读《丛林故事》前要掌握的40个英文单词
The Jungle Book
鲁德亚德·吉卜林在《丛林故事》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。
elephant/ˈɛɫəfənt/象书中出现131次
The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches.
jungle/ˈdʒəŋɡəɫ/丛林, 杂乱的一堆, 弱肉强食的地方书中出现101次
… because Tabaqui, more than anyone else in the jungle, is apt to go mad …
seal/ˈsiɫ/印章, 封条, 海豹书中出现94次
Nobody comes to Novastoshnah except on business, and the only people who have regular business there are the seals.
thou/ˈðaʊ/汝, 你, 尔书中出现89次
… or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle …
thee/ˈði/你书中出现76次
He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs—frog-eater—fish-killer—he shall hunt thee!
till/ˈtɪɫ/直到, 在...以前, 迄书中出现71次
For loosed till dawn are we.
monkey/ˈməŋki/猴子, 猿, 打桩锤书中出现46次
We do not drink where the monkeys drink; we do not go where the monkeys go; we do not hunt where they hunt; we do not die where they die.
wolves/ˈwʊɫvz/狼书中出现39次
“Good luck go with you, O chief of the wolves.”
herd/ˈhɝd/兽群, 人群, 牧人书中出现38次
The herds are shut in byre and hut
wolf/ˈwʊɫf/狼, 残忍贪婪之人, 极度穷困书中出现38次
“For a wolf, no,” said Tabaqui, “but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast.
mule/ˈmjuɫ/骡, 倔强之人书中出现37次
Just as I was getting ready to go to sleep I heard a jingle of harness and a grunt, and a mule passed me shaking his wet ears.
tiger/ˈtaɪɡɝ/老虎, 虎, 凶暴的人书中出现36次
Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
camel/ˈkæməɫ/骆驼, 打捞浮筒书中出现33次
Thorn for the camel, fodder for the kine,
buffalo/ˈbəfəˌɫoʊ/水牛书中出现33次
Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path; for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant.
bull/ˈbʊɫ/公牛书中出现32次
By the bull that I killed, am I to stand nosing into your dog’s den for my fair dues?
bullock/ˈbʊɫək/阉牛书中出现31次
Does he think that our buck are like his fat Waingunga bullocks?”
cub/ˈkəb/幼兽, 年轻人书中出现30次
Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived.
beast/ˈbist/畜生, 动物, 野兽书中出现29次
… which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/英里书中出现25次
Shere Khan was the tiger who lived near the Waingunga River, twenty miles away.
ravine/ɹəˈvin/峡谷, 冲沟, 溪谷书中出现22次
When he comes back wait for me in the ravine by the dhâk tree in the center of the plain.
roar/ˈɹɔɹ/吼, 咆哮, 轰鸣书中出现21次
The tiger’s roar filled the cave with thunder.
cobra/ˈkoʊbɹə/眼镜蛇书中出现20次
said half a dozen low voices (every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summerhouse was alive with cobras).
mongoose/ˈmɑŋɡus/猫鼬；獴狐猴书中出现20次
He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits.
grunt/ˈɡɹənt/呼噜声, 咕哝书中出现18次
“The fool has had no more sense than to jump at a woodcutter’s campfire, and has burned his feet,” said Father Wolf with a grunt.
flipper/ˈfɫɪpɝ/鳍状肢, 脚蹼书中出现17次
When he heaved himself up on his front flippers he stood more than four feet clear of the ground, and his weight …
trumpet/ˈtɹəmpət/喇叭, 小号, 喇叭声书中出现16次
And as soon as there was a lull you could hear his high-pitched yells of encouragement to Kala Nag, above the trumpeting and crashing, and snapping of ropes …
foolish/ˈfuɫɪʃ/愚蠢的, 傻的书中出现16次
Baloo knows it; I know it; the Pack know it; and even the foolish, foolish deer know.
nursery/ˈnɝsɝi/托儿所, 苗圃, 温床书中出现16次
He only wanted room by the sea for his nursery.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/使惊吓书中出现16次
He will frighten every head of game within ten miles, and I—I have to kill for two, these days.”
scratch/ˈskɹætʃ/搔, 抓, 挖出书中出现16次
It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned …
hind/ˈhaɪnd/后部的, 在后的书中出现15次
… old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey—rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.
howl/ˈhaʊɫ/嗥叫, 吠声, 号叫书中出现15次
Then there was a howl—an untigerish howl—from Shere Khan.
picket/ˈpɪkɪt/桩, 尖桩, 警戒哨书中出现14次
I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake.
graze/ˈɡɹeɪz/吃草, 放牧, 擦伤书中出现14次
At one end stood a little village, and at the other the thick jungle came down in a sweep to the grazing-grounds, and stopped there as though it had been cut off with a hoe.
frog/ˈfɹɑɡ/青蛙书中出现14次
Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat Man, and on our ground too!”
tusk/ˈtəsk/长牙, 獠牙, 尖物书中出现13次
… fat-necked, long-tusked walrus of the North Pacific, who has no manners except when he is asleep—as he was then …
snort/ˈsnɔɹt/喷鼻息, 水下通气管书中出现13次
There he checked, for he heard the yell of the Pack hunting, heard the bellow of a hunted Sambhur, and the snort as the buck turned at bay.
obey/oʊˈbeɪ/服从, 遵从, 顺从书中出现13次
Mowgli obeyed faithfully.
mile/ˈmaɪɫ/英里, 很大距离书中出现12次
Now to Baloo’s word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed, not half a mile from here, if ye will accept the man’s cub according to the Law.
yoke/ˈjoʊk/轭, 牛轭, 束缚书中出现12次
I heard a chain dragging along the ground, and a yoke of the great sulky white bullocks that drag the heavy siege guns when the elephants won’t go any nearer to the firing, came shouldering along together.
释义：ECDICT, English to Chinese (MIT) 音标：ipa-dict（MIT），来自维基词典。
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