「グレート・ギャツビー」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
The Great Gatsby
F・スコット・フィッツジェラルドが「グレート・ギャツビー」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。
inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/尋ねる, 問い合わせる本文に27回
I inquired innocently.
butler/ˈbətɫɝ/執事, 使用人がしら本文に20回
When, almost immediately, the telephone rang inside and the butler left the porch Daisy seized upon the momentary interruption and leaned toward me.
grey/ˈɡɹeɪ/灰色の, ねずみ色の, 鉛色の本文に17回
Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming discontented face.
murmur/ˈmɝmɝ/…をささやく, ぼそぼそと言う, 小声で言う本文に16回
If she saw me out of the corner of her eyes she gave no hint of it—indeed, I was almost surprised into murmuring an apology for having disturbed her by coming in.
policeman/pəˈɫismən/警官, 巡査本文に14回
When we came into the station he was next to me and his white shirt-front pressed against my arm—and so I told him I'd have to call a policeman, but he knew I lied.
taxi/ˈtæksi/タクシー本文に12回
Upstairs, in the solemn echoing drive she let four taxi cabs drive away before she selected a new one, lavender-colored with grey upholstery …
coup/ˈku/クーペ本文に12回
In the ditch beside the road, right side up but violently shorn of one wheel, rested a new coupé which had left Gatsby's drive not two minutes before.
faint/ˈfeɪnt/かすかな, ぼんやりした本文に12回
… when that certain girl played tennis, a faint mustache of perspiration appeared on her upper lip.
tremble/ˈtɹɛmbəɫ/震動する, 揺れる, そよぐ本文に11回
The murmur trembled on the verge of coherence, sank down, mounted excitedly, and then ceased altogether.
chauffeur/ˈʃoʊfɝ/自家用車の運転手本文に10回
A chauffeur in a uniform of robin's egg blue crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer—the honor would be entirely Gatsby's, it said …
anyhow/ˈɛniˌhaʊ/いずれにせよ, とにかく本文に10回
"You see I think everything's terrible anyhow," she went on in a convinced way.
faintly/ˈfeɪntɫi/かすかに, ぼんやりと本文に10回
I am not even faintly like a rose.
glow/ˈɡɫoʊ/光を放つ, 輝く本文に10回
The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold, and wide open to the warm windy afternoon …
eagerly/ˈiɡɝɫi/しきりに本文に9回
asked Mrs. Wilson eagerly as he came to the taxi-window.
twilight/ˈtwaɪˌɫaɪt/薄明かり, 薄暗がり本文に9回
Tom and Miss Baker, with several feet of twilight between them strolled back into the library, as if to a vigil beside a perfectly tangible body …
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/叫ぶ本文に9回
she exclaimed surprisingly.
unfamiliar/ˌənfəˈmɪɫjɝ/よく知らない, 未知の見慣ない, 聞き慣ない本文に9回
They shook hands briefly and a strained, unfamiliar look of embarrassment came over Gatsby's face.
upstairs/əpˈstɛɹz/階上へ, 2階へ本文に9回
The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive …
fool/ˈfuɫ/ばか者本文に9回
"I'd be a God Damned fool to live anywhere else."
whereupon/ˈhwɛɹəˈpɑn/そこで, それから[…する]本文に8回
The butler came back and murmured something close to Tom's ear whereupon Tom frowned, pushed back his chair and without a word went inside.
incredulous/ˌɪnˈkɹɛdʒəɫəs/疑うような, 怪しむような本文に8回
Her host looked at her incredulously.
politely/pəˈɫaɪtɫi/丁寧に本文に8回
He turned me around again, politely and abruptly.
yacht/ˈjɑt/ヨット, 快走船本文に8回
A large photograph of an elderly man in yachting costume attracted me, hung on the wall over his desk.
groan/ˈɡɹoʊn/ギーッときしむ音本文に8回
I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall.
supper/ˈsəpɝ/夕食本文に8回
Tom rang for the janitor and sent him for some celebrated sandwiches, which were a complete supper in themselves.
cocktail/ˈkɑkˌteɪɫ/カクテル本文に8回
"No, thanks," said Miss Baker to the four cocktails just in from the pantry, "I'm absolutely in training."
conceal/kənˈsiɫ/を隠す本文に8回
She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
mutter/ˈmətɝ/つぶやく本文に8回
… at least I had him for a few days until he ran away, and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.
impatiently/ˌɪmˈpeɪʃəntɫi/いらいらして, 待ちかねて本文に7回
What was that word we—" "Well, these books are all scientific," insisted Tom, glancing at her impatiently.
solemn/ˈsɑɫəm/厳かな, 厳粛な, 荘重な本文に7回
I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the "Yale News"—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man."
cheerful/ˈtʃɪɹfəɫ/気持ちのよい, 楽しい本文に7回
Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay.
restless/ˈɹɛstɫəs/落ち着かない, 不安な本文に7回
I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came back restless.
whiskey/ˈhwɪski/ウイスキー本文に7回
Meanwhile Tom brought out a bottle of whiskey from a locked bureau door.
scarcely/ˈskɛɹsɫi/ほとんど…ない本文に7回
And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.
goodbye/ˌɡʊdˈbaɪ/さようなら, ごきげんよう本文に7回
He was saying some last word to her but the eagerness in his manner tightened abruptly into formality as several people approached him to say goodbye.
overhead/ˈoʊvɝˈhɛd/頭上高く, 空に本文に7回
They are not perfect ovals—like the egg in the Columbus story they are both crushed flat at the contact end—but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead.
champagne/ʃæmˈpeɪn/シャンペン本文に7回
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
orchestra/ˈɔɹkəstɹə/オーケストラ, 管弦楽団本文に7回
By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived—no thin five-piece affair but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums.
frown/ˈfɹaʊn/まゆをひそめる, しかめづらをする本文に7回
objected Daisy, frowning.
fantastic/fænˈtæstɪk/異様な, 風変わりな, 奇妙な本文に7回
This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort …
意味：EJDict-hand, English to Japanese (public domain) 発音記号：ipa-dict（MIT）、Wiktionaryより。
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