Keep Calm and Do the Snoopy Dance
手のひらサイズのミニブックでハードカバー。
質感が堪りません。
本好きには堪らない装幀です。
名言は古今東西の有名人や格言の英訳。
ところどころに、
スヌーピーの漫画が配置されていて
格言の内容を表しています。
この本はダンス、つまり踊るということに
焦点を当てています。
人生は踊りであり、
楽しむものである。
踊りこそが
人生の本質を表しているものである。
踊らない人生なんてありえない！
そんなメッセージが
繰り広げられます。
能天気なスヌーピーの漫画が
グッドマッチ。
見てるだけで楽しくなります。
哲学的な内容が
とても分かりやすく
伝わってきます。
英語を読んで、
意味を考えると
だいたい伝わってきます。
たとえば、
タイトルそのものの意味。
「心を穏やかに保ってスヌーピーダンスを行うべし」
なかなか渋い。
矛盾が含まれていて面白いです。
Keep calm and carry on.
もともとはイギリスの
標語だそうです。
その後半を
変えてひねってあるんですね。
人生は矛盾を含んだものだという
メッセージがタイトルに含まれていると
僕は感じました。
踊りは激しいものなのに
Keep Calm だなんて。
でも、それが
人生なんでしょうね。
激しく活動しながら、
冷静に考える。
楽しみながら、
冷静に明日の準備を怠らない。
最初の方にこんな名言があります。
We are fools whether we dance or not.
So we may as well dance.
英語にすると
意味が伝わりますね。
may as well の意味が
よくわかります。
踊らにゃ損損！は下品に聞こえるけど
こんなに素敵な深い意味を湛えていたんです。
他に気に入ったのは
There are shortcuts to happiness,
and dancing is one of them.
- Vicke Baum
深いなあと思ったのは
Don't hurry, don't worry.
You're only here for a short visit.
So be sure to stop and smell the flowers.
- Walter Hagen
これも深い深い
When you dance, your purpose is not
to get to a certain place
on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
英語の勉強にも最適なシリースですね。
Oh, happy day!
Make every day a happy one with this cheerful gift book
combining Snoopy's happy dance with joyful quotes on dancing and life.
Snoopy is the quintessential cartoon dog smile-bringer.
From his bantering with Woodstock to his fantasy life,
it's no wonder that he's the most popular Peanuts cartoon character!
And he's never more endearing than when he's expressing
his ultimate joy of life by doing his happy dance (much to Lucy's dismay!).
In the Keep Calm and Carry On tradition of keeping a stiff upper lip,
Keep Calm and Do the Snoopy Dance urges you to maintain peace
by celebrating the happiness of dance and
being grateful for all the joys that there are in life.
More than 100 quotes and sayings are included
in this charming gift book,
highlighted with cartoons showing Snoopy in all his dancing splendor.
Quotes include:
"To those of us with real understanding,
dancing is the only pure art form!” − Snoopy
"I want women to be liberated
and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.” − Shirley MacLaine
"Will you, won't you, will you,
won't you, will you join the dance?” − Lewis Carroll
"Everything in the universe has rhythm.
Everything dances.” --Maya Angelou
著者
Charles Schulz is a legend.
He was the hand and heart behind 50 years of Peanuts,
which featured one of the world's most beloved
and recognizable cast of cartoon characters, until his death in 2000.
他にも可愛い名言集あります
洒落ているので持っていて楽しい。
贈り物にも最適〜！
本家本元
イギリスでベストセラーの名言集
手元に置いておいて時々見ると元気が出ます。
Packed full of cheery motivational quotes, proverbs and mantras,
Keep Calm and Carry On is an uplifting gift book
meant to give you a boost through troubled times.
Discovered on a poster
created by the British Ministry of Information
for British soldiers
before World War II,
the slogan still manages to strike a chord
in our current difficult times.
"Success is the ability to go from one failure
to another with no loss of enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds that you plant." --Robert Louis Stevenson
"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job;
it's a depression when you lose your own." --Harry S. Truman
本家本元の最新版
装幀が凝っています。
愛に関する英語の名言集
ロマンチストへ
彼女へのちょっと洒落た贈り物として
The latest loved-filled volume
in the bestselling Keep Calm and Carry On series,
for that special someone in your life.
They say love is a many-splendored thing.
So what could be more splendid
than giving this pocket-sized book of love quotes,
sayings and appeasements
to show how much you truly care?
Following in the footsteps of its less love-filled
yet highly successful Keep Calm siblings,
Keep Calm and Cuddle Up has all the advice you need
to understand the complex matters of the heart.
With words of wisdom from Jane Austen and Mark Twain,
to Dr Johnson and Dolly Parton,
let this compendium of amore guide you
along the rocky road of love.
"If you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain."
−Dolly Parton
"Immature love says:
"I love you because I need you."
Mature love says
"I need you because I love you."
−Erich Fromm
"Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience."
−Dr Johnson
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love."
−Jane Austen
