「ドリアン・グレイの肖像」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
The Picture of Dorian Gray
オスカー・ワイルドが「ドリアン・グレイの肖像」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。
charm/ˈtʃɑɹm/魅力本文に64回
You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
murmur/ˈmɝmɝ/ざわめき, かすかな音本文に44回
The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine …
dreadful/ˈdɹɛdfəɫ/実に不快な, ひどく悪い本文に43回
… there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people …
duchess/ˈdətʃəs/公爵夫人本文に32回
… much liked by every one who knew her, and of those ample architectural proportions that in women who are not duchesses are described by contemporary historians as stoutness.
hideous/ˈhɪdiəs/恐ろしい, ひどく醜い, ぞっとする本文に32回
How perfectly hideous they are!
coloured/ˈkəɫɝd/着色した, 彩色してある本文に30回
It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
delightful/dɪˈɫaɪtfəɫ/喜びを与える, 楽しい, うれしい本文に29回
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful.
fancy/ˈfænsi/好み本文に29回
… and made a little moue of discontent to Lord Henry, to whom he had rather taken a fancy.
exquisite/ˈɛkskwəzət/絶妙な, 精巧な本文に26回
I had a strange feeling that fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.
monstrous/ˈmɑnstɹəs/怪物のような, 奇怪な本文に25回
Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
worship/ˈwɝʃəp/…を崇拝する本文に23回
No wonder Basil Hallward worshipped him.
till/ˈtɪɫ/…まで[ずっと]本文に23回
I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.
romance/ˈɹoʊmæns/伝奇的なふんい気本文に23回
It is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one’s life.
stain/ˈsteɪn/…を汚す, にしみをつける本文に22回
… thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame—”
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/…を叫ぶ, 大声で言う本文に22回
exclaimed Hallward, frowning.
colour/ˈkəɫɝ/色, 色採, 色調本文に21回
Some day you will look at your friend, and he will seem to you to be a little out of drawing, or you won’t like his tone of colour, or something.
theatre/ˈθiətɝ/劇場, 映画館本文に19回
“Let us go to the theatre to-night,” said Lord Henry.
scarlet/ˈskɑɹɫət/緋色の, 深紅色の, まっかな本文に18回
Yes, he was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair.
shudder/ˈʃədɝ/身震いする本文に18回
It makes me shudder when I hear it.
sorrow/ˈsɑɹoʊ/悲しみの原因, 不幸の種, 心配ごと本文に18回
… whose joys seem to be remote from one, but whose sorrows stir one’s sense of beauty, and whose wounds are like red roses.
frown/ˈfɹaʊn/しかめづら, 渋い顔本文に18回
asked Hallward, with a slight frown.
marvellous/ˈmɑɹvəɫəs/優秀な, すばらしい本文に17回
It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us.
pity/ˈpɪti/残念なこと, 惜しいこと, 気の毒なこと本文に17回
It will be a great pity, for it will alter you.
mutter/ˈmətɝ/つぶやく本文に17回
“You should have gone away when I asked you,” he muttered.
horrid/ˈhɔɹəd/いやな, 不愉快な本文に16回
The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.
horribly/ˈhɔɹəbɫi/ひどく本文に16回
“How horribly unjust of you!”
poison/ˈpɔɪzən/…をだめにする, 害する本文に16回
Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.
tremble/ˈtɹɛmbəɫ/震える本文に16回
His finely chiselled nostrils quivered, and some hidden nerve shook the scarlet of his lips and left them trembling.
fantastic/fænˈtæstɪk/異様な, 風変わりな, 奇妙な本文に16回
He was brilliant, fantastic, irresponsible.
silly/ˈsɪɫi/愚かな, 思慮のない, ばかな本文に16回
It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
vulgar/ˈvəɫɡɝ/下品な, 野卑な, 無作法な本文に15回
The Academy is too large and too vulgar.
spoil/ˈspɔɪɫ/を甘やかしてだめにする, 増長させる本文に15回
Don’t spoil him.
jewel/ˈdʒuəɫ/宝石本文に15回
The waving of crooked, false-jewelled fingers gave grotesqueness to the words.
absurd/əbˈsɝd/道理に合わない本文に15回
When we meet—we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke’s—we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces.
dull/ˈdəɫ/鈍い本文に15回
You never open your lips while you are painting, and it is horribly dull standing on a platform and trying to look pleasant.
terribly/ˈtɛɹəbɫi/ひどく, 非常に本文に15回
… Dorian Gray’s good looks—we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.”
upstairs/əpˈstɛɹz/階上へ, 2階へ本文に15回
One could hear her singing as she ran upstairs.
shallow/ˈʃæɫoʊ/浅薄な, 表面的な本文に15回
But the world might guess it, and I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes.
gilt/ˈɡɪɫt/金めっきした, 金色に塗った本文に14回
The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive.
fascinating/ˈfæsəˌneɪtɪŋ/魅惑的な, うっとりさせる本文に14回
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so …
意味：EJDict-hand, English to Japanese (public domain) 発音記号：ipa-dict（MIT）、Wiktionaryより。
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