タイトルにつられて 'Stop What You're Doing and Read This!' を読むことにしました。
11人のイギリス人がそれぞれの観点から本を読むことの意義、良さについて書いた本でした。
当然の事ながら、私には若干馴染みの薄いイギリス英語が頻出します。
Still, it's important not to overly romanticise these things. Willesden Green Library was not to be confused with the British Library. Sometimes whole shelves of books , would be missing, lost, depressingly defaced or torn. Sometimes people would come in just to have a conversation, while I bit my biros to pieces in frustration. Later I learned what a monumental and sacred thing a library can be.
図書館で "biros" を噛むとは何でしょう。
・Oxford English Dictionary: British trademark: A kind of ballpoint pen.: She also took a biro and notebook as her ‘luxuries’.
・Collins Dictionary: A Biro is a pen with a small metal ball at its tip which transfers the ink onto the paper. [British, trademark]
商標名から一般名になった単語ですか。ボールペンを指先でくるくる回す人は時々見かけますね。
11人のイギリス人がそれぞれの観点から本を読むことの意義、良さについて書いた本でした。
当然の事ながら、私には若干馴染みの薄いイギリス英語が頻出します。
Still, it's important not to overly romanticise these things. Willesden Green Library was not to be confused with the British Library. Sometimes whole shelves of books , would be missing, lost, depressingly defaced or torn. Sometimes people would come in just to have a conversation, while I bit my biros to pieces in frustration. Later I learned what a monumental and sacred thing a library can be.
図書館で "biros" を噛むとは何でしょう。
・Oxford English Dictionary: British trademark: A kind of ballpoint pen.: She also took a biro and notebook as her ‘luxuries’.
・Collins Dictionary: A Biro is a pen with a small metal ball at its tip which transfers the ink onto the paper. [British, trademark]
商標名から一般名になった単語ですか。ボールペンを指先でくるくる回す人は時々見かけますね。
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