读《杜立德医生的故事》前要掌握的40个英文单词
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
休·洛夫廷在《杜立德医生的故事》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。
monkey/ˈməŋki/淘气, 胡闹书中出现58次
And when that red-faced booby started to monkey with me, I just couldn’t bear it any more.”
parrot/ˈpɛɹət/鹦鹉, 应声虫书中出现35次
But his favorite pets were Dab-Dab the duck, Jip the dog, Gub-Gub the baby pig, Polynesia the parrot, and the owl Too-Too.
sail/ˈseɪɫ/航行, 启航, 张帆而行书中出现27次
And I sail the ocean Blue.
till/ˈtɪɫ/直到, 在...以前, 迄书中出现20次
… like the dormice and the water-voles and the bats, they will have to go back and live in the fields where they were born till we come home again.
sailor/ˈseɪɫɝ/水手, 船员, 海员书中出现17次
The parrot, Polynesia, was sitting in the window looking out at the rain and singing a sailor-song to herself.
jungle/ˈdʒəŋɡəɫ/丛林, 杂乱的一堆, 弱肉强食的地方书中出现17次
I hear footsteps in the jungle!”
snuff/ˈsnəf/烛花, 用鼻吸气, 嗅书中出现16次
“Snuff, by Jingo!—Black Rappee snuff.
downstairs/ˈdaʊnˈstɛɹz/在楼下书中出现14次
So Polynesia took him downstairs into the inside of the ship and showed him the beds, set all on top of one another like book-shelves against a wall.
crocodile/ˈkɹɑkəˌdaɪɫ/鳄鱼书中出现13次
And another time, when the circus came to Puddleby, the crocodile who had a bad toothache escaped at night and came into the Doctor’s garden.
pirate/ˈpaɪɹət/海盗, 盗印者, 侵犯专利权者书中出现12次
When they reached the shore they saw the pirate-ship, with the three red sails …
anchor/ˈæŋkɝ/锚书中出现12次
And you must have beef in cans—and an anchor.”
shark/ˈʃɑɹk/鲨鱼, 骗子书中出现12次
“The sharks!
palace/ˈpæɫəs/宫, 宫殿, 华丽大厦书中出现11次
WHEN they had gone a little way through the thick forest, they came to a wide, clear space; and they saw the King’s palace which was made of mud.
lion/ˈɫaɪən/狮子, 狮子座, 国际狮子会会员书中出现11次
So he sent messages to the other animals, like the lions and the leopards and the antelopes, to come and help with the nursing.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/英里书中出现10次
… but drove every Saturday all the way to Oxenthorpe, another town ten miles off, to see a different doctor.
terribly/ˈtɛɹəbɫi/可怕地, 甚为, 非常书中出现10次
One day a plow-horse was brought to him; and the poor thing was terribly glad to find a man who could talk in horse-language.
clever/ˈkɫɛvɝ/聪明的, 精明的书中出现9次
And whenever he walked down the street in his high hat everyone would say, “There goes the Doctor!—He’s a clever man.”
drown/ˈdɹaʊn/淹死书中出现9次
And then, just at that moment, the old man’s hat came floating by; and I got into it because I did not want to be drowned.”
dreadfully/ˈdɹɛdfəɫi/非常, 可怕地, 令人惊骇地书中出现8次
Oh, sometimes people annoy me dreadfully—such airs they put on—talking about ‘the dumb animals.’
presently/ˈpɹɛzəntɫi/目前, 不久书中出现8次
They all listened; and presently they heard the sound of some one running.
canary/kəˈnɛɹi/金丝雀, 淡黄色书中出现7次
“Don’t you hear the canaries singing?”
seashore/ˈsiˌʃɔɹ/海岸, 海滨书中出现6次
And when they had seen that there was plenty of hay in the loft to last the horse through the Winter, they carried all their luggage down to the seashore and got on to the boat.
leopard/ˈɫɛpɝd/豹, 美洲豹书中出现6次
Then the leopards got proud too and said they wouldn’t help.
circus/ˈsɝkəs/马戏团, 马戏, 竞技场书中出现6次
When the circus-men came to take him back he got so wild and savage that he frightened them away.
prince/ˈpɹɪns/王子, 亲王, 国君书中出现6次
“If I were only a white prince!”
upstairs/əpˈstɛɹz/在楼上, 向楼上, 处于更高地位书中出现6次
I want to go upstairs again and see them start.”
fisherman/ˈfɪʃɝˌmæn/渔夫, 钓鱼者, 渔船书中出现6次
But he said he didn’t want to be a pirate, because killing people and stealing was no work for a good fisherman to do.
dungeon/ˈdəndʒən/地牢书中出现5次
So six of the black men led the Doctor and all his pets away and shut them up in a stone dungeon.
din/ˈdɪn/抽屉书中出现5次
They looked under the mat; they looked under all the carpets; they looked in all the cupboards and drawers and lockers—in the big chests in the ship’s dining-room; they looked everywhere.
roast/ˈɹoʊst/烤肉, 烘烤, 嘲笑书中出现5次
“I smell roast beef cooking,” he mumbled—“underdone roast beef—with brown gravy over it.”
swift/ˈswɪft/迅速的, 快的, 敏捷的书中出现5次
“They are bad sailors,” said Jip; “and their ship is very swift.
sniff/ˈsnɪf/闻, 用力吸, 发觉书中出现5次
She found Gub-Gub poking his nose through the bars of the window, trying to sniff the cooking-smells that came from the palace-kitchen.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/惊恐书中出现5次
When she flew down to get it, she found one of the white mice, very frightened, sitting inside it.
unhappy/ənˈhæpi/不快乐的, 不幸的, 不适当的书中出现5次
The Doctor saw at once that the monkey’s collar was too tight and that he was dirty and unhappy.
cliff/ˈkɫɪf/悬崖, 绝壁书中出现5次
Then they all took shelter in a nice dry cave they found, high up in the cliffs, till the storm was over.
drawer/ˈdɹɔɹ/抽屉, 开票人书中出现5次
Then he sold his piano, and let the mice live in a bureau-drawer.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/次日书中出现4次
Just think—it’ll be a hundred and sixty-nine years to-morrow since I was here!
conceited/kənˈsitəd/自负的, 逞能的, 狂想的书中出现4次
“They’re just conceited.
stairs/ˈstɛɹz/楼梯书中出现4次
And she went back up the stairs of the ship, humming this song to herself,
grinder/ˈɡɹaɪndɝ/推磨的人, 研磨者书中出现4次
Once when he was sitting on his garden wall, smoking a pipe in the evening, an Italian organ-grinder came round with a monkey on a string.
释义：ECDICT, English to Chinese (MIT) 音标：ipa-dict（MIT），来自维基词典。
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