Vladimir Nabokovの "Lolita" を読み始めました。 この小説の内容は全く知りませんが、たしか昔聞いたことのある言葉ロリコンの由来となった小説と聞いたころがあるので、Wikipediaを見ると、次の説明が冒頭にありました。
In Japanese popular culture, lolicon (ロリコン, also romanized as rorikon or lolicom) is a genre of fictional media in which young (or young-looking) girl characters appear in romantic or sexual contexts. The term, a portmanteau of the English words "Lolita" and "complex", also refers to desire and affection for such characters (ロリ, "loli"), and fans of such characters and works.
やはりロリコンの基となった小説ですね。 "Lolita" の中から今日取り上げる単語は "beetle-browed" です。
Among some treasures I lost during the wanderings of my adult years, there was a snapshot taken by my aunt which showed Annabel, her parents and the staid, elderly, lame gentleman, a Dr. Cooper, who that same summer courted my aunt, grouped around a table in a sidewalk cafe. Annabel did not come out well, caught as she was in the act of bending over her chocolat glace, and her thin bare shoulders and the parting in her hair were about all that could be identified (as I remember that picture) amid the sunny blur into which her lost loveliness graded; but I, sitting somewhat apart from the rest, came out with a kind of dramatic conspicuousness: a moody, beetle-browed boy in a dark sport shirt and well-tailored white shorts, his legs crossed, sitting in profile, looking away.
"beetle-browed" とはどんな意味でしょう？ 辞書を見ます。
・Wiktionary: Making an unfriendly, sullen, or scowling face.: Calling this beetle-browed disdainful young person, hair hanging in her face, jaws chewing pecan pie with mechanical precision, honey!
・Dictionary.com: sullen in appearance; scowling: It was a signal, though, for a thick-set beetle-browed young fellow to bounce in from the next room and curtly demand my business.
・Vocabulary.com: sullen or unfriendly in appearance: He was a beetle-browed, scowling, ill-conditioned-looking gent of about fifty, who had a trick of coughing a hard dry cough between every word he uttered.
In Japanese popular culture, lolicon (ロリコン, also romanized as rorikon or lolicom) is a genre of fictional media in which young (or young-looking) girl characters appear in romantic or sexual contexts. The term, a portmanteau of the English words "Lolita" and "complex", also refers to desire and affection for such characters (ロリ, "loli"), and fans of such characters and works.
やはりロリコンの基となった小説ですね。 "Lolita" の中から今日取り上げる単語は "beetle-browed" です。
Among some treasures I lost during the wanderings of my adult years, there was a snapshot taken by my aunt which showed Annabel, her parents and the staid, elderly, lame gentleman, a Dr. Cooper, who that same summer courted my aunt, grouped around a table in a sidewalk cafe. Annabel did not come out well, caught as she was in the act of bending over her chocolat glace, and her thin bare shoulders and the parting in her hair were about all that could be identified (as I remember that picture) amid the sunny blur into which her lost loveliness graded; but I, sitting somewhat apart from the rest, came out with a kind of dramatic conspicuousness: a moody, beetle-browed boy in a dark sport shirt and well-tailored white shorts, his legs crossed, sitting in profile, looking away.
"beetle-browed" とはどんな意味でしょう？ 辞書を見ます。
・Wiktionary: Making an unfriendly, sullen, or scowling face.: Calling this beetle-browed disdainful young person, hair hanging in her face, jaws chewing pecan pie with mechanical precision, honey!
・Dictionary.com: sullen in appearance; scowling: It was a signal, though, for a thick-set beetle-browed young fellow to bounce in from the next room and curtly demand my business.
・Vocabulary.com: sullen or unfriendly in appearance: He was a beetle-browed, scowling, ill-conditioned-looking gent of about fifty, who had a trick of coughing a hard dry cough between every word he uttered.
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