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The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson, Burnett, Chapter 3
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Across the Moor She slept a long time, and when she awakened, Mrs. Medlock had bought a lunch basket at one of the stations,
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and they had some chicken and cold beef and bread and butter, and some hot tea.
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The rain seemed to be streaming down more heavily than ever, and everybody in the station wore wet and glistening waterproofs.
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The guard lighted the lamps in the carriage, and Mrs. Medlock cheered up very much over her tea and chicken and beef.
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She ate a great deal, and afterward fell asleep herself, and Mary sat and stared at her, and watched her fine bonnet slip on one side,
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until she herself fell asleep once more in the corner of the carriage, lulled by the splashing of the rain against the windows.
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It was quite dark when she awakened again.
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The train had stopped at a station and Mrs. Medlock was shaking her.
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You have had a sleep, she said.
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It's time to open your eyes.
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We're at Thwaite Station and we've got a long drive before us.
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Mary stood up and tried to keep her eyes open while Mrs. Medlock collected her parcels.
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The little girl did not offer to help her, because in India, native servants always picked up or carried things,
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and it seemed quite proper that other people should wait on one.
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The station was a small one, and nobody but themselves seemed to be getting out of the train.
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The station master spoke to Mrs Medlock in a rough, good -natured way, pronouncing his words in a queer, broad fashion, which
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Mary found out afterward was Yorkshire.
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I see thou's got back, he said, and thou's brought the young 'n with thee.
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Aye, that's her, answered Mrs Medlock, speaking with a Yorkshire accent herself, and jerking her head over her shoulder toward Mary.
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How's the missus?
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Wellie now, the carriage is waiting outside for thee.
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A brougham stood on the road before the little outside platform.
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Mary saw that it was a smart carriage and that it was a smart footman who helped her in.
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His long waterproof coat and the waterproof covering of his hat were shining and dripping with rain,
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as everything was the burly stationmaster included.
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When he shut the door, mounted the box with the coachman and they drove off, the little girl found herself seated in a comfortably cushioned corner,
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but she was not inclined to go to sleep again.
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She sat and looked out of the window,
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curious to see something of the road over which she was being driven to the queer place Mrs. Medlock had spoken of.
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She was not at all a timid child, and she was not exactly frightened,
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but she felt that there was no knowing what might happen in a house with a hundred rooms nearly all shut up,
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a house standing on the edge of a moor.
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What is a moor, she said suddenly to Mrs Medlock.
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Look out of the window in about ten minutes and you'll see, the woman answered.
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We've got to drive five miles across Missalmoor before we get to the manor.
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You won't see much because it's a dark night, but you can see something.
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Mary asked no more questions, but waited in the darkness of her corner, keeping her eyes on the window.
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The carriage lamps cast rays of light a little distance ahead of them, and she caught glimpses of the things they passed.
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After they had left the station, they had driven through a tiny village, and she had seen whitewashed cottages and the lights of a public house.
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Then they had passed a church and a vicarage and a little shop window, or so, in a cottage,
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with toys and sweets, and odd things set out for sale.
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Then they were on the high road and she saw hedges and trees.
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After that, there seemed nothing different for a long time, or at least it seemed a long time to her.
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At last the horses began to go more slowly, as if they were climbing uphill,
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and presently there seemed to be no more hedges and no more trees.
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She could see nothing, in fact, but a dense darkness on either side.
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She leaned forward and pressed her face against the window, just as the carriage gave a big jolt.
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Eee, we're on the moor now, sure enough, said Mrs Medlock.
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The carriage lamps shed a yellow light on a rough -looking road, which seemed to be cut through bushes,
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and low -growing things, which ended in the great expanse of dark, apparently spread out before and around them.
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A wind was rising and making a singular wild low rushing sound.
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It's...
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It's not the sea, is it? said
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Mary, looking round at her companion.
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No, not it, answered Mrs Medlock.
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Nor it isn't fields nor mountains.
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It's just miles and miles and miles of wild land
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that nothing grows on but heather and gorse and broom and nothing lives on but wild ponies and sheep.
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I feel as if it might be the sea, if there were water on it, said Mary.
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It sounds like the sea just now.
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That's the wind blowing through the bushes, Mrs Medlock said.
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It's a wild, dreary enough place to my mind, though there's plenty that likes it, particularly when the heather's in bloom.
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On and on they drove through the darkness, and though the rain stopped, the wind rushed by and whistled and made strange sounds.
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The road went up and down, and several times the carriage passed over a little bridge,
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beneath which water rushed very fast with a great deal of noise.
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Mary felt as if the drive would never come to an end
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and that the wide bleak moor was a wide expanse of black ocean through
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which she was passing on a strip of dry land.
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I don't like it, she said to herself.
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I don't like it.
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And she pinched her thin lips more tightly together.
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The horses were climbing up a hilly piece of road when she first caught sight of a light.
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Mrs Medlock saw it as soon as she did and drew a long sigh of relief.
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Hey, I am glad to see that bit of light twinkling, she exclaimed.
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It's the light in the lodge window.
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We shall get a good cup of tea after a bit at all events.
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It was after a bit, as she said, for when the carriage passed through the park gates,
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there were still two miles of avenue to drive through, and the trees, which nearly met overhead,
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made it seem as if they were driving through a long, dark vault.
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They drove out of the vault into a clear space
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and stopped before an immensely long but low -built house which seemed to ramble round a stone court.
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At first Mary thought that there were no lights at all in the windows,
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but as she got out of the carriage she saw that one room in a corner upstairs showed a dull glow.
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The entrance door was a huge one, made of massive curiously shaped panels of oak,
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studded with big iron nails and bound with great iron bars.
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It opened into an enormous hall, which was so dimly lighted,
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that the faces in the portraits on the walls and the figures in the suits of armour,
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made Mary feel that she did not want to look at them.
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As she stood on the stone floor, she looked a very small,
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odd little black figure, and she felt as small and lost and odd as she looked.
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A neat, thin old man stood near the manservant who opened the door for them.
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You are to take her to her room, he said in a husky voice.
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He doesn't want to see her.
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He's going to London in the morning.
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Very well, Mr. Pitcher, Mrs. Medlock answered so long as I know what's expected of me I can manage.
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What's expected of you, Mrs. Medlock, Mr. Pitcher said,
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is that you make sure that he's not disturbed and that he doesn't see what he doesn't want to see.
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And then Mary Lennox was led up a broad staircase
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and down a long corridor and up a short flight of steps
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and through another corridor and another until a door opened in a wall
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and she found herself in a room with a fire in it and a supper on a table.
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Mrs. Medlock said unceremoniously, Well, here you are.
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This room and the next are where you'll live and you must keep to them.
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Don't you forget that.
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It was in this way
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Mistress Mary arrived at Misselthwaite Manor and she had perhaps never felt quite
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so contrary in all her life and so ends the third chapter of Mary Lennox's story.
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Chapter 4 Martha is just around the corner.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “The Secret Garden Chapter Three”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: Medlock, Mary, carriage, window, seemed. Questo video contiene 109 frasi e 1497 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 9:05. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 165 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Solo il 81% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| carriage sostantivo | /ˈkæɹɪd͡ʒ/ | carrozza |
| rush verbo | /ɹʌʃ/ | affrettarsi, correre |
| darkness sostantivo | /ˈdɑɹk.nɪs/ | buio, oscurità |
| lamp sostantivo | /ˈlæ̝mp/ | lampada, lampadina |
| waterproof aggettivo | /ˈwɔt̬ɚˌpruf/ | impermeabile, a tenuta stagna |
| thin aggettivo | /ˈθɪn/ | sottile, fine |
| afterwards avverbio | /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/ | dopo, poi |
| asleep aggettivo | /əˈsliːp/ | addormentato |
| climb verbo | /ˈklaɪ̯m/ | arrampicare, scalare |
| cottage sostantivo | /ˈkɒt.ɪd͡ʒ/ | casolare, rustico |
| vault sostantivo | /vɑlt/ | volta |
| corridor sostantivo | /ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/ | corridoio |
| manor sostantivo | /ˈmænəɹ/ | tenuta |
| hedge sostantivo | /ˈhɛd͡ʒ/ | siepe |
| gate sostantivo | /ˈɡeɪ̯t/ | cancello |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| cheer up verbo | incoraggiare, sostenere | |
| find out verbo | scoprire | |
| go up verbo | salire | |
| pass through verbo | trapassare | |
| pick up verbo | tirare su, sollevare | |
| shut up | /ʃʌt ʌp/ | chiudi la bocca, stai zitto |
| stand up verbo | alzarsi in piedi |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- It's time to open your eyes.
- It's not the sea, is it?
- I don't like it, she said to herself.
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 14 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come doesn't, don't, we're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: thin /ˈθɪn/, beneath /bɪˈniːθ/, heather /ˈhɛðɚ/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: rush /ɹʌʃ/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/, sheep /ˈʃiːp/, shine /ʃaɪn/, splash /splæʃ/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: curiously /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs.li/, stationmaster /ˈsteɪʃənˈmɑːstə/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: hedge /ˈhɛd͡ʒ/, overhead /ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/, heather /ˈhɛðɚ/, hilly /ˈhɪli/, husky /ˈhʌs.ki/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: carriage /ˈkæɹɪd͡ʒ/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, darkness /ˈdɑɹk.nɪs/, lamp /ˈlæ̝mp/, waterproof /ˈwɔt̬ɚˌpruf/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: carriage /ˈkæɹɪd͡ʒ/, lamp /ˈlæ̝mp/, afterwards /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/, manor /ˈmænəɹ/, avenue /ˈæv.əˌn(j)u/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come carriage, rush, darkness.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.