「真面目が肝心」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
オスカー・ワイルドが「真面目が肝心」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。
christen/ˈkɹɪsən/に洗礼を施してキリスト教会へ受け入れる, 洗礼を施す本文に18回
Gwendolen, I must get christened at once—I mean we must get married at once.
muffin/ˈməfən/円形の軽焼きパン本文に18回
[Begins to eat muffins.]
guardian/ˈɡɑɹdiən/後見人本文に14回
Old Mr. Thomas Cardew, who adopted me when I was a little boy, made me in his will guardian to his grand-daughter, Miss Cecily Cardew.
diary/ˈdaɪɝi/日記, 日記帳, 日誌本文に14回
[Cecily begins to write in her diary.]
aunt/ˈænt/おば本文に14回
She is my aunt.
absurd/əbˈsɝd/道理に合わない本文に11回
it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn’t.
dine/ˈdaɪn/正餐をとる本文に10回
Bring me that cigarette case Mr. Worthing left in the smoking-room the last time he dined here.
nonsense/ˈnɑnsɛns/無意味な言葉, たわごと本文に10回
Oh, that is nonsense!
till/ˈtɪɫ/…まで[…ない], …になって初めて[…する]本文に10回
I shall probably not be back till Monday.
mamma/ˈmɑmə/おかあちゃん本文に9回
Thanks, mamma, I’m quite comfortable where I am.
darling/ˈdɑɹɫɪŋ/いとしい人, 最愛の人本文に9回
Personally, darling, to speak quite candidly, I don’t much care about the name of Ernest .
christening/ˈkɹɪsənɪŋ/洗礼式, 命名式本文に8回
I have preached it at harvest celebrations, christenings, confirmations, on days of humiliation and festal days.
cucumber/ˈkjukəmbɝ/キュウリ, キュウリの実本文に8回
And, speaking of the science of Life, have you got the cucumber sandwiches cut for Lady Bracknell?
fond/ˈfɑnd/優しい, 愛情のある本文に8回
‘From little Cecily with her fondest love.’
ward/ˈwɔɹd/後見, 保護本文に8回
Have you told Gwendolen yet that you have an excessively pretty ward who is only just eighteen?
unfortunate/ənˈfɔɹtʃənət/不運な, 不幸な本文に8回
And I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led to?
consent/kənˈsɛnt/同意, 承諾, 許可本文に8回
In the second place, I don’t give my consent.
invalid/ˈɪnvəɫəd/病人, 病弱な人, 傷病者本文に7回
I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
wicked/ˈwɪkəd/悪い, 邪悪な, 不正な本文に7回
I have never met any really wicked person before.
nephew/ˈnɛfju/おい本文に7回
… no matter what her size may be, should call her own nephew her uncle, I can’t quite make out.
cough/ˈkɑf/せきをする, せき払いする本文に7回
Oh, don’t cough, Ernest.
peculiarly/pɪkˈjuɫjɝɫi/特に, 格別に本文に6回
I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draughts.
heartless/ˈhɑɹtɫəs/無情な, 冷酷な本文に6回
You couldn’t be so heartless as to disown him.
pardon/ˈpɑɹdən/許すこと, 容赦すること本文に6回
I beg your pardon, Algy, I suppose I shouldn’t talk about your own aunt in that way before you.
clever/ˈkɫɛvɝ/利口な, 頭のよい, 才気のある本文に6回
Is that clever?
sofa/ˈsoʊfə/長いす, ソファー本文に6回
[Inspects them, takes two, and sits down on the sofa.]
chill/ˈtʃɪɫ/寒さ, 悪寒本文に6回
You had much better say a severe chill.
salver食物・飲料・名刺などを載せて出す昔の金属製の盆本文に5回
[Hands them on a salver.]
kindly/ˈkaɪndɫi/どうぞ本文に5回
But I’ll run over the programme I’ve drawn out, if you will kindly come into the next room for a moment.
delightful/dɪˈɫaɪtfəɫ/喜びを与える, 楽しい, うれしい本文に5回
How perfectly delightful!
cloak/ˈkɫoʊk/そでなし外とう, マント本文に5回
In the cloak-room at Victoria Station.
flirt/ˈfɫɝt/ふざける本文に5回
My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful.
nowadays/ˈnaʊəˌdeɪz/今日では, このごろは本文に5回
My dear fellow, it isn’t easy to be anything nowadays.
charm/ˈtʃɑɹm/魅力本文に5回
If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won’t want to know Bunbury.
sooner/ˈsunɝ/むしろ本文に4回
I’d sooner die.
din/ˈdɪn/騒音本文に4回
… I see from your book that on Thursday night, when Lord Shoreman and Mr. Worthing were dining with me, eight bottles of champagne are entered as having been consumed.
vulgar/ˈvəɫɡɝ/下品な, 野卑な, 無作法な本文に4回
It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn’t a dentist.
railway/ˈɹeɪɫˌweɪ/=railroad本文に4回
As for the particular locality in which the hand-bag was found, a cloak-room at a railway station might serve to conceal a social indiscretion—has probably, indeed …
specially/ˈspɛʃəɫi/特に, わざわざ本文に4回
The Divorce Court was specially invented for people whose memories are so curiously constituted.
luggage/ˈɫəɡədʒ/手荷物, 小荷物, トランク・スーツケースなどの旅行かばん類本文に4回
He has brought his luggage with him.
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