「ジキル博士とハイド氏」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
ロバート・ルイス・スティーヴンソンが「ジキル博士とハイド氏」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。
butler/ˈbətɫɝ/執事, 使用人がしら本文に12回
The solemn butler knew and welcomed him; he was subjected to no stage of delay, but ushered direct from the door to the dining-room where Dr. Lanyon sat alone over his wine.
theatre/ˈθiətɝ/劇場, 映画館本文に11回
… to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years.
cheque/ˈtʃɛk/=check{名}6本文に10回
… in real life, walk into a cellar door at four in the morning and come out with another man’s cheque for close upon a hundred pounds.
drawer/ˈdɹɔɹ/引き出し本文に10回
From this he was recalled by Mr. Utterson asking rather suddenly: “And you don’t know if the drawer of the cheque lives there?”
seal/ˈsiɫ/封印, 封本文に10回
… but no cards or papers, except a sealed and stamped envelope, which he had been probably carrying to the post …
maid/ˈmeɪd/お手伝いさん, 女中本文に9回
A maid servant living alone in a house not far from the river, had gone upstairs to bed about eleven.
murderer/ˈmɝdɝɝ/殺人者, 人殺し, 謀殺犯本文に9回
The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled.
curiosity/ˌkjʊɹiˈɑsəti/好奇心, 物好き本文に9回
… almost an inordinate, curiosity to behold the features of the real Mr. Hyde.
countenance/ˈkaʊntənəns/顔つき, 顔色, 表情本文に8回
Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold …
recognise/ˈɹɛkəɡˌnaɪz/…を確かに認める本文に8回
Presently her eye wandered to the other, and she was surprised to recognise in him a certain Mr. Hyde, who had once visited her master and for whom she had conceived a dislike.
lighted/ˈɫaɪtəd/灯りをつけた本文に8回
Street after street and all the folks asleep—street after street, all lighted up as if for a procession and all as empty as a church—till at last I got into that state of mind when a man listens and listens and begins to long for the sight of a policeman.
scarce/ˈskɛɹs/=scarcely本文に8回
I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why.
colour/ˈkəɫɝ/色, 色採, 色調本文に7回
He was the usual cut and dry apothecary, of no particular age and colour, with a strong Edinburgh accent and about as emotional as a bagpipe.
inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/尋ねる, 問い合わせる本文に7回
he inquired at last.
disappearance/ˌdɪsəˈpiɹəns/消失, 消滅本文に7回
“And now one word more: it was Hyde who dictated the terms in your will about that disappearance?”
startle/ˈstɑɹtəɫ/…を飛び上がらせる, ぎょっとさせる本文に7回
He might see a reason for his friend’s strange preference or bondage (call it which you please) and even for the startling clauses of the will.
till/ˈtɪɫ/…まで[ずっと]本文に7回
‘Set your mind at rest,’ says he, ‘I will stay with you till the banks open and cash the cheque myself.’
conscience/ˈkɑnʃəns/良心, 道義心, 善悪を判断する力本文に7回
Ah, it’s an ill conscience that’s such an enemy to rest!
draught/ˈdɹæft/飲み薬本文に6回
Let me but escape into my laboratory door, give me but a second or two to mix and swallow the draught that I had always standing ready; and whatever he had done …
pang/ˈpæŋ/激痛, 差しこみ本文に6回
I put him back, conscious at his touch of a certain icy pang along my blood.
hatred/ˈheɪtɹəd/憎しみ, 憎悪, 大嫌い本文に6回
… in the mind of the unimpressionable Enfield, a spirit of enduring hatred.
distress/dɪˈstɹɛs/を苦しめる, 苦悩させる本文に6回
I never saw a man so distressed as you were by my will; unless it were that hide-bound pedant, Lanyon, at what he called my scientific heresies.
stamp/ˈstæmp/を踏みつける本文に6回
And then all of a sudden he broke out in a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane …
deformity/dɪˈfɔɹməti/奇形, 変形, 不具本文に5回
He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point.
hitherto/ˈhɪˌðɝˈtu/今まで, これまで本文に5回
And hitherto it was his ignorance of Mr. Hyde that had swelled his indignation; now, by a sudden turn, it was his knowledge.
honour/ˈɑnɝ/道義心, 誠実, 高潔本文に5回
I bind my honour to you that I am done with him in this world.
slumber/ˈsɫəmbɝ/眠り, まどろみ本文に5回
… black as it was, was nearly ripe for the conception of the day—the inmates of my house were locked in the most rigorous hours of slumber; and I determined …
din/ˈdɪn/食堂本文に5回
or shall I give you a light in the dining-room?”
singular/ˈsɪŋɡjəɫɝ/奇妙な, 変わった本文に5回
It was reported by those who encountered them in their Sunday walks, that they said nothing, looked singularly dull and would hail with obvious relief the appearance of a friend.
shudder/ˈʃədɝ/身震い本文に5回
But tonight there was a shudder in his blood; the face of Hyde sat heavy on his memory …
stature/ˈstætʃɝ/背, 身長本文に5回
“Is this Mr. Hyde a person of small stature?”
doom/ˈdum/…を運命づける本文に5回
And yet when Utterson remarked on his ill looks, it was with an air of great firmness that Lanyon declared himself a doomed man.
swiftly/ˈswɪftɫi/速く本文に5回
He would be aware of the great field of lamps of a nocturnal city; then of the figure of a man walking swiftly; then of a child running from the doctor’s …
tempt/ˈtɛmpt/を誘惑する, そそのかす本文に5回
It was unlikely that the doctor should fear death; and yet that was what Utterson was tempted to suspect.
despair/dɪˈspɛɹ/絶望, 失望本文に5回
But the words were hardly uttered, before the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below.
tremble/ˈtɹɛmbəɫ/震える本文に5回
But Lanyon’s face changed, and he held up a trembling hand.
conceal/kənˈsiɫ/を隠す本文に5回
Ah, it must be that; the ghost of some old sin, the cancer of some concealed disgrace: punishment coming, pede claudo, years after memory has forgotten and self-love condoned the fault.”
fancy/ˈfænsi/好み本文に5回
… in which he was now left alone, was a pet fancy of his friend the doctor’s; and Utterson himself was wont to speak of it as the pleasantest room in London.
glow/ˈɡɫoʊ/輝き本文に5回
… as the colour grows richer in stained windows; and the glow of hot autumn afternoons on hillside vineyards, was ready to be set free and to disperse the fogs of London.
unhappy/ənˈhæpi/不幸な, 不運な, みじめな本文に5回
… complaining of his exclusion from the house, and asking the cause of this unhappy break with Lanyon; and the next day brought him a long answer …
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