難関大突破のために、Harry Potterを読む！

表現・語彙 --- １

hiccoughは「しゃっくり」。ただし、以下の文章は「しゃっくり」としたのでは意味がでてきません。
"Arthur, old man," he puffed as he reached the campfire, "what a day, eh? What a day! Could we have asked for more perfect weather? A cloudless night coming ...and hardly a hiccough in the arrangements.... Not much for me to do!"

下線部について考えて見ましょう。
You don't want to go showing Mr. Bagman rubbish like that...
一粒で二度おいしい例文。ただしくだけた表現。

don't want toは、「...したくない」ではなく、「...しないほうがいい」の意味。
go showingは、go shoppingなどとは別で、通例否定の命令文で「...するな」と非難をこめていう場合につかう。ここは、
Don't go showing Mr. Bagman rubbish like that...という意味。それをYou don't want to go showingということで、「...しないほうがいい」という表現になっている。単なる命令文より、目下のものへの物言い、というニュアンスがあるのかもしれない。
[goblet]

単語・イディオム---3

show off

Voltemordが帰ってきた、Deatheatersと戦った、などという「聴聞会」での話が虚偽としてthe Daily Prophetで報じられ、他の生徒たちから白い目で見られているHarry。それを実感する列車のなかの場面。
After he had met this behaviour in five consecutive carriages he remembered that the Daily Prophet had been telling its readers all summer what a lying show-off he was.
show-off 《口語》 見せびらかす人，目立ちたがり屋

[なお、what以下は感嘆文]

動詞で使われていますが、こちらが「元祖」。
The little girls "showed off" in various ways, ...(Tom Sawyer chap.4)
show off―phr. 見せびらかす、誇示する、自慢して見せる、披露する、これ見よがしに振る舞う、ちらつかせる、ひけらかす、よく見せる、引き立たせる、見えを張る、注意を引こうとする、格好をつける、いい格好をする、調子に乗る

単語・イディオム---2

'company'の基本的な意味(association with another)
'you wouldn't want to be stuck inside this house without any company.'
「来客もなく、人とも交わらずに、この家に居続けたくはないでしょう」

「昨日はご一緒できて楽しかったです」
I enjoyed your company yesterday.

定番の例文「付き合っている仲間を見ればその人が分かる」」
A man is known by the company he keeps

夕食には来客がありますよ。
We are having company for dinner

参考：Standing where the twins had left him, with nothing but a guilty weight in the pit of his stomach for company, Harry caught the sound of his own name.　(Phoenix)

仮定法、その他(not to mention)
He felt it would sound highly ungrateful, not to mention childish, to say, 'I wish he'd talked to me, though. Or even looked at me.'
[単語'ungrateful'―adj. 感謝しない、恩知らずの]
to say が「～などと言ったりすれば」、帰結は、it would sound...。コーテーションの中は、仮定法過去完了。「あの時話しかけてくれていたらなあ」の意味。そのあとはもちろん、(I wish he had) even looked at me.

not to mention A,　「Aは言うまでもなく」の意味。
We can't afford a car, not to mention the fact that we have no garage.

単語・イディオム---１

知っておきたい表現です。

1.get up to
'And I haven't even started on what he gets up to at school.'(Phoenix)
get up to (3) 《略式》〈いたずらなど〉をしでかす,する∥～ up to mischief いたずらをする.

2.in place
...there is no law yet in place that says this court's job is to punish Harry for every bit of magic he has ever performed.(Phoenix)
[Harryをこの法廷が有罪にするために該当する法律がない、というDumbledoreの台詞]
Everything was in place. すべてのものが整とんされていた; 万事好都合であった
in place
(1) 適当な[いつもの]所に,きちんとした
(2) 適した,当を得た(⇔out of place).

3.get along
I must be getting along. (Phoenix)
[公判（hearing）でハリーの無実が決まったあとの「いとま乞い」のDumbledoreの台詞]
It's time for me to be getting along.
もうおいとましなければならぬころです.
その他のget along (with)の意味
How is he getting along with his wife? 彼は細君との仲はどうかね.

We can't get along without her.
彼女なしではやっていけない.
[(何とか)やっていく, 暮らす]

ハリーポッターの語彙を核に

ハリーポッターを核に、様々な雑誌記事など広範囲に英文に触れることで、語彙力が身に付いてゆきます。

それぞれどういう意味でしょう。
plaque
... a door on the left stood ajar, revealing a broom cupboard, and a door on the right bore a tarnished brass plaque reading: Misuse of Muggle Artefacts.[p.132, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]

  One to three months after doing so, Dr Balin killed his mice and examined their brains. All the animals had developed plaques. Moreover, the longer an animal lived after the initial infection, the more plaques it had, and the larger they were.
("Alzheimer's disease", Economist Vol. 370 No. 8367, 2004)

bracket
They reached the bottom of the steps and ran along yet another corridor, which bore a great resemblance to the one that led to Snape's dungeon at Hogwarts, with rough stone walls and torches in brackets.
[from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]

The benefit to those in the higher tax bracket would persist, however, because the value of the new deduction would increase with the taxpayer's marginal tax rate. The income-tax break would be worth $5,250 for a family in the 35% tax bracket but only $1,500 for a family in the 10% bracket.
[from the New Englsih Journal of Medicine, 2007]