parson, parsonage, rectory

IN HIS own mind, George McGovern was as straightforward an American as you could wish to see. He was born in a parsonage and brought up on the South Dakota prairie. He fell in love in college (Dakota Wesleyan) and stayed married to Eleanor “for ever”.




'A more profligate parson I never met.' George IV




 我再引第一部「在瑪麗格倫」（AT MARYGREEN）第一節最後處，

離校的老師向11歲的主角說的話和之後的翻譯和注解：
"I shan't forget you, Jude," he said, smiling, as the cart moved off. "Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can. And if ever you come to Christminster remember you hunt me out for old acquaintance' sake."
The cart creaked across the green, and disappeared round the corner by the rectory-house. The boy returned to the draw-well at the edge of the greensward, where he had left his buckets when he went to help his patron and teacher in the loading.
「你要是萬一有上基督寺*的那一天，那你看在老朋友的面上，千萬可要找我去。別忘啦。」
大車噶吱噶吱地從青草地**上走過去，到了教區長*的住宅那兒，一拐彎兒就再看不見了。……

*表示前文都有譯注。
**英國村莊裡面或旁邊，都有一片青草的空地，屬於公眾，村莊或以為名。「瑪麗格倫」一名中的「格倫」，即青草地之意。

HC小評：「大車噶吱噶吱地從青草地……」「噶吱噶吱地」很妙，不過，「大車」與起頭第一段的「小車」，「相映成趣」。

rectory[rec・to・ry]

 

• 発音記号[réktəri]
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[名]

1 教区牧師の居宅, 牧師［司祭］館.

2 ((英))教区司祭の収入, 司祭禄.

parson

[名]1 ((略式))聖職者；（プロテスタントの）牧師(clergyman).2 ((古風))（英国国教会の）教区主任司祭.［中ラテン語persōna. 原義は「俳優の面」. やがて「要人」, ...

parsonage[par・son・age]

 

• 発音記号[pɑ'ːrsənidʒ]
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[名]教区牧師館.