Pinball, 1973のRatが墓地に行った時の話です。
A row or two of mercury-vapor lamps, peering down over the expanse, arched up like overgrown fiddlehead, casting an unnatural white light into every corner of the grounds.
"fiddlehead" だとバイオリンの頭を想像しますが本当はなんでしょうか?辞書を見ます。
・Collins Dictionary:
1.(nautical) an ornamental carving, in the shape of the scroll at the head end of a fiddle, fitted to the top of the stem or cutwater
2.(US & Canadian) the edible coiled tip of a young fern frond
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: one of the young unfurling fronds of some ferns that are often eaten as greens --called also fiddlehead fern
A row or two of mercury-vapor lamps, peering down over the expanse, arched up like overgrown fiddlehead, casting an unnatural white light into every corner of the grounds.
"fiddlehead" だとバイオリンの頭を想像しますが本当はなんでしょうか?辞書を見ます。
・Collins Dictionary:
1.(nautical) an ornamental carving, in the shape of the scroll at the head end of a fiddle, fitted to the top of the stem or cutwater
2.(US & Canadian) the edible coiled tip of a young fern frond
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: one of the young unfurling fronds of some ferns that are often eaten as greens --called also fiddlehead fern