George OrwellのHomage to Cataloniaを読んでいます。
Beside the cold the other discomforts seemed petty. Of course all of us were permanently dirty. Our water, like our food, came on mule-back from Alcubierre, and each man’s share worked out at about a quart a day. It was beastly water, hardly more transparent than milk. Theoretically it was for drinking only, but I always stole a pannikinful for washing in the mornings. I used to wash one day and shave the next; there was never enough water for both.
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It is astonishing how quickly you get used to doing without a handkerchief and to eating out of the tin pannikin in which you also wash.
"pannikin" は容器の一種の様です。辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A small metal drinking cup.: a pannikin of water
・Wiktionary: A cup or other vessel used for drinking.: A stout Burmese woman, wife of a constable, was kneeling outside the cage ladling rice and watery dahl into tin pannikins.
小学生の頃に使った給食用のアルミの食器を思い出しました。今の給食の食器はプラスチック製でしょうか？
Beside the cold the other discomforts seemed petty. Of course all of us were permanently dirty. Our water, like our food, came on mule-back from Alcubierre, and each man’s share worked out at about a quart a day. It was beastly water, hardly more transparent than milk. Theoretically it was for drinking only, but I always stole a pannikinful for washing in the mornings. I used to wash one day and shave the next; there was never enough water for both.
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It is astonishing how quickly you get used to doing without a handkerchief and to eating out of the tin pannikin in which you also wash.
"pannikin" は容器の一種の様です。辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A small metal drinking cup.: a pannikin of water
・Wiktionary: A cup or other vessel used for drinking.: A stout Burmese woman, wife of a constable, was kneeling outside the cage ladling rice and watery dahl into tin pannikins.
小学生の頃に使った給食用のアルミの食器を思い出しました。今の給食の食器はプラスチック製でしょうか？
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