私は彼女の担当では無いけれど、久し振りの再会を喜び、少しの時間一緒に仕事をした。
彼女のデザインするチャームを猫にプレゼントした、、という話しをしたときに、
「まだ生後６ヶ月だったけど避妊手術をしたから」と言おうとした時に、はて、避妊手術って英語で何だっけ？
確か、、spay? saspy? えーい、「私の猫、妊娠しないように卵取ったのよ」はい、これで十分通じます。で、彼女が教えてくれたのが、get fixed. 直訳すると「整える」とか「矯正する」という意味になるのかな。『人間には使わないわよ、あ、でも性転換手術なら使うかな？』
なるほど、get fixed、便利な表現ね。
The conversation with a designer from New York the other day. She usually works with one of my colleague not me but we were glad to meet again and worked for a while together at that time.
When I was talking to her that I gave her designed tiny letter charm to my cat, I wanted to say "because she had a surgery of....." well. what to say a surgery not to get pregnant in English? Was it sapy? saspy?
So I kept saying "she took her eggs out not to get pregnant" yes,,, that's enough. Then she said, "oh, that's -get fixed-"... I did not know to use it for that occasion. And she added "that's not expression for human...but sometimes it could be used for a gender change operation...?"
Well, "get fixed" I remember such a useful expression.
