My Fair Ladyを読んでいます。戯曲なので台詞の前に状況や役者の様子を示す言葉が書かれていることがあります。今日はその内の一つ単語を覚えたい。
ELIZA: I want to be a lady in a flower shop, 'stead of selling at the corner of Tottenham Court Road. But they won't take me unless I can talk more genteel. He said he could teach me. Well, here I am ready to pay him - not asking any favour - and he treats me as if I was dirt. I know what lessons cost as well as you do; and I'm ready to pay.
HIGGINS: How much?
ELIZA[coming back to him, triumphant]: Now you're talking I thought you'd come off it when you saw a chance of getting back a bit of what you chucked at me last night. [Confidentially] You'd had a drop in, hadn't you.
HIGGINS[peremptorily]: Sit down.
ヒギンズ教授が命令するように言っていると想像できるので "peremptorily" は偉そうに、とか尊大にのような感じに思えますがどうでしょう？ "peremptorily" は副詞なので辞書では通常形容詞形の意味しか掲載していないので "peremptory" で調べます。
・Collins Dictionary: 1.urgent or commanding ⇒ a peremptory ring on the bell 2.not able to be remitted or debated; decisive 3.positive or assured in speech, manner, etc; dogmatic: Public opinion has shifted decisively against a unilateral or peremptory attack on Iraq.
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: a: characterized by often imperious or arrogant self-assurance: how insolent of late he is become, how proud, how peremptory ? Shakespeare b: indicative of a peremptory attitude or nature : haughty: a peremptory tone; peremptory disregard of an objection
ELIZA: I want to be a lady in a flower shop, 'stead of selling at the corner of Tottenham Court Road. But they won't take me unless I can talk more genteel. He said he could teach me. Well, here I am ready to pay him - not asking any favour - and he treats me as if I was dirt. I know what lessons cost as well as you do; and I'm ready to pay.
HIGGINS: How much?
ELIZA[coming back to him, triumphant]: Now you're talking I thought you'd come off it when you saw a chance of getting back a bit of what you chucked at me last night. [Confidentially] You'd had a drop in, hadn't you.
HIGGINS[peremptorily]: Sit down.
ヒギンズ教授が命令するように言っていると想像できるので "peremptorily" は偉そうに、とか尊大にのような感じに思えますがどうでしょう？ "peremptorily" は副詞なので辞書では通常形容詞形の意味しか掲載していないので "peremptory" で調べます。
・Collins Dictionary: 1.urgent or commanding ⇒ a peremptory ring on the bell 2.not able to be remitted or debated; decisive 3.positive or assured in speech, manner, etc; dogmatic: Public opinion has shifted decisively against a unilateral or peremptory attack on Iraq.
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: a: characterized by often imperious or arrogant self-assurance: how insolent of late he is become, how proud, how peremptory ? Shakespeare b: indicative of a peremptory attitude or nature : haughty: a peremptory tone; peremptory disregard of an objection
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