The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1
We've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way.
- reserved
〔性格が〕控えめな、遠慮がちな、謹厳な、自制心が強い、つつましい◆shyと違って、本人の意志を含意
In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgements, ...
- inclined to
《be 〜》〜したいと思う、〜する傾向がある
The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person.
- attach A to B
AをBに付ける[添付する]
Most of the confidences were unsought--frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon--for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they experss them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
- feign
〜を装う、〜のふりをする、〜を見せかける、でっち上げる
- levity
○軽率、場違いな陽気さ、無思慮
軽さ◆重量の
- revelation
○〔隠れているものを〕見せること◆【動】reveal
明らかになること、暴露、口外、発覚、摘発
暴露されたこと[もの]、驚くべき新事実、意外な新事実、実態、実情、現況
啓示、黙示、お告げ、天啓
- quiver
震える、揺れる、〔筋肉が〕けいれんする、わななく、おののく
- plagiaristic
(plagiarism)盗作、盗用、剽窃
- mar
(完全さを)損なう、〜を(ひどく)傷つける、台無しにする、傷物にする、損なう
- suppression
抑圧、抑制、抑えること、鎮圧、鎮静、弾圧、禁止、隠すこと
Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.
- reserve
留保する
.., a sense of the fundermental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
- decency
礼儀、品の良さ、良識、慎み
- parcel
〜を包み[小包]にする
○〜を分配する
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit.
- boast
〜を誇りにする、〔主語の〕自慢は〜である
- admission
〔事実であることの〕承認、了解
I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever.
- attention
《軍事》気を付けの姿勢
I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into human heart.
- riotous
大騒ぎの、騒々しい、飲み騒ぐ、暴動の、暴動を起こす、羽目を外した
- excursion
遠足、小旅行、修学旅行、周遊、遊覧、割引往復(周遊)旅行、(遊覧)旅行団体◆短期の団体観光旅行。
- glimpse
チラッと見ること、一目、ちらりと見えること、一瞥、垣間見ること
Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.
- unaffected
影響を受けない、病気に掛からない、心を動かされない
○?気取っていない、わざとらしさがない、まじめな
- scorn
軽蔑、冷笑、軽蔑の的、あざけり
..., as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.
- intricate
入り組んだ、込み入った、もつれた、錯綜した、複雑な、難解な
- register
〜を正式に記録する、登録する、記名する
This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which...
- impressionability
(impressionable)感じやすい、感受性の強い、影響を受けやすい
..., a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person...
- readiness
用意ができていること、準備(ができていること)、迅速、即座、快諾、喜んでする気持ち、すばやさ
No--Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
- prey on
〜を餌食[食い物・犠牲]にする、〜を捕食する
不潔な,汚い,汚れた(⇔clean)〔with〕《◆dirtyより強意的》
- in the wake of
○〜の跡を追って[つけて]、〜に倣って、〜に続いて、〜の後(で)、〜を受けて、〜の影響が残る中(で)、〜をきっかけに、〜に刺激[触発]されて
〜の結果(として)、〜があった[起こった・分かった]今[この時点で]
- abortive
- short-winded
- elations
My family have been prominent, well-to-do people...
- prominent
...and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today.
- wholesale
...hard-boiled painting that hangs in Father's office.
- hard-boiled
..., and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War.
- Teutonic