今日覚えたい表現はRD Dec., 2010の4 Ways of Looking at a Chairと題された記事からです。
Bally seeks out aluminium graveyards to collect old street signs, then hauls the material to a hangar-sized studio in Providence, Rhode Island, where he makes his "transit chairs". Discarded bike tubes act as leg supports and champagne corks as feet. Making art with street cred is tough, Bally asserts: "Gold is easy to make sexy. Signs are true challange to transform."
"old street signs" やら何やらガラクタの様なものから "art" を製作している様なので、"street cred" はガラクタかとも思えますが、どうやら違う様なので辞書で調べます。
・Macmillan Dictionary: respect or admiration among young fashionable people, especially in a city
・American Heritage Dictionary: Acceptability or popularity, especially among young people in urban areas
・Cambridge Advanced Learner's English Dictionary: a quality that makes you likely to be accepted by ordinary young people who live in towns and cities because you have the same fashions, styles, interests, culture or opinions; Many celebrities develop a working class accent to increase their street-credibility; That jacket won't do much for your street-cred. It looks awful!
なるほど "street-credibility" から来た言葉ですか。
Bally seeks out aluminium graveyards to collect old street signs, then hauls the material to a hangar-sized studio in Providence, Rhode Island, where he makes his "transit chairs". Discarded bike tubes act as leg supports and champagne corks as feet. Making art with street cred is tough, Bally asserts: "Gold is easy to make sexy. Signs are true challange to transform."
"old street signs" やら何やらガラクタの様なものから "art" を製作している様なので、"street cred" はガラクタかとも思えますが、どうやら違う様なので辞書で調べます。
・Macmillan Dictionary: respect or admiration among young fashionable people, especially in a city
・American Heritage Dictionary: Acceptability or popularity, especially among young people in urban areas
・Cambridge Advanced Learner's English Dictionary: a quality that makes you likely to be accepted by ordinary young people who live in towns and cities because you have the same fashions, styles, interests, culture or opinions; Many celebrities develop a working class accent to increase their street-credibility; That jacket won't do much for your street-cred. It looks awful!
なるほど "street-credibility" から来た言葉ですか。
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