「国家の品格」の著者藤原正彦氏はお茶の水女子大学理学部教授の数学者で "Equality is a fiction, too" の項で自分の事を次ぎのように書いています。
I was rather brilliant at schoolwork from elementary school on up, but I never had the faintest success with girls.
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I never earned more than a two (out of five) for my drawing skills in my reports from elementary school on up, and though I rather fancied myself as a soccer player and plugged away at it for six years at junior high and high school, I never even get close to Beckham's level. For that matter, I am no match for my wife when we have a marital tiff. People all have different levels of ability.
"tiff" と聞くと、十年程前に画像処理関係のソフトウェア販売に携わり、その後間は空きますが1年前にはやはり米国製の画像処理ソフトウェアのローカライズ(日本語対応)の仕事をした関係でGIFやJPEGの様な画像圧縮形式の一種を思い出してしまいます。 ここでの "tiff" は何でしょう? 辞書を引きます。
・Cambridge Advanced Learner's English Dictionary: a slight argument; Have you two had a lovers' tiff?
・Macmillan English Dictionary: a minor argument, especially between people in a sexual or romantic relationship
・Urban Dictionary: An argument, often between Husband and Wife; Those two seem to be having a Lover's Tiff!
なるほど、"marital tiff" は犬も食わない夫婦喧嘩にはピッタリですね。
画像ファイルの形式を示す "tiff" は "Tagged Image File Format" の頭文字でしたね。
I was rather brilliant at schoolwork from elementary school on up, but I never had the faintest success with girls.
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I never earned more than a two (out of five) for my drawing skills in my reports from elementary school on up, and though I rather fancied myself as a soccer player and plugged away at it for six years at junior high and high school, I never even get close to Beckham's level. For that matter, I am no match for my wife when we have a marital tiff. People all have different levels of ability.
"tiff" と聞くと、十年程前に画像処理関係のソフトウェア販売に携わり、その後間は空きますが1年前にはやはり米国製の画像処理ソフトウェアのローカライズ(日本語対応)の仕事をした関係でGIFやJPEGの様な画像圧縮形式の一種を思い出してしまいます。 ここでの "tiff" は何でしょう? 辞書を引きます。
・Cambridge Advanced Learner's English Dictionary: a slight argument; Have you two had a lovers' tiff?
・Macmillan English Dictionary: a minor argument, especially between people in a sexual or romantic relationship
・Urban Dictionary: An argument, often between Husband and Wife; Those two seem to be having a Lover's Tiff!
なるほど、"marital tiff" は犬も食わない夫婦喧嘩にはピッタリですね。
画像ファイルの形式を示す "tiff" は "Tagged Image File Format" の頭文字でしたね。