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You're scratching your head.例文帳に追加

頭を掻いている - 映画・海外ドラマ英語字幕翻訳辞書

You're scratching your head.例文帳に追加

頭を掻いてるだろ - 映画・海外ドラマ英語字幕翻訳辞書

He has the habit of scratching his head.発音を聞く例文帳に追加

彼は頭をかく癖がある。 - Tanaka Corpus

He has the habit of scratching his head.例文帳に追加

彼は頭を掻く癖がある。 - Tatoeba例文

He has a habit of scratching his head.発音を聞く例文帳に追加

彼には頭をかく癖がある. - 研究社新和英中辞典

to make a sound when scratching one's head発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

頭を掻いてぽりぽり音をたてるさま - EDR日英対訳辞書

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returned the captain, scratching his head;発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

船長は、頭をかきむしりながら答えた。 - Robert Louis Stevenson『宝島』

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Wiktionary英語版での「head scratching」の意味

head-scratching

WOTD – 8 April 2017

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head scratching

語源

A drawing of a man scratching his head, from The Evening Ledger (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; 4 May 1916)

head + scratching, from the fact that many people scratch the side of their head when confused.

発音

(Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛdskɹatʃɪŋ/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛdskɹætʃɪŋ/
ハイフネーション: head‧scratch‧ing

形容詞

head-scratching (comparative more head-scratching, superlative most head-scratching)

(idiomatic) Confusing, perplexing, puzzling.
- 1849 June, Michael South, “The Peace Campaigns of Ensign Faunce. [Part III. Chapter XIV.]”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XXXIX, number CCXXXIV, London: John W[illiam] Parker, West Strand, OCLC 173347075, page 679, column 1:
  He became for a short time delirious, in consequence of attempting to comprehend the works of Mr. Nebulous, in which the English language is exhibited casting of summersets, with many prancings to and fro, before earnest-gazing, head-scratching readers, in murkiest obscuration, marvel stricken, with maddest humour and grinning contortions, heels-over-head, wondrous!
- 2009, Frederick C. Klein, For the Love of the Mets: An A-to-Z Primer for Mets Fans of All Ages, Chicago, Ill.: Triumph Books, OCLC 794292381:
  Yogi Berra is best known as a Hall of Fame catcher with the 1950s Yankees and for spouting head-scratching malapropisms such as "Ninety per cent of the game is half mental," but he also was a solid baseball man with good managerial instincts.
- 2015, Mark Adams, “Amateur Hour”, in Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City, New York, N.Y.: Dutton, →ISBN, page 39:
  For someone who professed such deep respect for numbers, Plato certainly used some head-scratching ones in his Atlantis story. The dates don't match up even remotely with ancient history.

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head-scratching (複数形 head-scratchings)

(idiomatic) Confusion.
- 1869 April, Carl Bernard, “Milly’s Bossy”, in Ballou’s Monthly Magazine, volume XXIX, number 4 (number 172 overall), Boston, Mass.: Office American Union, Flag of Our Union, and Novelette, No. 63 Congress Street, OCLC 917578037, pages 394–395:
  […] Milly got out of her basket to reconsider the matter. It took some deliberation and head scratching to decide the best method; […]
- 1936, Leo Huberman, “‘Gold, Greatness, and Glory’”, in Man’s Worldly Goods: The Story of the Wealth of Nations, New York, N.Y.: Monthly Review Press, OCLC 55876554, page 134:
  You remember what a lot of head-scratching the kings had to go through in order to raise money. When there was no extensive and well-developed system of taxation, they were never sure of getting enough cash where they needed it when they needed it.
- 2010, Frederick [W.] Turner, The Go-between: A Novel of the Kennedy Years, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 293:
  [O]ne morning I just started writing about how Judy met JFK in the winter of '60, and it seemed to go pretty well – better, anyway, than the false starts and head scratchings that were all I had to show thus far.
- 2011, Richard [T.] Neer, “Poussin’s Useless Treasures”, in Herbert L[eon] Kessler and David Nirenberg, editors, Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 347:
  It is possible to spend a long time looking at this inscription. An informal survey of scholars at the University of Chicago, all versed in Hebrew, suggests that the inscription is at once enticing and frustrating, not quite nonsensical enough for immediate dismissal, nor sufficiently cogent actually to yield a reading. Instead, "mystère admirable," it invites hours of fruitless headscratching. The beholder, in this situation, winds up in much the same situation as the Pharisees in the picture: pointing, puzzling, and conversing.
- 2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off?”, in The Guardian‎^[1], London, archived from the original on 10 January 2017:
  And yet, arresting figures suggesting a decline in early season ratings have prompted an outbreak of soul‑searching at those broadcasters and head‑scratching among analysts.

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And this really sort of had me scratching my head for a while.例文帳に追加

この発見はしばらく私の頭を悩ませました - 映画・海外ドラマ英語字幕翻訳辞書

She's been scratching her head trying to understand his puzzling words.発音を聞く例文帳に追加

彼女は彼の不可解なことばの理解に苦しんで頭をかいた. - 研究社新和英中辞典

said Slightly at once, and disappeared, scratching his head.発音を聞く例文帳に追加

スライトリーはすぐに返事をすると、頭をかきむしりながら姿を消しました。 - James Matthew Barrie『ピーターパンとウェンディ』

This incident was so impenetrable [mysterious] that it had even the great Holmes scratching his head in puzzlement.発音を聞く例文帳に追加

今度の事件はさすがのホームズも首をひねるような不可解な事件だった. - 研究社新和英中辞典

To achieve high throughput in a both side printing while suppressing jams and head scratching.例文帳に追加

両面プリントにおいてジャムやヘッド擦れを抑制しつつ、高いプリントスループットを実現する。 - 特許庁

To protect the head part against scratching or breakage by preventing the head part from colliding against a hard print medium.例文帳に追加

硬い印字媒体とヘッド部とが衝突するのを防止し、ヘッド部に傷が付いたり壊れたりすることがないようにヘッド部を保護する。 - 特許庁

To provide a golf club head which can obtain a larger amount of backspin on a ball while being prevented from scratching the ball.例文帳に追加

ボールに傷がつくことを抑制しながら、より高いバックスピン量が得られるゴルフクラブヘッドを提供すること。 - 特許庁

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The infant is inaccessible to the lesion any more and the scratching off may be prevented if the infant has the lesion of the atopic dermatitis at the head, the face, the neck and others.例文帳に追加

頭、顔、首他にアトピー性皮膚炎の患部がある場合、患部に手が届かなくなり、掻きむしりを防止する事ができる。 - 特許庁

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