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Dear students, in this article I will tell you the word meaning of each paragraph, its pronunciation and Hindi meaning.
प्यारे विद्यार्थी , इस लेख में मैं आपको प्रत्येक पैराग्राफ़ का वर्ड मीनिंग उसका, उच्चारण एवं हिन्दी अर्थ बताऊंगा |
‘The Pace for Living’, R.C. Hutchinson captures the agony of modern man.
He brings out how the fast movement of men, things, and objects hurts the normal rhythm and exerts undue pressure on men, women, and children.
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Word Meanings – Paragraph 1
| Sr. No. | English Word | Pronunciation | Hindi Meaning | Sr. No. | English Word | Pronunciation | Hindi Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pace | पेस | गति | 2 | Living | लिविंग | जीवनयापन |
| 3 | Captures | कैप्चर्स | पकड़ता है | 4 | Agony | एगोनी | कष्ट / पीड़ा |
| 5 | Modern | मॉडर्न | आधुनिक | 6 | Man | मैन | आदमी / पुरुष |
| 7 | Brings | ब्रिंग्स | लाता है | 8 | Out | आउट | बाहर |
| 9 | Fast | फास्ट | तेज़ | 10 | Movement | मूवमेंट | गति / हलचल |
| 11 | Men | मेन | पुरुष | 12 | Things | थिंग्स | चीज़ें |
| 13 | Objects | ऑब्जेक्ट्स | वस्तुएँ | 14 | Hurts | हर्ट्स | चोट पहुँचाता है |
| 15 | Normal | नॉर्मल | सामान्य | 16 | Rhythm | रिदम | ताल / लय |
| 17 | Exerts | एग्जर्ट्स | डालता है | 18 | Undue | अंड्यू | अनुचित |
| 19 | Pressure | प्रेशर | दबाव | 20 | Men | मेन | पुरुष |
| 21 | Women | विमेन | महिलाएँ | 22 | Children | चिल्ड्रेन | बच्चे |
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I saw a play in Dublin not long ago in which the chief character was an elderly corn merchant in a small Irish country town.
He was a man of many anxieties—his heart was dicky, his nephew was cheating on him, his wife had the fantastic notion of spending £10 on a holiday.
Altogether the pace of life was getting too much for him, and in a moment of despair, he uttered a great cry from the heart: “They tell me there’s an aeroplane now that goes at 1,000 miles an hour. Now that’s too fast!”
Word Meanings – Paragraph 2
| Sr. No | English Word | Pronunciation | Hindi Meaning | Sr. No | English Word | Pronunciation | Hindi Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Play | प्ले | नाटक | 2 | Dublin | डबलिन | (स्थान का नाम) |
| 3 | Chief | चीफ | मुख्य | 4 | Character | कैरेक्टर | पात्र |
| 5 | Elderly | एल्डरली | वृद्ध | 6 | Corn-merchant | कॉर्न-मर्चेंट | अनाज व्यापारी |
| 7 | Small | स्मॉल | छोटा | 8 | Irish | आइरिश | आयरलैंड का |
| 9 | Country | कंट्री | देश | 10 | Town | टाउन | कस्बा |
| 11 | Man | मैन | आदमी | 12 | Anxieties | एंग्जायटीज़ | चिंताएँ |
| 13 | Heart | हार्ट | हृदय | 14 | Dicky | डिकी | कमजोर |
| 15 | Nephew | नेफ्यू | भतीजा/भांजा | 16 | Cheating | चीटिंग | धोखा देना |
| 17 | Wife | वाइफ | पत्नी | 18 | Fantastic | फैंटास्टिक | अद्भुत |
| 19 | Notion | नोशन | विचार | 20 | Spending | स्पेंडिंग | खर्च करना |
| 21 | Holiday | हॉलीडे | छुट्टी | 22 | Altogether | ऑलटुगेदर | कुल मिलाकर |
| 23 | Pace | पेस | गति | 24 | Life | लाइफ | जीवन |
| 25 | Despair | डिस्पेयर | निराशा | 26 | Uttered | अटर्ड | बोलना/प्रकट करना |
| 27 | Great | ग्रेट | महान | 28 | Cry | क्राइ | चिल्लाना |
| 29 | Heart | हार्ट | हृदय | 30 | Aeroplane | एरोप्लेन | विमान |
| 31 | Miles | माइल्स | मील | 32 | Hour | आवर | घंटा |
| 33 | Fast | फास्ट | तेज़ |
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For me, that was the most enchanting line in the play; the man’s complaint was so to his own situation.
And besides being comic, it struck me as a perfect illustration of the way the Irish get at subtle truths by the most unlikely approaches.
You saw what the old fool meant
Word Meanings – Paragraph 3
| Sr. No | English Word | Pronunciation (देवनागरी) | Hindi Meaning | Sr. No | English Word | Pronunciation (देवनागरी) | Hindi Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Enchanted | एन्चांटेड | मोहित | 2 | Line | लाइन | पंक्ति |
| 3 | Play | प्ले | नाटक | 4 | Complaint | कंप्लेंट | शिकायत |
| 5 | Situation | सिचुएशन | परिस्थिति | 6 | Besides | बिसाइड्स | के अलावा |
| 7 | Comic | कॉमिक | हास्यपूर्ण | 8 | Struck | स्ट्रक | प्रभावित किया |
| 9 | Perfect | परफेक्ट | सटीक | 10 | Illustration | इलस्ट्रेशन | उदाहरण |
| 11 | Way | वे | तरीका | 12 | Irish | आइरिश | आयरलैंड का |
| 13 | Subtle | सब्टल | सूक्ष्म | 14 | Truths | ट्रूथ्स | सत्य |
| 15 | Unlikely | अनलाइकली | असंभावित | 16 | Approaches | अपरोचेस | दृष्टिकोण |
| 17 | Old | ओल्ड | बूढ़ा | 18 | Fool | फूल | मूर्ख |
| 19 | Meant | मेंट | अर्थ निकाला | 20 | Mistake | मिस्टेक | गलती |
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Not that I have any dislike of rapid movement myself.
I enjoy going in a car at ninety miles an hour—so long as I am driving and so long as it is not my car.
I adore the machines that hurl you about at Battersea.
To dine in London and lunch in New York next day seems to me a most satisfactory experience.
I admit it excludes all the real pleasures of travel—the sort of fun you get from a country bus in Somerset or Spain.
But it gives you a superficial sense of drama; it was a sort of excitement our ancestors had to do without, and we might just as well accept it gratefully.
No, where speed becomes something unfriendly to me is where the mental activities of our time tend—as they naturally do—to follow the pace of the machines.
Word Meanings – Paragraph 4
| Sr. No | English Word | Pronunciation (देवनागरी) | Hindi Meaning | Sr. No | English Word | Pronunciation (देवनागरी) | Hindi Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | नॉट | नहीं | 2 | Dislike | डिस्लाइक | नापसंद |
| 3 | Rapid | रैपिड | तेज़ | 4 | Movement | मूवमेंट | गति |
| 5 | Enjoy | एंजॉय | आनंद लेना | 6 | Car | कार | गाड़ी |
| 7 | Ninety | नाइंटी | नब्बे | 8 | Miles | माइल्स | मील |
| 9 | Hour | आवर | घंटा | 10 | Driving | ड्राइविंग | चालन |
| 11 | Adore | अडोर | पसंद करना | 12 | Machines | मशीन | मशीनें |
| 13 | Hurl | हर्ल | फेंकना | 14 | Battersea | बैटरसी | (स्थान का नाम) |
| 15 | Dine | डाइन | भोजन करना | 16 | London | लंदन | (स्थान का नाम) |
| 17 | Lunch | लंच | दोपहर का भोजन | 18 | New York | न्यू यॉर्क | (स्थान का नाम) |
| 19 | Satisfactory | सैटिस्फैक्टरी | संतोषजनक | 20 | Experience | एक्सपीरियंस | अनुभव |
| 21 | Admit | एडमिट | स्वीकार करना | 22 | Excludes | एक्सक्लूड्स | बाहर करना |
| 23 | Pleasures | प्लेजर्स | सुख | 24 | Travel | ट्रैवल | यात्रा |
| 25 | Bus | बस | बस | 26 | Somerset | समरसेट | (स्थान का नाम) |
| 27 | Spain | स्पेन | (देश का नाम) | 28 | Superficial | सुपरफिशियल | ऊपरी |
| 29 | Drama | ड्रामा | नाटक | 30 | Excitement | एक्साइटमेंट | रोमांच |
| 31 | Ancestors | एंसेस्टर्स | पूर्वज | 32 | Accept | एक्सेप्ट | स्वीकार करना |
| 33 | Gratefully | ग्रेटफुली | कृतज्ञता से | 34 | Speed | स्पीड | गति |
| 35 | Unfriendly | अनफ्रेंडली | अमित्र | 36 | Mental | मेंटल | मानसिक |
| 37 | Activities | एक्टिविटीज | क्रियाएँ | 38 | Machines | मशीन | मशीनें |
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Word Meanings – Paragraph 5
| Sr. No | English Word | Pronunciation | Hindi Meaning | Sr. No | English Word | Pronunciation | Hindi Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Speak | स्पीक | बोलना | 2 | Prejudice | प्रेजुडिस | पूर्वाग्रह |
| 3 | Belong | बिलॉन्ग | सम्बंध रखना | 4 | Tribe | ट्राइब | जनजाति |
| 5 | Slow | स्लो | धीमा | 6 | Thinkers | थिंकर | विचारक |
| 7 | Cursed | कर्स्ड | अभिशप्त | 8 | People | पीपल | लोग |
| 9 | Light | लाइट | प्रकाश डालना | 10 | Devastating | डेवस्टेटिंग | विनाशकारी |
| 11 | Repartee | रिपार्टी | झटपट उत्तर | 12 | Hours | आवर्स | घंटे |
| 13 | Party | पार्टी | समारोह | 14 | Over | ओवर | समाप्त |
| 15 | Guaranteed | गारंटीड | गारंटी दी हुई | 16 | Lowest | लोवेस्ट | न्यूनतम |
| 17 | Marks | मार्क्स | अंक | 18 | Intelligence | इंटेलिजेंस | बुद्धिमत्ता |
| 19 | Test | टेस्ट | परीक्षण | 20 | Designed | डिजाइन्ड | डिजाइन किया हुआ |
| 21 | Measure | मेज़र | मापना | 22 | Speed | स्पीड | गति |
| 23 | Mind | माइंड | मन | 24 | Handicapped | हैंडिकैप्ड | असक्षम |
| 25 | Business | बिजनेस | व्यवसाय | 26 | Living | लिविंग | जीवनयापन |
| 27 | Practical | प्रैक्टिकल | व्यावहारिक | 28 | Use | यूज | उपयोग |
| 29 | Enjoyment | एंजॉयमेंट | आनंद |
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As an example, when I go to the cinema I find myself in a hopeless fog, and after two or three minutes I have to turn to my wife for enlightenment.
I whisper: “Is this the same girl as the one we saw at the beginning?”
And she whispers back: “No, there are three girls in this film—a tall blonde, a short blonde, and a medium-sized brunette Call them A, B, and C. The hero is that man who takes his hat off when he comes indoors.
He is going to fall in love with girls B, C, A in that order.
And so it proves to be.
There you have a mind which has trained itself to work in high gear—though as a matter of fact, it can work in other gears just as well.
But my point is that most of my fellow-patients in the cinema do think fast enough to keep up comfortably with rapid changes of scene and action.
They think much faster than people did thirty years ago: possibly because those who do not think fast in the High Street nowadays may not get another chance in this world to think at all.
Word Meanings – Paragraph 6
| Sr. No | English Word | Pronunciation (देवनागरी) | Hindi Meaning | Sr. No | English Word | Pronunciation (देवनागरी) | Hindi Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cinema | सिनेमाह | सिनेमा | 2 | Hopeless | होपलेस | निराशाजनक |
| 3 | Fog | फॉग | कोहरा | 4 | Enlightenment | इनलाइटेनमेंट | प्रबोधन |
| 5 | Whisper | व्हिस्पर | फुसफुसाना | 6 | Blonde | ब्लॉन्ड | सुनहरे बालों वाली |
| 7 | Brunette | ब्रूनेट | भूरे बालों वाली | 8 | Hero | हीरो | नायक |
| 9 | Hat | हैट | टोपी | 10 | Indoors | इनडोर्स | घर के अंदर |
| 11 | Order | ऑर्डर | क्रम | 12 | Trained | ट्रेन्ड | प्रशिक्षित |
| 13 | Gear | गियर | गति यंत्र | 14 | Fellow | फेलो | साथी |
| 15 | Patients | पेशंट्स | रोगी | 16 | Rapid | रैपिड | तेज |
| 17 | Scene | सीन | दृश्य | 18 | Action | एक्शन | कार्य |
| 19 | Comfortably | कम्फर्टेबली | आराम से | 20 | Changes | चेंजिस | परिवर्तन |
| 21 | Possibly | पॉसिबली | संभवतः | 22 | Nowadays | नाउ-अ-डेज | आजकल |
| 23 | Another | अनदर | एक और | 24 | Chance | चांस | अवसर |
| 25 | World | वर्ल्ड | दुनिया | 26 | Think | थिंक | सोचना |