'make it stick' を読んでいます。 'Increase Your Abilities' の章から引用します。
He spent long hours honing his techniques, becoming adept and the life of the party among his social set. The year was 2006, and when he learned of a memory competition to be held in Cambridge, England, he decided on a lark to enter it. There he surprised himself by taking first place in the beginner category, a performance for which he pocketed a cool 1,000 euros.
"lark" にヒバリの意味があるのは知っているのですが、ここで意味は何でしょう？
・Oxford English Dictionary: a thing that you do for fun or as a joke: The boys didn't mean any harm—they just did it for a lark.
・Collins Dictionary: If you say that doing something is a lark, you mean that it is fun, although perhaps naughty or dangerous.: He'd made it seem rather a lark, to be visiting a supposedly haunted house.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: an activity done for a joke that is not intended to cause serious harm or damage: The kids hid their teacher's bike for a lark.
ヒバリが空高く鳴くのは楽しいからでしょうか？ そう思う事にします。
He spent long hours honing his techniques, becoming adept and the life of the party among his social set. The year was 2006, and when he learned of a memory competition to be held in Cambridge, England, he decided on a lark to enter it. There he surprised himself by taking first place in the beginner category, a performance for which he pocketed a cool 1,000 euros.
"lark" にヒバリの意味があるのは知っているのですが、ここで意味は何でしょう？
・Oxford English Dictionary: a thing that you do for fun or as a joke: The boys didn't mean any harm—they just did it for a lark.
・Collins Dictionary: If you say that doing something is a lark, you mean that it is fun, although perhaps naughty or dangerous.: He'd made it seem rather a lark, to be visiting a supposedly haunted house.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: an activity done for a joke that is not intended to cause serious harm or damage: The kids hid their teacher's bike for a lark.
ヒバリが空高く鳴くのは楽しいからでしょうか？ そう思う事にします。
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