THE SHOWA READERS BOOK 4(昭和9年発行)
1 Olympic Games
2 Niagara Falls
3 Paris(Ⅰ)
4 Paris(Ⅱ)
5 World’s Famous Caves
6 My Land
7 Jungles
8 The Good Angel of Labrador
9 Self-Reliance
10 Wonders of the Sky
11 How I Learned to Write Prose
12 Loyality(Ⅰ)
13 Loyality(Ⅱ)
14 Sea Fever
15 Account of a Spider
16 Lake Como
17 Life in Bohemia
18 The Lake Poet
19 How and What to Read
20 The Friend
21 Hamlet(Ⅰ)
22 Hamlet(Ⅱ)
23 Character and Reputation24 Half a Day at Huntingdon(Ⅰ)
25 Half a Day at Huntingdon(Ⅱ)
26 Birds
27 Choice of Companions
28 Beric the Briton
29 St. Francis Xavier
APPENDICES
1 Key to Pronunciation
2 List of Words
3 List of Phrases and Idioms
A
abrupt
absolutely
absorbed
accept
access
accidentally
acclamation
accommodate
accompanied
accomplished
accordance
accumulated
accurately
accuse
acknowledge
acquire
activity
actually
adjust
advancement
advantage
adversity
afforded
alive
almanac
Alpine
altering
Amazon
ambitious
amended
amiable
amid
amphitheatre
amused
analyzed
anniversary
antagonist
Antares
Anthony Trollope
anvil
apache
apostle
apparent
appreciative
apprehended
apprentices
approach
approbation
appropriate
arena
Ares
argument
armour
arrangement
artistic
ashore
assailant
assault
assume
Athens
Atlantic
astride
atelier
athletes
atmosphere
attachment
attractions
autobiography
author
avenge
awaits
awkward
awning
B
bailiffs
ballads
balmy
baptized
Barnard
barracks
basin
basketball
battalion
battlement
beckoned
Beecher
beetles
begets
beguiled
behave
Bellagio
Benjamin
Beric
beseech
betray
bitter
blackness
bleeding
blemish
blindness
bloody
blunt
Bohemia
Bois de Boulogne
bookish
bore
Boston
bounding
bowl
braver
breach
breathless
Briton
brewery
bristles
broom
browless
bullet
bulls
Bunyan’s
buried
burst
bustle
C
Cambridge
cannon’s
canopied
canvassed
capacity
captive
caress
carrion
carved
cataracts
cave
cave-man
ceder
celebrated
Cernaia
challenged
chamberlain
Champs Elysees
chariots
charms
cherished
cholera
Christ
cinnamon
citizens
clan
clasp
Claude Monet
Claudius
cleanse
Clemenceau
cleverness
clutched
cockatoo
Cockermouth
Colico
collection
colony
commented
communicated
communication
Como
comparatively
compensation
composing
comprehensive
comrade
concealed
concentrate
conduct
conform
confound
conquer
conscience
conscious
contributed
contributing
contrived
contests
control
conundrum
conversationists
conversion
conviction
cordially
Coretti
cormorants
correctly
correspondence
cortege
courtiers
crazy
created
credulousness
crept
crickets
croquet
cultivated
culture
cumber
Cumbrian
curiosity
curled
curriculum
curve
D
Damon
damsel
dart
Davis
dawning
dazzled
deafening
decent
decision
defence
defenceless
defined
deliberately
deliciously
demoralizes
den
denied
deprived
descend
descent
desperate
destiny
difference
diminished
disapproval
discouraged
diseases
disgust
disposed
disposition
distinguish
distressed
districts
ditches
dome
Dorothy
doth
Dove
downy-eiders
drains
drawbridges
dreadful
drifting
drivers
duration
E
earthquakes
Edmond de Amicis
Edward Davison
Eiffel tower
elaborate
elbow
elements
Elysee
Embankment
emeralds
employment
enable
enchanting
endeavoured
endure
engagement
enlist
Ennia
ennobles
enquiringly
Enrico
envelops
entangled
entertained
entertainment
enthusiastic
entrusted
equality
equipped
esteemed
ethics
Everett
exceedingly
excellent
excess
experience
exhausted
exhibition
expanses
expectation
expelled
exploits
expression
exquisite
extends
extra
exult
eyeless
eyesight
F
faculties
fairy
faithful
false
familiarity
fare
faults
feas
feat
feigned
fellow-rover
Felltham
fencing
fête
fiendish
fiery
financially-depressed
flag-pole
flattered
flats
flood
flowery
foil
folks
folly
foolhardiness
forehead
forepaw
foretaste
forethought
forgotten
formidable
formulate
forsaken
fortification
fosters
foundation
Francis Xavier
Franklin’s
frequented
frets
friendship
frightened
frivolous
froze
frugality
funeral
furious
fury
futile
G
gallop
Garda
garland
generate
genuine
Geoffrey
ghost
giant
gigantic
gliding
glimpse
gloom
Goa
granted
Grasmere
grazing
Greek
Grenfell
grieves
grove
guardians
gypsy
H
habitual
Hamlet
hangings
hastened
hat-rack
hawkshead
hearing
Helen Miller
Henty
herald
Herbert
Highness
hindered
hints
hoopoes
Horatio
hornbills
horseshoe
huge
humming-birds
Huntingdon
I
icicles
icy
ideas
Ignatius Loyola
imagination
imitate
immediate
immemorial
immense
immovable
impatient
implements
impossible
import
impressionist
improvement
impulse
incandescent
incessantly
inclination
inclined
individuality
indulge
ineffective
inevitable
inferred
ingenuity
insisted
instrument
intellectual
intelligence
intelligent
intercourse
interior
intermediary
interpret
interpreter
interrupted
invaded
Invalides
invalids
invisible
inward
irregular
J
Jamestown
jaw
Jelley
Jesuits
Jesus
John Masefield
Johnnie
jungles
justice
justly
K
Kent’s
Kentucky
knapsack
knick-knacks
knowing
knot
L
laborious
Labrador
lacquer
Laertes
lapse
launched
lawyer
Leamington
leaped
Lend-a-Hand
Leto
level
liable
liar
liberty
light-ray
like
limner
Lisbon
livelihood
loaned
loftier
loins
Loochoo
loose
loot
Louvre
Lucy
luxurious
M
Madame
Mademoiselle
madness
Maggiore
magnificent
Malacca
mammoth
manage
Marco Polo
Mars
martyr
maybe
medal
medicine
melodious
metropolis
midsummer
millions
mingled
miraculously
mirror
misfortunes
Monsieur
monument
moorland
moral
morally
morsel
motionless
moustaches
Mozambique
munching
municipal
my lord
mysterious
mystery
N
naturalized
Navarre
nearby
negotiating
neighbours’
Nero
Niagara
nodded
noose
notorious
novelties
nowadays
numerous
O
occasional
occupied
offended
old-fashioned
olive
Oliver Goldsmith
Olympic
onslaught
oozes
operated
Ophelia
orchard
oridinary
outburst
outward
overwhelmed
P
packed
pagan
painstaking
palm
Pampeluna
Paris
Parisians
particulary
partner
passageways
pastimes
patiently
peaceful
peculiar
pendants
permanent
personages
persuaded
perusal
petition
petted
physique
picturesque
pierced
pilgrim’s
pillars
pirate
placid
plainly
planets
plucked
poisoning
politeness
Polonius
poring
portmanteau
Portugal
Portuguese
pose
possibly
precisely
preface
preposterous
presume
presumption
pretence
pretended
previously
principal
procession
profitable
profligate
promontory
proper
proportionate
prose
publication
pulpit
punching
pursue
Pyrenees
R
radio
ramparts
rank
reality
realize
realm
rebellion
rebuke
recent
reception
recognize
recommend
reddish
reels
re-established
reflected
refuge
Regent
Regina
registered
regretted
relations
relics
rending
renowned
reperuse
repose
reputation
reputed
requiring
requisite
restore
retiarius
revealed
revelation
reverentially
rhinoceros
ridiculing
Robert Burns
rostrum
rude
rudiments
Rydal
S
sacred
sagacity
sally
Salon
salute
sanctity
Sandwich’s
satisfaction
scarlet
scenic
scientists
Scopus
scraped
screeching
secret
secure
Seine
self-conceit
self-reliance
sensation
sentiment
serpent
sewing
sheen
sheer
sightless
single-handed
signature
situation
slain
slaughter
snake-bite
snare
soaked
sobriety
solar
specify
Spice
spire
splint
sprang
spray
spruce
spume
stadium
staggered
Stardi
starving
statues
stubborn
stealthy
steep
stern
stimulated
stone-cutter
strength
strip
stronghold
struggle
stung
subdued
sublime
subsisted
sufficiently
suggest
Sumatra
summary
superior
surgeon
suspecting
swamp
swear
sympathetic
sympathy
system
systematic
T
tapering
technical
telescope
temple
tendency
tenderly
territories
Thames
thank-offerings
threaten
three-fourths
thrift
throne
thrust
tidal
tipped
tip-toe
tolerable
tomb
topsy-turvy
tore
torrents
torture
toucans
touching
tourists
tradesman
Trafalgar
tragedy
tragic
trail
trainer
traversed
treachery
treatment
tremulous
Triumphal Arch
triumphantly
tropical
trumpets
Tuileries
tumbles
turrets
twine
typhlitis
U
Umberto
unarmed
unchained
uncomfortable
undergrowth
unfair
unheard
united
universally
unmoved
unreasonable
unsuccessful
upper-most
upset
urn
utensils
utter
V
vacancy
vagrant
vanity
variety
veil
venom
Versailles
victors
Vienna
vigorously
villa
Virginia
visible
vultures
W
wanting
warrants
wasp
waterfall
water-lilies
weapons
wherefore
wicked
willows
Wilfred
winding
Windsor
winners
withal
withstood
witnesses
Wittenberg
wont
Wordsworth
worldly
worshipped
wrestling
wrist
Y
yarn
yesternight
Z
Zeus
LIST OF PHRASES AND IDIOMS
A
(to be)about to
(to)act on
(to be)alive with
all the way
(to be)ashamed of
as......is called
as it were
(to)ask justice for
as though
(to be)at a loss
at a short distance
(to be)at liberty
at the loss of
at the other end of
B
because of
(to be)beyond repair
(to be)burnt down
by bad hap
by degrees
by the failure of
by the speed of
C
(to)call for by name
(to)catch a glimpse of
(to)catch hold of
(to)catch sight of
(to)clear away
close at hand
(to)come across
(to)compare with
(to be)conscious of
(to be)couched in
(to)cure(one)of
D
(to be)defined in
(to)deprive of
(to)die of
(to be)different from
(to)drag(one)by the hand
F
(to)fall asleep
for a short distance
(to)force(one’s)way
for some reason or other
from toe to heel
(to be)frozen to death
G
(to)get frightened at
(to)give an idea of
(to)give(one)credit
(to be)good for nothing
H
(to)have a hard time
(to)have access to
(to)have an influence on
(to)have credit for
(to)have good sight
(to)hunt for
I
(to)impress upon
(to be)in a good humour
in a volume
(to be)inclined to
in common use
in course of time
(to)indulge in
in honour of
in memory of
in one respect
(to be)inspired by
in the association of
in the realm of
in the rough time
K
(to)keep good company
(to)keep the secret of
L
(to)lay out
(to)lead(one)forth
(to be)liable to
(to)light up
(to be)lined with
(to)live upon
(to be)loaded with
(to)look upon
(to)lose(one’s)head
(to)lose sight of
M
mad with rage
(to)make(one’s)entrance into
(to)make hint of
(to)make merry
(to)make the best of
O
(to be)obliged to
off the coast of
(to be)of noble birth
(to be)on(one’s)guard
on tip-toe
out of(one’s)knowledge
(to be)overwhelmed
P
(to)pay for
(to)peep into
(to)push off
(to be)put to death
R
(to)reduce into
(to)rely upon
(to)rend to pieces
(to)rest upon
S
(to)seek shelter from
(to)set an example
(to)settle on
(to)spring forward
(to)spring to(one’s)feet
(to)stretch(oneself)out
(to)strike a blow
(to be)superior to
(to)supply with
T
(to)take a fancy to
(to)take it for granted
(to)take leave of
(to)take pleasure in
(to)tear off
to the tip of(one’s)tongue
to great advantage
(to)turn to account
W
(to)win honour
with a sudden pull
without an effort
(to be)wont to