Our subject was some of the problems that beset our world.

• beset

〜を悩ませる、包囲攻撃する、襲撃する、包囲する、取り巻く、〜に付きまとう

At the same time that I appreciate the distinction of addressing you, I have a sense of exhilaration as I look upon this Assembly.

• exhilaration

ウキウキした気分

Your deliberations and decisions during these somber years have already realized part of those hopes.

• somber

〔色・明るさが〕地味な、くすんだ、薄暗い
○〔様子・雰囲気が〕陰気な、憂うつな、陰うつな、重苦しい、顔を曇らせた
〔態度などが〕厳粛な、粛々とした、堅苦しい

And in the confident expectation of those accomplishments, I would use the office which, for the time being, I hold, to assure you that the Government of the United States will remain steadfast in its support of this body.

• steadfast

〔物の位置が〕固定した
○〔意志・決意・信念などが〕確固たる、不動の、しっかりした
〔人などに〕忠実な、忠誠な

Clearly, it would not be fitting for me to take this occasion to present to you a unilateral American report on Bermuda.

• unilateral

一方的な、片側だけの、一方の、片側性の

Nevertheless, I assure you that in our deliberations on that lovely island we sought to invoke those same great concepts of universal peace and human dignity which are so cleanly etched in your Charter.

• charter

憲章、設立趣意書◆組織の目的や信念などを定めたもの。

Neither would it be a measure of this great opportunity merely to recite, however hopefully, pious platitudes.

• recite

○暗唱する、復唱する、朗読する、朗唱する、吟唱する
物語る、話す、列挙する

• pious

〔人が〕信心深い、敬けんな
○〔言動などが〕信心（家）ぶった、偽善的な、善意を装った、宗教にかこつけた
〔芸術などが〕宗教的な

• platitude

陳腐［平凡］（な言葉）

I therefore decided that this occasion warranted my saying to you some of the things that have been on the minds and hearts of my legislative and executive associates,…

• legislative

立法の、法律を制定する
立法化された
立法権がある
○立法府の、議会の

The atomic age has moved forward at such a pace that every citizen of the world should have some comprehension, at least in comparative terms, of the extent of this development, of the utmost significance to everyone of us.

• comparative

〔他と比較して〕相対的な、かなりの
○《言語学》〔形容詞や副詞が〕比較級の

• utmost

○最大限の、最上の、極度の、最高の
一番端の

My recital of atomic danger and power is necessarily stated in United States terms, for these are the only incontrovertible facts that I know.

• recital

リサイタル、朗読、独奏会、独演会、独唱会
詳説、備考

• incontrovertible

論争の余地のない

A single air group, whether afloat or land based, can now deliver to any reachable target a destructive cargo exceeding in power all the bombs that fell on Britain in all of World War II.

• afloat

浮かんで、浮動して、船上に、海上に、流布して、広まって、流通して

The development has been such that atomic weapons have virtually achieved conventional status within our armed services.

• conventional

伝統の、伝統として確立された、従来続けられている、標準となった

During this period the Soviet Union has exploded a series of atomic advices — devices, including at least one involving thermo-nuclear reactions.

• advice

〔伝達される〕情報◆通例advices

Second, even a vast superiority in numbers of weapons, and a consequent capability of devastating retaliation, is no preventive, of itself, against the fearful material damage and toll of human lives that would be inflicted by surprise aggression.

• retaliation

仕返し、報復、返報◆【同】revenge

• inflict

〔相手にとって嫌なこと・苦痛になることを〕与える、押し付ける、課する、負わせる◆【名】infliction（刑罰）◆【形】inflictive（苦痛の）

The free world, at least dimly aware of these facts, has naturally embarked on a large program of warning and defense systems.

• dimly

薄暗く、おぼろげながら

But let no one think that the expenditure of vast sums for weapons and systems of defense can guarantee absolute safety for the cities and citizens of any nation.

• expenditure

出費、支出すること

The awful arithmetic of the atomic bomb does not permit of any such easy solution. Even against the most powerful defense, an aggressor in possession of the effective minimum number of atomic bombs for a surprise attack could probably place a sufficient number of his bombs on the chosen targets to cause hideous damage.

• aggressor

攻撃者、侵略者、侵略国

To pause there would be to confirm the hopeless finality of a belief that two atomic colossi are doomed malevolently to eye each other indefinitely across a trembling world.

• colossi

(colossusの複数形)巨人、巨像、巨大なもの、大国

• doom

○〔悪い方向へ〕運命づける
〔失敗などを〕決定的なものとする
〔望みを〕くじく、なくさせる
〜に判決を下す、（刑の）宣告を行う

• malevolently

邪悪に、悪意に満ちて、人の不幸を願って

To stop there would be to accept hope — helplessly the probability of civilization destroyed, the annihilation of the irreplaceable heritage of mankind handed down to use generation from generation, and the condemnation of mankind to begin all over again the age-old struggle upward from savagery toward decency, and right, and justice.

• annihilation

全滅、絶滅、壊滅

• irreplaceable

掛け替えのない、替えがきかない、代わりがきかない

Surely no sane member of the human race could discover victory in such desolation.

• desolation

荒らすこと、荒廃、荒れ地

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

• foul

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

床屋に忘れてきちゃった