「三十九階段」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
The Thirty-Nine Steps
ジョン・バカンが「三十九階段」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。
till/ˈtɪɫ/…まで[ずっと]本文に43回
I watched from my window till I saw you come home, and then slipped down the stair to meet you....
glen/ˈɡɫɛn/峡谷, 谷間本文に25回
We rumbled slowly into a land of little wooded glens and then to a great wide moorland place, gleaming with lochs, with high blue hills showing northwards.
moor/ˈmʊɹ/荒れ地, 荒野などが一面に生えた湿地本文に22回
A child of ten received my ticket, and I emerged on a white road that straggled over the brown moor.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/ミル本文に17回
Not tonight, for they’ll follow me forty miles along the road, but first thing tomorrow morning.
moorland/ˈmʊɹˌɫænd/荒野本文に16回
A brown-faced woman was standing by the door, and greeted me with the kindly shyness of moorland places.
heather/ˈhɛðɝ/ヒース属の植物本文に16回
By-and-by I came to a swell of moorland which dipped to the vale of a little river, and a mile away in the heather I saw the smoke of a train.
fool/ˈfuɫ/ばか者本文に16回
I found that out—not that it was difficult, for any fool could guess as much.
chap/ˈtʃæp/やつ本文に15回
I rather fancied the chap.
reckon/ˈɹɛkən/思う本文に15回
Say, sir, I’ve been watching you, and I reckon you’re a cool customer.
mile/ˈmaɪɫ/マイル長さの単位本文に14回
There was no plan of campaign in my head, only just to go on and on in this blessed, honest-smelling hill country, for every mile put me in better humour with myself.
herd/ˈhɝd/群れ本文に14回
It was some hours since I had tasted food, and I was getting very hungry when I came to a herd’s cottage set in a nook beside a waterfall.
cottage/ˈkɑtədʒ/小さな家本文に14回
The moor surged up around it and left room only for the single line, the slender siding, a waiting-room, an office, the station-master’s cottage, and a tiny yard of gooseberries and sweet-william.
mill/ˈmɪɫ/製粉所本文に14回
A small mill-lade ran in a wooden aqueduct at the other side of the yard, and into this I fell.
tide/ˈtaɪd/潮[の干満], 潮流本文に14回
(“Thirty-nine steps”) was the phrase; and at its last time of use it ran—(“Thirty-nine steps, I counted them—high tide 10.17 p.m.”).
roadman道路工夫本文に13回
Then in a tiny bight of road, beside a heap of stones, I found the roadman.
ridge/ˈɹɪdʒ/山の背, 尾根本文に13回
Over a long ridge of moorland I took my road, skirting the side of a high hill which the herd had called Cairnsmore of Fleet.
collar/ˈkɑɫɝ/えり, カラー本文に13回
I hunted out a well-used tweed suit, a pair of strong nailed boots, and a flannel shirt with a collar.
queer/ˈkwɪɹ/風変りな, 変な本文に12回
He seemed to brace himself for a great effort, and then started on the queerest rigmarole.
butler/ˈbətɫɝ/執事, 使用人がしら本文に12回
The back door stood open, and a grave butler was awaiting me.
clever/ˈkɫɛvɝ/利口な, 頭のよい, 才気のある本文に12回
A clever man can make big profits on a falling market, and it suited the book of both classes to set Europe by the ears.
milkman/ˈmɪɫkˌmæn/牛乳屋, 牛乳配達人本文に11回
But about twenty minutes to seven, as I knew from bitter experience, the milkman turned up with a great clatter of cans, and deposited my share outside my door.
aeroplane=airplane本文に11回
I was as certain as if I had been told that that aeroplane was looking for me, and that it did not belong to the police.
whistle/ˈhwɪsəɫ/口笛を吹く本文に11回
I opened the front door, and there was my man, singling out my cans from a bunch he carried and whistling through his teeth.
murderer/ˈmɝdɝɝ/殺人者, 人殺し, 謀殺犯本文に11回
… for, unless the murderer came back, I had till about six o’clock in the morning for my cogitations.
cliff/ˈkɫɪf/がけ, 絶壁本文に11回
I think it’s a piece of open coast with biggish cliffs, somewhere between the Wash and the Channel.
din/ˈdɪn/騒音本文に10回
… even the pockets of the clothes in my wardrobe, and the sideboard in the dining-room.
yarn/ˈjɑɹn/物語, 話本文に10回
“Get on with your yarn,” I said, “and I’ll tell you.”
plump/ˈpɫəmp/ふっくらした, 丸々と太った, 丸ぽちゃの本文に10回
two plump thrushes had blundered into it.
cigar/sɪˈɡɑɹ/葉巻きたばこ, シガー本文に10回
I left him with the newspaper and a box of cigars, and went down to the City till luncheon.
policeman/pəˈɫismən/警官, 巡査本文に10回
Then I caught sight of a policeman a hundred yards down, and a loafer shuffling past on the other side.
puzzle/ˈpəzəɫ/の頭を悩ませる本文に10回
He told me some queer things that explained a lot that had puzzled me—things that happened in the Balkan War, how one state suddenly came out on top …
whisky/ˈhwɪski/ウイスキー本文に9回
There was a tray of drinks on a table beside him, from which he filled himself a stiff whisky-and-soda.
harbour/ˈhɑɹbɝ/港本文に9回
If it was a harbour it must be some little place where the tide mattered, or else it was a heavy-draught boat.
occupant/ˈɑkjəpənt/居住者, 占有者本文に9回
I recognized him as the occupant of a flat on the top floor, with whom I had passed the time of day on the stairs.
presently/ˈpɹɛzəntɫi/現在, 目下本文に9回
“Not Mr Scudder,” he corrected; “Captain Theophilus Digby, of the 40th Gurkhas, presently home on leave.
descend/dɪˈsɛnd/下る, 降りる本文に9回
The potato-digging station-master had been gingered up into some activity, for the west-going train was waiting to let us pass, and from it had descended three men who were asking him questions.
grey/ˈɡɹeɪ/灰色の, ねずみ色の, 鉛色の本文に8回
There seemed no road to it from anywhere, and to increase the desolation the waves of a tarn lapped on their grey granite beach half a mile away.
innkeeper/ˈɪnˌkipɝ/宿屋の主人本文に8回
“You’re young to be an innkeeper,” I said.
dovecotハト小屋本文に8回
From another window I saw that on the far side of the mill stood an old stone dovecot.
villa/ˈvɪɫə/郊外住宅本文に8回
I walked back through fields and lines of villas and terraces and then slums and mean streets, and it took me pretty nearly two hours.
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