「誰の死体？」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel
ドロシー・L・セイヤーズが「誰の死体？」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。
lord/ˈɫɔɹd/本文に75回
“Her Grace has just called up from Denver, my lord.
lordship/ˈɫɔɹdʃɪp/閣下本文に45回
“I believe that’s his lordship just coming in again—if your Grace would kindly hold the line a moment.”
till/ˈtɪɫ/…まで[ずっと]本文に36回
“Inspector Sugg said nothing was to be touched till his men came in to move it.
inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/尋ねる, 問い合わせる本文に24回
“I didn’t hear Inspector Sugg inquire,” he said, with some agitation.
workhouse救貧院, 貧民収容施設本文に18回
Died workhouse Monday.
taxi/ˈtæksi/タクシー本文に18回
The taxi man, irritated at receiving this appeal while negotiating the intricacies of turning into Lower Regent Street across the route of a 19 ’bus …
dissect/daɪˈsɛkt/を解剖する本文に17回
thought one of the young medical gentlemen at the hospital might have brought the corpse round for a joke, as you might say, they always having bodies in the dissecting-room.
deceased/dɪˈsist/死亡した, 故人となった本文に15回
He had never seen the deceased before.
corpse/ˈkɔɹps/死体本文に13回
—if the Church of Rome went to pot or Switzerland invaded Italy—whereas a strange corpse doesn’t turn up in a suburban bathroom more than once in a lifetime—at least, I should think not—at any rate …
beard/ˈbɪɹd/あごひげ本文に13回
Oddly enough, though, he would be really extraordinarily like Sir Reuben if he had a beard, and as Lady Levy
inquest/ˈɪnˌkwɛst/死因審問本文に12回
“I see they adjourned the inquest,” said Parker presently.
awfully/ˈɑfɫi/ひどく, とても本文に12回
Well, thanks awfully for tellin’ me.
oblige/əˈbɫaɪdʒ/に義務を負わせる, 強制する本文に12回
Noblesse oblige—for a consideration.
umbrella/ˈəmˌbɹɛɫə/傘, こうもり傘, 雨傘本文に12回
He walked upstairs, leaving his greatcoat on the hall peg and his umbrella in the stand—you remember how it rained last night.
downstairs/ˈdaʊnˈstɛɹz/階下へ, 下の階へ, 1階へ本文に12回
… and seeing that it was already a quarter to three, ran briskly downstairs, and …
pauper/ˈpɔpɝ/貧乏人本文に11回
“Then the man was a pauper from the workhouse?”
brandy/ˈbɹændi/ブランデー1杯本文に11回
… and I get that sinking feeling sometimes in the morning, and what with one thing and another I ’ad—had to send the girl for a stiff brandy, or I don’t know what mightn’t have happened.
respectable/ɹiˈspɛktəbəɫ/ちゃんとした, まともな本文に11回
He’s such a respectable little man—and having the police in the house and so on, really worried him.”
murmur/ˈmɝmɝ/ささやく, つぶやく本文に11回
“That’s all, I think,” he murmured to himself.
afterwards/ˈæftɝwɝdz/あとで, 以後, その後本文に11回
“I’ll tell you afterwards.
waiter/ˈweɪtɝ/給仕人, ウエーター本文に11回
inquired the waiter of the Honourable Freddy.
rubber/ˈɹəbɝ/ゴム本文に11回
I say, Parker, I suppose yours are rubber-soled.
fool/ˈfuɫ/ばか者本文に11回
a bally fool all the time.
cheerfully/ˈtʃɪɹfəɫi/陽気に本文に10回
“Very wise of you,” said Lord Peter, cheerfully.
devil/ˈdɛvəɫ/やつ, 男本文に10回
But as a matter of fact, the man in the bath is no more Sir Reuben Levy than Adolf Beck, poor devil, was John Smith.
ladder/ˈɫædɝ/はしご本文に10回
There were no ladder marks or footmarks in the yard; the yard was paved with asphalt.
mysterious/mɪˈstɪɹiəs/神秘的な, 不思議な本文に10回
… cheque-book, and—most mysterious and important of all—his spectacles, without which he can’t see a step …
recognise/ˈɹɛkəɡˌnaɪz/…を確かに認める本文に9回
The little book off the night table, my lord, has only the marks of one set of fingers—there’s a little scar on the right thumb which makes them easy recognised.
cistern/ˈsɪstɝn/貯水槽本文に9回
Me and my wife sleep next to the cistern-room.
eyeglass/ˈaɪˌɡɫæs/めがね本文に9回
… too, except for a pair of eyeglasses, I assure you …
valet/væˈɫeɪ/従者, 従僕本文に9回
The valet, cook, parlourmaid, housemaid and kitchenmaid were the only people in the house, and naturally wasted an hour or two squawking and gossiping.
jolly/ˈdʒɑɫi/非常に本文に9回
Gin a body jolly well knows who murdered a body
railway/ˈɹeɪɫˌweɪ/=railroad本文に9回
He’s afraid those railway people will get in now, and then it’ll be all U.
groan/ˈɡɹoʊn/うなり声, うめき声本文に9回
“Any amount,” replied Mr. Bunter, with a groan calculated to appeal to Mr. Graves’s heart and unlock his confidence.
advertisement/ˌædvɝˈtaɪzmənt/広告, 宣伝ad., adv.本文に9回
“I’ve just put an advertisement in the Times about it,” said Lord Peter.
distress/dɪˈstɹɛs/激しい苦しみ, 苦痛, 苦悩本文に9回
… always living very retired, and it’s most distressing to a man of regular habits, my lord …
sensation/sɛnˈseɪʃən/大評判, センセーション本文に9回
To go in for cheap sensations
uncommonly/ˌənˈkɑmənɫi/非常に本文に8回
“I’m sure it must have been uncommonly distressin’,” said Lord Peter, sympathetically, “especially comin’ like that before breakfast.
beastly/ˈbistˌɫi/いやな, ひどい本文に8回
What a beastly foggy night, ain’t it?
linoleum/ɫəˈnoʊɫiəm/リノリウム本文に8回
Her visitor placed on the table a basket, containing a water-bottle, a silver-backed hair-brush, a pair of boots, a small roll of linoleum, and the “Letters of a Self-made
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