Kobo Abeの小説 "The Woman in the Dunes" を読み始めました。
私は観ていませんが、この話は昔話題になった映画「砂の女」の元になった小説ですね。
主人公は昆虫学者で、ある夏に昆虫採集に出かけます。
Sand: an aggregate of rock fragments. Sometimes including loadstone, tinstone, and more rarely gold dust. Diameter: 2 to 1/16 mm.
"loadstone" がどんな鉱物なのか気になるので辞書を見ます。多くの辞書で普通は "lodestone" のスペルとあるので "lodestone" の項を見ます。
・Collins Dictionary: rock that consists of pure or nearly pure magnetite and thus is naturally magnetic: This is the lodestone, whose interesting properties have been known since antiquity.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: (a piece of) rock that contains a lot of iron and can therefore be used as a magnet (= an object that pulls metal objects towards it): The first magnetic compasses were made from lodestones, while more modern magnetic compasses played an important role in the history of navigation.
"lodestone" の "lode" は以前に（9/15/2017）取り上げた "mother lode" の "lode" と同じ言葉ですね。
私は観ていませんが、この話は昔話題になった映画「砂の女」の元になった小説ですね。
主人公は昆虫学者で、ある夏に昆虫採集に出かけます。
Sand: an aggregate of rock fragments. Sometimes including loadstone, tinstone, and more rarely gold dust. Diameter: 2 to 1/16 mm.
"loadstone" がどんな鉱物なのか気になるので辞書を見ます。多くの辞書で普通は "lodestone" のスペルとあるので "lodestone" の項を見ます。
・Collins Dictionary: rock that consists of pure or nearly pure magnetite and thus is naturally magnetic: This is the lodestone, whose interesting properties have been known since antiquity.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: (a piece of) rock that contains a lot of iron and can therefore be used as a magnet (= an object that pulls metal objects towards it): The first magnetic compasses were made from lodestones, while more modern magnetic compasses played an important role in the history of navigation.
"lodestone" の "lode" は以前に（9/15/2017）取り上げた "mother lode" の "lode" と同じ言葉ですね。
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