-ana, gutter, guttering, "Schubertiana"

Oscar Wilde

“No, we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
--Lord Darlington from "Lady Windermere's Fan"

 In "Schubertiana", the precision of this movement towards the centre is caught by the image of the swallows flying for six weeks over two continents "to last year's nest under the guttering of this very barn in this very parish". Their flight towards "precisely this vanishing dot in the land-mass" corresponds to the way Schubert "catches the signals from a whole life in a few ordinary chords for five strings".


Straussians 著作中譯表

 -ana
 or -iana
suff.
A collection of items relating to a specified person or place: Americana.

[New Latin -āna, from Latin, neuter pl. of -ānus, adj. and n. suff.. See -an¹.]

-ana[-a・na]

• 発音記号[-ǽnə, -ɑ'ːnə | -ɑ'ːnə]

((人名・地名などのあとにつけて))「語録・逸話集・資料集・文献」‖Americana.

Definition of gutter in English:

noun

1A shallow trough fixed beneath the edge of a roof for carrying off rainwater.

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1.1A channel at the side of a street for carrying off rainwater.

1.2(the gutter) Used to refer to a poor or squalidexistence or environment:men who had fought their way out of the gutter

1.3technical A groove or channel for flowing liquid.

1.4A channel on either side of a lane in a bowling alley.

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2The blank space between facing pages of a book or between adjacent columns of type or stamps in asheet.

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verb

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1[NO OBJECT] (Of a candle or flame) flicker and burnunsteadily.

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2[WITH OBJECT] archaic Make channels or furrows in (something):my cheeks are guttered with tears

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2.1[NO OBJECT] (gutter down) Flow in streams:the raindrops gutter down her visage

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Origin

Middle English: from Old French gotiere, from Latin gutta'a drop'; the verb dates from late Middle English, originally meaning 'cut grooves in' and later (early 18th century) used of a candle which melts rapidly because it has become channelled on one side.

guttering[gut・ter・ing]

• 発音記号[gʌ'təriŋ]

[名][U]

1 溝［とい］をつけること.

2 とい材；[C]((集合的))（建物の）雨どい（装置）.