读《谁的尸体》前要掌握的40个英文单词
Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel
多萝西·L·塞耶斯在《谁的尸体》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。
lord/ˈɫɔɹd/统治者, 阁下, 上帝书中出现75次
“Her Grace has just called up from Denver, my lord.
lordship/ˈɫɔɹdʃɪp/贵族身分, 主权, 支配书中出现45次
“I believe that’s his lordship just coming in again—if your Grace would kindly hold the line a moment.”
till/ˈtɪɫ/直到, 在...以前, 迄书中出现36次
“Inspector Sugg said nothing was to be touched till his men came in to move it.
inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/询问, 问明, 查究书中出现24次
“I didn’t hear Inspector Sugg inquire,” he said, with some agitation.
workhouse贫民习艺所, 济贫院, 感化院书中出现18次
Died workhouse Monday.
taxi/ˈtæksi/出租车书中出现18次
The taxi man, irritated at receiving this appeal while negotiating the intricacies of turning into Lower Regent Street across the route of a 19 ’bus …
dissect/daɪˈsɛkt/解剖, 切开书中出现17次
thought one of the young medical gentlemen at the hospital might have brought the corpse round for a joke, as you might say, they always having bodies in the dissecting-room.
deceased/dɪˈsist/死者书中出现15次
He had never seen the deceased before.
corpse/ˈkɔɹps/尸体书中出现13次
—if the Church of Rome went to pot or Switzerland invaded Italy—whereas a strange corpse doesn’t turn up in a suburban bathroom more than once in a lifetime—at least, I should think not—at any rate …
beard/ˈbɪɹd/胡须书中出现13次
Oddly enough, though, he would be really extraordinarily like Sir Reuben if he had a beard, and as Lady Levy
inquest/ˈɪnˌkwɛst/审讯, 讯问, 验尸书中出现12次
“I see they adjourned the inquest,” said Parker presently.
awfully/ˈɑfɫi/恶劣地, 非常地, 极端地书中出现12次
Well, thanks awfully for tellin’ me.
oblige/əˈbɫaɪdʒ/施恩惠, 帮忙书中出现12次
Noblesse oblige—for a consideration.
umbrella/ˈəmˌbɹɛɫə/伞, 雨伞, 保护伞书中出现12次
He walked upstairs, leaving his greatcoat on the hall peg and his umbrella in the stand—you remember how it rained last night.
downstairs/ˈdaʊnˈstɛɹz/在楼下书中出现12次
… and seeing that it was already a quarter to three, ran briskly downstairs, and …
pauper/ˈpɔpɝ/贫民, 靠救济度日者, 穷人书中出现11次
“Then the man was a pauper from the workhouse?”
brandy/ˈbɹændi/白兰地酒书中出现11次
… and I get that sinking feeling sometimes in the morning, and what with one thing and another I ’ad—had to send the girl for a stiff brandy, or I don’t know what mightn’t have happened.
respectable/ɹiˈspɛktəbəɫ/值得尊重的, 人格高尚的, 相当数量的书中出现11次
He’s such a respectable little man—and having the police in the house and so on, really worried him.”
murmur/ˈmɝmɝ/低声说书中出现11次
“That’s all, I think,” he murmured to himself.
afterwards/ˈæftɝwɝdz/然后, 后来书中出现11次
“I’ll tell you afterwards.
waiter/ˈweɪtɝ/侍者书中出现11次
inquired the waiter of the Honourable Freddy.
rubber/ˈɹəbɝ/橡皮, 橡胶, 做摩擦动作的人书中出现11次
I say, Parker, I suppose yours are rubber-soled.
fool/ˈfuɫ/愚人, 受骗者, 奶油拌水果书中出现11次
a bally fool all the time.
cheerfully/ˈtʃɪɹfəɫi/高高兴兴地书中出现10次
“Very wise of you,” said Lord Peter, cheerfully.
devil/ˈdɛvəɫ/魔鬼书中出现10次
But as a matter of fact, the man in the bath is no more Sir Reuben Levy than Adolf Beck, poor devil, was John Smith.
ladder/ˈɫædɝ/梯, 梯状物, 发迹的途径书中出现10次
There were no ladder marks or footmarks in the yard; the yard was paved with asphalt.
mysterious/mɪˈstɪɹiəs/神秘的, 难解的, 不可思议的书中出现10次
… cheque-book, and—most mysterious and important of all—his spectacles, without which he can’t see a step …
recognise/ˈɹɛkəɡˌnaɪz/认识, 辩认, 认出书中出现9次
The little book off the night table, my lord, has only the marks of one set of fingers—there’s a little scar on the right thumb which makes them easy recognised.
cistern/ˈsɪstɝn/贮水器, 水塘, 水箱书中出现9次
Me and my wife sleep next to the cistern-room.
eyeglass/ˈaɪˌɡɫæs/镜片书中出现9次
… too, except for a pair of eyeglasses, I assure you …
valet/væˈɫeɪ/贴身男仆书中出现9次
The valet, cook, parlourmaid, housemaid and kitchenmaid were the only people in the house, and naturally wasted an hour or two squawking and gossiping.
jolly/ˈdʒɑɫi/非常, 极为书中出现9次
Gin a body jolly well knows who murdered a body
railway/ˈɹeɪɫˌweɪ/铁路, 轨道书中出现9次
He’s afraid those railway people will get in now, and then it’ll be all U.
groan/ˈɡɹoʊn/呻吟, 叹息书中出现9次
“Any amount,” replied Mr. Bunter, with a groan calculated to appeal to Mr. Graves’s heart and unlock his confidence.
advertisement/ˌædvɝˈtaɪzmənt/广告, 启事, 广告宣传书中出现9次
“I’ve just put an advertisement in the Times about it,” said Lord Peter.
distress/dɪˈstɹɛs/使苦恼书中出现9次
… always living very retired, and it’s most distressing to a man of regular habits, my lord …
sensation/sɛnˈseɪʃən/感觉, 轰动书中出现9次
To go in for cheap sensations
uncommonly/ˌənˈkɑmənɫi/非常, 极其, 罕见地书中出现8次
“I’m sure it must have been uncommonly distressin’,” said Lord Peter, sympathetically, “especially comin’ like that before breakfast.
beastly/ˈbistˌɫi/野兽的, 残忍的, 令人厌憎的书中出现8次
What a beastly foggy night, ain’t it?
linoleum/ɫəˈnoʊɫiəm/油地毡, 漆布书中出现8次
Her visitor placed on the table a basket, containing a water-bottle, a silver-backed hair-brush, a pair of boots, a small roll of linoleum, and the “Letters of a Self-made
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