多和田葉子氏の小説 "Scattered All Over the World" を読んでいます。
When I had finished bandaging Tenzo's ankle, I got some ice out of the freezer, put it in a sandwich bag, and cinched its top with a rubber band. Tenzo lay back on the sofa with his eyes closed.
It's a cinch. の "cinch" は若い時に簡単に覚えたのですが、動詞の "cinch" の意味は直ぐに忘れてしまいます。 前回（8/7/2015）引用しなかった辞書（Vocabulary.com）の説明から一部を引用します。
Cinch is one of those words with many meanings that seem unrelated at first glance. The original 19th-century North American definition, which is still used today, is "saddle girth," the straps that keep a horse's saddle in place. As a verb, cinch means "to pull tight," the way you'd cinch a belt. Informally, to cinch is to make absolutely certain: "It'll cinch her college decision if that school offers a scholarship."
車のシートベルトを締める時に "cinch" を思い出すことにしよう。
When I had finished bandaging Tenzo's ankle, I got some ice out of the freezer, put it in a sandwich bag, and cinched its top with a rubber band. Tenzo lay back on the sofa with his eyes closed.
It's a cinch. の "cinch" は若い時に簡単に覚えたのですが、動詞の "cinch" の意味は直ぐに忘れてしまいます。 前回（8/7/2015）引用しなかった辞書（Vocabulary.com）の説明から一部を引用します。
Cinch is one of those words with many meanings that seem unrelated at first glance. The original 19th-century North American definition, which is still used today, is "saddle girth," the straps that keep a horse's saddle in place. As a verb, cinch means "to pull tight," the way you'd cinch a belt. Informally, to cinch is to make absolutely certain: "It'll cinch her college decision if that school offers a scholarship."
車のシートベルトを締める時に "cinch" を思い出すことにしよう。
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