THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINNのハックがMiss Mary Janeについて述べている個所です。
She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion -- there warn't no back-down to her, I judge. You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand. It sounds like flattery, but it ain't no flattery.
"sand" の意味としては砂しか知りませんし（サンドイッチの略も想像できますが、ここでは当てはまりません）、"grit" にも砂粒の意味があるのを知っていますが、ここでの "sand" はお世辞ではないと言っている位なので何か良い性格、あるいは心根を表しているようです。 辞書を見ます。
・OneLook Quick Definitions: fortitude and determination
・Dictionary.com: Informal . courage; pluck.
この意味の例文も探したのですが、辞書にも上記個所の引用があっただけでした。 ただ、World Wide Wordsにネイティブがやはりこの文について何故 "sand" にこのような意味があるのか質問しているのを見つけました。 以下がその質問に対する回答の一部です。
[A] Sand here has just the same sense as the older grit, clear grit, or true grit, that refer to a person who has strength of character, pluck, stamina, the ability to see things through to the end. The reference here, presumably is to the toughness of grit, especially that in gritstone, a common name for the material that made up the stones of a corn mill.
Why sand should suddenly pop up in its place - sometime near the end of the 1860s - is hard to say, though it is an obvious enough synonym. In its earliest appearances, it forms part of expressions such as sand in his gizzard or sand in his craw, which are obvious enough references to the small stones that some birds swallow into their gizzards to help grind their food. (The second of these expressions is still sometimes used by older people in the US, though it is unknown to most young ones, I am told.)
She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion -- there warn't no back-down to her, I judge. You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand. It sounds like flattery, but it ain't no flattery.
"sand" の意味としては砂しか知りませんし（サンドイッチの略も想像できますが、ここでは当てはまりません）、"grit" にも砂粒の意味があるのを知っていますが、ここでの "sand" はお世辞ではないと言っている位なので何か良い性格、あるいは心根を表しているようです。 辞書を見ます。
・OneLook Quick Definitions: fortitude and determination
・Dictionary.com: Informal . courage; pluck.
この意味の例文も探したのですが、辞書にも上記個所の引用があっただけでした。 ただ、World Wide Wordsにネイティブがやはりこの文について何故 "sand" にこのような意味があるのか質問しているのを見つけました。 以下がその質問に対する回答の一部です。
[A] Sand here has just the same sense as the older grit, clear grit, or true grit, that refer to a person who has strength of character, pluck, stamina, the ability to see things through to the end. The reference here, presumably is to the toughness of grit, especially that in gritstone, a common name for the material that made up the stones of a corn mill.
Why sand should suddenly pop up in its place - sometime near the end of the 1860s - is hard to say, though it is an obvious enough synonym. In its earliest appearances, it forms part of expressions such as sand in his gizzard or sand in his craw, which are obvious enough references to the small stones that some birds swallow into their gizzards to help grind their food. (The second of these expressions is still sometimes used by older people in the US, though it is unknown to most young ones, I am told.)
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