ウガンダの少女がロシアで開かれたチェスの試合に参加したReader's Digest 12月号の記事、The Game of Her Lifeにあった単語を取り上げます。
Midway through her match against Elaine Lin Yu-Tomg of Taiwan, Phiona makes a tactical error, costing her two pawns. Her opponent makes a similar blunder, but Phiona doesn't realise until it's too late. From then on, she stares crestfallen as the rest of the moves play out, and she loses a match she thinks she should have won.
Phiona bolts to the parking lot, boards a shuttle bus alone, return to her hotel room and bawls into her pillow.
この "bolts to" は何でしょう、チェスに負けた少女は駐車場に向かって行ったのだと思いますが、辞書でこの様な意味が "bolts to" にあるか確認します。
・Macmillan Dictionary:
- to run in a sudden way, especially because you are frightened: There was a gunshot and the horse bolted.
- to escape from a place: When the guard came back, he found that the prisoner had bolted.
・Wiktionary: To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly. Seeing the snake, the horse bolted.: The actor forgot his line and bolted from the stage.
なるほど、ただ行くのではなく、逃げるように急いで行くのですね。
追記: この表現は以前にも取り上げていました。"bolt": http://blog.alc.co.jp/blog/3302827/archive/2011/11/23
Midway through her match against Elaine Lin Yu-Tomg of Taiwan, Phiona makes a tactical error, costing her two pawns. Her opponent makes a similar blunder, but Phiona doesn't realise until it's too late. From then on, she stares crestfallen as the rest of the moves play out, and she loses a match she thinks she should have won.
Phiona bolts to the parking lot, boards a shuttle bus alone, return to her hotel room and bawls into her pillow.
この "bolts to" は何でしょう、チェスに負けた少女は駐車場に向かって行ったのだと思いますが、辞書でこの様な意味が "bolts to" にあるか確認します。
・Macmillan Dictionary:
- to run in a sudden way, especially because you are frightened: There was a gunshot and the horse bolted.
- to escape from a place: When the guard came back, he found that the prisoner had bolted.
・Wiktionary: To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly. Seeing the snake, the horse bolted.: The actor forgot his line and bolted from the stage.
なるほど、ただ行くのではなく、逃げるように急いで行くのですね。
追記: この表現は以前にも取り上げていました。"bolt": http://blog.alc.co.jp/blog/3302827/archive/2011/11/23
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