「ポリアンナ」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
Pollyanna
エレナ・H・ポーターが「ポリアンナ」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。
aunt/ˈænt/おば本文に76回
You know she's all the aunt I've got, and I didn't know I had her for ever so long.
frown/ˈfɹaʊn/まゆをひそめる, しかめづらをする本文に44回
Her mistress frowned.
jelly/ˈdʒɛɫi/ゼリー本文に42回
Pollyanna was carrying calf's-foot jelly to Mrs. Snow to-day.
reckon/ˈɹɛkən/思う本文に40回
“After all, I—I reckon I'm glad she doesn't want me to talk about father,” Pollyanna was thinking.
stairs/ˈstɛɹz/階段本文に36回
… Nancy,” Miss Polly was saying now, “you may clear the little room at the head of the stairs in the attic, and make up the cot bed.
niece/ˈnis/めい本文に32回
My niece, Miss Pollyanna Whittier, is coming to live with me.
anyhow/ˈɛniˌhaʊ/いずれにせよ, とにかく本文に30回
“Well, it's done—my part, anyhow,” she sighed.
jest/ˈdʒɛst/冗談本文に28回
But some day—some day I shall jest b'ile over; and when I do, of course it'll be good-by Nancy for me.
attic/ˈætɪk/屋根裏本文に26回
“In the front attic.”
stern/ˈstɝn/厳格な, 断固とした本文に22回
“Nancy,”—Miss Polly's voice was very stern now—“when I'm talking to you, I wish you to stop your work and listen to what I have to say.”
retort/ˈɹiˌtɔɹt/…と言い返す本文に21回
“You don't seem ter see any trouble bein' glad about everythin',” retorted Nancy, choking a little over her remembrance of Pollyanna's brave attempts to like the bare little attic room.
till/ˈtɪɫ/…まで[ずっと]本文に20回
Father and the Ladies' Aid used to do it, too, till they found I always came back all right.”
queer/ˈkwɪɹ/風変りな, 変な本文に18回
She said you'd think 'twas queer.
chuckle/ˈtʃəkəɫ/くすくす笑う, ひとり笑いをする本文に18回
Timothy chuckled softly; but Nancy was too disturbed to answer the merry flash from his eyes.
abruptly/əˈbɹəptɫi/突然に, 不意に本文に18回
Then, abruptly, her aunt opened a door and ascended another stairway.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/明日, 翌日本文に17回
My niece will arrive to-morrow at four o'clock.
murmur/ˈmɝmɝ/ささやく, つぶやく本文に17回
“I'm so glad now that the screens didn't come,” she murmured, blinking up at the stars; “else I couldn't have had this!”
lamb/ˈɫæm/子羊本文に17回
Mrs. White had pictures, too, perfectly beautiful ones of roses and little girls kneeling and a kitty and some lambs and a lion—not together, you know—the lambs and the lion.
bang/ˈbæŋ/バンと音を立てる本文に17回
… severe-faced woman who frowned if a knife clattered to the floor, or if a door banged—but who never thought to smile even when knives and doors were still.
carpet/ˈkɑɹpət/じゅうたん, もうせん本文に16回
The Ladies' Aid bought it for me—and wasn't it lovely of them, when they wanted the carpet so?
stammer/ˈstæmɝ/どもる, 口ごもる本文に15回
“Yes, ma'am; I will, ma'am,” she stammered, righting the pitcher, and turning hastily.
hurriedly/ˈhɝidɫi/急いで本文に15回
Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning.
crutch/ˈkɹətʃ/松葉づえ本文に15回
“Why, we began it on some crutches that came in a missionary barrel.”
gasp/ˈɡæsp/はっと息をのむ本文に15回
gasped Nancy, surprised into an interruption.
choke/ˈtʃoʊk/むせぶ, 息苦しくなる本文に15回
She stopped with a little choking breath.
rejoin/ɹiˈdʒɔɪn/答える本文に14回
Well, that isn't exactly the word I should use,” rejoined Miss Polly, stiffly.
falter/ˈfɔɫtɝ/ためらいながら話す, 口ごもる本文に14回
“Of course, ma'am; it was only that I thought a little girl here might—might brighten things up for you,” she faltered.
mistress/ˈmɪstɹəs/女主人, 主婦本文に14回
Nancy had been working in Miss Polly's kitchen only two months, but already she knew that her mistress did not usually hurry.
aloud/əˈɫaʊd/声を出して本文に14回
“When I ask a question, Pollyanna, I prefer that you should answer aloud not merely with your head.”
missionary/ˈmɪʃəˌnɛɹi/使節, 宣教師, 伝道師本文に14回
Jennie had preferred these—quite naturally, perhaps; so she had married the minister, and had gone south with him as a home missionary's wife.
bless/ˈbɫɛs/本文に14回
The idea of stickin' that blessed child 'way off up here in this hot little room—with no fire in the winter, too, and all this big house ter pick and choose from!
pillow/ˈpɪɫoʊ/まくら本文に14回
… selected a nice fat soft one (it contained Miss Polly's sealskin coat) for a bed; and a thinner one to be doubled up for a pillow, and still another (which was so thin it seemed almost empty) for a covering.
clap/ˈkɫæp/をパチンとたたく本文に13回
At one of the windows, a few minutes later, Pollyanna gave a glad cry and clapped her hands joyously.
parlor/ˈpɑɹɫɝ/営業客の部屋, 店本文に13回
… the wide, flat tin roof of Miss Polly's sun parlor built over the porte-cochere.
ejaculate/ɪˈdʒækjuˌɫeɪt/…を急に叫ぶ, 不意に言い出す本文に12回
she ejaculated, biting her lip.
heathen/ˈhiðən/異教徒本文に12回
“Oh, for the heathen,” surmised Pollyanna.
prism/ˈpɹɪzəm/プリズム本文に12回
It came from the prism pendants encircling the old-fashioned candelabrum in her hand.
homestead/ˈhoʊmˌstɛd/家屋敷本文に12回
Fifteen minutes later the great clock in the hallway of the Harrington homestead struck six.
erect/ɪˈɹɛkt/直立した, まっすぐな本文に12回
The old man drew himself erect.
calf/ˈkæf/子牛本文に12回
Aunt Polly says she hopes you are comfortable to-day, and she's sent you some calf's-foot jelly.”
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