heartthrob #3
2組のアスリートカップルが交際宣言をしました。
Figure skaters Ando, Fernandez ready to start 'happy family'
Figure skating Olympians Miki Ando of Japan and Spain’s Javier Fernandez on Wednesday posted lovey-dovey messages on social media announcing they are a couple and saying they will build a “happy family”.
Ando and Fernandez uploaded a selfie showing them hugging each other with messages in English, Spanish and Japanese saying: “We just had started.”
Ando, 26, is a two-time world figure skating champion who retired last year after giving birth to a baby girl. She has never disclosed the identity of the baby’s father.
Ando and Fernandez, 23-year-old European champion, both trained under Canadian coach Brian Orser.
In their message, which appears in English and Japanese on Ando’s Instagram account and in English and Spanish on Fernandez’s, the couple say: “Today is special day for us, because we want to share our feelings with everyone.”
“The main points of this relationship is, love and build happy family. We just had started so we hope to have warm support from everybody. With love, Miki and Javier.”
Wednesday’s social media announcement is the second by a Japanese athlete this month.
Major League Baseball sensation and big-time heartthrob Yu Darvish shocked the chattering classes last week when he took to Twitter to reveal he was in a relationship with wrestling queen Seiko Yamamoto.
“We talked about this and decided to go open,” he said, posting a picture of the couple hugging.
今回気になった単語は、“heartthrob”です。辞書で調べてみると、「（若い女性の心をときめかすような）いい男；アイドル；恋人」（『ジーニアス英和辞典第四版』大修館）とありました。記事の中ではダルビッシュ有選手を指します。“throb”が「心臓が素早く鼓動する」（『ジーニアス英和辞典第四版』大修館）という意味を持っているので、心臓をどきどきさせる、といった意味になります。
他にも、“heart”が入った単語がたくさん辞書に載っていました。“heartless”「思いやりのない；冷酷な」、“heartsick”「心を病んだ；しょげた」、“heart-stopping”「大変興奮する[緊迫した]」など、心が関係する単語がたくさんあります。こういった単語も関連させて覚えていきたいと思いました。2組とも今後どうなっていくのでしょうか。(Green)
