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flit

2018年05月10日 | 英単語
Miyuki Miyabeの「火車」All She Was Worthを読んでいます。
His hand twitched on his lap. He loosened his tie. "When she married me, they took her off her family register back in Mureyama--her hometown--it's in Fukushima prefecture. But they added the usual line to it, saying who she'd married and where my family register was kept. Even after she was living with me and shouldn't really have been involved at all, the bill collectors were still pestering her. They'd dug out her address here, and they came pounding on our door. Kyoko's family had done their flit in the spring of 1983--which was four years before we got married.
"flit" は文脈からすると所謂夜逃げのようですがどうでしょう? 辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: An act of leaving one's home or moving, typically secretly so as to escape creditors or obligations.: He made a moonlight flit from a rented flat in Plymouth Road, Thurrock, after racking up over a £1, 000 worth of unpaid rent.
・WordNet Search - 3.1: (a secret move (to avoid paying debts)) "they did a moonlight flit"
"moonlight" が付くと正に夜逃げですね。
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