「トム・ソーヤーの冒険」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
マーク・トウェインが「トム・ソーヤーの冒険」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。
reckon/ˈɹɛkən/…であると思う本文に76回
Well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says, and I reckon it’s so.
till/ˈtɪɫ/…まで[ずっと]本文に55回
After struggling till both were hot and flushed, each relaxed his strain with watchful caution, and Tom said:
presently/ˈpɹɛzəntɫi/やがて, まもなく本文に44回
Ben Rogers hove in sight presently—the very boy, of all boys, whose ridicule he had been dreading.
aunt/ˈænt/おば本文に31回
“I don’t know, aunt.”
widow/ˈwɪdoʊ/未亡人, 寡婦, 後家本文に27回
“I reckon maybe we’ll tackle the old tree that’s over yonder on Cardiff Hill back of the widow’s.”
mighty/ˈmaɪti/たいへん, 非常に本文に26回
It’s mighty hard to make him work Saturdays, when all the boys is having holiday …
treasure/ˈtɹɛʒɝ/宝物, 財宝本文に25回
… his pliant toes closed upon it, and he hopped away with the treasure and disappeared round the corner.
fool/ˈfuɫ/ばか者本文に23回
But old fools is the biggest fools there is.
tick/ˈtɪk/ダニ本文に19回
“Nothing but a tick.”
pirate/ˈpaɪɹət/海賊, 海賊船本文に19回
He would be a pirate!
bout/ˈbaʊt/ころ本文に18回
… and cut the wart so as to get some blood, and then you put the blood on one piece of the bean and take and dig a hole and bury it ’bout midnight at the crossroads in the dark of the moon, and then you burn up the rest of the bean.
lick/ˈɫɪk/…をぶんなぐる, 打つ本文に17回
… and he knows if he can make out to put me off for a minute or make me laugh, it’s all down again and I can’t hit him a lick.
instant/ˈɪnstənt/ちょうどその瞬間, まさに時本文に17回
The lad fled on the instant, scrambled up the high board-fence, and disappeared over it.
tavern/ˈtævɝn/宿屋本文に16回
Here—it’s the number of a room—in a tavern, you know!”
alley/ˈæɫi/はじき玉本文に16回
I’ll give you a white alley!”
auntie/ˈænti/おばちゃん本文に15回
I must call auntie.”
skiff/ˈskɪf/スキフ本文に15回
There were a great many skiffs rowing about or floating with the stream in the neighborhood of the ferryboat, but the boys could not determine what the men in them were doing.
awhile/əˈwaɪɫ/しばらく本文に15回
The boy mused awhile over the substantial change which had taken place in his worldly circumstances, and then wended toward headquarters to report.
fetch/ˈfɛtʃ/を取って来る本文に15回
“Say, Jim, I’ll fetch the water if you’ll whitewash some.”
conscience/ˈkɑnʃəns/良心, 道義心, 善悪を判断する力本文に15回
Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my old heart most breaks.
ling/ˈɫɪŋ/チリンチリン本文に14回
Ting-a-ling-ling!”
dollar/ˈdɑɫɝ/ドル米国の貨幣単位で100セント本文に14回
And they get slathers of money—most a dollar a day, Ben Rogers says.
sermon/ˈsɝmən/説教本文に14回
Two of the children always remained for the sermon voluntarily, and the other always remained too—for stronger reasons.
snatch/ˈsnætʃ/…をひったくる, さっと取る本文に14回
The old lady whirled round, and snatched her skirts out of danger.
mile/ˈmaɪɫ/マイル長さの単位本文に13回
It was on a hill, about a mile and a half from the village.
melancholy/ˈmɛɫənˌkɑɫi/憂うつ, もの悲しさ本文に13回
He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit.
robber/ˈɹɑbɝ/泥棒, 強盗本文に13回
“This ought to be a lesson to grave robbers!”
raft/ˈɹæft/いかだ本文に13回
A log raft in the river invited him, and he seated himself on its outer edge and contemplated the dreary vastness of the stream …
groan/ˈɡɹoʊn/うなり声, うめき声本文に13回
This was lucky; he was about to begin to groan, as a “starter,” as he called it …
circus/ˈsɝkəs/サーカス本文に13回
“Was you ever at a circus?”
distress/dɪˈstɹɛs/激しい苦しみ, 苦痛, 苦悩本文に13回
… he flung it out of the window, and the voice of distress quickly thinned away and died in the distance.
devil/ˈdɛvəɫ/悪魔, 悪鬼本文に13回
you devil!”
mil/ˈmɪɫ/マイル本文に12回
There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer …
trifle/ˈtɹaɪfəɫ/少し本文に12回
Tom was a trifle disconcerted.
dismal/ˈdɪzməɫ/陰うつな, 気のめいるような本文に12回
He got it out, rumpled and wilted, and it mightily increased his dismal felicity.
lad/ˈɫæd/若者, 少年本文に12回
He gathered quite a following of lads interested in the exhibition; and one that had cut his finger and had been a centre of fascination and homage up to this time …
shudder/ˈʃədɝ/身震いする本文に12回
How his name would fill the world, and make people shudder!
sob/ˈsɑb/すすり泣く, むせび泣く本文に12回
The new boy went off brushing the dust from his clothes, sobbing, snuffling …
rag/ˈɹæɡ/ぼろ服本文に12回
Huckleberry was always dressed in the cast-off clothes of full-grown men, and they were in perennial bloom and fluttering with rags.
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/叫ぶ本文に12回
Potter dropped his knife, and exclaimed:
意味：EJDict-hand, English to Japanese (public domain) 発音記号：ipa-dict（MIT）、Wiktionaryより。
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