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Question 1

abbot

Robin Fitzooth and Lady Marian stood in front of the abbot in St Mary’s Abbey

Answer 1

大修道院長

Question 2

abbey

Robin Fitzooth and Lady Marian stood in front of the abbot in St Mary’s Abbey

Answer 2

大修道院

Question 3

optician

Answer 3

眼鏡技師◆眼鏡やコンタクトレンズの調整をするが眼の検査などはできない

Question 4

plateau

Amundsen thought there was a high plateau of ice.

Answer 4

高原、台地

Question 5

depot

After four days they reached 80° South, and made the first depot.

Answer 5

倉庫、貯蔵所

Question 6

crook

She lost her job when she married a cheap little crook called Johnny Horne, …

Answer 6

不正直な人、いかさま師、ペテン師、悪党、詐欺師、泥棒

Question 7

cut

Then Maybe you’d like to make yourself a cut of twenty five grand.

Answer 7

分け前

Question 8

pardon

After fifteen years they offered him a pardon, …

Answer 8

恩赦

Question 9

ex-con

I guessed he was an ex-con, …

Answer 9

ex-convict

前科者

Question 10

bumped off

Peeler’s dead. He was bumped off - in his bed.

Answer 10

〈米俗〉〔人を〕殺害する、バラス◆1900年代に作られたギャングのスラング。

Question 11

dog-catcher

Well, well, the old dog-catcher himself.

Answer 11

野犬捕獲員

Question 12

sap

I put my hand in my pocket and pulled out a small sap.

Answer 12

こん棒

Question 13

slam

He walked off to a small office, went in and slammed the door

Answer 13

〔戸などをバタンと〕閉めること

Question 14

fungus

“Fungus?” I asked. He nodded slowly. “White Fungus.”

Answer 14

真菌、菌（類）、キノコ、茸、カビ

Question 15

dick

Haven’t seen a dick in a year.

Answer 15

〈俗〉刑事

Question 16

suture

There on its stomach was something that looked like a suture.

Answer 16

《外科》〔傷口などの〕縫合（糸）、縫い目

Question 17

lump

There was hard lump under it.

Answer 17

塊、こぶ、しこり

Question 18

marshal

There’s a town marshal at Westport. He’s the nearest thing to the police round here.

Answer 18

〈米〉市保安官

Question 19

phony

The phony pearls.

Answer 19

偽物、まがい物、いんちき、ペテン師、まやかし

Question 20

scab

We watch the scabs going to mine in buses.

Answer 20

労働ストライキの参加を拒む人（俗語）

Question 21

raffle

raffle ticket

Answer 21

富くじ

Question 22

stutter

Sometimes, Billy becomes very angry. Then he stutters.

Answer 22

どもる

Question 23

squeaky

The man had a thin, squeaky voice. Billy did not know the voice.

Answer 23

キーキーいう

Question 24

yardarm

Answer 24

桁端

Question 25

traitor

I’m not a traitor.

Answer 25

反逆者, 自国を裏切る人, 裏切り者

Question 26

treason

Answer 26

反逆; 自国政府の征服や指導者の失脚を試みること

Question 27

burglar

They told me that you were a burglar.

Answer 27

住居［建物］侵入窃盗、押し込み強盗犯

Question 28

ammunition

This held a silencer for his gun and thirty rounds of .25 ammunition.

Answer 28

銃弾、砲弾、弾薬

Question 29

spangled

spangled mob

Answer 29

星をちりばめた

〔パーティーなどの出席者に〕著名人［有名人］の多い

Question 30

mob

spangled mob

Answer 30

マフィア

Question 31

sulphur/sulfur

The bad smell of sulphur was strong.

Answer 31

硫黄

Question 32

wart

He had a red wart on his right thumb.

Answer 32

いぼ、（木の）こぶ

Question 33

suck

Wint is alway sucking that wart on his thumb.

Answer 33

指しゃぶり

Question 34

croupier

Five thousand dollars on Red, he told the croupier.

Answer 34

〔カジノの〕クルーピエ、ディーラー◆客の近くにいて、レーキと呼ばれる棒状の道具でチップを移動させる係員。

Question 35

handcar

And there was a railroad handcar.

Answer 35

トロッコ

Question 36

cab

Bond saw Spang in the cab of the engine.

Answer 36

運転室、運転台

Question 37

imperial rescript

Since the shogun gave up power, this imperial rescipt to overthrown the shogun is meaningless.

Answer 37

勅命

Question 38

revere

‘Sonno’ means ‘revere the emperor’

Answer 38

〔英雄・著名人・成功者などを〕崇敬［崇拝・尊敬］する

Question 39

resentment

To control samurai resentment against the idea of opening the nation to the world, …

Answer 39

〔人や侮辱などに対する鬱積した〕恨み、腹立たしさ

Question 40

disciple

He immediately became Katsu’s desciple.

Answer 40

弟子

Question 41

drifter

I’m no better than a drifter.

Answer 41

放浪者

Question 42

numb

His left hand had been injured in that attack, and his left thumb was still numb.

Answer 42

麻痺している

Question 43

trade embargo

Choshu was under a trade embargo by the shogunate, …

Answer 43

出入港の禁止命令、禁輸措置、禁輸、輸出入の禁止、通商禁止

Question 44

snuck

Katsura and Takasugi have snuck in Kyoto.

Answer 44

sneakの過去・過去分詞形

コソコソする、コソコソ動く、コソコソ歩く、こっそり入る
卑劣な［卑屈な］振る舞いをする

Question 45

Russo-Japanese War

Answer 45

日露戦争

Question 46

faction

anti-shogunate factions

Answer 46

派閥（clique）、党派

Question 47

skeptical

I think Choshu was skeptical at first.

Answer 47

懐疑的な、疑い深い、〔神の存在について〕懐疑論の◆一般に受け入れられている概念に対して疑問を呈する人、つまり「懐疑論者」を意味する名詞skepticから派生。

Question 48

tame

So Saigo tamed Katsura and Takasugi.

Answer 48

〔動物などを〕飼いならす、手なずける

〔人を〕従順にさせる、おとなしくさせる

Question 49

envoy

Okubo Toshimichi, the Satsuma envoy, visited the shogun’s representative in Osaka castle.

Answer 49

〔政府が特定の案件で派遣する〕特命使節

Question 50

interim arrangement

We need an interim arrangement.

Answer 50

仮協定、暫定措置

Question 51

a five-point charter oath

Answer 51

五箇条の御誓文