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DICTIONARY
TRANSLATION
apreciar, atesorar
to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.
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The opening
How “Mrs Dalloway” begins
Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
For Lucy had her work cut out for her.
The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer’s men were coming.
And then, thought Clarissa Dalloway, what a morning—fresh as if issued to children on a beach.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 23 words you will meet most often in “Mrs Dalloway” at level B2 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- rose
- strike
- extraordinary
- soul
- tear
- stretch
- presumably
- leave
- admirable
- queer
- stare
- cheek
- proportion
- absurd
- pavement
- bear
- merely
- creature
- exquisite
- somehow
- heaven
- charming
- part
The meanings here are the everyday ones. In the reader, tap a word to see the sense this sentence uses.
Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “Mrs Dalloway”
How much of each kind of grammar “Mrs Dalloway” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Relative clauses
- Perfect tenses
- Phrasal verbs
- Modal verbs
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Passive voice
- Reported speech
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- Past participle clause Infinite numbers of dull people conglomerated round her of course.
- I used to … “Do you remember,” she said, “how the blinds used to flap at Bourton?
- Phrasal verb with 'down' “But I am so unhappy, Septimus,” said Rezia trying to make him sit down.
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 Mrs Dalloway is a great book to read in English
One June day in London: Clarissa Dalloway prepares a party while, across the city, a shell-shocked veteran loses his hold on the world. Woolf's 1925 novel flows between minds in long, musical sentences — demanding, beautiful English for a confident advanced reader.
On LangOrbit you read “Mrs Dalloway” 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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