Reader's Digest 5月号の映画紹介にPIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDESがありました。次ぎの文はその記事の最初の個所です。
What: Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) meets an old flame, Angelica (Penelope Cruz), and finds himself on an unexpected journey to find the Fountain of Youth. When she forces him on board the ship of the formidable pritate Blackbeard (Ian McShane), Sparrow can't figure out whom he should be more afraid of: the legendary pirate or the woman from his past.
"flame" と言うと炎しか思い浮かびませんが、ここでは女性、Angelicaを指しているので、しかもoldとなっているので昔の恋人の様ですがどうでしょう？ 辞書で確認します。
・Oxford English Dictionary: old flame: informal a former lover.
・Macmillan Dictionary: someone who you had a romantic relationship with in the past: I located an old flame on the Internet.
・Cambridge Advanced Learner's English Dictionary: old flame: a person that you loved or had a sexual relationship with in the past
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: sweetheart
多くの辞書で "old flame" の例ばかりが載っているので、現在の恋人を "flame" と言うことはほとんどないようです。 火遊びだったという後悔の念があるのでしょうか?
What: Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) meets an old flame, Angelica (Penelope Cruz), and finds himself on an unexpected journey to find the Fountain of Youth. When she forces him on board the ship of the formidable pritate Blackbeard (Ian McShane), Sparrow can't figure out whom he should be more afraid of: the legendary pirate or the woman from his past.
"flame" と言うと炎しか思い浮かびませんが、ここでは女性、Angelicaを指しているので、しかもoldとなっているので昔の恋人の様ですがどうでしょう？ 辞書で確認します。
・Oxford English Dictionary: old flame: informal a former lover.
・Macmillan Dictionary: someone who you had a romantic relationship with in the past: I located an old flame on the Internet.
・Cambridge Advanced Learner's English Dictionary: old flame: a person that you loved or had a sexual relationship with in the past
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: sweetheart
多くの辞書で "old flame" の例ばかりが載っているので、現在の恋人を "flame" と言うことはほとんどないようです。 火遊びだったという後悔の念があるのでしょうか?
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