「カラマーゾフの兄弟」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
The Brothers Karamazov
フョードル・ドストエフスキーが「カラマーゾフの兄弟」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。
elder/ˈɛɫdɝ/年上の, 年長の本文に226回
At her death almost exactly the same thing happened to the two little boys as to their elder brother, Mitya.
monk/ˈməŋk/修道僧, 僧侶本文に175回
In the evening of the same day he got drunk and abused the monks to Alyosha.
till/ˈtɪɫ/…まで[ずっと]本文に153回
… and so that all be spent on them exclusively, with the condition that it be so portioned out as to last till they are twenty-one, for it is more than adequate provision for such children.
peasant/ˈpɛzənt/農夫本文に148回
… kept in terror from her childhood, fell into that kind of nervous disease which is most frequently found in peasant women who are said to be “possessed by devils.”
afterwards/ˈæftɝwɝdz/あとで, 以後, その後本文に143回
He lived for many years afterwards abroad, but was at that time quite a young man …
monastery/ˈmɑnəˌstɛɹi/男子修道院本文に132回
His splendid estate lay on the outskirts of our little town and bordered on the lands of our famous monastery, with which Pyotr Alexandrovitch began an endless lawsuit …
scoundrel/ˈskaʊndɹəɫ/悪党, ならず者本文に89回
An attractive theory for scoundrels!
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/叫ぶ本文に88回
exclaimed Dmitri furiously.
devil/ˈdɛvəɫ/悪魔, 悪鬼本文に87回
It’s impossible, I think, for the devils to forget to drag me down to hell with their hooks when I die.
ashamed/əˈʃeɪmd/恥じて, 恥ずかしく思って本文に82回
… and he seemed to be expecting something, ashamed about something, while his brother Ivan …
spite/ˈspaɪt/悪意, 意地悪本文に80回
… that Fyodor Pavlovitch, in spite of his parasitic position, was one of the bold and ironical spirits of that progressive epoch …
contrary/ˈkɑntɹɛɹi/正反対本文に78回
… but not from shyness or a sullen unsociability; quite the contrary, from something different …
haste/ˈheɪst/急ぎ本文に76回
… but as the latter had no family of his own, and after securing the revenues of his estates was in haste to return at once to Paris, he left the boy in charge of one of his cousins …
mutter/ˈmətɝ/つぶやく本文に74回
Miüsov had time to mutter again.
bless/ˈbɫɛs/…を祝福する本文に74回
… as it were, all over when the elder came out to the gates of the hermitage into the waiting crowd of pilgrims of the humbler class who had flocked from all parts of Russia on purpose to see the elder and obtain his blessing.
insult/ˈɪnˌsəɫt/侮辱, 侮辱的な言動本文に73回
She was still alive, and had not, all those eight years, forgotten the insult done her.
fond/ˈfɑnd/好んで, 好きで本文に73回
He had known Proudhon and Bakunin personally, and in his declining years was very fond of describing the three days of the Paris Revolution of February 1848, hinting that he himself had almost taken part in the fighting on the barricades.
delight/dɪˈɫaɪt/大喜びする, うれしがる, 楽しむ本文に71回
“That I certainly will, without fail,” cried Fyodor Pavlovitch, hugely delighted at the invitation.
sofa/ˈsoʊfə/長いす, ソファー本文に71回
Father Zossima sat down on a very old-fashioned mahogany sofa, covered with leather …
weep/ˈwip/涙を流す, 泣く本文に70回
He understood it, but that the elder Zossima was this saint and custodian of God’s truth —of that he had no more doubt than the weeping peasants and the sick women who held out their children to the elder.
murderer/ˈmɝdɝɝ/殺人者, 人殺し, 謀殺犯本文に66回
I, a thief and murderer, am the only true Christian Church.’
tremble/ˈtɹɛmbəɫ/震える本文に65回
He trembled for him, for his glory, and dreaded any affront to him, especially the refined, courteous irony of Miüsov and the supercilious half-utterances of the highly educated Ivan.
positively/ˈpɑzətɪvɫi/全く, 本当に本文に64回
… the young man had an unmistakable influence over his father, who positively appeared to be behaving more decently and even seemed at times ready to obey his son, though often extremely and even spitefully perverse.
fancy/ˈfænsi/好み本文に64回
What gave the marriage piquancy was that it was preceded by an elopement, and this greatly captivated Adelaïda Ivanovna’s fancy.
utter/ˈətɝ/を発する, 口に出す本文に63回
… slipped to the floor, tried to hide himself without uttering one word of abuse, enduring their insults in silence.
clever/ˈkɫɛvɝ/利口な, 頭のよい, 才気のある本文に62回
This habit, however, is characteristic of a very great number of people, some of them very clever ones, not like Fyodor Pavlovitch.
conscience/ˈkɑnʃəns/良心, 道義心, 善悪を判断する力本文に62回
… that he had acquired the keenest intuition and could tell from an unknown face what a newcomer wanted, and what was the suffering on his conscience.
fool/ˈfuɫ/ばかなまねをする, ふざける, 冗談をいう本文に62回
But, if you begin to play the fool I don’t intend to be associated with you here.
instant/ˈɪnstənt/即時の, すぐの, 即刻の本文に61回
The strange and instant healing of the frantic and struggling woman as soon as she was led up to the holy sacrament, which had been explained to me as due to malingering and the trickery of the “clericals,” arose probably in the most natural manner.
mamma/ˈmɑmə/おかあちゃん本文に60回
“I told mamma you’d be sure not to go.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/…をひどく驚かせる, おびえさせる本文に59回
… to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly: and this was so much so that no one could surprise or frighten him even in his earliest youth.
ruin/ˈɹuən/…を破滅させる, 崩壊させる, 荒壊させる本文に59回
And would you believe it, it ruined our business!
nonsense/ˈnɑnsɛns/無意味な言葉, たわごと本文に57回
An outer show elaborated through centuries, and nothing but charlatanism and nonsense underneath,” flashed through Miüsov’s mind.
unhappy/ənˈhæpi/不幸な, 不運な, みじめな本文に56回
In the end this unhappy young woman, kept in terror from her childhood …
tavern/ˈtævɝn/居酒屋本文に55回
In a short time he opened a great number of new taverns in the district.
aloud/əˈɫaʊd/大声で本文に54回
All that time she was obtaining exact information as to her Sofya’s manner of life, and hearing of her illness and hideous surroundings she declared aloud two or three times to her retainers: “It serves her right.
jealous/ˈdʒɛɫəs/しっと深い本文に52回
… You wanted to put me in prison because you are jealous of me with her, because you’d begun to force your attentions upon her …
coffin/ˈkɔfɪn/棺, ひつぎ本文に52回
Fyodor Pavlovitch could not show him where his second wife was buried, for he had never visited her grave since he had thrown earth upon her coffin, and in the course of years had entirely forgotten where she was buried.
bow/ˈbaʊ/弓形, 弓形のもの本文に52回
He only listened to Grigory’s minute and solemn account of the erection of the tomb; he stood with bowed head and walked away without uttering a word.
inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/尋ねる, 問い合わせる本文に50回
She did inquire about him, but she did not know the proper place to inquire.
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