副題がTrue Storiesとなっている "The Red Notebook" Paul Auster著を読み始めました。どんな内容かなのか今はさっぱり見当がつきません。
見覚えがあるのですが意味が直ぐに浮かんでこない単語が出てきました。
I remember savage nicotine fits, my body numb with need as I scrounged among sofa cushions and crawled behind cupboards in search of loose coins.
"scrounge" を辞書で調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Seek to obtain (something, typically food or money) at the expense or through the generosity of others or by stealth: ‘he had managed to scrounge a free meal’
・Collins Dictionary:
1.when intr, sometimes foll by around to search in order to acquire (something) without cost: Gray managed to scrounge enough money for a plane ticket and a taxi to the venue and he made it just in time.
2.to obtain or seek to obtain (something) by cadging or begging
そう言えば、前に、何か食べ物を探すのに "scrounge" が使われていたことを思い出しました。
見覚えがあるのですが意味が直ぐに浮かんでこない単語が出てきました。
I remember savage nicotine fits, my body numb with need as I scrounged among sofa cushions and crawled behind cupboards in search of loose coins.
"scrounge" を辞書で調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Seek to obtain (something, typically food or money) at the expense or through the generosity of others or by stealth: ‘he had managed to scrounge a free meal’
・Collins Dictionary:
1.when intr, sometimes foll by around to search in order to acquire (something) without cost: Gray managed to scrounge enough money for a plane ticket and a taxi to the venue and he made it just in time.
2.to obtain or seek to obtain (something) by cadging or begging
そう言えば、前に、何か食べ物を探すのに "scrounge" が使われていたことを思い出しました。
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