☆Chapter 5-2☆ 引き続き親子3代の会話。オフィスにて。 Joe: Listen, I have a sad announcement to make. City Books on 23rd Street? Dad: It's going under. Another independent bites the dust. go under 破産する, bite the dust 倒れる Grandpa: On to the next! Joe: Going to buy out their entire inventory of architecture and New York history for the new store. architecture 建築学 Dad: How much, son? How much you paying. Joe: Whatever it costs, it won't be as much as that exquisitely uncomfortable mohair episode there. Which is now all over my suit. exquisitely 非常に繊細な, mohair モヘア(アンゴラやぎの毛) Dad: Here you go. (ブラシを投げ渡す) Joe: We're also going to have a section delicated just to writers who've lived on the West Side. Grandpa: As a shot to the neighborhood. Dad: Perfect. Keep those West Side liberalnuts, pseudo-intellectual. liberalnuts 自由主義のやつら, pseudo-intellectual 偽の知識人 Joe: Readers, Dad. They're called readers. Dad: Don't romanticize them. It'll keep them from jumping down your throat. romanticize ロマンチックにする, jump down 人's throat 人をやり込める Grandpa: What's the competition? competition競争相手 Joe: One mystery store, Sleuth, at 78th and Amsterdam and a children's bookstore, Shop Around The Corner. Been there forever.
お父さんは不思議な人ですねぇ ジョーの話し方、おもしろいですね。
☆words☆ たくさ〜ん go under bite the dust architecture exquisitely mohair liberalnuts pseudo-intellectual romanticize jump down 人's throat
Joe: Listen// I have/ a sad announcement/ to make./ City Books on 23rd Street?
Dad: It's going under./ Another independent/ bites/ the dust./
Grandpa: On to the next!
Joe: Going to/ buy out/ their entire inventory/ of architecture
and New York history/ for the new store./
Dad: How much, son? How much you paying.
Joe:
Whatever it costs,/ it won't be/ as much as/ that exquisitely uncomfortable mohair episode there./ Which is now all over my suit./
Dad: Here you go. (ブラシを投げ渡す)
Joe: We/'re also going to have/ a section delicated just to writers/
who've lived on the West Side./
Grandpa: As a shot/ to the neighborhood./
Dad: Perfect. Keep/ those West Side liberalnuts, pseudo-intellectual./
Joe: Readers, Dad. They're called readers.
Dad: Don't romanticize them.
It'll keep them/ from jumping down your throat./
Grandpa: What's the competition?
Joe:
One mystery store, Sleuth, at 78th and Amsterdam
and a children's bookstore, Shop Around The Corner.
Been there forever.