Kazuo Ishiguroの "The Remains of the Day" を読んでいます。
DAY TWO - MORNINGから引用します。
‘I’m proud of you. A good son. I hope I’ve been a good father to you. I suppose I haven’t.’
‘I’m afraid we’re extremely busy now, but we can talk again in the morning.’
My father was still looking at his hands as though he were faintly irritated by them.
‘I’m so glad you’re feeling better now,’ I said again and took my leave.
On descending, I found the kitchen on the brink of pandemonium, and in general, an extremely tense atmosphere amongst all levels of staff. However, I am pleased to recall that by the time dinner was served an hour or so later, nothing but efficiency and professional calm was exhibited on the part of my team.
今はコロナで世界中が "pandemic" の状態ですが、上の引用文にある "pandemonium" は関係あるでしょうか?
・Oxford English Dictionary: Wild and noisy disorder or confusion; uproar.: On the collective level, poison gas created confusion and pandemonium.
・Collins Dictionary: If there is pandemonium in a place, the people there are behaving in a very noisy and uncontrolled way.: There was pandemonium in court as the judge gave his summing up.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a situation in which there is a lot of noise and confusion because people are excited, angry, or frightened: Pandemonium reigned in the hall as the unbelievable election results were read out.
ONLINE ETYMOLOGY
1667, Pandæmonium, in "Paradise Lost" the name of the palace built in the middle of Hell, "the high capital of Satan and all his peers," and the abode of all the demons; coined by John Milton (1608-1674) from Greek pan- "all" (see pan-) + Late Latin daemonium "evil spirit," from Greek daimonion "inferior divine power," from daimōn "lesser god" (see demon).
Transferred sense "place of uproar and disorder" is from 1779; that of "wild, lawless confusion" is from 1865.
DAY TWO - MORNINGから引用します。
‘I’m proud of you. A good son. I hope I’ve been a good father to you. I suppose I haven’t.’
‘I’m afraid we’re extremely busy now, but we can talk again in the morning.’
My father was still looking at his hands as though he were faintly irritated by them.
‘I’m so glad you’re feeling better now,’ I said again and took my leave.
On descending, I found the kitchen on the brink of pandemonium, and in general, an extremely tense atmosphere amongst all levels of staff. However, I am pleased to recall that by the time dinner was served an hour or so later, nothing but efficiency and professional calm was exhibited on the part of my team.
今はコロナで世界中が "pandemic" の状態ですが、上の引用文にある "pandemonium" は関係あるでしょうか?
・Oxford English Dictionary: Wild and noisy disorder or confusion; uproar.: On the collective level, poison gas created confusion and pandemonium.
・Collins Dictionary: If there is pandemonium in a place, the people there are behaving in a very noisy and uncontrolled way.: There was pandemonium in court as the judge gave his summing up.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a situation in which there is a lot of noise and confusion because people are excited, angry, or frightened: Pandemonium reigned in the hall as the unbelievable election results were read out.
ONLINE ETYMOLOGY
1667, Pandæmonium, in "Paradise Lost" the name of the palace built in the middle of Hell, "the high capital of Satan and all his peers," and the abode of all the demons; coined by John Milton (1608-1674) from Greek pan- "all" (see pan-) + Late Latin daemonium "evil spirit," from Greek daimonion "inferior divine power," from daimōn "lesser god" (see demon).
Transferred sense "place of uproar and disorder" is from 1779; that of "wild, lawless confusion" is from 1865.
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