「ナポレオンからジョゼフィーヌへの手紙」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812
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surrender/sɝˈɛndɝ/引き渡し, 降伏, 自首本文に46回
You cannot have inspired a boundless love without sharing it, for a cultured mind and a soul like yours cannot requite complete surrender and devotion with the death-blow.
cannon/ˈkænən/大砲本文に43回
Austrians lose 2000 men and 20 cannon.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/明日, 翌日本文に32回
I am at Port Maurice, near Oneille; to-morrow I shall be at Albenga.
cheerful/ˈtʃɪɹfəɫ/きげんのよい, 元気のいい本文に32回
Tell me you are cheerful, in good health, and very affectionate.
bulletin/ˈbʊɫɪtən/公報本文に30回
For generations it was the fashion to consider "as false as a bulletin" peculiar to Napoleon's despatches; but the publication of Napoleon's correspondence, by order of Napoleon III., has changed all that.
affection/əˈfɛkʃən/愛情, 好意, 恋情本文に28回
… and the Emperor felt and spoke, not in his discourses or his proclamations—the official garb of his thought—but in the free outpourings of the most passionate or the most tender affections....
mil/ˈmɪɫ/ミル本文に27回
Napoleon was sometimes 1200 miles away from home; he had to gauge the effect of his bulletins from one end to the other of the largest effective empire that the world has ever seen …
charm/ˈtʃɑɹm/…を魅惑する, うっとりさせる, 喜ばせる本文に27回
A child as charming as its mamma will soon see the daylight, and will pass many years in your arms.
till/ˈtɪɫ/…してそして[ついに]…本文に25回
Napoleon raged and stormed about the Tallien friendship, till his final mandate in 1806; and then it was too late.
retreat/ɹiˈtɹit/退却すること, 退散本文に24回
The enemy made a general sortie on June 16th; it has killed or wounded two hundred of our men, but lost five hundred of its own in a precipitous retreat.
correspondence/ˌkɔɹəˈspɑndəns/手紙, 書簡本文に23回
… in the words of an eminent but unsympathetic divine, know something of the "domestic side of the monster," first hand from his own correspondence, confirmed or corrected by contemporaries.
grief/ˈɡɹif/深い悲しみ, 悲嘆本文に23回
My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.
honour/ˈɑnɝ/名誉, 栄光, 名声本文に21回
Like Medea, one of whose other exploits he had evoked in a bulletin, he could say—but to his honour and not to his shame—
wretched/ˈɹɛtʃɪd/みじめな, 悲惨な, ひどい本文に20回
You do not speak of your wretched indigestion—I hate it.
despatch=dispatch本文に19回
Carlyle was the first to point out that his despatches are as instinct with genius as his conquests—his very words have "Austerlitz battles" in them.
favour/ˈfeɪvɝ/親切な行為本文に19回
From the days of his new power—political power, first the Consulate and then the Empire—he lavished gifts and favours even on the most undeserving of his early comrades.
beloved/bɪˈɫəvd/最愛の人, 愛する人本文に19回
Every moment separates me further from you, my beloved, and every moment I have less energy to exist so far from you.
spite/ˈspaɪt/悪意, 意地悪本文に19回
He appeared to have no relish for anything gay; and in spite of the prepossessing amenity of his manners, an observation struck me often, he seemed to be of bronze.
subjoinを追加する, 終わりに付け加える本文に18回
I shall subjoin a copy of it."
franc/ˈfɹæŋk/フラン本文に18回
May 9th.—Capitulation of Parma by the Grand Duke, who pays ransom of 2 million francs, 1600 artillery horses, food, and 20 paintings.
artillery/ɑɹˈtɪɫɝi/砲本文に17回
The Emperor will have to create a second army: artillery, pontoons, baggage, everything is taken.
glory/ˈɡɫɔɹi/栄光, 名誉本文に17回
"The letters of Napoleon can add nothing to his glory, but they better enable us to comprehend his prodigious destiny …
courier/ˈkɝiɝ/急使, 特使本文に16回
Soul of my life, write me by every courier, else I shall not know how to exist.
siege/ˈsidʒ/包囲, 包囲攻撃本文に16回
"By declaring that his public life dated from the siege of Toulon, Napoleon has himself determined the point of departure which the Commission should choose.
jealous/ˈdʒɛɫəs/しっと深い本文に16回
… to go into the country; and in spite of that you give me to understand that you are jealous of me, who am here …
afterwards/ˈæftɝwɝdz/あとで, 以後, その後本文に16回
At last when Bonaparte drew up plans—afterwards followed—for the invasion of Piedmont, Schérer replied roughly that he who had drawn up the plan of campaign had better come and execute it.
thee/ˈði/なんじを本文に15回
My waking thoughts are all of thee.
grieve/ˈɡɹiv/悲しむ, 嘆く本文に15回
But I am most truly grieved to know that you are in pain.
prosper/ˈpɹɑspɝ/…を繁栄させる, 成功させる本文に15回
We must admire The Man[3] who found within the fields of France the command of the Tropics, and who needed nothing but time to prosper Corsican cotton and Solingen steel.
destiny/ˈdɛstəni/運命, 宿命本文に15回
"The letters of Napoleon can add nothing to his glory, but they better enable us to comprehend his prodigious destiny, the prestige that he exercised over his contemporaries—'le culte universel dont sa mémoire est l'objet …
realise/ˈɹiəˌɫaɪz/…を完全に理解する本文に14回
It has realised that the most conspicuous (éclatant) homage to render to this incomparable genius was to make him known in his entirety.
affectionate/əˈfɛkʃənət/愛情のこもった, 優しい本文に14回
… and to arrive at Brescia on July 25th, where the most affectionate of lovers awaits you.
cavalry/ˈkævəɫɹi/騎兵隊本文に14回
May 30th-31st.—Bonaparte defeats Beaulieu at Borghetto, crosses the Mincio, and makes French cavalry fight (a new feature for the Republican troops).
conquer/ˈkɑŋkɝ/を征服する, 制圧する本文に14回
Beaten at sea, he has but two weapons left against England—to "conquer her by land," or to stir up a maritime rival who will sooner or later avenge him.
uneasy/əˈnizi/心の落ち着かない, 不安な, 心配な本文に14回
Yes, my kind, kind love, I am not jealous, but sometimes uneasy.
vexed/ˈvɛkst/いらいらした本文に13回
Are you vexed?
splendid/ˈspɫɛndɪd/目ざましい, りっぱな, 輝かしい本文に13回
Of his goodness we have the well-weighed verdict of Lord Acton, that it was "the most splendid that has appeared on earth."
reinforcement/ˌɹiɪnˈfɔɹsmənt/援軍, 増援隊本文に13回
July 9th.—Bonaparte asks Kellermann for reinforcements.
genius/ˈdʒinjəs/天才[の人]本文に13回
Let us then each to his task, and each try, as best he may, to weigh in honest scales the modern Hannibal—"our last great man,"[4] "the mightiest genius of two thousand years."[5]
heir/ˈɛɹ/相続人, 跡取り本文に12回
This is the third pilgrimage Josephine has made, under the doctor's orders, to Plombières; but the longed-for heir will have to be sought for elsewhere, by fair means or foul.
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