「ドリトル先生物語」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
ヒュー・ロフティングが「ドリトル先生物語」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。
monkey/ˈməŋki/いじる本文に58回
And when that red-faced booby started to monkey with me, I just couldn’t bear it any more.”
parrot/ˈpɛɹət/オウム本文に35回
But his favorite pets were Dab-Dab the duck, Jip the dog, Gub-Gub the baby pig, Polynesia the parrot, and the owl Too-Too.
sail/ˈseɪɫ/航海する本文に27回
And I sail the ocean Blue.
till/ˈtɪɫ/…まで[ずっと]本文に20回
… like the dormice and the water-voles and the bats, they will have to go back and live in the fields where they were born till we come home again.
sailor/ˈseɪɫɝ/水夫, 船員, 海員本文に17回
The parrot, Polynesia, was sitting in the window looking out at the rain and singing a sailor-song to herself.
jungle/ˈdʒəŋɡəɫ/密林[地帯], ジャングル本文に17回
I hear footsteps in the jungle!”
snuff/ˈsnəf/かぎたばこ本文に16回
“Snuff, by Jingo!—Black Rappee snuff.
downstairs/ˈdaʊnˈstɛɹz/階下へ, 下の階へ, 1階へ本文に14回
So Polynesia took him downstairs into the inside of the ship and showed him the beds, set all on top of one another like book-shelves against a wall.
crocodile/ˈkɹɑkəˌdaɪɫ/ワニ本文に13回
And another time, when the circus came to Puddleby, the crocodile who had a bad toothache escaped at night and came into the Doctor’s garden.
pirate/ˈpaɪɹət/海賊, 海賊船本文に12回
When they reached the shore they saw the pirate-ship, with the three red sails …
anchor/ˈæŋkɝ/いかり本文に12回
And you must have beef in cans—and an anchor.”
shark/ˈʃɑɹk/サメ, フカ本文に12回
“The sharks!
palace/ˈpæɫəs/宮殿本文に11回
WHEN they had gone a little way through the thick forest, they came to a wide, clear space; and they saw the King’s palace which was made of mud.
lion/ˈɫaɪən/ライオン, しし本文に11回
So he sent messages to the other animals, like the lions and the leopards and the antelopes, to come and help with the nursing.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/マイル本文に10回
… but drove every Saturday all the way to Oxenthorpe, another town ten miles off, to see a different doctor.
terribly/ˈtɛɹəbɫi/ひどく, 非常に本文に10回
One day a plow-horse was brought to him; and the poor thing was terribly glad to find a man who could talk in horse-language.
clever/ˈkɫɛvɝ/利口な, 頭のよい, 才気のある本文に9回
And whenever he walked down the street in his high hat everyone would say, “There goes the Doctor!—He’s a clever man.”
drown/ˈdɹaʊn/溺死する本文に9回
And then, just at that moment, the old man’s hat came floating by; and I got into it because I did not want to be drowned.”
dreadfully/ˈdɹɛdfəɫi/非常に, とても本文に8回
Oh, sometimes people annoy me dreadfully—such airs they put on—talking about ‘the dumb animals.’
presently/ˈpɹɛzəntɫi/やがて, まもなく本文に8回
They all listened; and presently they heard the sound of some one running.
canary/kəˈnɛɹi/カナリア本文に7回
“Don’t you hear the canaries singing?”
seashore/ˈsiˌʃɔɹ/海岸, 海辺本文に6回
And when they had seen that there was plenty of hay in the loft to last the horse through the Winter, they carried all their luggage down to the seashore and got on to the boat.
leopard/ˈɫɛpɝd/ヒョウ本文に6回
Then the leopards got proud too and said they wouldn’t help.
circus/ˈsɝkəs/サーカス本文に6回
When the circus-men came to take him back he got so wild and savage that he frightened them away.
prince/ˈpɹɪns/王子, 親王本文に6回
“If I were only a white prince!”
upstairs/əpˈstɛɹz/階上へ, 2階へ本文に6回
I want to go upstairs again and see them start.”
fisherman/ˈfɪʃɝˌmæn/漁夫, 漁師本文に6回
But he said he didn’t want to be a pirate, because killing people and stealing was no work for a good fisherman to do.
dungeon/ˈdəndʒən/土牢, 地下牢本文に5回
So six of the black men led the Doctor and all his pets away and shut them up in a stone dungeon.
din/ˈdɪn/騒音本文に5回
They looked under the mat; they looked under all the carpets; they looked in all the cupboards and drawers and lockers—in the big chests in the ship’s dining-room; they looked everywhere.
roast/ˈɹoʊst/を焼く, あぶる, 蒸し焼きにする本文に5回
“I smell roast beef cooking,” he mumbled—“underdone roast beef—with brown gravy over it.”
swift/ˈswɪft/速い, 快速の本文に5回
“They are bad sailors,” said Jip; “and their ship is very swift.
sniff/ˈsnɪf/かぐ, くんくんかぐ本文に5回
She found Gub-Gub poking his nose through the bars of the window, trying to sniff the cooking-smells that came from the palace-kitchen.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/…をひどく驚かせる, おびえさせる本文に5回
When she flew down to get it, she found one of the white mice, very frightened, sitting inside it.
unhappy/ənˈhæpi/悲しい, 気の滅入る本文に5回
The Doctor saw at once that the monkey’s collar was too tight and that he was dirty and unhappy.
cliff/ˈkɫɪf/がけ, 絶壁本文に5回
Then they all took shelter in a nice dry cave they found, high up in the cliffs, till the storm was over.
drawer/ˈdɹɔɹ/引き出し本文に5回
Then he sold his piano, and let the mice live in a bureau-drawer.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/明日, 翌日本文に4回
Just think—it’ll be a hundred and sixty-nine years to-morrow since I was here!
conceited/kənˈsitəd/うぬぼれの強い本文に4回
“They’re just conceited.
stairs/ˈstɛɹz/階段本文に4回
And she went back up the stairs of the ship, humming this song to herself,
grinder/ˈɡɹaɪndɝ/ひく人本文に4回
Once when he was sitting on his garden wall, smoking a pipe in the evening, an Italian organ-grinder came round with a monkey on a string.
意味：EJDict-hand, English to Japanese (public domain) 発音記号：ipa-dict（MIT）、Wiktionaryより。
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