roster 復習
今年もニューヨークではコメディの祭典が催されています。
New York Today: A City for Comedy
Good morning on this brilliant Tuesday.
George Carlin. Joan Rivers. Larry David. Chris Rock.
New York’s roster of comedic legends is long.
“There has never been a period where Manhattan wasn’t important to stand-up,” said Kliph Nesteroff, author of “The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy.”
We asked him what makes New York City different from, say, Chicago or Los Angeles (this country’s other comedy hubs).
“New York comedians tend to be stronger, they work harder, they have more material and they care more about the craft,” Mr. Nesteroff said.
No joke.
This week, you can see many of our city’s hard-working comedians on stage at the New York Comedy Festival, through Sunday.
今回取り上げる表現は“roster”です。『ウィズダム英和辞典』(第３版、三省堂)を引いたところ、「勤務(当番)表；名簿」とありました。
LDOCEには“a list of the names of people on a sports team, in an organization etc”と定義されています。
今回の記事ではただ単に「名簿」という訳で当てはめてみてもしっくりきません。「名簿」というと名前が列挙してあるものなので、“roster of comedic legends is long”を「歴代そうそうたる面々が名を連ねている」などと訳すとうまく理解できるのではないでしょうか。(Blue Sky)
