English Dictionary

Brobdingnag

固有名詞

A fictional country inhabited by giants, which appears in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

日本語の意味

『ガリバー旅行記』に登場する、巨人が住む架空の国

As I read Gulliver's Travels, I imagined walking through Brobdingnag and staring up at the colossal houses and the giants who lived there.

『ガリヴァー旅行記』を読むと、私は巨人の国を歩き回り、そびえ立つ家々やそこで暮らす巨人たちを見上げる光景を想像した。

意味（1）

A fictional country inhabited by giants, which appears in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

[…]if this treatise should happen to be translated into the language of Brobdingnag (which is the general name of that kingdom,) and transmitted thither, the king and his people would have reason to complain that I had done them an injury[…]