「二都物語」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
A Tale of Two Cities
チャールズ・ディケンズが「二都物語」で何度も使う、英語の頻出4,000語に入らない40語です。先に覚えておくと、最初の章がずっと読みやすくなります。各単語に発音記号、意味、本文の例文をつけました。
knit/ˈnɪt/を寄せる, しかめる本文に61回
… white with what they suppressed; nor foreheads knitted into the likeness of the gallows-rope they mused about enduring, or inflicting.
carriage/ˈkæɹɪdʒ/四輪馬車本文に51回
Say, shall I hire a carriage and post-horses?”
mender修理者本文に48回
… as the like of himself had drooped before Monseigneur of the Court—only the difference was, that these faces drooped merely to suffer and not to propitiate—when a grizzled mender of the roads joined the group.
fountain/ˈfaʊntən/噴水本文に42回
At last, swooping at a street corner by a fountain, one of its wheels came to a sickening little jolt …
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/明日, 翌日本文に37回
… the iron gates were being closed with a jar and a rattle, and the dismal place was deserted until to-morrow morning’s interest of gallows, pillory …
courtyard/ˈkɔɹtˌjɑɹd/=court1本文に35回
The doorway of the staircase gives on the little courtyard close to the left here,” pointing with his hand, “near to the window of my establishment.
patriot/ˈpeɪtɹiət/愛国者, 志士本文に30回
That, this patriot would be produced before them.
bless/ˈbɫɛs/本文に29回
Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster.
honour/ˈɑnɝ/尊敬, 信用本文に28回
… and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards.
pity/ˈpɪti/あわれみ, 同情本文に26回
As he said the words he looked down, with an admiring pity, on the flowing golden hair; as if he pictured to himself that it might have been already tinged with grey.
afterwards/ˈæftɝwɝdz/あとで, 以後, その後本文に25回
She quickly brought them down and handed them in;—and immediately afterwards leaned against the door-post, knitting, and saw nothing.
stairs/ˈstɛɹz/階段本文に24回
Thus, Monsieur Defarge, in a stern voice, to Mr. Lorry, as they began ascending the stairs.
dreadful/ˈdɹɛdfəɫ/恐ろしい, ものすごい本文に24回
The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful.
nephew/ˈnɛfju/おい本文に24回
“My nephew,” said the Marquis, glancing at the supper preparation; “they said he was not arrived.”
gaoler=jailer本文に23回
“You are not the gaoler’s daughter?”
dread/ˈdɹɛd/…を非常にこわがる本文に23回
… and always going on the side which Mr. Lorry took, as though he dreaded to be asked any question by the young lady, turned himself about here …
staircase/ˈstɛɹˌkeɪs/階段, はしご段本文に23回
In the gloomy tile-paved entry to the gloomy tile-paved staircase, Monsieur Defarge bent down on one knee to the child of his old master, and put her hand to his lips.
escort/ˈɛskɔɹt/に付き添って行く本文に23回
The great bell of Saint Paul’s was striking one in the cleared air, when Mr. Lorry, escorted by Jerry, high-booted and bearing a lantern, set forth on his return-passage to Clerkenwell.
summon/ˈsəmən/を呼び出す, 召喚する, 召集する本文に22回
“She had laid her head upon my shoulder, that night when I was summoned out—she had a fear of my going, though I had none—and when I was brought to the North Tower they found these upon my sleeve.
favour/ˈfeɪvɝ/好意本文に21回
… in combination, had read that article of war which forbade a purpose otherwise strongly in favour of the argument, that some brute animals are endued with Reason …
vain/ˈveɪn/虚栄心の強い, うぬぼれの強い, 鼻にかける本文に20回
He had a good leg, and was a little vain of it, for his brown stockings fitted sleek and close …
heap/ˈhip/山, 塊, 堆積本文に20回
The beach was a desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling wildly about, and the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction.
straw/ˈstɹɔ/麦わら, わら本文に20回
… he had only to shut himself up inside, keep the flint and steel sparks well off the straw, and get a light with tolerable safety and ease (if he were lucky) in five minutes.
faint/ˈfeɪnt/かすかな, ぼんやりした本文に20回
A faint voice answered something.
emigrant/ˈɛməɡɹənt/移民, 移住者本文に19回
… treason against the majesty of the people, in that I have acted against them for an emigrant.
lighted/ˈɫaɪtəd/照らされた本文に19回
A face habitually suppressed and quieted, was still lighted up under the quaint wig by a pair of moist bright eyes that it must have cost their owner, in years gone by …
weep/ˈwip/涙を流す, 泣く本文に19回
… but I hope it is—if you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears, weep for it, weep for it!
fancy/ˈfænsi/空想, 想像本文に19回
After such imaginary discourse, the passenger in his fancy would dig, and dig, dig—now with a spade, now with a great key, now with his hands—to dig this wretched creature out.
tumbril死刑囚護送車本文に18回
… Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution.
colour/ˈkəɫɝ/色, 色採, 色調本文に18回
… being of a surface black, with no depth in the colour or form, and much too near together—as if they were afraid of being found out in something …
bosom/ˈbʊzəm/胸本文に18回
… at once in an auspicious and an evil hour detecting his infamy, had resolved to immolate the traitor he could no longer cherish in his bosom, on the sacred altar of his country.
messenger/ˈmɛsəndʒɝ/使いの者, 走り使い本文に18回
“I know this messenger, guard,” said Mr. Lorry …
footstep/ˈfʊtˌstɛp/足音本文に18回
On hearing footsteps close at hand, these three turned, and rose, and showed themselves to be the three of one name who had been drinking in the wine-shop.
softly/ˈsɔfɫi/静かに本文に18回
softly over the coach roof.
shoemaker/ˈʃuˌmeɪkɝ/靴屋, 靴直し本文に17回
“I want,” said Defarge, who had not removed his gaze from the shoemaker, “to let in a little more light here.
clasp/ˈkɫæsp/…を握り締める本文に17回
… in a soothing tone, bringing his left hand from the back of the chair to lay it on the supplicatory fingers that clasped him in so violent a tremble: “pray control your agitation—a matter of business.
darling/ˈdɑɹɫɪŋ/いとしい人, 最愛の人本文に17回
… my love, the darling of my soul, is dead …
mist/ˈmɪst/かすみ, もや, 霧本文に17回
There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none.
cruel/ˈkɹuəɫ/残酷な, 無慈悲な本文に17回
The deepened marks in the nose, and the lengthening of the fine straight lines in the cruel face, looked ominous as to that …
spare/ˈspɛɹ/をにさせない本文に17回
… if the poor lady had suffered so intensely before her little child was born, that she came to the determination of sparing the poor child the inheritance of any part of the agony she had known the pains of, by rearing her in the belief that her father was dead—No …
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