ロマンス洋書の英語メモ

ロマンス小説の洋書を読んで気づいたこと、考えたこと、調べたことをつらつらと

2025-11-01から1ヶ月間の記事一覧

sniff test

He sniffed the crotch because, well, he did his laundry, but he’d been a bit lax lately. But yeah, it passed the sniff test. -- Lisa Marie Rice. Midnight Fire この場合の"sniff test"は、服が臭わないか体臭がひどくないか、自分で自分のにおいを…

跡継ぎ【ヒストリカルの英語】

None of his family was in town. Lord Aidan Bedwyn, the brother next in age to himself and his heir presumptive, had not come at all this spring. He had remained at home in Oxfordshire with his wife, Eve, for the birth of their first child,…

crook

“Not yet,” she protested. “I want to stay here with you.” The storm rolled over the house, rain falling with the force of bronze pennies. She snuggled more tightly into the warm crook of Gabriel’s arm. -- Lisa Kleypas. Devil in Spring "cro…