out of my league

Reader's Digest 10月号の記事 'The Bear Who Came to Dinner' からの引用です。

When he wanted his back scratched, I scratched; when he wanted a fish dinner, I fished; when he wanted to romp and roll with me in the meadow, I romped and rolled--and still wear scars to prove that he played games consummately out of my league.
"out of my league" の意味を調べます。
・Farlex Dictionary of Idioms: To be a poor match for someone, often because someone or something is considered superior. Although it can be used in other situations, this phrase is very often applied to romantic partners that are not similarly attractive or wealthy.: I can't believe that average-looking guy is dating a supermodel—she is totally out of his league!

・Cambridge English Dictionary: someone or something is too good or expensive for someone to have: She was the most beautiful girl in school, and I knew she was out of my league.

true to my sucker form

Reader's Digest 10月号の記事 'The Bear Who Came to Dinner' からの引用です。
At campsites, Bosco never tolerated long periods of relaxation and reflection, and true to my sucker form where animals are concerned, I babied his every whim.
"true to my sucker form" の個所が分かりません。辞書で調べると、"true to form" という慣用句があり、辞書には次の説明がありました。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Being or behaving as expected.: Ultimately, and true to form, the woman is portrayed as the weaker sex
・McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs: exactly as expected; following the usual pattern. (Often with running, as in the example.): As usual, John is late. At least he's running true to form.
では "my sucker" は何でしょう？　辞書を見ると "sucker" にも色々な意味がありますが、ここでは次の意味だと思います。

・Oxford English Dictionary: (a sucker for) A person especially susceptible to or fond of (a specified thing): I always was a sucker for a good fairy tale.

・Collins Dictionary: If you describe someone as a sucker for something, you mean that they find it very difficult to resist it.: I'm such a sucker for romance.

・Cambridge English Dictionary: to like something so much that you cannot refuse it or judge its real value: I have to confess I'm a sucker for musicals.

suck it up

Reader's Digest 10月号の記事 'Footprints in the Snow' からの引用です。
"That's not an option, John. We still have the toughest part to go, so get up, suck it up, and keep going!" Slowly he stood, and she felt an overwhelming sense of relief.
"suck it up" を辞書で調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Accept something unpleasant or difficult.: The Japanese, for example, speak of ‘gaman,’ which roughly means to suck it up when things are tough.
・Collins Dictionary: to accept an unpleasant fact or situation: large companies are dictating the terms and smaller companies just have to suck it up
オクスフォード辞書の例文に日本語の我慢が出て来るとは驚き。

bok choy

Reader's Digest 10月号の記事 '20 Foods Proven to Heal' からの引用です。

Broccoli sprouts have suforaphane, a cancer-fighting antioxidant that has also been found to be antimicrobial, antinflammatory, and neuroprotective; it may even protect against aging and diabetes. Broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, cabbage, and bok choy have it, too, but broccoli sprouts have the highest identified concentration--up to 100 times the amount as mature broccoli.
"bok choy" はどんな野菜でしょうか？
・Oxford English Dictionary: A Chinese cabbage of a variety with smooth-edged tapering leaves.: The bok choy takes about 45 to 50 days from seed to harvest.

・Collins Dictionary: a Chinese plant, Brassica chinensis, that is related to the cabbage and has edible stalks and leaves

Also called: Chinese cabbage, Chinese leaf, pak-choi cabbage

後者の辞書にはイメージが載っていたので "bok choy" はチンゲン菜だと分かります。

opportunism

安部公房の小説 "The Face of Another" を読んでいます。
It seems to be proverbial that the story of the ugly duckling ends with the swan's song. This is typical opportunism. How would you feel if you were the swan? No matter what song others sang for the girl, she did die, she was unmistakably defeated. I don't want to be like the swan.I don't want that. If I die, there is no one to think of me as a swan, and furthermore I have a chance of winning. Well, when I first saw the movie I turned my face away in anger, but it is different now. I cannot escape a new sense of envy for the girl.
"opportunism" を辞書で調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: The taking of opportunities as and when they arise, regardless of planning or principle.: He was accused of political opportunism.

・Collins Dictionary: If you refer to someone's behaviour as opportunism, you are criticizing them for taking advantage of any opportunity that occurs in order to gain money or power, without thinking about whether their actions are right or wrong.: The Energy Minister responded by saying that the opposition's concern for the environment was political opportunism.

・Cambridge English Dictionary: behaviour in which you use every situation to try to get power or an advantage: political opportunism

loll

安部公房の小説 "The Face of Another" を読んでいます。
At the curb, on the same side of the street, three young men who looked like delinquents lolled aginst a railing, each with one foot propped against it, awaiting the arrival of a victim.
"lol" は最近ネットのやり取りで見かけるので以前に取り上げた覚えがありますが、記録にありません。（OXFORD dictionary: Used to draw attention to a joke or amusing statement, or to express amusement.: 'I love how you said ‘coffee is not my cup of tea’. LOL!)’
この "loll" は略語ではないし、動詞です。辞書で調べます。
・Oxford English Dicti onary: Sit, lie, or stand in a lazy, relaxed way.: ‘the two girls lolled in their chairs’

・Collins Dictionary: If you loll somewhere, you sit or lie in a very relaxed position.: He was lolling on the sofa in the shadows near the fire.

・Cambridge English Dictionary: to lie, sit, or hang down in a relaxed, informal, or uncontrolled way: I spent most of the weekend lolling about/around on the beach.

marshal

安部公房の小説 "The Face of Another" を読んでいます。
No, that's enough. Enough of reasoning. If I searched, I could certainly find as many pretexts as I wanted. But no matter how many objections I marshalled, I should not be able to reverse the two facts that you pointed out to me.
"marshal" に将軍の意味があったとは思いますが、動詞だとどんな意味でしょうか？　辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Methodically assemble and arrange (facts, ideas, objects, etc.): She is one of those people who can marshal their thoughts quickly and articulate them clearly.
・Collins Dictionary: If you marshal people or things, you gather them together and arrange them for a particular purpose.: Richard was marshalling the doctors and nurses, showing them where to go.

vestigial tail

安部公房の小説 "The Face of Another" を読んでいます。
I was not the only one who had been shut in; considering the whole world a jail was quite in keeping with my feelings at the time. Even more, I imagined that everyone was frantically trying to escape from the world. The real face becoming useless, like a vestigial tail was an unexpected fetter, and apparently one from which not a single person and succeeded in escaping.
"vestigial tail" は2/7/2014に "coccyx" を取り上げた際の説明文中で使われていました。
Cambridge English Dictionaryは "vestigial" を次の様に説明しています。
used to describe something, especially a part of the body, that has not developed completely, or has stopped being used and has almost disappeared: a vestigial organ/limb/tail

deuce

安部公房の小説 "The Face of Another" を読んでいます。
I had intended to blame you but on the contrary was blamed myself; perhaps I was gradually getting used to my own defeatism. Who the deuce ever thought up the stupid proposition that women were anything to get carried away about? I wonder.
"deuce" というとテニスや卓球の試合でのデュースを連想します。また私のブログで以前（3/13/2012 "deuce-take-it" を取り上げた覚えがあります。思い出しました、"deuce" は "devil" の婉曲語ですね。念のために辞書を見ます。
・McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs: What has happened?; What? (Deuce is an old word for devil.) What the deuce! Who are you? What the deuce! Who did this?

・Oxford Dictionary: Used as a euphemism for 'devil’ in expressions of annoyance, impatience, surprise, etc.
‘how the deuce are we to make a profit?’
上に引用した個所の後にも次の様に "deuce" が出てきました。
Yet the fact that the note I had left was in the same place as before seemed to indicate that you had ignored the notebooks....What in the deuce did it mean when you had taken the pains to come this far?

jell

先週の土曜日雨の中、駒沢オリンピック公園で行われた10kmレースを走りました。先月の江戸川区でのレースと同様に５８分台とさえない記録でしたが、驚いたのは８０歳代の２位以下は１時間超で走っているのに、優勝者はなんと５６分台でした。
さて、安部公房の小説 "The Face of Another" を読んでいます。
When we finished dinner, time suddenly began to jell around us. Perhaps it was the weight of the ceiling. The disproportionately massive concrete pillars standing in the middle suggested great haeaviness.
"jell" は "jelly" を連想しますが、関係があるのでしょうか？

・Infoplease: to become clear, substantial, or definite; crystallize: The plan began to jell once we all met to discuss it.

・Cambridge English Dictionary: (of a substance) to change from a liquid to a partly solid state, or (of ideas or plans) to become more clear and certain: I’ll let you know as soon as our plans jell.
Merriam-Websterに次の説明がありました。
History and Etymology for jell: back-formation from jelly
"jelly" と関係がありましたね。