Animal Farmを読んでいます。単語や慣用句をブログで採り上げる目的は基本的には覚えたいからですが、実際は採り上げた表現の半分も覚えられませんが、Animal Farmに出てきた次ぎの "file" は数年前に覚えられた単語です。
The two horses had just lain down when a brood of ducklings which had lost their mother filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side to find some place where they would not be trodden on.
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Then they filed back to the farm buildings and halted in silence outside the door of the farmhouse. 以前に採り上げたブログは次ぎの個所にあります。
"file out": http://blog.goo.ne.jp/k_akabane/d/20110823
"Indian file": http://blog.goo.ne.jp/k_akabane/d/20100705
The two horses had just lain down when a brood of ducklings which had lost their mother filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side to find some place where they would not be trodden on.
...
Then they filed back to the farm buildings and halted in silence outside the door of the farmhouse. 以前に採り上げたブログは次ぎの個所にあります。
"file out": http://blog.goo.ne.jp/k_akabane/d/20110823
"Indian file": http://blog.goo.ne.jp/k_akabane/d/20100705