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Read “The Time Machine” by H. G. Wells in English. Tap any word for its meaning, hear how it sounds, and save it to a memory-driven review schedule.
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DICTIONARY
TRANSLATION
apreciar, atesorar
to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.
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The opening
How “The Time Machine” begins
The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.
His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated.
The fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses.
Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere when thought roams gracefully free of the trammels of precision.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 29 words you will meet most often in “The Time Machine” at level B2 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- darkness
- presently
- creature
- psychologist
- strike
- dimension
- mere
- vanish
- shadow
- bush
- ruin
- hesitate
- dim
- stare
- vast
- upper
- altogether
- necessity
- pedestal
- queer
- comfort
- lawn
- creep
- peculiar
- apparently
- flame
- sensation
- triumph
- heap
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Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “The Time Machine”
How much of each kind of grammar “The Time Machine” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Perfect tenses
- Relative clauses
- Phrasal verbs
- Passive voice
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Modal verbs
- Reported speech
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- Phrasal verb with 'down' He gave a whoop of dismay, staggered a little way, and fell down.
- Past perfect active I believe she would have cast herself into it had I not restrained her.
- -ing clause as adverbial (Feeling tired, …) “Yes,” said the Time Traveller, with his mouth full, nodding his head.
Counted the way the Reader shows it: one card per construction in a sentence. Open the book in the Reader and tap a highlighted phrase to see the rule.
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Grammar in context
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About the book
Why The Time Machine is a great book to read in English
The Time Traveller throws his machine eight hundred thousand years forward and finds humanity split into the gentle Eloi and the creatures that feed on them. Wells's 1895 novella practically invented time-travel fiction — and it is short, clear, and gripping in equal measure.
On LangOrbit you read “The Time Machine” with a safety net: the translation is one tap away when a sentence runs long, every word opens its meaning in context and can be saved for spaced-repetition review, and the grammar behind the trickier lines is explained right where you meet it.
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