Prologue

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They were an essential kind of pants--jeans, naturally, blue but not that stiff, new blue that you see so often on the first day of school.

• stiff

堅い、固い、こわばった、ゴワゴワする

They were a soft, changeable blue with a little extra fading at the knees and the seat and white wavelets at the cuffs.

• changeable

変わりやすい、気まぐれの、移り気な

• fading

徐々に色あせる、消えていく

• seat

〔ズボンなどの〕しりの部分

• wavelet

小波、小さい波、さざ波

I guess a thrift shop is like the pound in some ways.

• thrift shop

リサイクルショップ、中古品店、古道具屋、古物商

Our pants weren't like the neurotic puppy whose parents left it alone, barking itself hoarse from morning till night.