English Collection

日頃目に付いた覚えたい英単語、慣用句などの表現についてのメモです。

put up at

2019年12月12日 | 英語の原書を読む
Tennessee Williamsの戯曲 "a streetcar named desire" からの引用です。
BLANCHE:
Well--anyhow--I brought nice clothes and I'll wear them. I guess you're hoping I'll say I'll put up at a hotel, but I'm not going to put up at a hotel. I want to be near you, got to be with somebody, I can't be alone! Because--as you must have noticed--I'm--not very well...[Her voice drops and her look is frightened.]
戯曲なので当然会話の部分が文章の大半を占めていて、難しい単語は余りでてきませんが、連語とか句動詞とか頻繁で使われていて、普段英語で話すことがほとんどないので、私にはやはり難しい表現です。
上の個所の "put up at" は文脈からすると泊まることだと推測できますが、耳で聞いても直ぐには分かりません。辞書で意味を確認します。

・Oxford English Dictionary: Stay temporarily in accommodation other than one's own home.: We put up at a hotel in the city centre.

・Collins Dictionary: If a person or hotel puts you up or if you put up somewhere, you stay there for one or more nights.: I wanted to know if she could put me up for a few days.; Hundreds of junior civil servants have to be put up in hotel rooms and temporary hostels.

・Cambridge English Dictionary: to stay somewhere for the night: We put up at a small hotel for the night.
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a bed that gives much

2019年12月09日 | 英語の原書を読む
Tennessee Williamsの戯曲 "a streetcar named desire" を読み始めました。
戯曲は誰が話しているのかはっきりしているので読み易いですね。
BLANCHE[dubiously]:
Wonderfull, honey. I don't like a bed that gives much. But there's no door between the two rooms, and Stanley--will be decent?
"give" がこの様な意味を持っているのを最初に知ったのは2/11/2005でした。
その後も2/6/2014に "more give"、2/19/2018"に "something gave" の題名で取り上げました。
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out of my league

2019年12月07日 | 英語の原書を読む
Reader's Digest 10月号の記事 'The Bear Who Came to Dinner' からの引用です。

When he wanted his back scratched, I scratched; when he wanted a fish dinner, I fished; when he wanted to romp and roll with me in the meadow, I romped and rolled--and still wear scars to prove that he played games consummately out of my league.
"out of my league" の意味を調べます。
・Farlex Dictionary of Idioms: To be a poor match for someone, often because someone or something is considered superior. Although it can be used in other situations, this phrase is very often applied to romantic partners that are not similarly attractive or wealthy.: I can't believe that average-looking guy is dating a supermodel—she is totally out of his league!

・Cambridge English Dictionary: someone or something is too good or expensive for someone to have: She was the most beautiful girl in school, and I knew she was out of my league.
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true to my sucker form

2019年12月06日 | 英語の原書を読む
Reader's Digest 10月号の記事 'The Bear Who Came to Dinner' からの引用です。
At campsites, Bosco never tolerated long periods of relaxation and reflection, and true to my sucker form where animals are concerned, I babied his every whim.
"true to my sucker form" の個所が分かりません。辞書で調べると、"true to form" という慣用句があり、辞書には次の説明がありました。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Being or behaving as expected.: Ultimately, and true to form, the woman is portrayed as the weaker sex
・McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs: exactly as expected; following the usual pattern. (Often with running, as in the example.): As usual, John is late. At least he's running true to form.
では "my sucker" は何でしょう? 辞書を見ると "sucker" にも色々な意味がありますが、ここでは次の意味だと思います。

・Oxford English Dictionary: (a sucker for) A person especially susceptible to or fond of (a specified thing): I always was a sucker for a good fairy tale.

・Collins Dictionary: If you describe someone as a sucker for something, you mean that they find it very difficult to resist it.: I'm such a sucker for romance.

・Cambridge English Dictionary: to like something so much that you cannot refuse it or judge its real value: I have to confess I'm a sucker for musicals.
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suck it up

2019年12月05日 | 英語の原書を読む
Reader's Digest 10月号の記事 'Footprints in the Snow' からの引用です。
"That's not an option, John. We still have the toughest part to go, so get up, suck it up, and keep going!" Slowly he stood, and she felt an overwhelming sense of relief.
"suck it up" を辞書で調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Accept something unpleasant or difficult.: The Japanese, for example, speak of ‘gaman,’ which roughly means to suck it up when things are tough.
・Collins Dictionary: to accept an unpleasant fact or situation: large companies are dictating the terms and smaller companies just have to suck it up
オクスフォード辞書の例文に日本語の我慢が出て来るとは驚き。
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bok choy

2019年12月04日 | 英語の原書を読む
Reader's Digest 10月号の記事 '20 Foods Proven to Heal' からの引用です。

Broccoli sprouts have suforaphane, a cancer-fighting antioxidant that has also been found to be antimicrobial, antinflammatory, and neuroprotective; it may even protect against aging and diabetes. Broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, cabbage, and bok choy have it, too, but broccoli sprouts have the highest identified concentration--up to 100 times the amount as mature broccoli.
"bok choy" はどんな野菜でしょうか?
・Oxford English Dictionary: A Chinese cabbage of a variety with smooth-edged tapering leaves.: The bok choy takes about 45 to 50 days from seed to harvest.

・Collins Dictionary: a Chinese plant, Brassica chinensis, that is related to the cabbage and has edible stalks and leaves

Also called: Chinese cabbage, Chinese leaf, pak-choi cabbage

後者の辞書にはイメージが載っていたので "bok choy" はチンゲン菜だと分かります。
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opportunism

2019年12月03日 | 英語の原書を読む
安部公房の小説 "The Face of Another" を読んでいます。
It seems to be proverbial that the story of the ugly duckling ends with the swan's song. This is typical opportunism. How would you feel if you were the swan? No matter what song others sang for the girl, she did die, she was unmistakably defeated. I don't want to be like the swan.I don't want that. If I die, there is no one to think of me as a swan, and furthermore I have a chance of winning. Well, when I first saw the movie I turned my face away in anger, but it is different now. I cannot escape a new sense of envy for the girl.
"opportunism" を辞書で調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: The taking of opportunities as and when they arise, regardless of planning or principle.: He was accused of political opportunism.

・Collins Dictionary: If you refer to someone's behaviour as opportunism, you are criticizing them for taking advantage of any opportunity that occurs in order to gain money or power, without thinking about whether their actions are right or wrong.: The Energy Minister responded by saying that the opposition's concern for the environment was political opportunism.

・Cambridge English Dictionary: behaviour in which you use every situation to try to get power or an advantage: political opportunism
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