Chapter 1 of 4-1/2B, Eros is here in full — 575 sentences across 115 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of 4-1/2B, Eros is here in full — 575 sentences across 115 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"4-1/2B, Eros."... A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx. "Makee chop chop. Kwei! Kwei!"
Chapter 1 of 4-1/2B, Eros is here in full — 575 sentences across 115 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/115 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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terminate
From this reading “A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx.”
cut into pieces
From this reading “"Makee chop chop.”
a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)
From this reading “A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx.”
(Greek mythology) god of love; son of Aphrodite; identified with Roman Cupid
From this reading “"4-1/2B, Eros."...”
having dark hairs mixed with grey or white
From this reading “A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx.”
a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him
From this reading “A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx.”
fraught with danger
From this reading “A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx.”
being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
From this reading “A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx.”
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Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx.
aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
From this reading "4-1/2B, Eros."...
terminate
From this reading A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx.
cut into pieces
From this reading "Makee chop chop.
a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)
From this reading A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx.
(Greek mythology) god of love; son of Aphrodite; identified with Roman Cupid
From this reading "4-1/2B, Eros."...
having dark hairs mixed with grey or white
From this reading A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx.
a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him
From this reading A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx.
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From this reading A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx.
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From this reading Kwei!
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From this reading "Makee chop chop.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx.
fraught with danger
From this reading A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx.
being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
From this reading A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx.
employed in accomplishing something
From this reading A strange code, but grizzled space-trader Karns used it to break the perilous Mercury-Venus Jinx.
Chapter 1 of 4-1/2B, Eros by Malcolm Jameson holds 575 sentences, grouped into 115 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 1 holds 575 sentences of 4-1/2B, Eros, unabridged, divided into 115 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of 4-1/2B, Eros by Malcolm Jameson exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 575 sentences, grouped into 115 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 115 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 115 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 1 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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About 47 minutes of reading across 115 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through 4-1/2B, Eros section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Play the section aloud, then tap any unfamiliar word for its entry.
Words and structures a reader meets early in 4-1/2B, Eros, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
