「赤毛のアン」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
Anne of Green Gables
L・M・モンゴメリが「赤毛のアン」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。
splendid/ˈspɫɛndɪd/すてきな, 結構な, 申し分ない本文に47回
Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?
brook/ˈbɹʊk/小川, 細流本文に40回
Thomas Lynde—a meek little man whom Avonlea people called “Rachel Lynde’s husband”—was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn; and Matthew Cuthbert ought to have been sowing his on the big red brook field away over by Green Gables.
asylum/əˈsaɪɫəm/保護収容所, 養育院本文に38回
We’re getting a little boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia and he’s coming on the train tonight.”
gable/ˈɡeɪbəɫ/破風, 切り妻本文に36回
But the spare room was out of the question for such a stray waif, so there remained only the east gable room.
picnic/ˈpɪkˌnɪk/ピクニック, 遠足本文に35回
He felt as he had once felt in his rash youth when another boy had enticed him on the merry-go-round at a picnic.
brooch/ˈbɹoʊtʃ/ブローチ, えり留め本文に34回
Marilla wore her amethyst brooch to church that day as usual.
thrill/ˈθɹɪɫ/ぞくぞくする感じ, ぞっとする感じ, スリル本文に34回
I know because of the thrill.
orphan/ˈɔɹfən/孤児本文に30回
… of course,” said Marilla, as if getting boys from orphan asylums in Nova Scotia were part of the usual spring work on any well-regulated Avonlea farm instead of being an unheard of innovation.
lane/ˈɫeɪn/小道, 横町, 路地本文に29回
To be sure, the long lane made it a good deal further.
wicked/ˈwɪkəd/悪い, 邪悪な, 不正な本文に28回
Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked.
delight/dɪˈɫaɪt/大喜びする, うれしがる, 楽しむ本文に28回
You don’t know how delighted I was.
dreadful/ˈdɹɛdfəɫ/実に不快な, ひどく悪い本文に27回
I guess that’s why I’m so thin—I am dreadful thin, ain’t I?
orchard/ˈɔɹtʃɝd/果樹園本文に27回
The sun was coming in at the window warm and bright; the orchard on the slope below the house was in a bridal flush of pinky-white bloom, hummed over by a myriad of bees.
temper/ˈtɛmpɝ/立腹, かんしゃく本文に26回
“A terrible worker and driver,” Mrs. Peter was said to be; and discharged servant girls told fearsome tales of her temper and stinginess, and her family of pert, quarrelsome children.
recite/ɹəˈsaɪt/…を暗唱する, 朗読する本文に26回
Then all the other little girls recited a paraphrase.
spare/ˈspɛɹ/をにさせない本文に25回
… however, was spared the ordeal of speaking first, for as soon as she concluded that he was coming to her she stood up …
puff/ˈpəf/ふわっとしたもの, ふわっとふくらんだ物本文に24回
“But I’d be ever so much gratefuller if—if you’d made just one of them with puffed sleeves.
pity/ˈpɪti/…を気の毒に思う, あわれむ, に同情する本文に23回
My, but I pity him, that’s what.”
blossom/ˈbɫɑsəm/花が咲く, 花が開く本文に23回
At last they lingered on one away to the left, far back from the road, dimly white with blossoming trees in the twilight of the surrounding woods.
spell/ˈspɛɫ/をつづる, のつづりを言う ・のつづりである・ ・…を招く, 意味する・語をつづる本文に23回
But if you call me Anne please call me Anne spelled with an E.”
anyhow/ˈɛniˌhaʊ/いずれにせよ, とにかく本文に22回
She couldn’t be left at Bright River anyhow, no matter what mistake had been made …
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/叫ぶ本文に21回
“Dear, dear,” she exclaimed, “you’re the last folks I was looking for today, but I’m real glad to see you.
clasp/ˈkɫæsp/…を握り締める本文に20回
She leaned back in the buggy, her thin hands clasped before her, her face lifted rapturously to the white splendor above.
awfully/ˈɑfɫi/ひどく, とても本文に20回
“It sounds awfully disrespectful to just say Marilla,” protested Anne.
geometry/dʒiˈɑmətɹi/幾何学本文に20回
By the end of the term Anne and Gilbert were both promoted into the fifth class and allowed to begin studying the elements of “the branches”—by which Latin, geometry, French …
twilight/ˈtwaɪˌɫaɪt/薄明かり, 薄暗がり本文に20回
Below the boughs the air was full of a purple twilight and far ahead a glimpse of painted sunset sky shone like a great rose window at the end of a cathedral aisle.
gasp/ˈɡæsp/…をあえぎながら言う本文に20回
“Spelled with an E,” gasped Anne, who, tremulous and excited as she was, was determined there should be no misunderstanding on that important point.
cherry/ˈtʃɛɹi/サクラの木本文に20回
… but the east one, whence you got a glimpse of the bloom white cherry-trees in the left orchard and nodding, slender birches down in the hollow by the brook …
lily/ˈɫɪɫi/ユリ本文に19回
I think it must have had honeysuckle over the parlor window and lilacs in the front yard and lilies of the valley just inside the gate.
fairy/ˈfɛɹi/妖精本文に19回
And then Katie Maurice would have taken me by the hand and led me out into a wonderful place, all flowers and sunshine and fairies, and we would have lived there happy for ever after.
hollow/ˈhɑɫoʊ/穴うつろ本文に18回
… knitting “cotton warp” quilts—she had knitted sixteen of them, as Avonlea housekeepers were wont to tell in awed voices—and keeping a sharp eye on the main road that crossed the hollow and wound up the steep red hill beyond.
cordial/ˈkɔɹdʒəɫ/リキュール酒本文に17回
But there’s a bottle half full of raspberry cordial that was left over from the church social the other night.
ambition/æmˈbɪʃən/大望, 野心, 野望本文に17回
That is the height of their ambition.
bough/ˈbaʊ/大枝本文に16回
A huge cherry-tree grew outside, so close that its boughs tapped against the house, and it was so thick-set with blossoms that hardly a leaf was to be seen.
spruce/ˈspɹus/トウヒ, エゾマツ本文に16回
Beyond it was a hill, green and feathery with spruce and fir; there was a gap in it where the gray gable end of the little house she had seen from the other side of the Lake of Shining Waters was visible.
birch/ˈbɝtʃ/カバの木本文に16回
… whence you got a glimpse of the bloom white cherry-trees in the left orchard and nodding, slender birches down in the hollow by the brook, was greened over by a tangle of vines.
fir/ˈfɝ/モミ, モミの木本文に16回
On the right hand, scrub firs, their spirits quite unbroken by long years of tussle with the gulf winds, grew thickly.
raspberry/ˈɹæzˌbɛɹi/キイチゴ[の実]本文に16回
… toothsome, raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls how many bites each girl would have.
delightful/dɪˈɫaɪtfəɫ/喜びを与える, 楽しい, うれしい本文に16回
It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?
sensible/ˈsɛnsəbəɫ/分別がある, ものの分かる本文に16回
I’d ruther Jane or Mary or some sensible name like that.
意味：EJDict-hand, English to Japanese (public domain) 発音記号：ipa-dict（MIT）、Wiktionaryより。
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