角田光代の "Woman on the Other Shore" を読んでいます。
As before, Aoi and Nanako hung out together after school, meeting up to go to the river, buying something to eat along the way, talking and laughing endlessly about the new caste system. It came from everything being so dull all the time, Nanako asserted. So totally ho-hum. Day in and day out, their world, their lives, their grades, everything always the same. And because of that, people got antsy and looked for ways to stir things up. Ranking everybody in an arbitrary caste system let them feel important. It was how they kept from going out of their minds.
英語らしくない表現の "ho-hum" の意味を調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Used to express boredom or resignation.: ‘Now I don't need those sights in my head as I prepare to return to work… ho-hum.’
・Collins Dictionary: You can use ho hum when you want to show that you think something is not interesting, remarkable, or surprising in any way.: Ho hum, another nice job down the drain.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: an expression used when someone is bored, or when they accept that something unpleasant cannot be stopped from happening: So I need to do it all again. Ho-hum.
語源が気になり他の辞書も見ると次の辞書に由来について記述がありました。
・McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions: mod. dull; causing yawns of boredom. (Ho-hum is a representation of the sound of a yawn.) Clare played another ho-hum concert at the music hall last night.
なるほど、納得。
As before, Aoi and Nanako hung out together after school, meeting up to go to the river, buying something to eat along the way, talking and laughing endlessly about the new caste system. It came from everything being so dull all the time, Nanako asserted. So totally ho-hum. Day in and day out, their world, their lives, their grades, everything always the same. And because of that, people got antsy and looked for ways to stir things up. Ranking everybody in an arbitrary caste system let them feel important. It was how they kept from going out of their minds.
英語らしくない表現の "ho-hum" の意味を調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Used to express boredom or resignation.: ‘Now I don't need those sights in my head as I prepare to return to work… ho-hum.’
・Collins Dictionary: You can use ho hum when you want to show that you think something is not interesting, remarkable, or surprising in any way.: Ho hum, another nice job down the drain.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: an expression used when someone is bored, or when they accept that something unpleasant cannot be stopped from happening: So I need to do it all again. Ho-hum.
語源が気になり他の辞書も見ると次の辞書に由来について記述がありました。
・McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions: mod. dull; causing yawns of boredom. (Ho-hum is a representation of the sound of a yawn.) Clare played another ho-hum concert at the music hall last night.
なるほど、納得。
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