读《了不起的盖茨比》前要掌握的40个英文单词
The Great Gatsby
F·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德在《了不起的盖茨比》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27次
I inquired innocently.
butler/ˈbətɫɝ/男管家, 司膳总管书中出现20次
When, almost immediately, the telephone rang inside and the butler left the porch Daisy seized upon the momentary interruption and leaned toward me.
grey/ˈɡɹeɪ/灰色的, 阴沉的书中出现17次
Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming discontented face.
murmur/ˈmɝmɝ/低语, 低声而言书中出现16次
If she saw me out of the corner of her eyes she gave no hint of it—indeed, I was almost surprised into murmuring an apology for having disturbed her by coming in.
policeman/pəˈɫismən/警察书中出现14次
When we came into the station he was next to me and his white shirt-front pressed against my arm—and so I told him I'd have to call a policeman, but he knew I lied.
taxi/ˈtæksi/出租车书中出现12次
Upstairs, in the solemn echoing drive she let four taxi cabs drive away before she selected a new one, lavender-colored with grey upholstery …
coup/ˈku/双门小轿车书中出现12次
In the ditch beside the road, right side up but violently shorn of one wheel, rested a new coupé which had left Gatsby's drive not two minutes before.
faint/ˈfeɪnt/模糊的, 微弱的, 无力的书中出现12次
… when that certain girl played tennis, a faint mustache of perspiration appeared on her upper lip.
tremble/ˈtɹɛmbəɫ/战栗, 忧虑, 摇晃书中出现11次
The murmur trembled on the verge of coherence, sank down, mounted excitedly, and then ceased altogether.
chauffeur/ˈʃoʊfɝ/司机书中出现10次
A chauffeur in a uniform of robin's egg blue crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer—the honor would be entirely Gatsby's, it said …
anyhow/ˈɛniˌhaʊ/无论如何, 至少书中出现10次
"You see I think everything's terrible anyhow," she went on in a convinced way.
faintly/ˈfeɪntɫi/微弱地, 模糊地, 朦胧地书中出现10次
I am not even faintly like a rose.
glow/ˈɡɫoʊ/发红光, 红光焕发, 发热书中出现10次
The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold, and wide open to the warm windy afternoon …
eagerly/ˈiɡɝɫi/渴望, 热衷于, 热切书中出现9次
asked Mrs. Wilson eagerly as he came to the taxi-window.
twilight/ˈtwaɪˌɫaɪt/暮光, 曙光, 黎明书中出现9次
Tom and Miss Baker, with several feet of twilight between them strolled back into the library, as if to a vigil beside a perfectly tangible body …
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/大叫, 呼喊, 大声叫书中出现9次
she exclaimed surprisingly.
unfamiliar/ˌənfəˈmɪɫjɝ/不熟悉的书中出现9次
They shook hands briefly and a strained, unfamiliar look of embarrassment came over Gatsby's face.
upstairs/əpˈstɛɹz/在楼上, 向楼上, 处于更高地位书中出现9次
The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive …
fool/ˈfuɫ/愚人, 受骗者, 奶油拌水果书中出现9次
"I'd be a God Damned fool to live anywhere else."
whereupon/ˈhwɛɹəˈpɑn/因此, 于是书中出现8次
The butler came back and murmured something close to Tom's ear whereupon Tom frowned, pushed back his chair and without a word went inside.
incredulous/ˌɪnˈkɹɛdʒəɫəs/怀疑的, 不轻信的书中出现8次
Her host looked at her incredulously.
politely/pəˈɫaɪtɫi/有礼貌地, 文雅地, 客气地书中出现8次
He turned me around again, politely and abruptly.
yacht/ˈjɑt/快艇, 游艇书中出现8次
A large photograph of an elderly man in yachting costume attracted me, hung on the wall over his desk.
groan/ˈɡɹoʊn/呻吟, 叹息书中出现8次
I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall.
supper/ˈsəpɝ/晚餐书中出现8次
Tom rang for the janitor and sent him for some celebrated sandwiches, which were a complete supper in themselves.
cocktail/ˈkɑkˌteɪɫ/鸡尾酒, 开味品书中出现8次
"No, thanks," said Miss Baker to the four cocktails just in from the pantry, "I'm absolutely in training."
conceal/kənˈsiɫ/隐藏, 掩盖, 隐瞒书中出现8次
She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
mutter/ˈmətɝ/喃喃自语, 作低沉声书中出现8次
… at least I had him for a few days until he ran away, and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.
impatiently/ˌɪmˈpeɪʃəntɫi/不耐烦, 忍受不了, 急躁书中出现7次
What was that word we—" "Well, these books are all scientific," insisted Tom, glancing at her impatiently.
solemn/ˈsɑɫəm/严肃的, 郑重的, 庄严的书中出现7次
I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the "Yale News"—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man."
cheerful/ˈtʃɪɹfəɫ/快活的, 高兴的, 兴高采烈的书中出现7次
Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay.
restless/ˈɹɛstɫəs/不安静的, 慌张的, 休息不充分的书中出现7次
I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came back restless.
whiskey/ˈhwɪski/威士忌酒书中出现7次
Meanwhile Tom brought out a bottle of whiskey from a locked bureau door.
scarcely/ˈskɛɹsɫi/简直不, 一定不, 仅仅书中出现7次
And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.
goodbye/ˌɡʊdˈbaɪ/再见书中出现7次
He was saying some last word to her but the eagerness in his manner tightened abruptly into formality as several people approached him to say goodbye.
overhead/ˈoʊvɝˈhɛd/在头顶上, 在空中, 在高处书中出现7次
They are not perfect ovals—like the egg in the Columbus story they are both crushed flat at the contact end—but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead.
champagne/ʃæmˈpeɪn/香槟酒, 香槟酒色书中出现7次
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
orchestra/ˈɔɹkəstɹə/管弦乐队, 乐队演奏处书中出现7次
By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived—no thin five-piece affair but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums.
frown/ˈfɹaʊn/皱眉头书中出现7次
objected Daisy, frowning.
fantastic/fænˈtæstɪk/奇妙的, 稀奇的, 空想的书中出现7次
This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort …
释义：ECDICT, English to Chinese (MIT) 音标：ipa-dict（MIT），来自维基词典。
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