吉本ばななの 'Goodbye Tsugumi' を読んでいます。
Tsugumi stood up, padded over to the refrigerator, poured some wheat tea into the Mickey Mouse glass she'd gotten way back when as a giveaway at the liquor store, and gulped the liquid down. Then she plunked the empty glass down in the well-polished sink.
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Tsugumi had finished drinking her juice. She leapt up nimbly, making a fast, whooshy sort of standing-up noise, and padded over to the railing, where she could look down on the street.
"pad" には詰め物をとか水増しの意味があるのは知っていますが、上の例では "padded over" は移動している状態を示しています。辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: to walk with quiet steps: She padded across the room to the window.
・Collins Dictionary: When someone pads somewhere, they walk there with steps that are fairly quick, light, and quiet.: Freddy speaks very quietly and pads around in soft velvet slippers.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to walk without making a noise: She pads around the house in bare feet.
なるほど、静かに歩くのですね。
Tsugumi stood up, padded over to the refrigerator, poured some wheat tea into the Mickey Mouse glass she'd gotten way back when as a giveaway at the liquor store, and gulped the liquid down. Then she plunked the empty glass down in the well-polished sink.
...
Tsugumi had finished drinking her juice. She leapt up nimbly, making a fast, whooshy sort of standing-up noise, and padded over to the railing, where she could look down on the street.
"pad" には詰め物をとか水増しの意味があるのは知っていますが、上の例では "padded over" は移動している状態を示しています。辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: to walk with quiet steps: She padded across the room to the window.
・Collins Dictionary: When someone pads somewhere, they walk there with steps that are fairly quick, light, and quiet.: Freddy speaks very quietly and pads around in soft velvet slippers.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to walk without making a noise: She pads around the house in bare feet.
なるほど、静かに歩くのですね。
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