Mieko Kawakamiの小説 "All the Lovers in the Night" を読んでいます。
Finding Mitsutsuka at the station, after two months without seeing his face, I bowed and had to turn away, unabla to look right at him. Here it is, I said, pointing at the map that I had printed out at home. Without making eye contact, we looked over the route, then explored a handful of vanilla topics as we walked side by side down the street where night had fallen.
"vanilla" は直ぐにアイスクリーム、ソフトクリームを連想させるのですが、"vanilla topics" は何の話題を指しているのでしょうか？
・Collins Dictionary: If you describe a person or thing as vanilla, you mean that they are ordinary, with no special or extra features.: ...just plain vanilla couples like me and Tony.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: used to describe a basic product or service with no special features: I just want a vanilla bank account with low charges.
・Vocabulary.com: Vanilla is the flavor for food — such as ice cream — that contains extract from the vanilla plant. This word also describes things that are boring or plain.
If something is called vanilla — such as coffee or a milkshake — it's usually flavored with vanilla extract or the seeds from a vanilla pod. Vanilla is the most common flavor of ice cream. This word has another, slightly insulting, meaning: a vanilla movie is plain and kind of boring. A vanilla song is on the blah side. Maybe it's because vanilla food tends to be white and plain that we use this word for other things that are bland.
余り甘いものは好きではありませんが、バニラアイスクリームは好物です。
Finding Mitsutsuka at the station, after two months without seeing his face, I bowed and had to turn away, unabla to look right at him. Here it is, I said, pointing at the map that I had printed out at home. Without making eye contact, we looked over the route, then explored a handful of vanilla topics as we walked side by side down the street where night had fallen.
"vanilla" は直ぐにアイスクリーム、ソフトクリームを連想させるのですが、"vanilla topics" は何の話題を指しているのでしょうか？
・Collins Dictionary: If you describe a person or thing as vanilla, you mean that they are ordinary, with no special or extra features.: ...just plain vanilla couples like me and Tony.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: used to describe a basic product or service with no special features: I just want a vanilla bank account with low charges.
・Vocabulary.com: Vanilla is the flavor for food — such as ice cream — that contains extract from the vanilla plant. This word also describes things that are boring or plain.
If something is called vanilla — such as coffee or a milkshake — it's usually flavored with vanilla extract or the seeds from a vanilla pod. Vanilla is the most common flavor of ice cream. This word has another, slightly insulting, meaning: a vanilla movie is plain and kind of boring. A vanilla song is on the blah side. Maybe it's because vanilla food tends to be white and plain that we use this word for other things that are bland.
余り甘いものは好きではありませんが、バニラアイスクリームは好物です。
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