Re: gashigashi to


<jwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Ttwhf.3352$ea6.3340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
B. Ito <jg2cme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
In Taishukan's Genius E-J Dictionary, I found the following example:

"He scraped back his hair. （髪の毛を後ろになでつける） 

Yech. The English gives me an image of someone with his hair so full of
gel that it has to be moved around like wet concrete. The Japanese, OTOH,
seems to mean "he combs back his hair."

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Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学

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I see, thank you.

He combs back his hair.

Sometimes he may hand-combs back his hair.
or
Sometimes he may combs back his hair by hand.
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B. Ito 

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