村田沙耶香の "Earthlings" を読んでいます。
We lowered the coffin into the hole.
"Shall we say our last goodbye, then?" asked Uncle Teruyoshi.
They opened up the coffin. Uncle Takahiro, his voicr hoarse, said, "Well old man, you got long in the tooth, didn't you?"
The aunts looked at Grandpa's face and choked up.
"long in the tooth" は慣用句でしょう。辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: (humorous, especially British English) old or too old
・Collins Dictionary: If you describe someone as long in the tooth, you are saying unkindly or humorously that they are old or getting old.[informal, disapproval]: Aren't I a bit long in the tooth to start being an undergraduate?
・Wiktionary: Possibly from the practice of examining the length of horses’ teeth when estimating their ages: an old horse has long, rectangular incisors, and their occlusion angle is steep. Compare don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
人間の歯は歳をとっても短くなることはあり得ても、長くなることはありませんね。
この慣用句も4/26/2018に既に取り上げていました。表現の由来、何故老馬の歯が長いかについての記述があるので気になる方は是非読んで下さい。
We lowered the coffin into the hole.
"Shall we say our last goodbye, then?" asked Uncle Teruyoshi.
They opened up the coffin. Uncle Takahiro, his voicr hoarse, said, "Well old man, you got long in the tooth, didn't you?"
The aunts looked at Grandpa's face and choked up.
"long in the tooth" は慣用句でしょう。辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: (humorous, especially British English) old or too old
・Collins Dictionary: If you describe someone as long in the tooth, you are saying unkindly or humorously that they are old or getting old.[informal, disapproval]: Aren't I a bit long in the tooth to start being an undergraduate?
・Wiktionary: Possibly from the practice of examining the length of horses’ teeth when estimating their ages: an old horse has long, rectangular incisors, and their occlusion angle is steep. Compare don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
人間の歯は歳をとっても短くなることはあり得ても、長くなることはありませんね。
この慣用句も4/26/2018に既に取り上げていました。表現の由来、何故老馬の歯が長いかについての記述があるので気になる方は是非読んで下さい。
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