Mieko Kawakamiの "Heaven" を読んでいます。
主人公の少年は学校で虐めを受けているせいで、死や自殺について考えています。
No matter how we live our lives, we all die sooner or later. In which case, living is really just waiting to die. And if that's true, why bother living at all? Why was I even alive? I made myself crazy, tossing and turning, hyperventilating. Then it hit me: dying is just like sleeping. You only know you're sleeping when you wake up the next day, but if morning never comes, you sleep forever. That must be what death is like. When someone dies, they don't even know they're dead. Because they never see it happen, nobody ever really dies. This hit me like a sucker punch.
"sucker punch" の意味を調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: to hit somebody when they are not expecting it; to suddenly surprise somebody:
・Collins Dictionary: a quick punch delivered without warning; an unexpected blow: The laugh became a shocked cry as something struck her in the ribs like a sucker punch.
"suckerpunch" のスペルもありました。
・Urban Dictionary: A punch that takes someone by surprise, a punch coming from out of the blue.: When John turned around, Mike floored him with a suckerpunch.
主人公の少年は学校で虐めを受けているせいで、死や自殺について考えています。
No matter how we live our lives, we all die sooner or later. In which case, living is really just waiting to die. And if that's true, why bother living at all? Why was I even alive? I made myself crazy, tossing and turning, hyperventilating. Then it hit me: dying is just like sleeping. You only know you're sleeping when you wake up the next day, but if morning never comes, you sleep forever. That must be what death is like. When someone dies, they don't even know they're dead. Because they never see it happen, nobody ever really dies. This hit me like a sucker punch.
"sucker punch" の意味を調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: to hit somebody when they are not expecting it; to suddenly surprise somebody:
・Collins Dictionary: a quick punch delivered without warning; an unexpected blow: The laugh became a shocked cry as something struck her in the ribs like a sucker punch.
"suckerpunch" のスペルもありました。
・Urban Dictionary: A punch that takes someone by surprise, a punch coming from out of the blue.: When John turned around, Mike floored him with a suckerpunch.
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