Vladimir Nabokovの "Lolita" を読んでいます。
She would be, figuratively speaking wagging her tiny tail, her whole behind in fact as little bitches do--while some grinning stranger accosted us and began a bright conversation with a comparative study of license plates. “Long way from home!” Inquisitive parents, in order to pump Lo about me, would suggest her going to a movie with their children.
"pump" の意味を辞書で見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: (informal) to try to get information from somebody by asking them a lot of questions: See if you can pump him for more details.
・Collins Dictionary: If you pump someone about something, you keep asking them questions in order to get information.: Stop trying to pump information out of me.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to keep asking someone for information, especially in a way that is not direct: She was pumping me for details of the new project.
探りを入れる感じで聞き出す時に使われるのですね。
She would be, figuratively speaking wagging her tiny tail, her whole behind in fact as little bitches do--while some grinning stranger accosted us and began a bright conversation with a comparative study of license plates. “Long way from home!” Inquisitive parents, in order to pump Lo about me, would suggest her going to a movie with their children.
"pump" の意味を辞書で見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: (informal) to try to get information from somebody by asking them a lot of questions: See if you can pump him for more details.
・Collins Dictionary: If you pump someone about something, you keep asking them questions in order to get information.: Stop trying to pump information out of me.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to keep asking someone for information, especially in a way that is not direct: She was pumping me for details of the new project.
探りを入れる感じで聞き出す時に使われるのですね。
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