Salman Rushdieの小説 "Midnight's Children" を読んでいます。
And, and: here is India's first swimmer of the English Channel, Mr Pushpa Roy, arriving at the gate of the Breach Candy Pools. Saffron bathing-cap on his head, green trunks wrapped in flag-hued towel, this Pushpa has declared war on the white-only policy of the baths. He holds a cake of Mysore sandalwood soap; draws himself up; marches through the gate...whereupon hired Pathans seize him, Indians save Europeans from an Indian mutiny as usual, and out he goes, struggling valiantly, frogmarched into Warden Road and flung into the dust.
カエルの歩きを連想させますが、人が "frogmarch" するとはどういう動きか？ 辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Force (someone) to walk forward by holding and pinning their arms from behind.: the cop frogmarched him down the steep stairs
・Collins Dictionary: a method of carrying a resisting person in which each limb is held by one person and the victim is carried horizontally and face downwards: We should be able to frogmarch her on to a plane.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to force someone who is unwilling to move forward by holding the person's arms behind their back and then pushing them forward: He was frogmarched off by two police officers.
なるほど、分かってしまえば "frogmarch" から連想できますね。
And, and: here is India's first swimmer of the English Channel, Mr Pushpa Roy, arriving at the gate of the Breach Candy Pools. Saffron bathing-cap on his head, green trunks wrapped in flag-hued towel, this Pushpa has declared war on the white-only policy of the baths. He holds a cake of Mysore sandalwood soap; draws himself up; marches through the gate...whereupon hired Pathans seize him, Indians save Europeans from an Indian mutiny as usual, and out he goes, struggling valiantly, frogmarched into Warden Road and flung into the dust.
カエルの歩きを連想させますが、人が "frogmarch" するとはどういう動きか？ 辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Force (someone) to walk forward by holding and pinning their arms from behind.: the cop frogmarched him down the steep stairs
・Collins Dictionary: a method of carrying a resisting person in which each limb is held by one person and the victim is carried horizontally and face downwards: We should be able to frogmarch her on to a plane.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to force someone who is unwilling to move forward by holding the person's arms behind their back and then pushing them forward: He was frogmarched off by two police officers.
なるほど、分かってしまえば "frogmarch" から連想できますね。
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