Banana Yoshimotoの "Kitchen" を読み始めました。
吉本ばななの小説を読むのは初めてです。名前から吉本興業のタレントから小説家になった人と思っていましたが、吉本興業とは全く関係がない方でした。
Getting the job I have now, as an assistant to a cooking teacher, was incredible. She not only teaches cooking classes, but also gets a lot of important television and magazine work, and she is actually rather famous. An amazing number of candidates apparently tested for the job. Why was it that I--a novice with only one summer of study under my belt--got hired?
慣用句らしい "under my belt" の意味を辞書で調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Safely or satisfactorily achieved, experienced, or acquired.: He now has almost a year as president under his belt.
・Collins Dictionary: as part of one's experience: he had a linguistics degree under his belt
・Wiktionary: Already done; within one's experience; practiced. quotations: He got off to a shaky start, but with a few months of experience under his belt, he kept up handily with the veteran employees.
由来が気になる表現ですが、語源は分かりませんでした。
吉本ばななの小説を読むのは初めてです。名前から吉本興業のタレントから小説家になった人と思っていましたが、吉本興業とは全く関係がない方でした。
Getting the job I have now, as an assistant to a cooking teacher, was incredible. She not only teaches cooking classes, but also gets a lot of important television and magazine work, and she is actually rather famous. An amazing number of candidates apparently tested for the job. Why was it that I--a novice with only one summer of study under my belt--got hired?
慣用句らしい "under my belt" の意味を辞書で調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Safely or satisfactorily achieved, experienced, or acquired.: He now has almost a year as president under his belt.
・Collins Dictionary: as part of one's experience: he had a linguistics degree under his belt
・Wiktionary: Already done; within one's experience; practiced. quotations: He got off to a shaky start, but with a few months of experience under his belt, he kept up handily with the veteran employees.
由来が気になる表現ですが、語源は分かりませんでした。
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