The Great Gatsbyに出てきた単語です。
He stopped at the garage for a pneumatic mattress that had amused his guests during the summer, and the chauffeur helped him to pump it up.
夏の間客を楽しませ、"pump it up" とあるので、"pneumatic mattress" は空気で膨らんだマットレスに違いありませんが、 "pneumatic" の単語は知らなかったので辞書で確認します。
・Macmillan Dictionary: filled with compressed air or gas: pneumatic tires
・Cambridge Advanced Learner's English Dictionary: operated by air pressure: Our car has pneumatic brakes.
・Vocabulary.com: Pneumatic means "related to air or gas." If you've ever gone to a drive-through bank where you put your deposit in a container that gets shot through a tube into the bank, by a blast of air, then you've used a pneumatic tube.
そう言えば以前 "kidney stones" の治療の為に通っていた虎の門病院でカルテの移送に "pneumatic tube" を使用したシステムが使われていました。
He stopped at the garage for a pneumatic mattress that had amused his guests during the summer, and the chauffeur helped him to pump it up.
夏の間客を楽しませ、"pump it up" とあるので、"pneumatic mattress" は空気で膨らんだマットレスに違いありませんが、 "pneumatic" の単語は知らなかったので辞書で確認します。
・Macmillan Dictionary: filled with compressed air or gas: pneumatic tires
・Cambridge Advanced Learner's English Dictionary: operated by air pressure: Our car has pneumatic brakes.
・Vocabulary.com: Pneumatic means "related to air or gas." If you've ever gone to a drive-through bank where you put your deposit in a container that gets shot through a tube into the bank, by a blast of air, then you've used a pneumatic tube.
そう言えば以前 "kidney stones" の治療の為に通っていた虎の門病院でカルテの移送に "pneumatic tube" を使用したシステムが使われていました。
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