Vladimir Nabokovの "Lolita" を読んでいます。
Clumsily playing my part, I stomped to the bathroom to check if they had taken my English toilet water; they had not; but I noticed with a spasm of fierce disgust that the former Counselor of the Tsar, after thoroughly easing his bladder, had not flushed the toilet. That solemn pool of alien urine with a soggy, tawny cigarette butt disintegrating in it struck me as a crowning insult, and I wildly looked around for a weapon.
日本語になっているトイレはあれ一つしかありませんが、"English toilet water" の "toilet" はそれ以外を指しているに違いありません。 辞書を見ます。
"toilet" で調べると日本語で使われるトイレ以外の説明はほとんどありませんでしたが、次の説明がありました。
・Collins Dictionary: of or for dressing or grooming oneself: toilet articles
・Wiktionary: Until the late 19th century, toilet referred solely to personal grooming, including bathing and hair care. This still appears in toiletries and in various set phrases, such as toilet water and toilet bag. This use is sometimes understood as a new borrowing from French, despite being the older sense of the English word. Medical jargon also includes some set phrases such as pulmonary toilet and toilet of the mouth; in both cases the word toilet means general hygiene.
なるほど、元々の "toilet" の意味は現在よく使われているトイレではないのだ。 そこで "toilet water" で辞書を引くと、小説で使われている "toilet water" の説明がありました。
・Oxford English Dictionary: a kind of perfume (= a pleasant-smelling liquid for the skin) that contains a lot of water and does not smell very strong
Wiktionary: A perfumed mixture of water and alcohol somewhat like cologne; eau de toilette.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a weak perfume (= liquid with a pleasant smell, used on the skin): Toilet water has the least amount of perfume oil mixture among the three main liquid perfumery categories.
・Collins Dictionary: Toilet water is fairly weak and inexpensive perfume.
Clumsily playing my part, I stomped to the bathroom to check if they had taken my English toilet water; they had not; but I noticed with a spasm of fierce disgust that the former Counselor of the Tsar, after thoroughly easing his bladder, had not flushed the toilet. That solemn pool of alien urine with a soggy, tawny cigarette butt disintegrating in it struck me as a crowning insult, and I wildly looked around for a weapon.
日本語になっているトイレはあれ一つしかありませんが、"English toilet water" の "toilet" はそれ以外を指しているに違いありません。 辞書を見ます。
"toilet" で調べると日本語で使われるトイレ以外の説明はほとんどありませんでしたが、次の説明がありました。
・Collins Dictionary: of or for dressing or grooming oneself: toilet articles
・Wiktionary: Until the late 19th century, toilet referred solely to personal grooming, including bathing and hair care. This still appears in toiletries and in various set phrases, such as toilet water and toilet bag. This use is sometimes understood as a new borrowing from French, despite being the older sense of the English word. Medical jargon also includes some set phrases such as pulmonary toilet and toilet of the mouth; in both cases the word toilet means general hygiene.
なるほど、元々の "toilet" の意味は現在よく使われているトイレではないのだ。 そこで "toilet water" で辞書を引くと、小説で使われている "toilet water" の説明がありました。
・Oxford English Dictionary: a kind of perfume (= a pleasant-smelling liquid for the skin) that contains a lot of water and does not smell very strong
Wiktionary: A perfumed mixture of water and alcohol somewhat like cologne; eau de toilette.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a weak perfume (= liquid with a pleasant smell, used on the skin): Toilet water has the least amount of perfume oil mixture among the three main liquid perfumery categories.
・Collins Dictionary: Toilet water is fairly weak and inexpensive perfume.
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