今日の話題も "THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN" にあった表現です。
But I said maybe we might think we was passing the foot of an island and coming into the same old river again. That disturbed Jim -- and me too. So the question was, what to do? I said, paddle ashore the first time a light showed, and tell them pap was behind, coming along with a trading-scow, and was a green hand at the business, and wanted to know how far it was to Cairo.
文中の "green hand" は "green fingers"(an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully) を思い起こさせますが、商売に長けていると言う意味でしょうか、それとも "green" が持つ "immature in age or judgment; untrained; inexperienced: a green worker" の意味からするとその反対になりますが、どうでしょうか？ 辞書で "green hand" の例を探してみます。 "green hand" の例を記載しているのは次ぎの二つの辞書だけでした。
・Free Dictionary: Green hand, a novice. [Colloq.]
・Wikipedia: term for an inexperienced crew member of a 19th-century whaler on his first voyage , and who would typically have the smallest "lay", or share, in the profits.
やはり "green" から普通受けるイメージ、未熟からくる表現ですね。
But I said maybe we might think we was passing the foot of an island and coming into the same old river again. That disturbed Jim -- and me too. So the question was, what to do? I said, paddle ashore the first time a light showed, and tell them pap was behind, coming along with a trading-scow, and was a green hand at the business, and wanted to know how far it was to Cairo.
文中の "green hand" は "green fingers"(an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully) を思い起こさせますが、商売に長けていると言う意味でしょうか、それとも "green" が持つ "immature in age or judgment; untrained; inexperienced: a green worker" の意味からするとその反対になりますが、どうでしょうか？ 辞書で "green hand" の例を探してみます。 "green hand" の例を記載しているのは次ぎの二つの辞書だけでした。
・Free Dictionary: Green hand, a novice. [Colloq.]
・Wikipedia: term for an inexperienced crew member of a 19th-century whaler on his first voyage , and who would typically have the smallest "lay", or share, in the profits.
やはり "green" から普通受けるイメージ、未熟からくる表現ですね。
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