The Old Man and the Seaに "man-of-war" と言う興味の湧く表現がありました。
Just then he saw a man-of-war bird with his long black wings circling in the sky ahead of him.
"man-of-war bird" は軍艦鳥の事だそうです。英英辞書の説明を見ます。
・OneLook Quick Definitions: long-billed warm-water seabird with wide wingspan and forked tail
次ぎの文にも "man-of-war" が出てきますがこれはまた別の生物を指しています。
But the bird was almost out of sight now and nothing showed on the surface of the water but some patches of yellow, sun-bleached Sargasso weed and the purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war floating close beside the boat.
"Portuguese man-of-war" はカツオノエボシの事だそうです。 これも英英辞書を見ます。
・Encarta® World English Dictionary: sea organism resembling jellyfish: a sea organism hydrozoan that resembles a jellyfish and lives in warm waters. It has a transparent gas-filled float and long stinging, often poisonous tentacles.
Just then he saw a man-of-war bird with his long black wings circling in the sky ahead of him.
"man-of-war bird" は軍艦鳥の事だそうです。英英辞書の説明を見ます。
・OneLook Quick Definitions: long-billed warm-water seabird with wide wingspan and forked tail
次ぎの文にも "man-of-war" が出てきますがこれはまた別の生物を指しています。
But the bird was almost out of sight now and nothing showed on the surface of the water but some patches of yellow, sun-bleached Sargasso weed and the purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war floating close beside the boat.
"Portuguese man-of-war" はカツオノエボシの事だそうです。 これも英英辞書を見ます。
・Encarta® World English Dictionary: sea organism resembling jellyfish: a sea organism hydrozoan that resembles a jellyfish and lives in warm waters. It has a transparent gas-filled float and long stinging, often poisonous tentacles.
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