listen to what I have to say.”
retort/ˈɹiˌtɔɹt/反驳, 回嘴, 反击书中出现21次
“You don't seem ter see any trouble bein' glad about everythin',” retorted Nancy, choking a little over her remembrance of Pollyanna's brave attempts to like the bare little attic room.
till/ˈtɪɫ/直到, 在...以前, 迄书中出现20次
Father and the Ladies' Aid used to do it, too, till they found I always came back all right.”
queer/ˈkwɪɹ/奇怪的, 不舒服的, 可疑的书中出现18次
She said you'd think 'twas queer.
chuckle/ˈtʃəkəɫ/咯咯的笑, 咕咕叫书中出现18次
Timothy chuckled softly; but Nancy was too disturbed to answer the merry flash from his eyes.
abruptly/əˈbɹəptɫi/突然地, 唐突地书中出现18次
Then, abruptly, her aunt opened a door and ascended another stairway.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/次日书中出现17次
My niece will arrive to-morrow at four o'clock.
murmur/ˈmɝmɝ/低声说书中出现17次
“I'm so glad now that the screens didn't come,” she murmured, blinking up at the stars; “else I couldn't have had this!”
lamb/ˈɫæm/小羊, 羔羊书中出现17次
Mrs. White had pictures, too, perfectly beautiful ones of roses and little girls kneeling and a kitty and some lambs and a lion—not together, you know—the lambs and the lion.
bang/ˈbæŋ/发巨响, 重击书中出现17次
… severe-faced woman who frowned if a knife clattered to the floor, or if a door banged—but who never thought to smile even when knives and doors were still.
carpet/ˈkɑɹpət/地毯, 地毯状物书中出现16次
The Ladies' Aid bought it for me—and wasn't it lovely of them, when they wanted the carpet so?
stammer/ˈstæmɝ/口吃, 结结巴巴地说书中出现15次
“Yes, ma'am; I will, ma'am,” she stammered, righting the pitcher, and turning hastily.
hurriedly/ˈhɝidɫi/仓促地；匆忙地书中出现15次
Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning.
crutch/ˈkɹətʃ/拐杖, 支撑, 依靠书中出现15次
“Why, we began it on some crutches that came in a missionary barrel.”
gasp/ˈɡæsp/喘气书中出现15次
gasped Nancy, surprised into an interruption.
choke/ˈtʃoʊk/窒息, 阻塞, 噎书中出现15次
She stopped with a little choking breath.
rejoin/ɹiˈdʒɔɪn/重新聚合, 回答, 第二次答辩书中出现14次
Well, that isn't exactly the word I should use,” rejoined Miss Polly, stiffly.
falter/ˈfɔɫtɝ/支吾地说书中出现14次
“Of course, ma'am; it was only that I thought a little girl here might—might brighten things up for you,” she faltered.
mistress/ˈmɪstɹəs/主妇, 女主人, 情妇书中出现14次
Nancy had been working in Miss Polly's kitchen only two months, but already she knew that her mistress did not usually hurry.
aloud/əˈɫaʊd/出声地, 大声地书中出现14次
“When I ask a question, Pollyanna, I prefer that you should answer aloud not merely with your head.”
missionary/ˈmɪʃəˌnɛɹi/传教士, 负有任务者, 工作人员书中出现14次
Jennie had preferred these—quite naturally, perhaps; so she had married the minister, and had gone south with him as a home missionary's wife.
bless/ˈbɫɛs/祝福, 祈佑, 使神圣化书中出现14次
The idea of stickin' that blessed child 'way off up here in this hot little room—with no fire in the winter, too, and all this big house ter pick and choose from!
pillow/ˈpɪɫoʊ/枕头, 靠垫, 枕状岩书中出现14次
… selected a nice fat soft one (it contained Miss Polly's sealskin coat) for a bed; and a thinner one to be doubled up for a pillow, and still another (which was so thin it seemed almost empty) for a covering.
clap/ˈkɫæp/拍手, 拍手声, 霹雳声书中出现13次
At one of the windows, a few minutes later, Pollyanna gave a glad cry and clapped her hands joyously.
parlor/ˈpɑɹɫɝ/客厅, 会客室, 小店书中出现13次
… the wide, flat tin roof of Miss Polly's sun parlor built over the porte-cochere.
ejaculate/ɪˈdʒækjuˌɫeɪt/突然说出, 射出书中出现12次
she ejaculated, biting her lip.
heathen/ˈhiðən/异教徒, 异族人, 粗野的人书中出现12次
“Oh, for the heathen,” surmised Pollyanna.
prism/ˈpɹɪzəm/棱镜, 棱柱书中出现12次
It came from the prism pendants encircling the old-fashioned candelabrum in her hand.
homestead/ˈhoʊmˌstɛd/家园, 田产书中出现12次
Fifteen minutes later the great clock in the hallway of the Harrington homestead struck six.
erect/ɪˈɹɛkt/直立的, 竖立的, 笔直的书中出现12次
The old man drew himself erect.
calf/ˈkæf/小牛, 小牛皮, 腓肠书中出现12次
Aunt Polly says she hopes you are comfortable to-day, and she's sent you some calf's-foot jelly.”
释义：ECDICT, English to Chinese (MIT) 音标：ipa-dict（MIT），来自维基词典。
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