Toshikazu Kawaguchiの小説 "Before the Coffee Gets Cold Tales from the Cafe" を読んでいます。
Once again, silence filled the cafe. Miki, no doubt relieved that her work was done, started nodding off while holding Nagare’s hand. ‘Oh, of course.’ Nagare realized why Miki had suddenly grown so quiet. He picked her up with an ‘alley-oop’. The cherry blossom petal, released from Miki’s fingers, fluttered to the ground. ‘Spring, huh?’ he muttered.
"alley-oop" は 引用符 '' で囲まれているので特殊な表現でしょうか？
・Oxford English Dictionary: used when somebody does a clever movement with their body or with an object
・Oxford Advanced English Dictionary: used when someone does a difficult or skillful movement with their body or with an object
・Dictionary.com: (used as a shout of encouragement, exhortation, or the like, especially when coordinating efforts to lift a heavy object.)
・Wiktionary: Encouraging or calling attention to a physical performance, especially one involving an upwards lift or leap.: ‘Alley-oop,’ he said, and he lifted her out of her seat as easily as if she were a bag of laundry.
Etymology: Borrowed from French allez-hop!, the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. From allez (“go! let's go!”), 2nd-person plural or formal indicative form of aller, and hop, onomatopoeic.
原書は日本語なので、多分ここは「よっこらしょ」とでも言ったのでしょうね。
Once again, silence filled the cafe. Miki, no doubt relieved that her work was done, started nodding off while holding Nagare’s hand. ‘Oh, of course.’ Nagare realized why Miki had suddenly grown so quiet. He picked her up with an ‘alley-oop’. The cherry blossom petal, released from Miki’s fingers, fluttered to the ground. ‘Spring, huh?’ he muttered.
"alley-oop" は 引用符 '' で囲まれているので特殊な表現でしょうか？
・Oxford English Dictionary: used when somebody does a clever movement with their body or with an object
・Oxford Advanced English Dictionary: used when someone does a difficult or skillful movement with their body or with an object
・Dictionary.com: (used as a shout of encouragement, exhortation, or the like, especially when coordinating efforts to lift a heavy object.)
・Wiktionary: Encouraging or calling attention to a physical performance, especially one involving an upwards lift or leap.: ‘Alley-oop,’ he said, and he lifted her out of her seat as easily as if she were a bag of laundry.
Etymology: Borrowed from French allez-hop!, the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. From allez (“go! let's go!”), 2nd-person plural or formal indicative form of aller, and hop, onomatopoeic.
原書は日本語なので、多分ここは「よっこらしょ」とでも言ったのでしょうね。
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