LITTLE WOMEN

LITTLE WOMEN

A summary of the story

At Christmas the four March girls decide that they will all try hard to be good, and never to be cross, or lazy, or selfish again. Meg, the oldest, won't complain about her job or not having pretty dresses. Shy Beth will try hard to be braver, and little Amy will think less of herself and more of other people. They don't always succeed, of course, and sometimes there are arguments and secrets and angry tears. But there is also laughter and fun, and soon a new friend Laurie, the and lonely boy next door. Many trouble and difficulties lie in the year ahead and the girls are growing up. Wild Jo hates the idea of being a polite young lady, but Meg will soon be seventeen, and ready to fall in love...

WORDS

cross:イライラした Don' be so cross.

lazy:怠惰な He felt too lazy to get out of bed.

THE UMBRELLA MAN

eTHE UMBRELLA MAN

ROALD DAHL



A SUMMARY OF THE STORY
They saw him crossing the street. They suspected him. So they ran after him. He was scutting along like a rabbit and they had to walk fast to keep up with him. He entered a shop. It's a pub! They peered into the shop to watch him. He was gladly drinking the whisky. "It's ridiculous!"her mother said. The little man was standing by the bar with the empty glass in his hand. Then he turned away from the bar and edged back through the crowed to where his hat and coat were hanging. He lifted from the coat-rack one of the many wet umbrellas hanging there, and off he went. Out he came. But he never looked in our direction. He opened his new umbrella over his head and scurried off down the road the way he had come. We followed him back to the main street where we had first met him, and we watched him as he proceed,with no trouble at all, to exchange his new umbrella for another pound note. And as soon as the transaction was completed, he was lost in the crowd... THE END


scurry:急ぐ
transaction:取引
peep:のぞき見る
in a hurry:急いで
pedestrain:歩行者
proceed:実行する

THE UMBRELLA

THE UMBRELLA

Roald Dahl

CHARACTERS

I... a heroine

her mother

a man

A SUMARRY OF THE STORY

"It cost me over twenty ponds, I promise you. But that's of no importance so long as I can get home and rest these old legs of mine." he said.I saw my mother's hand feeling for the clasp on her purse. She saw me watching her. I was giving her one of my own frosty-nosed looks this time and she knew exactly what I was telling her. I was telling her, you simply mustn't take advantage of a tired old man in this way. But She fished into her purse and took out a pound note. she held it out to the little man. He thanked her and he was gone. She was very happy to

get it. "This will be good lesson to you," she went on . "Never rush things. Always take your time when you are summing someone up. Then you'll never make mistakes."

I'm going to read sentences of the remainder and summarize it by next my blog.

so long as: ~するかぎりは

sum some up:人を見定める

horrid：ひどく不親切な

satisfy oneself:納得する

simply:どうしても

fish into~:〜の中を探る

take advantage of~:~を利用する

THE UMBRELLA MAN

THE UMBRELLA MAN

Roald Dahl

A SUMMARY OF THE STORY

"I wonder if I could ask a small favor of you ," he said. But my mother was looking at him suspiciously. She felt quite embarrassed by her mother's sharpness. He asked my mother to give him in return a pound for his taxi-fare to get his home. My mother was still suspicious. " If you had no money in the first place, how did you get there?" Her mother said. He told her that he walked here. "Everyday I go for a lovely long walk and then I summon a taxi to take me home. " he said. Her mother was beginning to melt a bit. And the idea of getting an umbrella to shelter under must have tempted her good deal.　" Why don't you take it, madam," he said.

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suspiciously:疑わしげに

embarrassed:恥ずかしい

sharpness:厳しい態度

in the first place:そもそも

summon:呼び出す

melt:和らぐ

tempt：誘う

THE UMBRELLA MAN

THE UMBRELLA MAN
Roald Dahl

A summary of the story
A funny thing happened to her mother and her yesterday evening. She is twelve years old and She is a girl. Her mother is thirty-four but she is nearly as tall as her mother.

Yesterday afternoon, her mother took me up to London to see the dentist. After that, They went to a cafe. When they came out of the cafe it had started to rain. They were wearing ordinary hats and coats, and it was raining quite hard. They stood on the pavement in the rain, looking for a taxi. Just then, a man came up to them. He was a small man and he was pretty old, probably seventy or more. He said to her mother,"Excuse me. I do hope you will excuse me.." He had a fine white moustache and bushy white eyebrows and a wrinkly pink face.
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wrinkly:しわしわの
eyebrow:まゆ
bushy:ふさふさした
moustache:口ひげ
pavement:舗道
nearly:ほとんど

Oliver Among the Thieves

Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Copyright Penguin Book ltd 2000

A summary of the story
Oliver asked Fagin to let him go out to work with Dawkins and Charley Bates.One morning Fagin allowed Oliver to go. They came out of a narrow street into a square. Oliver looked at them in surpise. The two boys walked across the road and went close behind the old gentleman. Dawkins put his hand into the old man's pocket and take out a stuff.
they ran awey. Oliver lately ran away too. But Oliver was caght by someone. Oliver complained to the police. A clerk
of book store said he did nothing. So Oliver was helped by the man. Oliver was taken into a house and put to bed.
Fagin looked for Oliver.

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constable:警官
A police constable pushed through the crowd.
seize:逮捕する
A man seized oliver by the neck.
own:所有する
I own the bookshop.

Fagin

Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Copyright Penguin Book Ltd 2000

A summary of the story
Jack took Oliver a house. There were an old gentleman and four or five boys there. The old man's name was Fagin.
Fagin gave Oliver a bed on the floor and he fell asleep immediately. Late next morning, Oliver woke from long asleep.
Then Oliver watched Fagin through half-closed eyes. He placed a box carefully on the table. He took an expensive
gold watch from the box with pleasure. Then He noticed Oliver who was looking at him. He threatened Oliver that
this was mine. Jack and another boy had commited various tefts. From now on Oliver had to commit a theft too.
(continued next time)

innocent:無罪の
He is innocent, isn't he ?
awake:目が覚めて
Why are you awake?