「ミドルマーチ」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
Middlemarch
ジョージ・エリオットが「ミドルマーチ」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。
oblige/əˈbɫaɪdʒ/に親切にする, の願いをかなえる本文に81回
He’s very hot on new sorts; to oblige you.”
hinder/ˈhɪndɝ/を運行を妨げる本文に75回
Certainly such elements in the character of a marriageable girl tended to interfere with her lot, and hinder it from being decided according to custom, by good looks …
till/ˈtɪɫ/…まで[ずっと]本文に75回
You know, he said that he had forgotten them till then.
fond/ˈfɑnd/好んで, 好きで本文に70回
“No, I have other things of mamma’s—her sandal-wood box which I am so fond of—plenty of things.
inward/ˈɪnwɝd/心の中の本文に68回
If Miss Brooke ever attained perfect meekness, it would not be for lack of inward fire.
pity/ˈpɪti/残念なこと, 惜しいこと, 気の毒なこと本文に63回
Celia felt that this was a pity.
clergyman/ˈkɫɝdʒiˌmæn/聖職者, 牧師本文に61回
… not excepting even Monsieur Liret, the Vaudois clergyman who had given conferences on the history of the Waldenses.
dislike/dɪˈsɫaɪk/…を嫌う本文に61回
So Miss Brooke presided in her uncle’s household, and did not at all dislike her new authority, with the homage that belonged to it.
delight/dɪˈɫaɪt/大喜びする, うれしがる, 楽しむ本文に60回
… and was taking her usual place in the pretty sitting-room which divided the bedrooms of the sisters, bent on finishing a plan for some buildings (a kind of work which she delighted in), when Celia …
dread/ˈdɹɛd/…を非常にこわがる本文に59回
But he himself dreaded so much the sort of superior woman likely to be available for such a position, that he allowed himself to be dissuaded by Dorothea’s objections …
disagreeable/ˌdɪsəˈɡɹiəbəɫ/不愉快な, いやな本文に50回
But he was positively obtrusive at this moment, and his dimpled hands were quite disagreeable.
temper/ˈtɛmpɝ/気質, 気性本文に50回
It was hardly a year since they had come to live at Tipton Grange with their uncle, a man nearly sixty, of acquiescent temper, miscellaneous opinions, and uncertain vote.
peculiar/pəkˈjuɫjɝ/独特な, 特有の本文に50回
… her eyes following the same direction as her uncle’s, she was struck with the peculiar effect of the announcement on Dorothea.
spite/ˈspaɪt/悪意, 意地悪本文に50回
Riding was an indulgence which she allowed herself in spite of conscientious qualms; she felt that she enjoyed it in a pagan sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it.
agreeable/əˈɡɹiəbəɫ/気持ちのよい, 快い本文に48回
But there may be good reasons for choosing not to do what is very agreeable,” said Dorothea.
chiefly/ˈtʃifɫi/主として, おもに本文に47回
… and did not regard his future wife in the light of prey, valuable chiefly for the excitements of the chase.
beforehand/bɪˈfɔɹˌhænd/前もって[の], あらかじめ[の]本文に46回
You couldn’t put the thing better—couldn’t put it better, beforehand, you know.
thoroughly/ˈθɝoʊɫi/徹底的に, 完ぺきに, 全く本文に45回
She was thoroughly charming to him, but of course he theorized a little about his attachment.
clever/ˈkɫɛvɝ/利口な, 頭のよい, 才気のある本文に44回
She was usually spoken of as being remarkably clever, but with the addition that her sister Celia had more common-sense.
ignorance/ˈɪɡnɝəns/無学, 無知, 無教育本文に43回
This elevating thought lifted her above her annoyance at being twitted with her ignorance of political economy, that never-explained science which was thrust as an extinguisher over all her lights.
charm/ˈtʃɑɹm/魅力本文に43回
Yet those who approached Dorothea, though prejudiced against her by this alarming hearsay, found that she had a charm unaccountably reconcilable with it.
carriage/ˈkæɹɪdʒ/四輪馬車本文に41回
When she got out of the carriage, her cheeks were pale and her eyelids red.
unpleasant/ənˈpɫɛzənt/不愉快な, 不快感を与える, いやな本文に41回
He was not going to renounce his ride because of his friend’s unpleasant news—only to ride the faster in some other direction than that of Tipton Grange.
affection/əˈfɛkʃən/愛情, 好意, 恋情本文に41回
… vanity, and merely canine affection.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/明日, 翌日本文に40回
“You can go with me to-morrow, if you like.
banker/ˈbæŋkɝ/銀行家, 銀行経営者本文に40回
… who happened to be a manufacturer; the philanthropic banker his brother-in-law, who predominated so much in the town that some called him a Methodist …
disposition/ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən/気質, 性質本文に38回
Miss Brooke argued from words and dispositions not less unhesitatingly than other young ladies of her age.
conscience/ˈkɑnʃəns/良心, 道義心, 善悪を判断する力本文に37回
… hardly more than a budding woman, but yet with an active conscience and a great mental need, not to be satisfied by a girlish instruction comparable to the nibblings and judgments of a discursive mouse.
uneasy/əˈnizi/心の落ち着かない, 不安な, 心配な本文に36回
Dorothea felt a little more uneasy than usual.
afterwards/ˈæftɝwɝdz/あとで, 以後, その後本文に36回
… on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition.
contrary/ˈkɑntɹɛɹi/正反対本文に36回
“On the contrary, I am often unable to decide.
bill/ˈbɪɫ/証書本文に35回
For the creditor to whom he owed a hundred and sixty held a firmer security in the shape of a bill signed by Mary’s father.
aunt/ˈænt/おば本文に35回
“My aunt made an unfortunate marriage.
disgust/dɪsˈɡəst/いや気, 嫌悪, むかつき本文に34回
All her dear plans were embittered, and she thought with disgust of Sir James’s conceiving that she recognized him as her lover.
ignorant/ˈɪɡnɝənt/知識がない, 無知な, 教育を受けていない本文に34回
“I am very ignorant—you will quite wonder at my ignorance,” said Dorothea.
utter/ˈətɝ/を発する, 口に出す本文に34回
… present in the king’s mind, but not uttered,” said Mr. Casaubon, smiling and bending his head towards Celia …
offend/əˈfɛnd/の感情を傷つける, を恐らせる本文に34回
… and was unhappy: she saw that she had offended her sister, and dared not say even anything pretty about the gift of the ornaments which she put back into the box and carried away.
fool/ˈfuɫ/ばか者本文に34回
A man always makes a fool of himself, speechifying: there’s no excuse but being on the right side, so that you can ask a blessing on your humming and hawing.
lately/ˈɫeɪtɫi/近ごろ, 最近本文に34回
I have been using up my eyesight on old characters lately; the fact is …
backward/ˈbækwɝd/後方へ, 後ろ向きに本文に33回
… the color rose in her cheeks, and her straw bonnet (which our contemporaries might look at with conjectural curiosity as at an obsolete form of basket) fell a little backward.
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