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Mr. Browne, whose face was once more wrinkling with mirth, poured out for himself a glass of whisky while Freddy Malins exploded, before he had well reached the climax of his story, in a kink of high-pitched bronchitic laughter and, setting down his untasted and overflowing glass, began to rub the knuckles of his left fist backwards and forwards into his left eye, repeating words of his last phrase as well as his fit of laughter would allow him.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

もう一度顔に陽気なしわを寄せたブラウン氏は自分のグラスにウィスキーを注いだが、フレディ・マリンズの方は首尾よく話のクライマックスに達する前に、せきこんで痙攣するような高い笑い声を爆発させ、好みでないあふれんばかりのグラスを下に置くと、左のこぶしの指関節で左の目を前に後にこすり始め、笑いの発作の許すだけ最後の一節の言葉を繰り返していた。 - James Joyce『死者たち』