Yu Miri の小説 "Tokyo Ueno Station" を読んでいます。
No, someone is there. A man with a receding hairline, faceup on one of the three sarcophagus-like stone benches surrounding the area. Purple sweatshirt, beige trousers, newspapers spread underneath him, covered with a green sweater. His hands are crossed over his solar plexus, and his feet, clad in black shoes, are so perfectly close that they might as well be tied together.
"solar plexus" は身体の一部の名称のはずですが、ずいぶんと難しそうな単語です。 辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: (informal) the part of the body at the top of the stomach, below the ribs: a painful punch in the solar plexus
・Collins Dictionary: Your solar plexus is the part of your stomach, below your ribs, where it is painful if you are hit hard.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: the front part of the body below the chest: a punch in the solar plexus
いわゆるみぞおちを示しているのですね。
No, someone is there. A man with a receding hairline, faceup on one of the three sarcophagus-like stone benches surrounding the area. Purple sweatshirt, beige trousers, newspapers spread underneath him, covered with a green sweater. His hands are crossed over his solar plexus, and his feet, clad in black shoes, are so perfectly close that they might as well be tied together.
"solar plexus" は身体の一部の名称のはずですが、ずいぶんと難しそうな単語です。 辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: (informal) the part of the body at the top of the stomach, below the ribs: a painful punch in the solar plexus
・Collins Dictionary: Your solar plexus is the part of your stomach, below your ribs, where it is painful if you are hit hard.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: the front part of the body below the chest: a punch in the solar plexus
いわゆるみぞおちを示しているのですね。
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