「カルメン」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
Carmen
プロスペル・メリメが「カルメン」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。
gipsy=gypsy本文に75回
You must see I’m a gipsy!
cigar/sɪˈɡɑɹ/葉巻きたばこ, シガー本文に14回
At the same time I pulled out my cigar-case.
blunderbussらっぱ銃本文に13回
In the other he held a brass blunderbuss.
mantilla/mænˈtɪɫə/マンテラ本文に11回
When she drew near me, the woman let the mantilla which had covered her head drop on her shoulders, and “by the dim light falling from the stars” I perceived her to be young …
recognise/ˈɹɛkəɡˌnaɪz/…を確かに認める本文に9回
I sat upright, and then I thought I recognised Antonio.
bull/ˈbʊɫ/雄牛本文に9回
“While I was hiding at Granada there were bull-fights there, to which Carmen went.
brigand強盗団の一員, 山賊本文に8回
I had no doubt at all I was in the company of a smuggler, and possibly of a brigand.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/明日, 翌日本文に8回
So he’s to be garrotted the day after to-morrow, without fail.* So you see one theft more or less won’t affect his position.
dialect/ˈdaɪəˌɫɛkt/方言, なまり本文に8回
In every Romany dialect a number of Greek words appear.
smuggler/ˈsməɡəɫɝ/密輸業者本文に8回
The masons were working at it in the daytime, and at night a sentinel was posted on it, to prevent smugglers from getting in.
comrade/ˈkɑmˌɹæd/仲間, 僚友, 同志本文に8回
Like him, perchance, my comrade was musing over the home he had forfeited, the exile he had earned, by some misdeed.
inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/…を尋ねる, 問う本文に8回
So I bestowed a friendly nod on the man with the blunderbuss, and inquired, with a smile, whether I had disturbed his nap.
fancy/ˈfænsi/空想, 想像本文に8回
In the stable, I fancy.
devil/ˈdɛvəɫ/悪魔, 悪鬼本文に8回
To-day I’ll go and eat ices with a servant of the devil.
gitana/dʒiˈtænə/ジプシー女本文に7回
I then had time to take a leisurely view of my gitana, while several worthy individuals, who were eating their ices, stared open-mouthed at beholding me in such gay company.
till/ˈtɪɫ/…してそして[ついに]…本文に7回
His complexion, which may once have been fine, had been tanned by the sun till it was darker than his hair.
coin/ˈkɔɪn/硬貨本文に7回
Then she bade me cross my left hand with a silver coin, and the magic ceremonies duly began.
traveller/ˈtɹævəɫɝ/旅行者, 旅人本文に6回
It was impossible to imagine any more delightful halting place for a traveller.
castanetsカスタネット本文に6回
“The whole party was assembled in the patio, and in spite of the crowd I could see nearly everything that went on through the lattice.* I could hear the castanets and the tambourine, the laughter and applause.
delightful/dɪˈɫaɪtfəɫ/喜びを与える, 楽しい, うれしい本文に6回
He did not know the name of the delightful valley in which we were sitting, he could not tell me the names of any of the neighbouring villages …
cloak/ˈkɫoʊk/そでなし外とう, マント本文に6回
Meanwhile I had stretched myself out on the mule rugs, having carefully wrapped myself up in my own cloak, so as to avoid touching them.
sergeant/ˈsɑɹdʒənt/巡査部長本文に6回
The old woman, when she was questioned by the sergeant, admitted that she knew Navarro …
acquaintance/əˈkweɪntəns/知っていること, 知識本文に6回
I had yet another motive for prosecuting her acquaintance.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/…をひどく驚かせる, おびえさせる本文に6回
… because I told them that not all their Seville jacques,** and all their knives, would frighten an honest lad from our country, with his blue cap and his maquila!
seller/ˈsɛɫɝ/売る人, 売り手本文に6回
I have been insulted here, because I don’t belong to this land of rogues and sellers of rotten oranges; and those hussies are all banded together against me …
depart/dɪˈpɑɹt/立ち去る, 出発する本文に6回
That instant he turned his back on me and departed at a great pace.
spite/ˈspaɪt/悪意, 意地悪本文に6回
I was hoping the stranger might gradually fall into a confidential mood, and in spite of my guide’s winks, I turned the conversation to the subject of highwaymen.
fool/ˈfuɫ/ばか者本文に6回
How can you be such a fool as that?
whence/ˈhwɛns/そしてそこから, そしてそのために本文に5回
… and I noticed that he did not pronounce the letter s* in the Andalusian fashion, whence I concluded he was a traveller, like myself …
quay/ˈkeɪ/はとば, 埠頭本文に5回
At Cordova a great many idlers collect, toward sunset, in the quay that runs along the right bank of the Guadalquivir.
acacia/əˈkeɪʃə/アカシア属の木, ハリエンジュ, ニセアカシア本文に5回
She had thrown her mantilla back, to show her shoulders, and a great bunch of acacia that was thrust into her chemise.
piastreピアスタトルコ・エジプト・シリア・レバノン・スーダンの貨幣本文に5回
Then the Englishman stood up, gave me a piastre, and offered his arm to Carmen, as if she couldn’t have walked alone.
lighted/ˈɫaɪtəd/目に留まる本文に5回
… most heartily, my eye lighted, at some distance from the path I was following …
astonished/əˈstɑnɪʃt/驚かせた本文に5回
Her face astonished you, at first sight, but nobody could forget it.
robber/ˈɹɑbɝ/泥棒, 強盗本文に5回
But I had heard so much about robbers, that, never seeing any, I had ceased to believe in their existence.
mistress/ˈmɪstɹəs/情婦, 二号本文に5回
“I had often heard talk of certain smugglers who travelled about Andalusia, each riding a good horse, with his mistress behind him and his blunderbuss in his fist.
temper/ˈtɛmpɝ/立腹, かんしゃく本文に5回
What he said I could not catch, but the tone of his voice revealed the fact that he was in a very evil temper.
fond/ˈfɑnd/好んで, 好きで本文に5回
“Do me the kindness to sing me something,” I said to him, “I’m passionately fond of your national music.”
scarf/ˈskɑɹf/スカーフ, えり巻き本文に5回
“Do you happen to have a handkerchief, a scarf, or a mantilla, that he gave you?”
lieutenant/ɫuˈtɛnənt/中尉本文に5回
… followed by a young man, a lieutenant in our regiment.
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