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"What? You don't know skinflint Plushkin who feeds his people so badly?"
"Of course I do!" exclaimed the fellow, and added thereto an uncomplimentary expression of a species not ordinarily employed in polite society. We may guess that it was a pretty apt expression, since long after the man had become lost to view Chichikov was still laughing in his britchka. And, indeed, the language of the Russian populace is always forcible in its phraseology.
"None of it for me," repeated Sobakevitch as he wiped his hands on his napkin. "I don't intend to be like a fellow named Plushkin, who owns eight hundred souls, yet dines worse than does my shepherd."
"Who is Plushkin?" asked Chichikov.
"A miser," replied Sobakevitch. "Such a miser as never you could imagine. Even convicts in prison live better than he does. And he starves his servants as well."
- the ability to maintain an activity or commitment despite fatigue or difficulty; stamina."do you have the staying power to study alone at home?"
populace[pop・u・lace]
- 発音記号[pɑ'pjuləs | pɔ'p-]
miser[mi・ser]
- 発音記号[máizər]
misery[mis・er・y]
- レベル：大学入試程度
- 発音記号[mízəri]
(1) 悲惨, みじめさ, 不幸；窮乏；精神的苦痛
悲惨な生活を送る
悲痛そのものという顔つきだ
泣きっ面に蜂(はち)で.
人類の苦難.
(2) 〈動物を〉（治る見込みがないので）安楽死させる, 楽にさせてやる.
hell
(hĕl)
n.
- often Hell The abode of condemned souls and devils in some religions; the place of eternal punishment for the wicked after death, presided over by Satan.
- A state of separation from God; exclusion from God's presence.
- The abode of the dead, identified with the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades; the underworld.
- A situation or place of evil, misery, discord, or destruction: "War is hell" (William Tecumseh Sherman).
- Torment; anguish: went through hell on the job.
- The powers of darkness and evil.
- Informal. One that causes trouble, agony, or annoyance: The boss is hell when a job is poorly done.
- A sharp scolding: gave the student hell for cheating.
- Informal. Excitement, mischievousness, or high spirits: We did it for the sheer hell of it.
- A tailor's receptacle for discarded material.
- Printing. A hellbox.
- Informal. Used as an intensive: How the hell can I go? You did one hell of a job.
- Archaic. A gambling house.
To behave riotously; carouse: out all night helling around.
interj.
Used to express anger, disgust, or impatience.
idioms:
for the hell of it
- For no particular reason; on a whim: walked home by the old school for the hell of it.
- Damaging or destructive to: Driving in a hilly town is hell on the brakes.
- Unpleasant to or painful for.
- Troubles or difficulties of whatever magnitude: We're staying, come hell or high water.
- Great trouble: If we're wrong, there'll be hell to pay.
- Used as an intensive: He ran like hell to catch the bus.
- Used to express strong contradiction or refusal: He says he's going along with us-Like hell he is!
[Middle English helle, from Old English.]
WORD HISTORY Hell comes to us directly from Old English hel. Because the Roman Church prevailed in England from an early date, the Roman-that is, Mediterranean-belief that hell was hot prevailed there too; in Old English hel is a black and fiery place of eternal torment for the damned. But because the Vikings were converted to Christianity centuries after the Anglo-Saxons, the Old Norse hel, from the same source as Old English hel, retained its earlier pagan senses as both a place and a person. As a place, hel is the abode of oathbreakers, other evil persons, and those unlucky enough not to have died in battle. It contrasts sharply with Valhalla, the hall of slain heroes. Unlike the Mediterranean hell, the Old Norse hel is very cold. Hel is also the name of the goddess or giantess who presides in hel, the half blue-black, half white daughter of Loki and the giantess Angrbotha. The Indo-European root behind these Germanic words is *kel-, "to cover, conceal" (so hell is the "concealed place"); it also gives us hall, hole, hollow, and helmet.
[名]この世の地獄
生き地獄
((米話))大目玉を食う.
(1) 地獄（⇔heaven）.
(2) 冥土(めいど)；地獄の住人.
断じて
くたばれ；ほっておいてくれ
いったい何が［どうして, いつ, どこで, だれが, なぜ］…か.
うるさくてたまらない音
けたはずれの大金
ものすごく魅力のある女性.
かんかんに怒った.
めんどうなことになるぞ.
死にもの狂いで働く
ひどいけがをする.
▼hope, wishのあとに用いる.
▼地獄の火は永遠に熱く燃えるとされることから.
ちくしょう；やれやれ
とんでもない.
The Inferno
In the 14th century, Florentine Dante Alighieri brought together biblical, mythological, historical, and contemporary figures in his Inferno, the cultural influence of which can hardly be overstated. The Inferno, the first part of his epic poem, La Divina Commedia, has Virgil (who described the underworld in the Aeneid) guiding Dante through nine circles of a Christian Hell. As he spirals down, he sees all sorts of those who have sinned — adulterers, murderers, t
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skinflint
(skĭn'flĭnt')
n.
One who is very reluctant to spend money; a miser.
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