Yoko Ogawaの "The Housekeeper and the Professor" が面白かったので、続けて同じ著者の "Revenge" を読みます。 英語版への翻訳は "The Housekeeper and the Professor" と同じくStephen Snyder によるものです。
Sitting with her back straight, she studied the menu from top to bottom, though she seemed to have little interest in selecting something to eat. This went on for a while. "Order whatever you like," the man repeated several times, just to break the unbearable tension, but she was intent to make him stew in silence, I ran my finger along the edge of the elaborately folded napkin.
以前 "stew in one's own juice" を取り上げましたが、上の "make him stew in silence" はどんな意味でしょうか？
"stew" は次の様な意味で使っているようです。
・Oxford English Dictionary: informal in singular A state of great anxiety or agitation.: No wonder they're in a stew - we keep occupying their territory.
・Collins Dictionary: If you let a person stew or if you leave them to stew, you deliberately allow them to worry about something for a while, rather than telling them something which would make them feel better.: I'd rather let him stew.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to be anxious or upset about something: You’re not still stewing over the election results, are you?
Sitting with her back straight, she studied the menu from top to bottom, though she seemed to have little interest in selecting something to eat. This went on for a while. "Order whatever you like," the man repeated several times, just to break the unbearable tension, but she was intent to make him stew in silence, I ran my finger along the edge of the elaborately folded napkin.
以前 "stew in one's own juice" を取り上げましたが、上の "make him stew in silence" はどんな意味でしょうか？
"stew" は次の様な意味で使っているようです。
・Oxford English Dictionary: informal in singular A state of great anxiety or agitation.: No wonder they're in a stew - we keep occupying their territory.
・Collins Dictionary: If you let a person stew or if you leave them to stew, you deliberately allow them to worry about something for a while, rather than telling them something which would make them feel better.: I'd rather let him stew.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to be anxious or upset about something: You’re not still stewing over the election results, are you?
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