小説WILDERNESSは衣服や身体の描写が多く、余り聞くことのない筋肉の名称も多出します。次に引用する個所に出てきた単語は読むのも難しそうなので興味が湧きました。
But the crow fled, and the sparrows pursued. Watch the path he said to himself. Twist your ancle and you might as well be dead. Never mind the fucking birds. He was conscious as he jogged of the weight of the revolver banging against his coccyx. It was the best place for it. It would be more bothersome anywhere else.
"coccyx" は身体のどの部位を示すのでしょうか。
・Collins Dictionary: a small triangular bone at the end of the spinal column in man and some apes, representing a vestigial tail: Stella sat down quickly on the hard chair, landing painfully on her coccyx. 発音はMerriam-Websterで ("http://www.merriam-webster.com/audio.php?file=coccyx01&word=coccyx&text=") 調べました。
語源はWikitionaryによると古ギリシャ語でカッコーのクチバシに似ているから来たそうです。
From Ancient Greek κ?κκυξ (kokkuks, “cuckoo”), referring to the curved shape of a cuckoo's beak when viewed from the side.
But the crow fled, and the sparrows pursued. Watch the path he said to himself. Twist your ancle and you might as well be dead. Never mind the fucking birds. He was conscious as he jogged of the weight of the revolver banging against his coccyx. It was the best place for it. It would be more bothersome anywhere else.
"coccyx" は身体のどの部位を示すのでしょうか。
・Collins Dictionary: a small triangular bone at the end of the spinal column in man and some apes, representing a vestigial tail: Stella sat down quickly on the hard chair, landing painfully on her coccyx. 発音はMerriam-Websterで ("http://www.merriam-webster.com/audio.php?file=coccyx01&word=coccyx&text=") 調べました。
語源はWikitionaryによると古ギリシャ語でカッコーのクチバシに似ているから来たそうです。
From Ancient Greek κ?κκυξ (kokkuks, “cuckoo”), referring to the curved shape of a cuckoo's beak when viewed from the side.
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