レイチェル婦人に対してアンが癇癪を起した騒動はなかなか収まりません。
Leaving this Parthian shaft to rankle in Anne's stormy bosom, Marilla descended to the kitchen, grievously troubled in mind and vexed in soul. She was as angry with herself as with Anne, because, whenever she recalled Mrs. Rachel's dumbfounded countenance her lips twitched with amusement and she felt a most reprehensible desire to laugh.
"Parthian shaft" はギリシャ神話か聖書由来の慣用句ではないかと推測したのですが、その様な慣用句はないかとオンライン辞書で探したのですがどこにも見当たりません。 仕方なく "Parthian" を単独で辞書を見ると面白い意味がある事が分かりました。
OneLook Quick Definitions: delivered at the moment of parting as if in flight or retreat ("A Parthian volley of expletives from Uncle Billy- Bret Harte")
Merriam-Webster: relating to, being, or having the effect of a shot fired while in real or feigned retreat
Online Etymology Dictionary: Phrase Parthian shot (1590) is in ref. to their horsemen, who were expert at racing forward, turning, and shooting arrows backward at the moment of retreat.
確かにマリラはアンの部屋を出る前に次ぎの台詞を吐いています。
"You'll have the night to think over your conduct in and come to a better frame of mind. You said you would try to be a very good girl if we kept you at Green Gables, but I must say it hasn't seemed very much like it this evening."
すると "shaft" には何か言葉に関係する私の知らない意味があるに違いません。 "shaft" を辞書で引きます。
OneLook Quick Definitions: an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect ("She threw shafts of sarcasm")
Dictionary.com: something directed or barbed as in sharp attack: shafts of sarcasm.
ありましたねえ、ピッタリの意味が。
"rankle" も私の知らない単語なので辞書を引きます。
OneLook Quick Definitions: gnaw into; make resentful or angry ("The unjustice rankled her")
Dictionary.com: (of unpleasant feelings, experiences, etc.) to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful.
子供の小説と言っても勉強することがいっぱいありますね。
Leaving this Parthian shaft to rankle in Anne's stormy bosom, Marilla descended to the kitchen, grievously troubled in mind and vexed in soul. She was as angry with herself as with Anne, because, whenever she recalled Mrs. Rachel's dumbfounded countenance her lips twitched with amusement and she felt a most reprehensible desire to laugh.
"Parthian shaft" はギリシャ神話か聖書由来の慣用句ではないかと推測したのですが、その様な慣用句はないかとオンライン辞書で探したのですがどこにも見当たりません。 仕方なく "Parthian" を単独で辞書を見ると面白い意味がある事が分かりました。
OneLook Quick Definitions: delivered at the moment of parting as if in flight or retreat ("A Parthian volley of expletives from Uncle Billy- Bret Harte")
Merriam-Webster: relating to, being, or having the effect of a shot fired while in real or feigned retreat
Online Etymology Dictionary: Phrase Parthian shot (1590) is in ref. to their horsemen, who were expert at racing forward, turning, and shooting arrows backward at the moment of retreat.
確かにマリラはアンの部屋を出る前に次ぎの台詞を吐いています。
"You'll have the night to think over your conduct in and come to a better frame of mind. You said you would try to be a very good girl if we kept you at Green Gables, but I must say it hasn't seemed very much like it this evening."
すると "shaft" には何か言葉に関係する私の知らない意味があるに違いません。 "shaft" を辞書で引きます。
OneLook Quick Definitions: an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect ("She threw shafts of sarcasm")
Dictionary.com: something directed or barbed as in sharp attack: shafts of sarcasm.
ありましたねえ、ピッタリの意味が。
"rankle" も私の知らない単語なので辞書を引きます。
OneLook Quick Definitions: gnaw into; make resentful or angry ("The unjustice rankled her")
Dictionary.com: (of unpleasant feelings, experiences, etc.) to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful.
子供の小説と言っても勉強することがいっぱいありますね。
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