single-mindednessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

金庫破りを敢行する夜盗のような無頼心が五千万のファンの信頼の向こうを張るなんて。 - F. Scott Fitzgerald『グレイト・ギャツビー』

Many modern people are fascinated by his high-mindedness symbolized by his pilgrimages to various provinces without staying in one place to depend on a temple, and his last moments, according to his biography, in which he burned his own writings, saying, 'this is the last moment for the Buddhist sutra which was learned in a single lifetime and there is nothing to remain but the voice of chanting Namu Amidabutsu (a single, sincere call upon the name of Amida).'発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

寺院に依存しない一所不住の諸国遊行や、入寂に際して「一代聖教皆尽きて南無阿弥陀仏に成り果てぬ」と自らの著作を燃やしたという伝記から、その高潔さに惹かれる現代人は多い。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス