角田光代の "Woman on the Other Shore" を読んでいます。
Since it was the season for the customer year-end cleaning anyway, she felt no pangs of guilt; she simply told herself that giving the house a thorough buffing-up for the new year took priority over taking Akari on outings to the park or the children's museum.
She'd started work at the begining of June, so the house had suffered more than six months of neglect. Her quick, weekly once-overs had missed many pockets of accumulating dust and grime.
ここでの "weekly once-overs" は文脈からすると「一週間に一度の簡単な掃除」と推測できますが、 "once-overs" でそんな意味になるのでしょうか？ 辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A piece of work that is done quickly.: Give your body a once-over with a loofah sponge, then finish with a final warm water rinse.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: the act of quickly cleaning a place: Would you mind giving the carpet a once-over with the vacuum cleaner?
・Macmillan Dictionary: to clean something very quickly: I’ll just give the bathroom a quick once-over.
推測は当たっていましたね。
Since it was the season for the customer year-end cleaning anyway, she felt no pangs of guilt; she simply told herself that giving the house a thorough buffing-up for the new year took priority over taking Akari on outings to the park or the children's museum.
She'd started work at the begining of June, so the house had suffered more than six months of neglect. Her quick, weekly once-overs had missed many pockets of accumulating dust and grime.
ここでの "weekly once-overs" は文脈からすると「一週間に一度の簡単な掃除」と推測できますが、 "once-overs" でそんな意味になるのでしょうか？ 辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A piece of work that is done quickly.: Give your body a once-over with a loofah sponge, then finish with a final warm water rinse.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: the act of quickly cleaning a place: Would you mind giving the carpet a once-over with the vacuum cleaner?
・Macmillan Dictionary: to clean something very quickly: I’ll just give the bathroom a quick once-over.
推測は当たっていましたね。
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