「ジャングル・ブック」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
The Jungle Book
ラドヤード・キプリングが「ジャングル・ブック」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。
elephant/ˈɛɫəfənt/ゾウ本文に131回
The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches.
jungle/ˈdʒəŋɡəɫ/密林[地帯], ジャングル本文に101回
… because Tabaqui, more than anyone else in the jungle, is apt to go mad …
seal/ˈsiɫ/アザラシ本文に94回
Nobody comes to Novastoshnah except on business, and the only people who have regular business there are the seals.
thou/ˈðaʊ/なんじ, そなた本文に89回
… or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle …
thee/ˈði/なんじを本文に76回
He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs—frog-eater—fish-killer—he shall hunt thee!
till/ˈtɪɫ/…まで[ずっと]本文に71回
For loosed till dawn are we.
monkey/ˈməŋki/さる本文に46回
We do not drink where the monkeys drink; we do not go where the monkeys go; we do not hunt where they hunt; we do not die where they die.
wolves/ˈwʊɫvz/wolfの複数形本文に39回
“Good luck go with you, O chief of the wolves.”
herd/ˈhɝd/群れ本文に38回
The herds are shut in byre and hut
wolf/ˈwʊɫf/オオカミ本文に38回
“For a wolf, no,” said Tabaqui, “but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast.
mule/ˈmjuɫ/ラバ雄のロバと雌の馬との雑種本文に37回
Just as I was getting ready to go to sleep I heard a jingle of harness and a grunt, and a mule passed me shaking his wet ears.
tiger/ˈtaɪɡɝ/トラ本文に36回
Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
camel/ˈkæməɫ/ラクダ本文に33回
Thorn for the camel, fodder for the kine,
buffalo/ˈbəfəˌɫoʊ/水牛本文に33回
Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path; for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant.
bull/ˈbʊɫ/雄牛本文に32回
By the bull that I killed, am I to stand nosing into your dog’s den for my fair dues?
bullock/ˈbʊɫək/去勢された雄牛本文に31回
Does he think that our buck are like his fat Waingunga bullocks?”
cub/ˈkəb/野獣の子本文に30回
Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived.
beast/ˈbist/動物, 四足獣本文に29回
… which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/マイル本文に25回
Shere Khan was the tiger who lived near the Waingunga River, twenty miles away.
ravine/ɹəˈvin/渓谷, 峡谷本文に22回
When he comes back wait for me in the ravine by the dhâk tree in the center of the plain.
roar/ˈɹɔɹ/ほえる, うなる本文に21回
The tiger’s roar filled the cave with thunder.
cobra/ˈkoʊbɹə/コブラ本文に20回
said half a dozen low voices (every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summerhouse was alive with cobras).
mongoose/ˈmɑŋɡus/マングース本文に20回
He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits.
grunt/ˈɡɹənt/ブーブー言う声本文に18回
“The fool has had no more sense than to jump at a woodcutter’s campfire, and has burned his feet,” said Father Wolf with a grunt.
flipper/ˈfɫɪpɝ/ひれ状の足本文に17回
When he heaved himself up on his front flippers he stood more than four feet clear of the ground, and his weight …
trumpet/ˈtɹəmpət/象の大きな鳴き声本文に16回
And as soon as there was a lull you could hear his high-pitched yells of encouragement to Kala Nag, above the trumpeting and crashing, and snapping of ropes …
foolish/ˈfuɫɪʃ/愚かな, 思慮分別のない本文に16回
Baloo knows it; I know it; the Pack know it; and even the foolish, foolish deer know.
nursery/ˈnɝsɝi/子供部屋, 育児室本文に16回
He only wanted room by the sea for his nursery.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/…をひどく驚かせる, おびえさせる本文に16回
He will frighten every head of game within ten miles, and I—I have to kill for two, these days.”
scratch/ˈskɹætʃ/をかく本文に16回
It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned …
hind/ˈhaɪnd/後ろの, 後方の, 後部の本文に15回
… old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey—rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.
howl/ˈhaʊɫ/遠ぼえ本文に15回
Then there was a howl—an untigerish howl—from Shere Khan.
picket/ˈpɪkɪt/くい本文に14回
I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake.
graze/ˈɡɹeɪz/牧草を食う, 草を食う本文に14回
At one end stood a little village, and at the other the thick jungle came down in a sweep to the grazing-grounds, and stopped there as though it had been cut off with a hoe.
frog/ˈfɹɑɡ/カエル本文に14回
Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat Man, and on our ground too!”
tusk/ˈtəsk/きば本文に13回
… fat-necked, long-tusked walrus of the North Pacific, who has no manners except when he is asleep—as he was then …
snort/ˈsnɔɹt/鼻を鳴らすこと本文に13回
There he checked, for he heard the yell of the Pack hunting, heard the bellow of a hunted Sambhur, and the snort as the buck turned at bay.
obey/oʊˈbeɪ/服従する本文に13回
Mowgli obeyed faithfully.
mile/ˈmaɪɫ/マイル長さの単位本文に12回
Now to Baloo’s word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed, not half a mile from here, if ye will accept the man’s cub according to the Law.
yoke/ˈjoʊk/2頭の牛本文に12回
I heard a chain dragging along the ground, and a yoke of the great sulky white bullocks that drag the heavy siege guns when the elephants won’t go any nearer to the firing, came shouldering along together.
意味：EJDict-hand, English to Japanese (public domain) 発音記号：ipa-dict（MIT）、Wiktionaryより。
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