The Japantimesの2月20日の記事に懐かしい単語を見かけました。その記事と冒頭の文を引用します。
Organizers scramble as weather disrupts penultimate day of Beijing Games
Organizers scrambled to reorganize the Alpine mixed team parallel race for the final day of the Beijing Olympics after high winds on Saturday forced the competition to be postponed.
十五年以上前の事ですが、米国のメーカーとの契約の交渉で弁護士は契約書の特定の文言の場所を示す時によく "penultimate line" を使うので覚えました。最後から２番目を示す堅い感じの単語なので小説で見かけることはほとんどありませんね。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Last but one in a series of things; second last.: ‘the penultimate chapter of the book’
・Collins Dictionary: The penultimate thing in a series of things is the last but one.: on the penultimate day of the Asian Games.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: second from the last: It's the penultimate episode of the series tonight.
Organizers scramble as weather disrupts penultimate day of Beijing Games
Organizers scrambled to reorganize the Alpine mixed team parallel race for the final day of the Beijing Olympics after high winds on Saturday forced the competition to be postponed.
十五年以上前の事ですが、米国のメーカーとの契約の交渉で弁護士は契約書の特定の文言の場所を示す時によく "penultimate line" を使うので覚えました。最後から２番目を示す堅い感じの単語なので小説で見かけることはほとんどありませんね。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Last but one in a series of things; second last.: ‘the penultimate chapter of the book’
・Collins Dictionary: The penultimate thing in a series of things is the last but one.: on the penultimate day of the Asian Games.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: second from the last: It's the penultimate episode of the series tonight.
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