新渡戸稲造の武士道を読んでいます。
Chivalry is uneconomical: it boasts of penury. It says with Ventidius that "ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him." Don Quixote takes more pride in his rusty spear and skin-and-bone horse than in gold and lands, and a samurai is in hearty sympathy with his exaggerated confrère of La Mancha. He disdains money itself,--the art of making or hoarding it. It was to him veritably filthy lucre. The hackneyed expression to describe the decadence of an age was "that the civilians loved money and the soldiers feared death." Niggardliness of gold and of life excited as much disapprobation as their lavish use was panegyrised. "Less than all things," says a current precept, "men must grudge money: it is by riches that
難しい単語が二つ、"penury" と "panegyrised" 出てきました。最初に "penury" を調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: the state of being very poor: He died in penury.
・Collins Dictionary: Penury is the state of being extremely poor.: [formal] He was brought up in penury, without education.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: the state of being extremely poor: Facing penury he retired to a room over the garage, wrote twelve hours a day for five weeks, and rejoined the middle classes.
この単語 "penury" は覚えたい。
"panegyrised" は英国のつづりなので米国つづりの "panegyrize" で辞書を見ます。
・Wiktionary: o praise, especially in an eloquent speech or in writing.: Whenever a public question comes to such a crisis that the opportunities for individual intervention are reduced to the smallest possible compass, Mr. Roebuck is sure to step in with a formula, summing up the case with indignant brevity, censuring somebody, or panegyrizing somebody.
・Dictionary.com: to indulge in panegyric; bestow praises.: Of course he would have found it hard to panegyrize his favourite democracies when he came to the Hellenistic age.
この "panegyrised" に出会うことは何年も後でしょうね。当然忘れています。
Chivalry is uneconomical: it boasts of penury. It says with Ventidius that "ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him." Don Quixote takes more pride in his rusty spear and skin-and-bone horse than in gold and lands, and a samurai is in hearty sympathy with his exaggerated confrère of La Mancha. He disdains money itself,--the art of making or hoarding it. It was to him veritably filthy lucre. The hackneyed expression to describe the decadence of an age was "that the civilians loved money and the soldiers feared death." Niggardliness of gold and of life excited as much disapprobation as their lavish use was panegyrised. "Less than all things," says a current precept, "men must grudge money: it is by riches that
難しい単語が二つ、"penury" と "panegyrised" 出てきました。最初に "penury" を調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: the state of being very poor: He died in penury.
・Collins Dictionary: Penury is the state of being extremely poor.: [formal] He was brought up in penury, without education.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: the state of being extremely poor: Facing penury he retired to a room over the garage, wrote twelve hours a day for five weeks, and rejoined the middle classes.
この単語 "penury" は覚えたい。
"panegyrised" は英国のつづりなので米国つづりの "panegyrize" で辞書を見ます。
・Wiktionary: o praise, especially in an eloquent speech or in writing.: Whenever a public question comes to such a crisis that the opportunities for individual intervention are reduced to the smallest possible compass, Mr. Roebuck is sure to step in with a formula, summing up the case with indignant brevity, censuring somebody, or panegyrizing somebody.
・Dictionary.com: to indulge in panegyric; bestow praises.: Of course he would have found it hard to panegyrize his favourite democracies when he came to the Hellenistic age.
この "panegyrised" に出会うことは何年も後でしょうね。当然忘れています。
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