常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

backdrop 復習


米国オレゴン州の川で面白いハプニングが起きました。

Naked Man Photobombs Teen's Senior Portraits in Oregon

Jillian Henry chose the perfect, serene location along the Willamette River in Oregon as the backdrop for her senior portraits. But little did she know just how one with nature her photos would become.

A naked man made his way into the background of her otherwise beautiful pictures, and the internet is obviously losing their minds over it.

Henry’s tweet showing off the prized jewels in the photobomb has nearly 130,000 likes and more than 47,000 retweets.

“Love my senior pics,” she wrote with a smiley face emoji, keeping a sense of humor about the unusual photo background.

The senior has no idea why the man was in his birthday suit, or if he realized he and his pup made an epic cameo in her photos.

Shockingly though, Henry said she and her photographer, Elena Nesbit, “weren’t too surprised” to see him.

“We don't know why he was there!” Henry told ABC News. “This kind of stuff isn't entirely unheard of where we're from.”

http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/naked-man-photobombs-teens-senior-portrait-oregon/story?id=41769703

取り上げる表現は"backdrop"です。

ジーニアス英和辞典』第4版(大修館)によると、「(劇場)背景幕、(景色などが描かれた)垂れ幕」や「(事件などの)背景」などの意味がありました。
したがって、「空気が澄んだ穏やかな流れのウィラメット川を背景として」となります。

back(後ろに)drop(垂れる)から意味が想像できると思います。(Akim)

backdrop #2 - 田邉祐司ゼミ 常時英心:言葉の森から
against the backdrop of~ - 田邉祐司ゼミ 常時英心:言葉の森から