「ピーター・パン」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
Peter Pan
ジェームズ・マシュー・バリーが「ピーター・パン」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。
fairy/ˈfɛɹi/妖精本文に40回
At first Mrs. Darling did not know, but after thinking back into her childhood she just remembered a Peter Pan who was said to live with the fairies.
nursery/ˈnɝsɝi/子供部屋, 育児室本文に40回
Of course her kennel was in the nursery.
pirate/ˈpaɪɹət/海賊, 海賊船本文に34回
“There’s a pirate asleep in the pampas just beneath us,” Peter told him.
redskin/ˈɹɛdˌskɪn/北米インディアン本文に33回
I say, John, I see the smoke of the redskin camp!”
lagoon/ɫəˈɡun/礁湖本文に30回
John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it.
crocodile/ˈkɹɑkəˌdaɪɫ/ワニ本文に25回
When they have passed, comes the last figure of all, a gigantic crocodile.
till/ˈtɪɫ/…まで[ずっと]本文に22回
It happened to be Nana’s evening off, and Mrs. Darling had bathed them and sung to them till one by one they had let go her hand and slid away into the land of sleep.
kennel/ˈkɛnəɫ/犬小屋本文に18回
Then she gave Mr. Darling such a look, not an angry look: she showed him the great red tear that makes us so sorry for noble dogs, and crept into her kennel.
crow/ˈkɹoʊ/おんどりのかん高い鳴き声本文に18回
he crowed rapturously, “oh, the cleverness of me!”
tick/ˈtɪk/カチカチ[という音]本文に18回
… “that crocodile would have had me before this, but by a lucky chance it swallowed a clock which goes tick tick inside it, and so before it can reach me I hear the tick and bolt.”
mermaid/ˈmɝˌmeɪd/人魚本文に16回
“And, Wendy, there are mermaids.”
nest/ˈnɛst/巣, 巣穴本文に16回
… particularly of the Never bird that built in a tree overhanging the lagoon, and how the nest fell into the water, and still the bird sat on her eggs …
claw/ˈkɫɔ/…をかぎづめでひっかく本文に14回
“He has an iron hook instead of a right hand, and he claws with it.”
silly/ˈsɪɫi/愚かな, 思慮のない, ばかな本文に14回
To this Tink replied in these words, “You silly ass,” and disappeared into the bathroom.
peep/ˈpip/のぞき見する本文に13回
… and the Darlings had become acquainted with her in Kensington Gardens, where she spent most of her spare time peeping into perambulators, and was much hated by careless nursemaids …
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/叫ぶ本文に13回
Wendy exclaimed.
arrow/ˈæɹoʊ/矢本文に13回
“Where all the arrows are pointing.”
awfully/ˈɑfɫi/ひどく, とても本文に12回
They were awfully nice little night-lights, and one cannot help wishing that they could have kept awake to see Peter …
brave/ˈbɹeɪv/勇敢な, 勇ましい本文に12回
Wendy said “tea first” quickly, and Michael pressed her hand in gratitude, but the braver John hesitated.
stern/ˈstɝn/厳格な, 断固とした本文に11回
He thought Mrs. Darling was not sufficiently impressed, and he went on sternly, “I warn you of this …
plank/ˈpɫæŋk/歩み板, タラップ本文に11回
“We will seize the children and carry them to the boat: the boys we will make walk the plank, and Wendy shall be our mother.”
drawer/ˈdɹɔɹ/引き出し本文に11回
It is quite like tidying up drawers.
frightfully/ˈfɹaɪtfəɫi/ひどく, 非常に本文に10回
Mr. Darling was frightfully proud of her, but he was very honourable …
dreadful/ˈdɹɛdfəɫ/恐ろしい, ものすごい本文に10回
They would sit there in the empty nursery, recalling fondly every smallest detail of that dreadful evening.
chimney/ˈtʃɪmni/煙突本文に10回
She rattled the poker up the chimney and tapped the walls.
shudder/ˈʃədɝ/身震いする本文に9回
“John,” he said, shuddering, “it’s most beastly stuff.
cheer/ˈtʃɪɹ/に歓呼する, かっさいする本文に9回
“I am back,” he said hotly, “why do you not cheer?”
disturb/dɪˈstɝb/を邪魔をする, 妨害する本文に9回
She hung it out at the window, meaning “He is sure to come back for it; let us put it where he can get it easily without disturbing the children.”
beast/ˈbist/動物, 四足獣本文に9回
… black shadows moved about in them, the roar of the beasts of prey was quite different now, and above all …
colour/ˈkəɫɝ/色, 色採, 色調本文に8回
It was the colour of milk; but the children did not have their father’s sense of humour, and they looked at him reproachfully as he poured the medicine into Nana’s bowl.
heartless/ˈhɑɹtɫəs/無情な, 冷酷な本文に8回
Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are …
dagger/ˈdæɡɝ/短剣本文に8回
Let us pretend to lie here among the sugar-cane and watch them as they steal by in single file, each with his hand on his dagger.
hollow/ˈhɑɫoʊ/空洞のある, からになっている, うつろの本文に8回
Look closely, however, and you may note that there are here seven large trees, each with a hole in its hollow trunk as large as a boy.
dart/ˈdɑɹt/急激な突進本文に8回
… no bigger than your fist, which darted about the room like a living thing and I think it must have been this light that wakened Mrs. Darling.
mainland/ˈmeɪnˌɫænd/本土, 大陸本文に8回
They examined the mushroom, which was of a size and solidity unknown on the mainland; they tried to pull it up …
bark/ˈbɑɹk/ほえる, ほえつく本文に8回
Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana’s bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter …
delight/dɪˈɫaɪt/大喜び, 歓喜本文に8回
In a moment he had recovered his shadow, and in his delight he forgot that he had shut Tinker Bell up in the drawer.
unhappy/ənˈhæpi/悲しい, 気の滅入る本文に8回
“That is not Nana’s unhappy bark,” she said, little guessing what was about to happen; “that is her bark when she smells danger.”
puzzle/ˈpəzəɫ/の頭を悩ませる本文に8回
… one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more …
sword/ˈsɔɹd/刀, 剣本文に8回
… but she herself slept that night in the little house, and Peter kept watch outside with drawn sword, for the pirates could be heard carousing far away and the wolves were on the prowl.
意味：EJDict-hand, English to Japanese (public domain) 発音記号：ipa-dict（MIT）、Wiktionaryより。
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