「スリーピー・ホローの伝説」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
ワシントン・アーヴィングが「スリーピー・ホローの伝説」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。
brook/ˈbɹʊk/小川, 細流本文に15回
A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose …
haunt/ˈhɔnt/…に出没する本文に13回
The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions …
goblin/ˈɡɑbɫɪn/人に害やいたずらを働く奇怪な姿の悪霊本文に11回
… and should have won it too, for Daredevil beat the goblin horse all hollow, but just as they came to the church bridge …
steed/ˈstid/馬本文に11回
But it is meet I should, in the true spirit of romantic story, give some account of the looks and equipments of my hero and his steed.
schoolmaster/ˈskuɫˌmæstɝ/男教師本文に10回
… a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters.
schoolhouse/ˈskuɫˌhaʊs/校舎本文に10回
His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly glazed, and partly patched with leaves of old copybooks.
saddle/ˈsædəɫ/くら本文に9回
He rode with short stirrups, which brought his knees nearly up to the pommel of the saddle; his sharp elbows stuck out like grasshoppers’ …
fearful/ˈfɪɹfəɫ/恐ろしい, こわい本文に8回
What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!
pedagogue教師, 先生本文に7回
… by divers little makeshifts, in that ingenious way which is commonly denominated “by hook and by crook,” the worthy pedagogue got on tolerably enough, and was thought …
witch/ˈwɪtʃ/女の魔法使い, 魔女, 女妖術使い本文に7回
Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good people …
rival/ˈɹaɪvəɫ/競争相手, ライバル, 好敵手本文に7回
Certain it is, his advances were signals for rival candidates to retire, who felt no inclination to cross a lion in his amours …
spectre/ˈspɛktɝ/幽霊, お化け本文に6回
… which has furnished materials for many a wild story in that region of shadows; and the spectre is known at all the country firesides, by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
rustic/ˈɹəstɪk/いなかの, 田舎ふうの, 田園生活の本文に6回
… this sequestered glen has long been known by the name of SLEEPY HOLLOW, and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring country.
hollow/ˈhɑɫoʊ/空洞のある, からになっている, うつろの本文に6回
The old farmers gathered together their families in their wagons, and were heard for some time rattling along the hollow roads, and over the distant hills.
dash/ˈdæʃ/突進, 疾走本文に6回
… and with all his overbearing roughness, there was a strong dash of waggish good humor at bottom.
drowsy/ˈdɹaʊzi/眠い, うとうとしている本文に5回
A pleasing land of drowsy head it was,
marvellous/ˈmɑɹvəɫəs/驚嘆すべき, 信じがたい本文に5回
They are given to all kinds of marvellous beliefs, are subject to trances and visions, and frequently see strange sights, and hear music and voices in the air.
churchyard/ˈtʃɝtʃˌjɑɹd/教会堂に隣接する庭本文に5回
… it was said, tethered his horse nightly among the graves in the churchyard.
psalm/ˈsɑɫm/賛美歌, 聖歌本文に5回
… either to drown thought or drive away evil spirits, was to sing psalm tunes and the good people of Sleepy Hollow, as they sat by their doors of an evening …
beset/bɪˈsɛt/…を取り巻く本文に5回
How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre, beset his very path!
bosom/ˈbʊzəm/奥, 内部本文に5回
Though many years have elapsed since I trod the drowsy shades of Sleepy Hollow, yet I question whether I should not still find the same trees and the same families vegetating in its sheltered bosom.
cock/ˈkɑk/風見本文に5回
… and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.
farmhouse/ˈfɑɹmˌhaʊs/農場内の家屋本文に5回
… therefore, is apt to occasion some little stir at the tea-table of a farmhouse, and the addition of a supernumerary dish of cakes or sweetmeats …
flutter/ˈfɫətɝ/ぱたぱたする, はためく本文に5回
To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth …
whistle/ˈhwɪsəɫ/口笛を吹く本文に5回
… with just murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity.
glare/ˈɡɫɛɹ/ぎらぎら光る, まぶしく輝く本文に5回
… and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country, and the nightmare …
pumpkin/ˈpəmkɪn/西洋カボチャ本文に5回
… was found the hat of the unfortunate Ichabod, and close beside it a shattered pumpkin.
sway/ˈsweɪ/揺れ, 動揺本文に5回
He laid aside, too, all the dominant dignity and absolute sway with which he lorded it in his little empire, the school, and became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating.
unfortunate/ənˈfɔɹtʃənət/不運な, 不幸な本文に5回
Many dismal tales were told about funeral trains, and mourning cries and wailings heard and seen about the great tree where the unfortunate Major André was taken, and which stood in the neighborhood.
delight/dɪˈɫaɪt/楽しみ, うれしいこと本文に5回
It was often his delight, after his school was dismissed in the afternoon …
repose/ɹiˈpoʊz/休息, 睡眠本文に4回
A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity.
urchin/ˈɝtʃən/いたずら小僧, わんぱく小僧本文に4回
… but the claims of justice were satisfied by inflicting a double portion on some little tough wrong-headed, broad-skirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the birch.
piazza/piˈæzə/ベランダ本文に4回
… built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers; the low projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up in bad weather.
centre/ˈsɛntɝ/中心, 中央, 中核本文に4回
From this piazza the wondering Ichabod entered the hall, which formed the centre of the mansion, and the place of usual residence.
negro/ˈniɡɹoʊ/黒人本文に4回
It was suddenly interrupted by the appearance of a negro in tow-cloth jacket and trowsers, a round-crowned fragment of a hat …
heiress/ˈɛɹəs/女子相続人本文に4回
Ichabod only lingered behind, according to the custom of country lovers, to have a tête-à-tête with the heiress; fully convinced that he was now on the high road to success.
clatter/ˈkɫætɝ/ガチャガチャ音を立てる, ガチャガチャ音を立てて動く本文に4回
… startled out of their sleep, would listen for a moment till the hurry-scurry had clattered by, and then exclaim …
apparition/ˌæpɝˈɪʃən/幽霊, 亡霊本文に4回
The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback, without a head.
superstition/ˌsupɝˈstɪʃən/迷信本文に4回
… haunted spots, and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country …
birch/ˈbɝtʃ/カバの木本文に4回
… with a brook running close by, and a formidable birch-tree growing at one end of it.
意味：EJDict-hand, English to Japanese (public domain) 発音記号：ipa-dict（MIT）、Wiktionaryより。
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