Vladimir Nabokovの "Lolita" を読んでいます。
We came to know the curious roadside species, Hitchhiking Man, Homo pollex of science, with all its many sub-species and forms; the modest soldier, spic and span, quietly waiting, quietly conscious of khaki’s viatric appeal; the schoolboy wishing to go two blocks; the killer wishing to go two thousand miles; the mysterious, nervous, elderly gent, with brand-new suitcase and clipped mustache; a trio of optimistic Mexicans; the college student displaying the grime of vacational outdoor work as proudly as the name of the famous college arching across the front of his sweatshirt; the desperate lady whose battery has just died on her; the clean-cut, glossy-haired, shifty-eyed, white-faced young beasts in loud shirts and coats, vigorously, almost priapically thrusting out tense thumbs to tempt lone women or sadsack salesmen with fancy cravings.
相変わらず 'pollex'、'viatric'(これは辞書にはなかった。viatic/viaticalのこと？)、'priapically' と難しい単語が出てきますが、これらは無視して、"spic and span" はどこかで見たことのある表現なので、辞書を引きます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: not usually before noun] neat and clean: Their house is always spick and span.
・Collins Dictionary: A place that is spick and span is very clean and tidy.: The apartment was spick and span.
スペルは "spick and span" の方がよく使われるようですね。
We came to know the curious roadside species, Hitchhiking Man, Homo pollex of science, with all its many sub-species and forms; the modest soldier, spic and span, quietly waiting, quietly conscious of khaki’s viatric appeal; the schoolboy wishing to go two blocks; the killer wishing to go two thousand miles; the mysterious, nervous, elderly gent, with brand-new suitcase and clipped mustache; a trio of optimistic Mexicans; the college student displaying the grime of vacational outdoor work as proudly as the name of the famous college arching across the front of his sweatshirt; the desperate lady whose battery has just died on her; the clean-cut, glossy-haired, shifty-eyed, white-faced young beasts in loud shirts and coats, vigorously, almost priapically thrusting out tense thumbs to tempt lone women or sadsack salesmen with fancy cravings.
相変わらず 'pollex'、'viatric'(これは辞書にはなかった。viatic/viaticalのこと？)、'priapically' と難しい単語が出てきますが、これらは無視して、"spic and span" はどこかで見たことのある表現なので、辞書を引きます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: not usually before noun] neat and clean: Their house is always spick and span.
・Collins Dictionary: A place that is spick and span is very clean and tidy.: The apartment was spick and span.
スペルは "spick and span" の方がよく使われるようですね。
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