I have been reading J.M. Coetzee's Slow Man these last two weeks. True to the title, I read this book slowly, digesting and absorbing words and senses produced by this amazing books. Then last night I bumped into this sentence:
"Evidently she has been ferreting around in your past".
Ferreting, how clever! You know the animal and you fully understand what they do and the connection to the sentence. But it also posed me with a question, how to translate it to Indonesian? To start with I don't even know what ferret is in Indonesian! my dictionary only says 'sejenis musang'. Hey? even Musang I don't know when they do...do they snoop around? do they rummage and forage? Well, I should google this! case closed until then...
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