Gatsby の生い立ちの個所から一部引用します。
For over a year he had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam-digger and a salmon-fisher or in any other capacity that brought him food and bed. His brown, hardening body lived naturally through the half-fierce, half-lazy work of the bracing days. He knew women early, and since they spoiled him he became contemptuous of them, of young virgins because they were ignorant, of the others because they were hysterical about things which in his overwhelming self-absorption he took for granted.
今日覚えたい表現は "bracing days" です。 早速辞書で "bracing" の説明を見ます。
・Macmillan Dictionary:
1. cold in a way that makes you feel full of energy: We went out into the bracing air.
2. shocking or unexpected in a way that is good because it makes people notice or think about something: bracing news from the financial markets
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: giving strength, vigor, or freshness: a bracing breeze: a chilly but bracing day
・WordNet 3.0: brisk, fresh, refreshing, refreshful, tonic -- (imparting vitality and energy; "the bracing mountain air'' )
中々含蓄のある意味ですね。私は翻訳はしないので構わないのですが、 この "bracing" を一語で表す日本語は思い浮かびません。（難しい漢語にはある様な気がしますが。）
For over a year he had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam-digger and a salmon-fisher or in any other capacity that brought him food and bed. His brown, hardening body lived naturally through the half-fierce, half-lazy work of the bracing days. He knew women early, and since they spoiled him he became contemptuous of them, of young virgins because they were ignorant, of the others because they were hysterical about things which in his overwhelming self-absorption he took for granted.
今日覚えたい表現は "bracing days" です。 早速辞書で "bracing" の説明を見ます。
・Macmillan Dictionary:
1. cold in a way that makes you feel full of energy: We went out into the bracing air.
2. shocking or unexpected in a way that is good because it makes people notice or think about something: bracing news from the financial markets
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: giving strength, vigor, or freshness: a bracing breeze: a chilly but bracing day
・WordNet 3.0: brisk, fresh, refreshing, refreshful, tonic -- (imparting vitality and energy; "the bracing mountain air'' )
中々含蓄のある意味ですね。私は翻訳はしないので構わないのですが、 この "bracing" を一語で表す日本語は思い浮かびません。（難しい漢語にはある様な気がしますが。）
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