English Journal 11月号にジャーナリストのアラン・ワイズマンとのインタビュー記事に興味を引く単語 "page-turner" が出てきました。
I wanted to write a page-turner, a bestseller about the environment.
"page-turner" の後にベストセラーとありますのでベストセラーに関係する意味だと思いますが辞書で確認します。
・Dictionary.com: a book so exciting or gripping that one is compelled to read it very rapidly.
・American Herritage Dictionary: A very interesting, exciting, or suspenseful book, usually a novel: "The book is a page-turner."
・Cambridge Advanced Learner's English Dictionary: a book that is so exciting that you have to read it quickly; Her latest novel is a real page-turner
次ぎのWiktionaryにあった説明が一番分かりやすいと思います。
・Wiktionary: A written work, usually a novel, which is sufficiently interesting or suspenseful to keep the reader 'turning the pages'..
I wanted to write a page-turner, a bestseller about the environment.
"page-turner" の後にベストセラーとありますのでベストセラーに関係する意味だと思いますが辞書で確認します。
・Dictionary.com: a book so exciting or gripping that one is compelled to read it very rapidly.
・American Herritage Dictionary: A very interesting, exciting, or suspenseful book, usually a novel: "The book is a page-turner."
・Cambridge Advanced Learner's English Dictionary: a book that is so exciting that you have to read it quickly; Her latest novel is a real page-turner
次ぎのWiktionaryにあった説明が一番分かりやすいと思います。
・Wiktionary: A written work, usually a novel, which is sufficiently interesting or suspenseful to keep the reader 'turning the pages'..
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