Osam Dazaiの小説 "No Longer Human" を読んでいます。
Taciturn and unsmiling, day after day, while babysitting I would work on "The Adventures of Kinta and Ota." "The Easygoing Priest"--a clear rip-off of "Easygoing Daddy"--or "Harum-Scarum Pin-chan," a manga serial whose title made no sense even to me, something I came up with in desperation.
"Harum-Scarum" は大文字で始まっていますが、英語の何らかの表現の様なので、辞書を見ます。
・Collins Dictionary: reckless; rash; irresponsible: He had a harum-scarum youth
・Cambridge English Dictionary: (behaving) in an uncontrolled way: How many of us do not have regard for the wild, harum-scarum boy of 11 and like him better than the little swot?
語源も次の辞書に出ていました。
・Online Etymology Dictionary: 1670s (harum-starum), probably a rhyming compound of obsolete hare (v.) "harry" + scare (v.), with 'um as a reduced form of them, the whole perhaps meant to be mock Latin. As an adjective from 1751; as a noun, "reckless person," from 1784.
Taciturn and unsmiling, day after day, while babysitting I would work on "The Adventures of Kinta and Ota." "The Easygoing Priest"--a clear rip-off of "Easygoing Daddy"--or "Harum-Scarum Pin-chan," a manga serial whose title made no sense even to me, something I came up with in desperation.
"Harum-Scarum" は大文字で始まっていますが、英語の何らかの表現の様なので、辞書を見ます。
・Collins Dictionary: reckless; rash; irresponsible: He had a harum-scarum youth
・Cambridge English Dictionary: (behaving) in an uncontrolled way: How many of us do not have regard for the wild, harum-scarum boy of 11 and like him better than the little swot?
語源も次の辞書に出ていました。
・Online Etymology Dictionary: 1670s (harum-starum), probably a rhyming compound of obsolete hare (v.) "harry" + scare (v.), with 'um as a reduced form of them, the whole perhaps meant to be mock Latin. As an adjective from 1751; as a noun, "reckless person," from 1784.
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