学习英文,圣经是一本非常好的教材,前不久无事对圣经做了些统计,原文基于圣经的新世界译本,之所以选择这个版本是因为它同时提供了中英文的语音的MP3下载。
经过统计,整部圣经大约90.2万个单词,31102个小节(Verse)。非重复单词(包括人名,地名,时态,单复数)量在12000左右。
使用排名前50名的单词如下:
Word | Count |
the | 61703 |
and | 45660 |
of | 36018 |
to | 29882 |
you | 15678 |
in | 15328 |
a | 14476 |
that | 12508 |
he | 10938 |
for | 10342 |
is | 9915 |
i | 9873 |
will | 9106 |
his | 8197 |
it | 7715 |
they | 7470 |
your | 7241 |
jehovah | 7101 |
not | 7019 |
with | 6974 |
as | 6082 |
be | 6073 |
him | 6020 |
have | 5704 |
all | 5638 |
them | 5605 |
from | 5300 |
my | 4923 |
one | 4523 |
was | 4431 |
me | 4402 |
on | 4199 |
are | 4185 |
god | 4044 |
their | 4037 |
said | 3977 |
but | 3936 |
this | 3926 |
has | 3868 |
out | 3379 |
there | 3319 |
must | 3171 |
up | 3126 |
by | 3096 |
at | 3053 |
do | 3024 |
who | 2966 |
upon | 2861 |
were | 2781 |
sons | 2673 |
这50个单词占到了整部圣经的50%!!,通过检索新浪在线字典http://dictionary.sina.com.tw/ ,查出其中8388多个(余下的为时态变化,或是专用人名,地名等新浪在线字典直接查询无结果)。
在线可以访问http://www.imobilebbs.com/download/Dictionary.html
或者下载字典,背完这8000多单词,读圣经就没有生词了,看其它英文书籍基本上也没有问题:-)