Vladimir Nabokovの "Lolita" を読んでいます。
Of the two houses flanking the bit of scrubby waste opposite, one was closed, and the other contained two professors of English, tweedy and short-haired Miss Lester and fadedly feminine Miss Fabian, whose only subject of brief sidewalk conversation with me was (God bless their tact!) the young loveliness of my daughter and the nave charm of Gaston Godin. My east-door neighbor was by far the most dangerous one, a sharp-nosed stock character whose late brother had been attached to the College as Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds.
"God bless their tact!" の "tact" の意味を調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: the ability to deal with difficult or embarrassing situations carefully and without doing or saying anything that will annoy or upset other people: Settling the dispute required great tact and diplomacy.
・Collins Dictionary: Tact is the ability to avoid upsetting or offending people by being careful not to say or do things that would hurt their feelings.: On this occasion the press have not been intrusive and they have shown great tact.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: the ability to say or do the right thing without making anyone unhappy or angry: He's never had much tact and people don't like his blunt manner.
「如才ない」と似ていますね。 Vocabulary.comの次の説明も参考になります。
To talk carefully without hurting anyone’s feelings, that’s tact. Politicians have tact, which makes them good at speaking about sensitive matters without making fools of themselves. At least, sometimes they have tact.
Around a friend who’s afraid of snakes, you use tact when talking about reptiles because you don’t want to upset them. The Latin root word tangere means “touch,” and a person with tact avoids touching dangerous words like they are an electric fence. When you say something without tact, you “put your foot in your mouth,” as the phrase goes. You don’t literally put your foot in your mouth, although if you did you’d avoid offending people with words.
Of the two houses flanking the bit of scrubby waste opposite, one was closed, and the other contained two professors of English, tweedy and short-haired Miss Lester and fadedly feminine Miss Fabian, whose only subject of brief sidewalk conversation with me was (God bless their tact!) the young loveliness of my daughter and the nave charm of Gaston Godin. My east-door neighbor was by far the most dangerous one, a sharp-nosed stock character whose late brother had been attached to the College as Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds.
"God bless their tact!" の "tact" の意味を調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: the ability to deal with difficult or embarrassing situations carefully and without doing or saying anything that will annoy or upset other people: Settling the dispute required great tact and diplomacy.
・Collins Dictionary: Tact is the ability to avoid upsetting or offending people by being careful not to say or do things that would hurt their feelings.: On this occasion the press have not been intrusive and they have shown great tact.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: the ability to say or do the right thing without making anyone unhappy or angry: He's never had much tact and people don't like his blunt manner.
「如才ない」と似ていますね。 Vocabulary.comの次の説明も参考になります。
To talk carefully without hurting anyone’s feelings, that’s tact. Politicians have tact, which makes them good at speaking about sensitive matters without making fools of themselves. At least, sometimes they have tact.
Around a friend who’s afraid of snakes, you use tact when talking about reptiles because you don’t want to upset them. The Latin root word tangere means “touch,” and a person with tact avoids touching dangerous words like they are an electric fence. When you say something without tact, you “put your foot in your mouth,” as the phrase goes. You don’t literally put your foot in your mouth, although if you did you’d avoid offending people with words.
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