MAYDAY! MAYDAY! のタイトルが付いた読者からの投書記事がReader's Digest 2008年１２月号にありました。
We took our children to a restaurant named the Captain's Table. Our youngest went to the bathroom but soon returned, confused and embarrassed.
"Couldn't you find the way?" I asked him.
"Oh, I found it," he replied, legs crossed. "But I don't know if I'm a buccaneer or a wench."
文字だけの標識なら私も困って誰かが来るまで入れなかったでしょう。辞書を見ると： "buccaneer" は "someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation" つまり海賊ですね。 そして、"wench" は "informal terms for a (young) woman" とありました。恐らく現在のソマリア海域でも女性の海賊はいないでしょう。
We took our children to a restaurant named the Captain's Table. Our youngest went to the bathroom but soon returned, confused and embarrassed.
"Couldn't you find the way?" I asked him.
"Oh, I found it," he replied, legs crossed. "But I don't know if I'm a buccaneer or a wench."
文字だけの標識なら私も困って誰かが来るまで入れなかったでしょう。辞書を見ると： "buccaneer" は "someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation" つまり海賊ですね。 そして、"wench" は "informal terms for a (young) woman" とありました。恐らく現在のソマリア海域でも女性の海賊はいないでしょう。
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