Mieko Kawakamiの小説 "All the Lovers in the Night" を読み始めました。
"...The goal is to read as little as possible...Of course we're proofreading, so we have to engage with every aspect of the story. Plot, continuity, chronology, everything. Anyway, the idea is to keep our emotions out of it...to focus our energy on finding all the errors hiding in the book."
"Honestly, that sounds pretty difficult to me," Mitsutsuka said.
"Novels can be pretty difficult, I guess. They're kind of made to act on your emotions, and sometimes that can suck you in. When I was just getting started I had no clue where or how to read with an eye for mistakes."
"suck you in" の意味を調べます。
・Collins Dictionary: to deceive; cheat; defraud: The confidence man sucked us all in
・Wiktionary: To cause (someone) to become slowly more and more involved in some business or situation that may not be to their advantage.: I really didn't want to be on the committee, but somehow I got sucked in.
・McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs: to deceive someone.: I try to shop carefully so that no one can take me in. I think that someone sucked in both of them.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to cause someone or something to gradually become involved in an unpleasant situation or harmful activity: I really don't to get involved in this argument, but I can feel myself being sucked into it.
いつの間にか(あるいは騙して)引きずり込むという風に解釈できます。
"...The goal is to read as little as possible...Of course we're proofreading, so we have to engage with every aspect of the story. Plot, continuity, chronology, everything. Anyway, the idea is to keep our emotions out of it...to focus our energy on finding all the errors hiding in the book."
"Honestly, that sounds pretty difficult to me," Mitsutsuka said.
"Novels can be pretty difficult, I guess. They're kind of made to act on your emotions, and sometimes that can suck you in. When I was just getting started I had no clue where or how to read with an eye for mistakes."
"suck you in" の意味を調べます。
・Collins Dictionary: to deceive; cheat; defraud: The confidence man sucked us all in
・Wiktionary: To cause (someone) to become slowly more and more involved in some business or situation that may not be to their advantage.: I really didn't want to be on the committee, but somehow I got sucked in.
・McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs: to deceive someone.: I try to shop carefully so that no one can take me in. I think that someone sucked in both of them.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to cause someone or something to gradually become involved in an unpleasant situation or harmful activity: I really don't to get involved in this argument, but I can feel myself being sucked into it.
いつの間にか(あるいは騙して)引きずり込むという風に解釈できます。
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