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
