オブローモフ, イワン・アレクサンドロヴィチ・ゴンチャロフ

「オブローモフ」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40

Oblomov

イワン・アレクサンドロヴィチ・ゴンチャロフ B2

イワン・アレクサンドロヴィチ・ゴンチャロフが「オブローモフ」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。

  1. inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/…を尋ねる, 問う本文に33回

    Oblomov inquired.

  2. landlady/ˈɫændˌɫeɪdi/女性の家主本文に28回

    Your new landlady does not care for such tricks to be played upon her.

  3. exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/…を叫ぶ, 大声で言う本文に27回

    exclaimed Oblomov.

  4. morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/明日, 翌日本文に23回

    “Because each time you have sent me away, and then put matters off until the morrow.”

  5. weep/ˈwip/涙を流す, 泣く本文に23回

    Rather, stretch out your hand to the fallen and raise him weep over him if he is lost beyond recall, but in no case make sport of him …

  6. sofa/ˈsoʊfə/長いす, ソファー本文に22回

    In it there stood a writing-table of redwood, a couple of sofas, upholstered in some silken material, and a handsome screen that was embroidered with birds and fruits unknown to Nature.

  7. aunt/ˈænt/おば本文に22回

    Beside the table Oblomov could see seated the aunt of eighty who had always lived with them.

  8. sorrow/ˈsɑɹoʊ/悲しみ, 悲哀, 悲嘆本文に21回

    Involuntarily he would dream of Militrissa Kirbitievna, and feel attracted towards the country whereof nothing was known except that folk there went for walks, and were free from sorrow and care.

  9. barin旦那様本文に18回

    “You called me just now, barin?”

  10. intellect/ˈɪnəˌɫɛkt/知性, 知力本文に18回

    His intellect, his will, his feelings—what do they avail him?

  11. scarcely/ˈskɛɹsɫi/ほとんど…ない本文に18回

    Zakhar retired to his room again, but had scarcely rested his hands against his pallet before stretching himself out, when once more there came a peremptory shout of “Zakhar!

  12. courtyard/ˈkɔɹtˌjɑɹd/=court1本文に17回

    The courtyard looks quite dark.”

  13. disturb/dɪˈstɝb/を不安にする, 心配させる本文に17回

    Indeed, no sooner had he received the starosta’s first disturbing letter (he had done so three years ago) than he had set about devising a plan for changing and improving the administration of his property.

  14. depart/dɪˈpɑɹt/立ち去る, 出発する本文に16回

    Zakhar departed again, and Oblomov resumed his reverie.

  15. peasant/ˈpɛzənt/農夫本文に16回

    Then the peasant, doffing his sheepskin, goes out in shirtsleeves alone, and shades his eyes with’ his hand as gladly he shrugs his shoulders and drinks his fill of the gleaming sunlight.

  16. starosta村の管理人本文に14回

    The fact of the matter was that, overnight, he had received from the starosta * of his country estate an exceedingly unpleasant letter.

  17. yawn/ˈjɔn/あくび本文に14回

    said Oblomov with a yawn.

  18. gown/ˈɡaʊn/ガウン本文に14回

    The costume in question consisted of a dressing-gown of some Persian material—a real Eastern dressing-gown—a garment that was devoid both of tassels and velvet facings and a waist, yet so roomy that Oblomov might have wrapped himself in it once or twice over.

  19. valet/væˈɫeɪ/従者, 従僕本文に13回

    … two other rooms lay at his disposal, but seldom did he look into them save on mornings (which did not comprise by any means every morning) when his old valet happened to be sweeping out the study.

  20. wholly/ˈhoʊɫi/まったく, 完全に本文に13回

    … now promoted to the dignity of a major-domo, and adorned with whiskers turned wholly grey, was laying a large …

  21. attain/əˈteɪn/を達成する, 獲得する本文に13回

    When shall I attain the life of paradise—the life for which I yearn?

  22. delight/dɪˈɫaɪt/…を大いに楽しませる, 大喜びさせる, うれしがらせる本文に13回

    “Quite so,” said the delighted littérateur.

  23. kindly/ˈkaɪndɫi/快い, 気持ちのよい本文に12回

    … by February, detect the kindly odour of approaching spring.

  24. mistress/ˈmɪstɹəs/女主人, 主婦本文に12回

    … adjudicated upon in detail, and adopted or rejected according to the final decision of the mistress.

  25. dull/ˈdəɫ/鈍い, はっきりしない本文に12回

    Oblomov’s face was neither reddy nor dull nor pale, but of an indefinite hue.

  26. wherefore/wɛɹˈfɔɹ/その理由で, それゆえに本文に11回

    … and indulge in wholesale immorality; wherefore the beatings have been a just retribution.”

  27. verst露里本文に11回

    Why, I know an estate, only fifty versts from yours, where the harvest of last year was so good that it cleared the owner completely of debt.

  28. slumber/ˈsɫəmbɝ/眠る, まどろむ本文に11回

    … and the path more and more tangled, while the consciousness of his condition kept awaking within him less and less frequently—to arouse only for a fleecing moment his slumbering faculties.

  29. gentry/ˈdʒɛntɹi/家柄のよい人々本文に11回

    … so that none but the servants trod it, and at no time did the gentry walk there.

  30. retort/ˈɹiˌtɔɹt/…と言い返す本文に11回

    “I did not break it,” retorted Zakhar.

  31. veranda/vɝˈændə/ベランダ, 縁側本文に11回

    The veranda actually overhangs the ravine, and to reach it one has with one hand to grasp the herbage, and, with the other, the gable before setting foot upon the structure itself.

  32. hasten/ˈheɪsən/急ぐ, 急いでする本文に11回

    Tarantiev hastened to cram the note into his pocket.

  33. powerless/ˈpaʊɝɫəs/力の無い, 無能な本文に11回

    On a fair summer’s evening he seemed to be sitting at a tea-table on the terrace of Oblomovka—sitting under a canopy of leafy shade which the sun was powerless to penetrate.

  34. handkerchief/ˈhæŋkɝtʃif/ハンカチ本文に11回

    “My handkerchief!”

  35. utter/ˈətɝ/を発する, 口に出す本文に11回

    Ever since the world began, they have voiced but the querulous lament of a monster which, everlastingly doomed to torment, utters a chorus of shrill, malicious cries.

  36. torture/ˈtɔɹtʃɝ/拷問, ひどく苦しめること本文に11回

    Yet for another halfhour he lay prone under the torture of this resolve; until eventually he decided that such tackling could best be done after tea …

  37. tremble/ˈtɹɛmbəɫ/震える本文に11回

    On seeing his long-dead parent, the sleeping Oblomov’s form trembled with delight and affection, and from under his unconscious eyelids there stole and remained two burning tears....

  38. interval/ˈɪntɝvəɫ/間の時間, 合い間本文に11回

    “Why do you not give me the accounts at intervals instead of in a batch like this?”

  39. cease/ˈsis/…をやめる, 中止する本文に11回

    Also we have been told that we are to cease to make out formal documents in duplicate.

  40. ruin/ˈɹuən/…を破滅させる, 崩壊させる, 荒壊させる本文に11回

    “That is tantamount to saying that once in that faulty vessel there dwelt the supreme element—that, ruined though the man may be, he is still a human being …

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