リーダーズダイジェスト8月号の "Kindness of Strangers" と題された特集記事の一つ、ある外国人がタイを旅行した時の経験談の一部です。
Her face was well wrinkled and sun-kissed. She looked quite beautiful but very ill. As a reflex, I reached into my pocket to find some money. Tentatively, I pushed it into her hand. It was enough money for her to survive for a few months. I felt like the "kind stranger".
Without a common language, she looked at me with the wisdom and pity that could burn into a soul. She weakly pushed back the money. I was left shocked.
"sun-kissed" は日焼けの事だと思いますが辞書で確認します。
COED: made warm or brown by the sun
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary: MAINLY HUMOROUS, describes a place that receives a lot of sun, or a person whose appearance is attractive because they have recently been in the sun
最近では、紫外線が皮膚ガンを引き起こすので日焼けはなるべく避けたほうが良いとされていますので "sun-kissed" なんて悠長な言葉は聞けなくなるかも。
Her face was well wrinkled and sun-kissed. She looked quite beautiful but very ill. As a reflex, I reached into my pocket to find some money. Tentatively, I pushed it into her hand. It was enough money for her to survive for a few months. I felt like the "kind stranger".
Without a common language, she looked at me with the wisdom and pity that could burn into a soul. She weakly pushed back the money. I was left shocked.
"sun-kissed" は日焼けの事だと思いますが辞書で確認します。
COED: made warm or brown by the sun
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary: MAINLY HUMOROUS, describes a place that receives a lot of sun, or a person whose appearance is attractive because they have recently been in the sun
最近では、紫外線が皮膚ガンを引き起こすので日焼けはなるべく避けたほうが良いとされていますので "sun-kissed" なんて悠長な言葉は聞けなくなるかも。
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