Cixin Liuの "The Three-Body Problem" を読み始めました。
何でこの本を選んだのか覚えていませんが、多分タイトルが気になったのだと思います。話の前に書かれている読者からの賛辞を読むと中国人作家のSF小説であることが分かりました。とろこが読み始めるとあの中国の文化革命の最中、1967年から話は始まっています。もともとSFは余り好きではないのですが、まあいいか、という感じで読みます。第1章の 'The Madness Years' から引用します。
Twice the number of Red Guards used for other victims escorted Ye onto the stage: two men and four women. The two young men strode with confidence and purpose, the very image of mature Bolshevik youths. They were both fourth-year students majoring in the theoretical physics, and Ye was their professor. The women, really girls, were much younger, second-year students from the junir high school attached to the university. Dressed in military uniforms and equipped with bandoliers, they exuded youthful vigor and surrounded Ye Zhetai like four green flames.
紅衛兵が身に着けていた "bandoliers" は何でしょうか？ 辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A shoulder-belt with loops or pockets for cartridges.: It was also decided that all Marines would carry their sleeping bags, an extra bandolier of small arms ammunition, and extra stretchers - initially to carry ammunition and then casualties.
・Collins Dictionary: a soldier's broad shoulder belt having small pockets or loops for cartridges: Each soldier was given a bandolier of 50 rounds.
本物は見たことがありませんが、戦争映画などでよく見かけますね。
何でこの本を選んだのか覚えていませんが、多分タイトルが気になったのだと思います。話の前に書かれている読者からの賛辞を読むと中国人作家のSF小説であることが分かりました。とろこが読み始めるとあの中国の文化革命の最中、1967年から話は始まっています。もともとSFは余り好きではないのですが、まあいいか、という感じで読みます。第1章の 'The Madness Years' から引用します。
Twice the number of Red Guards used for other victims escorted Ye onto the stage: two men and four women. The two young men strode with confidence and purpose, the very image of mature Bolshevik youths. They were both fourth-year students majoring in the theoretical physics, and Ye was their professor. The women, really girls, were much younger, second-year students from the junir high school attached to the university. Dressed in military uniforms and equipped with bandoliers, they exuded youthful vigor and surrounded Ye Zhetai like four green flames.
紅衛兵が身に着けていた "bandoliers" は何でしょうか？ 辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A shoulder-belt with loops or pockets for cartridges.: It was also decided that all Marines would carry their sleeping bags, an extra bandolier of small arms ammunition, and extra stretchers - initially to carry ammunition and then casualties.
・Collins Dictionary: a soldier's broad shoulder belt having small pockets or loops for cartridges: Each soldier was given a bandolier of 50 rounds.
本物は見たことがありませんが、戦争映画などでよく見かけますね。
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