读《道林·格雷的画像》前要掌握的40个英文单词
The Picture of Dorian Gray
奥斯卡·王尔德在《道林·格雷的画像》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。
charm/ˈtʃɑɹm/吸引力, 魔力, 符咒书中出现64次
You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
murmur/ˈmɝmɝ/低语, 低声的怨言书中出现44次
The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine …
dreadful/ˈdɹɛdfəɫ/可怕的书中出现43次
… there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people …
duchess/ˈdətʃəs/公爵夫人书中出现32次
… much liked by every one who knew her, and of those ample architectural proportions that in women who are not duchesses are described by contemporary historians as stoutness.
hideous/ˈhɪdiəs/丑恶的, 可憎的, 令人沮丧的书中出现32次
How perfectly hideous they are!
coloured/ˈkəɫɝd/有色的, 有...色的, 经过渲染的书中出现30次
It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
delightful/dɪˈɫaɪtfəɫ/令人愉快的, 可爱的书中出现29次
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful.
fancy/ˈfænsi/想象力, 幻想, 喜好书中出现29次
… and made a little moue of discontent to Lord Henry, to whom he had rather taken a fancy.
exquisite/ˈɛkskwəzət/精致的, 细腻的, 敏锐的书中出现26次
I had a strange feeling that fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.
monstrous/ˈmɑnstɹəs/巨大的, 畸形的, 怪异的书中出现25次
Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
worship/ˈwɝʃəp/崇拜, 尊敬书中出现23次
No wonder Basil Hallward worshipped him.
till/ˈtɪɫ/直到, 在...以前, 迄书中出现23次
I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.
romance/ˈɹoʊmæns/冒险故事, 浪漫史, 传奇文学书中出现23次
It is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one’s life.
stain/ˈsteɪn/沾染, 染污, 着色书中出现22次
… thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame—”
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/大叫, 呼喊, 大声叫书中出现22次
exclaimed Hallward, frowning.
colour/ˈkəɫɝ/颜色, 面色, 颜料书中出现21次
Some day you will look at your friend, and he will seem to you to be a little out of drawing, or you won’t like his tone of colour, or something.
theatre/ˈθiətɝ/戏院, 电影院, 剧场书中出现19次
“Let us go to the theatre to-night,” said Lord Henry.
scarlet/ˈskɑɹɫət/绯红色的, 鲜红色的书中出现18次
Yes, he was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair.
shudder/ˈʃədɝ/战栗, 发抖书中出现18次
It makes me shudder when I hear it.
sorrow/ˈsɑɹoʊ/悲伤, 哀惜, 不幸书中出现18次
… whose joys seem to be remote from one, but whose sorrows stir one’s sense of beauty, and whose wounds are like red roses.
frown/ˈfɹaʊn/皱眉书中出现18次
asked Hallward, with a slight frown.
marvellous/ˈmɑɹvəɫəs/奇异的, 神奇的, 奇迹般的书中出现17次
It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us.
pity/ˈpɪti/遗憾, 同情, 怜悯书中出现17次
It will be a great pity, for it will alter you.
mutter/ˈmətɝ/喃喃低语书中出现17次
“You should have gone away when I asked you,” he muttered.
horrid/ˈhɔɹəd/可怕的, 极讨厌的, 毛骨悚然的书中出现16次
The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.
horribly/ˈhɔɹəbɫi/可怕地, 非常地书中出现16次
“How horribly unjust of you!”
poison/ˈpɔɪzən/毒害, 毒杀, 使中毒书中出现16次
Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.
tremble/ˈtɹɛmbəɫ/战栗, 颤抖书中出现16次
His finely chiselled nostrils quivered, and some hidden nerve shook the scarlet of his lips and left them trembling.
fantastic/fænˈtæstɪk/奇妙的, 稀奇的, 空想的书中出现16次
He was brilliant, fantastic, irresponsible.
silly/ˈsɪɫi/愚蠢的, 糊涂的书中出现16次
It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
vulgar/ˈvəɫɡɝ/粗俗的, 庸俗的, 普通的书中出现15次
The Academy is too large and too vulgar.
spoil/ˈspɔɪɫ/损坏, 破坏, 溺爱书中出现15次
Don’t spoil him.
jewel/ˈdʒuəɫ/珠宝, 贵重物, 镶珠宝的饰物书中出现15次
The waving of crooked, false-jewelled fingers gave grotesqueness to the words.
absurd/əbˈsɝd/荒谬的, 不合理的, 可笑的书中出现15次
When we meet—we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke’s—we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces.
dull/ˈdəɫ/钝的, 无趣的, 呆滞的书中出现15次
You never open your lips while you are painting, and it is horribly dull standing on a platform and trying to look pleasant.
terribly/ˈtɛɹəbɫi/可怕地, 甚为, 非常书中出现15次
… Dorian Gray’s good looks—we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.”
upstairs/əpˈstɛɹz/在楼上, 向楼上, 处于更高地位书中出现15次
One could hear her singing as she ran upstairs.
shallow/ˈʃæɫoʊ/浅的, 肤浅的书中出现15次
But the world might guess it, and I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes.
gilt/ˈɡɪɫt/镀金的书中出现14次
The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive.
fascinating/ˈfæsəˌneɪtɪŋ/迷人的, 吸引人的, 使人神魂颠倒的书中出现14次
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so …
释义：ECDICT, English to Chinese (MIT) 音标：ipa-dict（MIT），来自维基词典。
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