人差指: 6 Terms and Phrases
- 「尺」という文字は親指と人差指を広げた形をかたどったものである。
- The Chinese character '尺' (shaku) was derived from the shape of spreading thumb and index finger.
- 尺は親指と人差指を広げた時の幅であり、元々の寸は尺とは独立に発生したものと考えられるが、周代に尺の10分の1とされるようになった。
- Shaku originated from the breadth between the thumb and forefinger when they are opened, and sun seems to have been invented independently from shaku, but anyway, sun began to be set at the length of a tenth shaku during the age of Zhou Dynasty China.
- 咫（あた）は長さの単位で、親指と人差指を広げた長さ（約18センチメートル）のことであるが、ここでいう八咫は単に「大きい」という意味である。
- 'Ata' is a unit of length and a length in which a thumb and a forefinger are expanded (about 18 centimeters), but the 'yata' in this context simply means 'big.'
- 三ツガケは親指・人差指・中指、四ツガケは親指〜薬指までを覆い、親指には木（或は水牛等の角）を指筒状に刳り貫いたものが親指全体を覆うように仕込まれている。
- Mitsugake covers the thumb, the forefinger and the middle finger and yotsugake covers fingers from the thumb to the annular finger and it is equipped with a thimble-like wood (or a horn of water buffalo and so on) which is hollowed out, covering a whole of the thumb.
- 私はクッションに身を埋（うず）めて葉巻を吹かしながら、ホームズが身体を前へ乗り出して、要点ごとに細長い人差指で左の掌を叩き、事件の大体を話すのをきくのであった。
- I lay back against the cushions, puffing at my cigar, while Holmes, leaning forward, with his long, thin forefinger checking off the points upon the palm of his left hand, gave me a sketch of the events which had led to our journey.
