Ernest Hemingwayの短編小説 'Fifty Grand' からボクシングの戦いぶりを記述している個所の引用です。
It goes along like that for three rounds more. They don't talk any. They're working all the time. We worked over Jack plenty too, in between the rounds. He don't look good at all but he never does much work in the ring. He don't move around much and that left-hand is just automatic. It's just like it was connected with Walcott's face and Jack just had to wish it in every time. Jack is always calm in close and he doesn't waste any juice.
6/10/2011 に electricity を意味する "juice" を取り上げていますが、今回の "juice" はその前(3/6/2009)に取り上げた "juice up" の意味に近いですね。辞書で "juice" の項を又読み直します。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A person's vitality or creative faculties.: ‘it saps the creative juices’
・Collins Dictionary: essence, strength, or vitality: He's still full of the juice of life
・Cambridge English Dictionary: energy: This early in the morning it's hard to get the creative juices flowing (= to start thinking of good ideas).
暑い時に冷たいジュースを飲むと確かに元気がでますね。
It goes along like that for three rounds more. They don't talk any. They're working all the time. We worked over Jack plenty too, in between the rounds. He don't look good at all but he never does much work in the ring. He don't move around much and that left-hand is just automatic. It's just like it was connected with Walcott's face and Jack just had to wish it in every time. Jack is always calm in close and he doesn't waste any juice.
6/10/2011 に electricity を意味する "juice" を取り上げていますが、今回の "juice" はその前(3/6/2009)に取り上げた "juice up" の意味に近いですね。辞書で "juice" の項を又読み直します。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A person's vitality or creative faculties.: ‘it saps the creative juices’
・Collins Dictionary: essence, strength, or vitality: He's still full of the juice of life
・Cambridge English Dictionary: energy: This early in the morning it's hard to get the creative juices flowing (= to start thinking of good ideas).
暑い時に冷たいジュースを飲むと確かに元気がでますね。
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