村上春樹のUndergroundを読んでいます。
He remembers thinking afterwards. "Won't it be great to do something different with my life instead of the typical office grind?" -- and he decided to make a go of it, despite the fact that he lacked any spirit to rally to the nation's defence. According to Mr. Ishino (sotto voce); "There aren't actually that many in Defence Academy with the kind of spirit."
多分注釈の意味で使われている "sotto voce" は英語らしくないので外国語だと思いますが何でしょう？ "voce" は声の意味に違いありません。
・Oxford English Dictionary: (of singing or a spoken remark) in a quiet voice, as if not to be overheard.: ‘“It won't be cheap,” he added sotto voce’
Origin: From Italian sotto ‘under’ + voce ‘voice’.
・Collins Dictionary: If you say something sotto voce, you say it in a soft voice.
He remembers thinking afterwards. "Won't it be great to do something different with my life instead of the typical office grind?" -- and he decided to make a go of it, despite the fact that he lacked any spirit to rally to the nation's defence. According to Mr. Ishino (sotto voce); "There aren't actually that many in Defence Academy with the kind of spirit."
多分注釈の意味で使われている "sotto voce" は英語らしくないので外国語だと思いますが何でしょう？ "voce" は声の意味に違いありません。
・Oxford English Dictionary: (of singing or a spoken remark) in a quiet voice, as if not to be overheard.: ‘“It won't be cheap,” he added sotto voce’
Origin: From Italian sotto ‘under’ + voce ‘voice’.
・Collins Dictionary: If you say something sotto voce, you say it in a soft voice.
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