George Orwellの 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' を読みたいと思っているのですが、いつも貸出中になっていて借りれません。そこで小説ではありませんが、George Orwellがスペイン内戦に参加した体験を元にした 'Homage to Catalonia' を読むことにしました。
The Anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing. To anyone who had been there since the begining it probably seemed even in December or January that the revolutionary period was ending; but when one came straight from England the aspect of Barcelona was something startling and overwhelming. It was the first time that I had even been in town where the working class was in the saddle.
"in the saddle" は慣用句でしょう。辞書で調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: In a position of control or responsibility.: The drama immediately puts the working class in the saddle as the necessary actor and rescuer of the said society.
・Collins Dictionary: If you are in the saddle, you are in power or in control of a situation.: The armed forces and the hardliners are now going to be in the saddle.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: in charge or in control: The chairman is back in the saddle after his heart attack.
The Anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing. To anyone who had been there since the begining it probably seemed even in December or January that the revolutionary period was ending; but when one came straight from England the aspect of Barcelona was something startling and overwhelming. It was the first time that I had even been in town where the working class was in the saddle.
"in the saddle" は慣用句でしょう。辞書で調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: In a position of control or responsibility.: The drama immediately puts the working class in the saddle as the necessary actor and rescuer of the said society.
・Collins Dictionary: If you are in the saddle, you are in power or in control of a situation.: The armed forces and the hardliners are now going to be in the saddle.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: in charge or in control: The chairman is back in the saddle after his heart attack.
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