川端康成の "雪国" を読んでいます。
Like the old post road that was its ancestor, the main street ran without a curve through the straggling village, and no doubt on through Komako's hot spring. The roofs, with rows of stones to weigh down their shingles, were very much like the ones he already knew.
この意味の "shingle" は久しぶりです。 前回は10/30/2010に "shake / shingle" のタイトルで取り上げました。
今日は "straggling village" の意味を調べます。
"straggling" は動詞の "straggle" の形容詞としての用法ですね。 "straggle" に下記の意味がありました。
・Collins English Dictionary: If a small quantity of things straggle over an area, they cover it in an uneven or untidy way.: They were beyond the last straggling suburbs now.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to move or spread untidily and in small numbers or amounts: And some of the new towns do look more like straggling villages than towns.
Like the old post road that was its ancestor, the main street ran without a curve through the straggling village, and no doubt on through Komako's hot spring. The roofs, with rows of stones to weigh down their shingles, were very much like the ones he already knew.
この意味の "shingle" は久しぶりです。 前回は10/30/2010に "shake / shingle" のタイトルで取り上げました。
今日は "straggling village" の意味を調べます。
"straggling" は動詞の "straggle" の形容詞としての用法ですね。 "straggle" に下記の意味がありました。
・Collins English Dictionary: If a small quantity of things straggle over an area, they cover it in an uneven or untidy way.: They were beyond the last straggling suburbs now.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to move or spread untidily and in small numbers or amounts: And some of the new towns do look more like straggling villages than towns.
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