"Franny and Zooey" p10-
fringe 縁取り;周辺;非主流派
intelletual インテリ、知識人
- a highly favored place among, chiefly, the intellectual fringe of students at the college
more or less 多かれ少なかれ
palpable 容易に知覚できる
unimpeachably 疑いようもなく
neither more nor less
elect (something [or to do])
ensue 続く
semblance 顔つき、様子、見せかけ
- she elected to feel guilty for having seen it, caught it, and sentenced herself to listen to Lane's ensuing conversation with a special semblance of absorption.
hit a stride 本調子になる
slouch 前かがみになる
rhetorically 修辞学的に
receptive 理解力のある
like a lead balloon 少しも効果のない
keel over 転覆する;卒倒する
- "I honestly thought it was going to go over like a goddam lead balloon, and when I got it back with this goddam 'A' on it in letters about six feet high, I swear I nearly keeled over."
- "Why what?" "Why'd you think it was going to go over like a lead balloon?" "I just told you. I just got through saying."
self-imposed 自ら課した、進んで行う
unadulterated (食物が)混ぜ物のない、純粋な;完全な
- Apparently her self-imposed sentence of unadulterated good-listenership had been fully seved.
neurotically ノイローゼのように
mot juste [mou ʒjúst] (仏)至言、適切な言葉
trifle つまらないもの、ささいな事
morose 不機嫌な
incisive 鋭利な;知的に鋭い、明敏な
destructive 破壊的な、有害な
blotch しみ、汚れ;吹き出物