「お気に召すまま」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
As You Like It
ウィリアム・シェイクスピアが「お気に召すまま」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。
thou/ˈðaʊ/なんじ, そなた本文に121回
… and, as thou sayst, charged my brother …
thee/ˈði/なんじを本文に90回
Charles, I thank thee for thy love to me, which thou shalt find I will most kindly requite.
fool/ˈfuɫ/道化師本文に46回
Though Nature hath given us wit to flout at Fortune, hath not Fortune sent in this fool to cut off the argument?
shepherd/ˈʃɛpɝd/羊飼い本文に28回
Alas, poor shepherd, searching of thy wound,
doth/ˈdɔθ/doの三人称・単数・現在形本文に20回
I would we could do so, for her benefits are mightily misplaced, and the bountiful blind woman doth most mistake in her gifts to women.
lord/ˈɫɔɹd/貴族本文に16回
… the old Duke is banished by his younger brother the new Duke, and three or four loving lords have put themselves into voluntary exile with him, whose lands and revenues enrich the new Duke …
wrestle/ˈɹɛsəɫ/レスリング, 格闘本文に16回
’Twill be a good way, and tomorrow the wrestling is.
prithee願わくは, 何とぞ本文に15回
Marry, I prithee do, to make sport withal …
hither/ˈhɪðɝ/こちらへ本文に14回
… out of my love to you, I came hither to acquaint you withal, that either you might stay him from his intendment …
till/ˈtɪɫ/…まで[ずっと]本文に14回
Wert thou not my brother, I would not take this hand from thy throat till this other had pulled out thy tongue for saying so.
beard/ˈbɪɹd/あごひげ本文に14回
Stand you both forth now: stroke your chins, and swear by your beards that I am a knave.
withal=with本文に13回
… I prithee do, to make sport withal; but love no man in good earnest …
pity/ˈpɪti/残念なこと, 惜しいこと, 気の毒なこと本文に13回
The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
honour/ˈɑnɝ/名誉, 栄光, 名声本文に12回
Your brother is but young and tender, and for your love I would be loath to foil him, as I must for my own honour if he come in.
ding/ˈdɪŋ/ガンガン鳴る音本文に12回
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding.
banish/ˈbænɪʃ/を追放する, 流刑にする本文に12回
That is, the old Duke is banished by his younger brother the new Duke, and three or four loving lords have put themselves into voluntary exile with him …
mistress/ˈmɪstɹəs/女主人, 主婦本文に12回
Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of, and would you yet I were merrier?
weep/ˈwip/涙を流す, 泣く本文に10回
I speak but brotherly of him, but should I anatomize him to thee as he is, I must blush and weep, and thou must look pale and wonder.
grace/ˈɡɹeɪs/優雅さ, 洗練本文に9回
… for if thou dost him any slight disgrace, or if he do not mightily grace himself on thee, he will practise against thee by poison …
folly/ˈfɑɫi/愚行, 愚かな行為本文に9回
If thou rememb’rest not the slightest folly
colour/ˈkəɫɝ/色, 色採, 色調本文に8回
Of what colour?
vers/ˈvɝs/詩句本文に8回
This is the very false gallop of verses.
melancholy/ˈmɛɫənˌkɑɫi/憂うつな, ふさぎ込んだ本文に8回
The melancholy Jaques grieves at that,
chide/ˈtʃaɪd/…をたしなめる, 叱る本文に8回
And churlish chiding of the winter’s wind,
unto/ˈəntu/…に, の方へ, まで本文に8回
With bills on their necks: “Be it known unto all men by these presents.”
foul/ˈfaʊɫ/汚い, 不潔な本文に8回
Cleanse the foul body of th’ infected world,
merry/ˈmɛɹi/陽気な, 愉快な, 快活な本文に8回
They say he is already in the Forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England.
sooner/ˈsunɝ/より早く本文に7回
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
motley/ˈmɑtɫi/まだらの本文に7回
A motley fool.
courtier/ˈkɔɹtiɝ/廷臣本文に7回
O worthy fool!—One that hath been a courtier,
counterfeit/ˈkaʊntɝˌfɪt/…のふりをする, …をまねる, に似せる本文に7回
Now counterfeit to swoon; why, now fall down;
scorn/ˈskɔɹn/…を軽べつする, さげすむ本文に7回
That is the way to make her scorn you still.
wrestler/ˈɹɛsəɫɝ/レスリング選手, レスラー本文に7回
Was not Charles, the Duke’s wrestler, here to speak with me?
crown/ˈkɹaʊn/クラウン紙幣本文に7回
… Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and …
whither/ˈhwɪðɝ/どこへ, どちらへ本文に6回
… wit, whither wander you?
troth/ˈtɹoʊθ/真実本文に6回
By my troth, thou sayest true.
quarrel/ˈkwɔɹəɫ/口げんか, 言い争い本文に6回
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
villain/ˈvɪɫən/悪者, 悪漢, 悪党本文に6回
Wilt thou lay hands on me, villain?
disposition/ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən/傾向, 気持ち本文に6回
I am given, sir, secretly to understand that your younger brother Orlando hath a disposition to come in disguised against me to try a fall.
weary/ˈwɪɹi/疲れた, 疲れはてた本文に6回
O Jupiter, how weary are my spirits!
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