W. Somerset Maughamの "The Moon and Sixpence" を読んでいます。 'XXXVIII' の章から引用します。
I saw a neat little old woman, with cheeks little apples, toiling away from morning to night, through the long years, to keep her house trim and spruce. His father was a spare old man, his hand gnarled after the work of a lifetime, silent and upright; in the evening he read the paper aloud, while his wife and daughter (now married to the captain of a fishing smack), unwilling to lose a moment, bent over their sewing.
"spare old man" の spare の意味を辞書で調べます。
・Collins Dictionary: Someone who is described as spare is tall and not at all fat.: She was thin and spare, with a sharply intelligent face.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: tall and thin: He had the spare build of a runner.
・Vocabulary.com: thin and fit: “the spare figure of a marathon runner”
I saw a neat little old woman, with cheeks little apples, toiling away from morning to night, through the long years, to keep her house trim and spruce. His father was a spare old man, his hand gnarled after the work of a lifetime, silent and upright; in the evening he read the paper aloud, while his wife and daughter (now married to the captain of a fishing smack), unwilling to lose a moment, bent over their sewing.
"spare old man" の spare の意味を辞書で調べます。
・Collins Dictionary: Someone who is described as spare is tall and not at all fat.: She was thin and spare, with a sharply intelligent face.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: tall and thin: He had the spare build of a runner.
・Vocabulary.com: thin and fit: “the spare figure of a marathon runner”
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