A MOMENT OF WARを読んでいます。小説の会話文は訛りを表現している事があるので厄介です。
As Danny, my weedy Cockney friend from Figueras, was quick to point out: 'We all bin worryin' abaht you, son. Still are, if you get me.' He pulled his nose with a sleazy giggle. 'When 'telligence blokes get 'old of summick, they don't normly let go of it. We reckon you bin lucky, or sumpen, aincha?
"bin worryin' abaht" は難しくありませんが、"sumpen, aincha" の個所が "something, ain't you" の事だろうと気が付くには二三度読み直す必要がありました。
"sleazy giggle" と "summick" が分かりません。まず "sleazy" の意味を調べます。
・American Heritage Dictionary:
1.a. Shabby, dirty, and vulgar; tawdry: "sleazy storefronts with torn industrial carpeting and dirt on the walls" (Seattle Weekly).
b. Dishonest or corrupt; disreputable: Some sleazy characters hang around casinos.
2. Made of low-quality materials; cheap or shoddy.
3. Thin and loosely woven; flimsy: The coat has a sleazy lining.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: dirty, cheap or not socially acceptable, especially relating to moral or sexual matters: This part of town is full of sleazy bars and restaurants.
・Vocabulary.com:
Something that is sleazy is low and nasty. It’s a perfect word to describe characters like the sleazy door-to-door con men who cheat old ladies into selling them their jewelry at a deep discount.
Sleazy originally meant flimsy, but nowadays it’s only used to describe morally degraded people or places. Usually it refers to sexual behavior, but it is often associated with people trying to swindle others as well. It’s not as bad as perverse or criminal, which suggest that a line has been crossed. But sleazy people make you feel uncomfortable, for sure.
今回は小説で使われている以外の意味、ニュアンスも覚えたいと思ったので辞書に記載の意味を全部そのまま引用しました。
さて "summick" は厄介でした。やっと thedidectdictionaryと言う初めて見る辞書に次ぎの説明がありました。
Something: tell me summick I don't know
この単語は地方語と思われるので覚える必要はなさそうです。
As Danny, my weedy Cockney friend from Figueras, was quick to point out: 'We all bin worryin' abaht you, son. Still are, if you get me.' He pulled his nose with a sleazy giggle. 'When 'telligence blokes get 'old of summick, they don't normly let go of it. We reckon you bin lucky, or sumpen, aincha?
"bin worryin' abaht" は難しくありませんが、"sumpen, aincha" の個所が "something, ain't you" の事だろうと気が付くには二三度読み直す必要がありました。
"sleazy giggle" と "summick" が分かりません。まず "sleazy" の意味を調べます。
・American Heritage Dictionary:
1.a. Shabby, dirty, and vulgar; tawdry: "sleazy storefronts with torn industrial carpeting and dirt on the walls" (Seattle Weekly).
b. Dishonest or corrupt; disreputable: Some sleazy characters hang around casinos.
2. Made of low-quality materials; cheap or shoddy.
3. Thin and loosely woven; flimsy: The coat has a sleazy lining.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: dirty, cheap or not socially acceptable, especially relating to moral or sexual matters: This part of town is full of sleazy bars and restaurants.
・Vocabulary.com:
Something that is sleazy is low and nasty. It’s a perfect word to describe characters like the sleazy door-to-door con men who cheat old ladies into selling them their jewelry at a deep discount.
Sleazy originally meant flimsy, but nowadays it’s only used to describe morally degraded people or places. Usually it refers to sexual behavior, but it is often associated with people trying to swindle others as well. It’s not as bad as perverse or criminal, which suggest that a line has been crossed. But sleazy people make you feel uncomfortable, for sure.
今回は小説で使われている以外の意味、ニュアンスも覚えたいと思ったので辞書に記載の意味を全部そのまま引用しました。
さて "summick" は厄介でした。やっと thedidectdictionaryと言う初めて見る辞書に次ぎの説明がありました。
Something: tell me summick I don't know
この単語は地方語と思われるので覚える必要はなさそうです。
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