English Dictionary

Queequeg

固有名詞

A fictional sidekick character in American author Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick, the multiracial tattooed Polynesian cannibal prince and skilled harpooner who became a whaler on European vessels out of wanderlust. Queequeg practices an alien fictional religion and constantly engages in feats of bravado intimidating to the white and ethnically-European protagonist but befriends him and shows no resentment at treatment by white societies. Melville's text describes him as “George Washington cannibalistically developed”.

日本語の意味

ハーマン・メルヴィル著『白鯨』に登場する架空のサイドキックキャラクター。 / タトゥーの施されたポリネシア出身のカニバル王子で、卓越した銛使いとして描かれる。 / 未知の宗教を信奉し、勇敢な行動で白人や欧州系の主人公に対し威圧と友情の両面を示す存在。

Queequeg's calm stoicism and fearless skill with the harpoon earned him the quiet respect of the ship's crew.

多民族的で刺青のあるポリネシア出身の食人の王子であり熟練の銛打ちの冷静沈着さと恐れを知らぬ銛の腕前は、船の乗組員たちの静かな尊敬を集めた。

意味（1）

A fictional sidekick character in American author Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick, the multiracial tattooed Polynesian cannibal prince and skilled harpooner who became a whaler on European vessels out of wanderlust. Queequeg practices an alien fictional religion and constantly engages in feats of bravado intimidating to the white and ethnically-European protagonist but befriends him and shows no resentment at treatment by white societies. Melville's text describes him as “George Washington cannibalistically developed”.

Half British and half Aboriginal, Bony is in his early to middle forties. Like Herman Melville's Queequeg before him, Bony benefits from his mixture of races.