读《《小王子》》前要掌握的40个英文单词
The Little Prince
安托万·德·圣埃克苏佩里在《《小王子》》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。
prince/ˈpɹɪns/王子, 亲王, 国君书中出现184次
He has gone to sleep…” And that is how I made the acquaintance of the little prince.
sheep/ˈʃip/羊, 胆小者书中出现41次
It said: “If you please — draw me a sheep!”
geographer/dʒiˈɑɡɹəfɝ/地理学者书中出现23次
“I am a geographer,” said the old gentleman.
baobab猴面包树书中出现20次
It was in this way that I heard, on the third day, about the catastrophe of the baobabs.
lamplighter/ˈɫæmˌpɫaɪtɝ/灯夫, 点灯器书中出现17次
There was just enough room on it for a street lamp and a lamplighter.
volcano/vɑɫˈkeɪnoʊ/火山书中出现15次
He carefully cleaned out his active volcanoes.
sunset/ˈsənˌsɛt/日落, 晚年书中出现15次
Bit by bit I came to understand the secrets of your sad little life… For a long time you had found your only entertainment in the quiet pleasure of looking at the sunset.
tame/ˈteɪm/变得驯服书中出现14次
“I am not tamed.”
constrictor/kənˈstɹɪktɝ/使压缩的东西, 缩肌, 大蟒书中出现13次
It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal.
thorn/ˈθɔɹn/刺, 棘, 荆棘书中出现13次
“Even flowers that have thorns?”
explorer/ɪksˈpɫɔɹɝ/探险家, 探测者, 勘探器书中出现13次
Here is an explorer!”
conceited/kənˈsitəd/自负的, 逞能的, 狂想的书中出现11次
The second planet was inhabited by a conceited man.
tippler酒鬼书中出现10次
The next planet was inhabited by a tippler.
switchman扳道工书中出现8次
“Good morning”, said the railway switchman.
yawn/ˈjɔn/打哈欠, 裂开书中出现8次
And, after working with all this painstaking precision, she yawned and said: “Ah!
extinct/ɪkˈstɪŋkt/熄灭的, 灭绝的, 耗尽的书中出现8次
He also had one volcano that was extinct.
inhabit/ˌɪnˈhæbət/居住于, 占据, 栖息书中出现8次
Remember, I had crashed in the desert a thousand miles from any inhabited region.
magnificent/mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/华丽的, 高尚的, 宏伟的书中出现8次
Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/英里书中出现7次
The first night, then, I went to sleep on the sand, a thousand miles from any human habitation.
pulley/ˈpʊɫi/滑车, 滑轮书中出现7次
“Everything is ready for use: the pulley, the bucket, the rope…” He laughed, touched the rope, and set the pulley to working.
lighted/ˈɫaɪtəd/light的过去式和过去分词书中出现7次
And he lighted his lamp again.
globe/ˈɡɫoʊb/球, 球状物, 地球仪书中出现7次
… and added to himself, “This flower is a very complex creature…” “At night I want you to put me under a glass globe.
bushes/ˈbʊʃəz/灌木丛书中出现5次
“It is true, isn’t it, that sheep eat little bushes?”
muzzle/ˈməzəɫ/动物之鼻口, 口套, 枪口书中出现5次
I will draw you a muzzle for your sheep.
asteroid/ˈæstɝˌɔɪd/小行星, 海盘车书中出现5次
I have serious reason to believe that the planet from which the little prince came is the asteroid known as B-612.
obey/oʊˈbeɪ/服从, 遵从, 顺从书中出现5次
… “if I ordered a general to change himself into a sea bird, and if the general did not obey me, that would not be the fault of the general.
butterfly/ˈbətɝˌfɫaɪ/蝴蝶书中出现5次
Does he collect butterflies?”
disturb/dɪˈstɝb/扰乱, 妨碍, 使不安书中出现5次
Again the little prince disturbed my thoughts: “And you actually believe that the flowers — ” “Oh, no!”
pencil/ˈpɛnsəɫ/铅笔, 色笔, 眉笔书中出现5次
And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing.
elephant/ˈɛɫəfənt/象书中出现5次
It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
queer/ˈkwɪɹ/奇怪的, 不舒服的, 可疑的书中出现4次
What a queer idea!”
thirst/ˈθɝst/口渴, 渴望书中出现4次
And yet my little man seemed neither to be straying uncertainly among the sands, nor to be fainting from fatigue or hunger or thirst or fear.
thirsty/ˈθɝsti/口渴的, 渴望的, 干燥的书中出现4次
“He has never been either hungry or thirsty.
salute/səˈɫut/行礼, 致意, 问候书中出现4次
“It is to raise in salute when people acclaim me.
petal/ˈpɛtəɫ/花瓣书中出现4次
They had only one ring of petals; they took up no room at all; they were a trouble to nobody.
scarcely/ˈskɛɹsɫi/简直不, 一定不, 仅仅书中出现4次
It was a question of life or death for me: I had scarcely enough drinking water to last a week.
sorrow/ˈsɑɹoʊ/悲伤, 哀惜, 不幸书中出现4次
And once again, without understanding why, I had a queer sense of sorrow.
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/大叫, 呼喊, 大声叫书中出现4次
Then they would exclaim: “Oh, what a pretty house that is!”
cough/ˈkɑf/咳嗽书中出现4次
Embarrassed over having let herself be caught on the verge of such a naïve untruth, she coughed two or three times, in order to put the little prince in the wrong.
flush/ˈfɫəʃ/脸发红, 奔涌, 旺盛书中出现4次
And he flushed.
释义：ECDICT, English to Chinese (MIT) 音标：ipa-dict（MIT），来自维基词典。
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