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References:
1. 日本がダイスキな外人のブログ -マーティとユキコの恋物語
2. The Economist Newspaper and The Economist Group
3. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2003.
4. Dictionary of Real Estate Terms. Copyright © 2004 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc.
5. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2007. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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- haircut: 散髪
- barber shop: 床屋
- beauty salon: 美容院
友達は、彼が髪を切る店を見せてくれたけど、俺が行くときに彼は行けなかった。だから自分で日本語で言うことを見つける。辞書を持っていてよかった。Recently, there is a growing number of cut-price barber shops that offer quick and cheap haircuts for only 1,000 yen![2]
My friend showed me the place where he got his hair cut, but he wasn’t around when I had to go there. So I had to figure out what to say by myself. Good thing I had my dictionary.
美容師はかなりかっこいい人だった。若くてセンスが良くてとてもいい髪型だった。OK.
The hairdresser was a pretty cool guy – young, stylish clothes, and he had very nice hair. OK.
「私は散髪がほしいです、ください」って言った。
“I would like to get a hair cut, please.”
でもどんな散髪か？かっこ悪い髪形にしたくなかったけど、美容師にどうやってかっこいい髪型を説明できるか？多分、彼は雑誌の写真とかを見せてくれるかも。でも俺の髪はすごくクルクルしている。日本の男性とちがう。この美容師は外人の髪を切れるか？
But how did I want it cut? I didn’t want a dorky haircut, but how could I explain to the guy how to do it cool? Maybe he could show me a picture from a magazine or something. But unlike Japanese guys, my hair was very curly. Would this guy be able cut gaijin hair?
「ここ短い。こことても短い。ここちょっともっと長い。」って言った。
“Here, short. Here very short. Here, a little long.”
彼はそれで十分だった。彼は上手で散髪はすごくかっこよかった。
That's all he needed. He was good, and the haircut was very cool.[1]
- log cabin: A small, one-room house built of logs.[3, 4]
- tree house: A structure built among the limbs of a tree, usually for recreation.[5]
- Jolly Roger: a black flag used by pirates with a white skull and crossbones. The crossbones and skull image is now used to mean poison. [6]
- bow: (船首)the front end of a ship or aircraft
- stern: (船尾) the back end of a ship or aircraft
- autism: 自閉症
- illegible: 〔文字などが〕読みにくい
- pigeon/dove: 鳩
- coo: 〔ハトの〕クークーという鳴き声;〔ハトが〕クークー鳴く; 優しい声で言う［ささやく］、優しく語り掛ける
- stir: かき混ぜる
- steer: 運転する
References:
1. 日本がダイスキな外人のブログ -マーティとユキコの恋物語
2. The Economist Newspaper and The Economist Group
3. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction
. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2003.4. Dictionary of Real Estate Terms
. Copyright © 2004 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc.5. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language
, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2007. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.Listen:
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.1 Japan License
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