English Dictionary

narrow-gauge

形容詞

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(rail transport) Relating to narrow gauge. / Limited or petty.

日本語の意味

鉄道において、軌間が狭いこと、つまり狭軌線に関する。 / 限定的であったり、些細で卑小なという意味合いで使われる。

The narrow-gauge locomotive wound its way through the mountain valley, carrying timber to the processing mill.

狭軌の機関車が山あいの渓谷を曲がりくねりながら走り、木材を加工工場へ運んでいた。

意味（1）

(rail transport) Relating to narrow gauge.

On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.

意味（2）

Limited or petty.

It seems to the editors that this is somehow curiously reminiscent of Whorf's defense of Native American languages and cultures in the face of narrow-gauge views on language and culture at the time, without going so far as to take a strict Sapir-Whorfian stance that might posit unbridgeable gaps in translation theory and practice from one culture to the next.