数日前の新聞に掃除ロボットの宣伝記事が載っていましたが、Reader's Digest 10月号の記事 "Over & Under Achievers" にあった "The Perpetual Motion Dust Mop" の方が魅力的な掃除機だと思います。
The autor, inventor, and anal-rentive cleanliness nut from Michigan already buffs and spit shines his entire house, and now he has figured out a foolproof method for giving his floors a little extra sheen while simultaneously supplying the next generation with a head start on a life of Felix Ungerism.
"spit shines" と言う表現も面白いと思いますが、"anal-rentive" と言う奇妙な表現が気になるので辞書を見ます。
・Macmillan Dictionary: analor anal-retentive giving too much attention to details in a way that annoys people
・Wiktionary:
1. (Freudian psychology) Preoccupied with achieving order and control and with collecting, possessing, and retaining objects.
2. (by extension) Overly obsessive concerning small details.
・American Heritage Dictionary: Indicating personality traits, such as meticulousness, avarice, and obstinacy, originating in habits, attitudes, or values associated with infantile pleasure in retention of feces.
・Vocabulary.com: a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated on the anal region; fixation at this stage is said to result in orderliness, meanness, stubbornness, compulsiveness, etc.
心理学から来た言葉の様ですが、いわゆる偏執狂も "anal-rentive" personと言えそうです。
ところで写真を載せたので既にお分かりと思いますが、この魅力的な掃除機の仕組みは:
How? Nardone has glued and sewn microfibre dust mops onto baby pyjamas
(写真はWebから探したものですが、雑誌のRDに載っていた.掃除機の方がもっと魅力的な赤ちゃんでした。)
The autor, inventor, and anal-rentive cleanliness nut from Michigan already buffs and spit shines his entire house, and now he has figured out a foolproof method for giving his floors a little extra sheen while simultaneously supplying the next generation with a head start on a life of Felix Ungerism.
"spit shines" と言う表現も面白いと思いますが、"anal-rentive" と言う奇妙な表現が気になるので辞書を見ます。
・Macmillan Dictionary: analor anal-retentive giving too much attention to details in a way that annoys people
・Wiktionary:
1. (Freudian psychology) Preoccupied with achieving order and control and with collecting, possessing, and retaining objects.
2. (by extension) Overly obsessive concerning small details.
・American Heritage Dictionary: Indicating personality traits, such as meticulousness, avarice, and obstinacy, originating in habits, attitudes, or values associated with infantile pleasure in retention of feces.
・Vocabulary.com: a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated on the anal region; fixation at this stage is said to result in orderliness, meanness, stubbornness, compulsiveness, etc.
心理学から来た言葉の様ですが、いわゆる偏執狂も "anal-rentive" personと言えそうです。
ところで写真を載せたので既にお分かりと思いますが、この魅力的な掃除機の仕組みは:
How? Nardone has glued and sewn microfibre dust mops onto baby pyjamas
(写真はWebから探したものですが、雑誌のRDに載っていた.掃除機の方がもっと魅力的な赤ちゃんでした。)
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