English Dictionary

dueling banjos

名詞

複数形 複数形のみ

A contest of skill in which two people try to top each other's offerings, especially one involving musical ability.

日本語の意味

二人の演奏者が互いに技術や音楽表現を競い合う、演奏技術の対決

At the county fair, the evening crowd cheered wildly when two old friends launched into a fierce round of dueling banjos.

郡の祭りで、夕方の観客は二人の古い友人が激しいバンジョー対決を始めると大きな歓声を上げた。

意味（1）

A contest of skill in which two people try to top each other's offerings, especially one involving musical ability.

The current discussion of choice in education has been driven by this dueling banjos mentality in which scholars and other intellectual entrepreneurs compete for public and intellectual attention by describing the conditions they want to create.

意味（2）

Something typical of a stereotypic hillbilly; Something characterized by lack of education, poverty, inbreeding or lack of sophistication.

The name Appalachia evokes a host of popular images and stereotypes: feuds, individualism, moonshine, subsistence farming, quilting bees, illiteracy, and dueling banjos, to name just a few.