今日取り上げる単語、"gaunt"、はA MOMENT OF WAR中で下記の２個所で使われていたので是非覚えたい。
・The young man slung his rifle over his shoulder and motioned me to enter the hut. A dark passage led to a smoky room. Inside, in a group, stood an old man and woman, another youth with a gun, and a gaunt little girl about eleven years old. They were huddled together like a family photograph fixing me with glassy teeth-set smiles.
・He took us to a gaunt little chapel on the edge of a hill, an old, beautifully proportioned, but crumbling building which was, it seemed, to be our new headquarters.
前の引用文は人を修飾し、後の文では建物を形容しています。いづれも "gaunt" の後に "little" がついているので、弱いとか貧弱なイメージが浮かびます。
・Macmillan Dictionary: very thin, usually because you are sick, tired, or worried: His face was pale and gaunt.
・Collins Dictionary: 1.bony and emaciated in appearance 2.(of places) bleak or desolate
例によってVocabulary.comの説明は覚えるのに役立ちそうなので引用します。
A good way to remember gaunt is that it rhymes with haunt, and gaunt people look pale, drawn, and wasted ? like you'd expect a haunting ghost to appear. Another way to remember it is that great + aunt is like great-aunt, and often when you appear to be gaunt you look like you're old ? like your Great Aunt Mildred.
・The young man slung his rifle over his shoulder and motioned me to enter the hut. A dark passage led to a smoky room. Inside, in a group, stood an old man and woman, another youth with a gun, and a gaunt little girl about eleven years old. They were huddled together like a family photograph fixing me with glassy teeth-set smiles.
・He took us to a gaunt little chapel on the edge of a hill, an old, beautifully proportioned, but crumbling building which was, it seemed, to be our new headquarters.
前の引用文は人を修飾し、後の文では建物を形容しています。いづれも "gaunt" の後に "little" がついているので、弱いとか貧弱なイメージが浮かびます。
・Macmillan Dictionary: very thin, usually because you are sick, tired, or worried: His face was pale and gaunt.
・Collins Dictionary: 1.bony and emaciated in appearance 2.(of places) bleak or desolate
例によってVocabulary.comの説明は覚えるのに役立ちそうなので引用します。
A good way to remember gaunt is that it rhymes with haunt, and gaunt people look pale, drawn, and wasted ? like you'd expect a haunting ghost to appear. Another way to remember it is that great + aunt is like great-aunt, and often when you appear to be gaunt you look like you're old ? like your Great Aunt Mildred.
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