backdrop 復習
小田急江ノ島線の片瀬江ノ島駅が2020年のオリンピックに向けて改良工事に入ります。
Odakyu Line’s undersea palace train station to be rebuilt
A train station popular with tourists here that appears to be a "ryugujo" (undersea palace) from Japanese folklore is preparing to be rebuilt prior to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The Katase-Enoshima Station of Odakyu Line will become a full-fledged, ryugujo-like structure by employing “ryugu-zukuri,” or construction methods unique to two-story gates of shrines and Buddhist temples.
“We hope that the new station building will be loved by people for many years,” an official of Odakyu Electric Railway Co., operator of the line, said on Dec. 12, 2017.
Construction of the new station building is expected to start in February. It will be equipped with an arch-shaped, two-story front gate that is similar to that of Enoshimajinja shrine.
中略
The current station building was constructed in 1929. It is now a tourist stop, with many visitors taking commemorative photos of themselves with the building as a backdrop.
以下省略
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201801050001.html
backdrop /bǽkdrɑ̀p/ を取り上げます。写真を撮るという文脈から、背景という意味を表しているようです。『ライトハウス英和辞典』(第5版 研究社)で調べると「(劇場の)背景幕、(英)back cloth ;(事件などの)背景」とありました。後ろに吊るす幕や布を思い浮かべることができます。
LDOCEには “the scenery behind something that you are looking at” や “the conditions or situation in which something happens” などと定義されています。
新しい駅は外観デザインを新しくし、コンコースの拡張やトイレの全面リニューアルなどが行われるということです。(aqua)
backdrop 復習 - 田邉祐司ゼミ 常時英心:言葉の森から
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
ご指名質問 the backdrop for the romance - 田邉祐司ゼミ 常時英心:言葉の森から