今日から仕事始めで通常の生活に戻ります。年の初めから池波正太郎の小説を読み始めていますが、昨年読んだ "Convenience Store Woman" と "All the Lovers in the Night" のメモがまだ残っているので暫くはそのメモからの投稿を続けます。
Sayaka Murataの小説 "Convenience Store Woman" から引用します。
“The stock of ramen noodles is in a total mess!” “Yes, I was here. It was all right in the afternoon, but that kid on the night shift didn’t turn up again so it must have been the new guy, Dat- kun.” Pulling up the zip on her uniform as she came over to us, Sugawara pulled a face. “What, he left us in the lurch again? I can’t believe it! He knows how short-staffed we are right now. No wonder the store’s falling apart. There aren’t any drink cartons out there at all and it’s the morning rush!” “I know. It’s awful, isn’t it? The manager says he’ll have to stick to the night shift.
最初に辞書で "lurch" を見ましたが、ここでの意味は "leave someone in the lurch" の慣用句での用法ですね。
・Merriam-Webster: in a vulnerable and unsupported position: At the peak of the noonday rush the cashier stalked out and left him in the lurch.
・Farlex Dictionary of Idioms: To leave or abandon one without assistance in a particularly awkward, difficult, or troublesome situation.: The manager will really leave me in the lurch if he decides to quit before this project is finished.
・Vocabulary.com: If you leave you friend in the lurch, you've left her in a bad situation. If she was counting on a ride home after school and you forgot to wait for her, you left her in the lurch.
When someone is left in the lurch, she's left needing help of some kind, usually abruptly and surprisingly. It's the perfect phrase to use when a person is counting on assistance that doesn't come. This kind of lurch has an entirely different root from the lurch meaning "abrupt roll or tilt." This lurch comes from a sixteenth century game, lourche, and the situation in which one player loses by a wide margin — or is left in the lurch by the other.
Sayaka Murataの小説 "Convenience Store Woman" から引用します。
“The stock of ramen noodles is in a total mess!” “Yes, I was here. It was all right in the afternoon, but that kid on the night shift didn’t turn up again so it must have been the new guy, Dat- kun.” Pulling up the zip on her uniform as she came over to us, Sugawara pulled a face. “What, he left us in the lurch again? I can’t believe it! He knows how short-staffed we are right now. No wonder the store’s falling apart. There aren’t any drink cartons out there at all and it’s the morning rush!” “I know. It’s awful, isn’t it? The manager says he’ll have to stick to the night shift.
最初に辞書で "lurch" を見ましたが、ここでの意味は "leave someone in the lurch" の慣用句での用法ですね。
・Merriam-Webster: in a vulnerable and unsupported position: At the peak of the noonday rush the cashier stalked out and left him in the lurch.
・Farlex Dictionary of Idioms: To leave or abandon one without assistance in a particularly awkward, difficult, or troublesome situation.: The manager will really leave me in the lurch if he decides to quit before this project is finished.
・Vocabulary.com: If you leave you friend in the lurch, you've left her in a bad situation. If she was counting on a ride home after school and you forgot to wait for her, you left her in the lurch.
When someone is left in the lurch, she's left needing help of some kind, usually abruptly and surprisingly. It's the perfect phrase to use when a person is counting on assistance that doesn't come. This kind of lurch has an entirely different root from the lurch meaning "abrupt roll or tilt." This lurch comes from a sixteenth century game, lourche, and the situation in which one player loses by a wide margin — or is left in the lurch by the other.
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