十戒を記したモニュメントがアラバマの政府施設から撤去された経緯について伝えるTIMEFORKIDSの記事Controversy over a Religious Monumentを昨日紹介しました。その中に"This is a tremendous victory for the rule of law and respect for religious diversity," というくだりがあります。
diversity（多様性）には実に多くの派生語があり、diversify（動詞）で「多角化する」、diversion（名詞）には「寄り道」、「気晴らし」といった意味があります。ただいずれの意味も共通性がありますので、以下のようにまとめて覚えると効率的です。定義はマクミラン英英辞典を参照しました。
* diverse : very different from each other
◇With an April by-election looming, voters still don't know where the party stands on important issues-nor do many of its members. That's because efforts to forge internal consensus among *diverse factions have left the DPJ manifesto vague and diluted.(TIME,April24,2006)
◇At Tokyo University, which has traditionally educated an economically *diverse population, nearly half the parents of undergraduates now have incomes higher than $82,500 (well above the national average of about $57,500 for men in their 50s).(NEWSWEEK,Aug21,28,p44)
* diversify : BUSINESS to develop new products or activities in addition to the ones you already provide or do
◇ Unlike many oil states, Mexico has a relatively *diversified economy-only 10 percent of its exports come from oil.(NEWSWEEK,Nov8,2004,p42)
◇ Chavez's interest in *diversifying Venezuela's oil-export markets *dovetails with his long-term strategy to promote a "multi-polar" balance of power among nations as a counterweight to U.S. supremacy. (NEWSWEEK,Feb14,2005,p34,)
◇Dubai is successfully *diversifying beyond oil in part because its own small reserves are dwindling. (NEWSWEEK,Mar13,2006)
◇North or south, there appears to be plenty of business to go around. While the world debates whether China or India will become the economic leader of the developing world, Vietnam is seen as an opportunity for companies to *diversify their manufacturing base. (TIME, MAY1,2006,p36)
* diversification : the process of developing new products or business activities:
◇*Diversification and increased productivity are what ITC is promoting with its computer program, which seeks to increase farmers' yields, raise their income and boost their confidence to try their hands at more lucrative crops.(NEWSWEEK,Mer14, 2005, p42)
* divert :
1)to do something to take people's attention away from something that you do not want them to concentrate on or notice:
◇ Meanwhile, the country's economic success has *diverted attention from Thaksin's more controversial policies, including this year's deadly crackdown on drug dealers.(TIME,OCT27,2003,p37)
2)to make something move or travel in a different direction:
◇ Spain last year ditched ambitious plans to *divert the River Ebro to drought-prone plains of the south and opted instead to build several new desalination plants. .(NEWSWEEK,Mar7,2005,p46)
◇We had arranged visas to the U.S. for them from Rio, but they needed help getting on an evacuation flight. On April 29, I boarded an Air Vietnam 707 in Bangkok bound for Saigon. But Tan Son Nhut airport had fallen overnight, and after circling over the Mekong Delta, the flight was *diverted to Hong Kong.(TIME,MAY2,2005,p56)
* diversion :
1)[count] FORMAL an activity that you do for fun:
◇ The findings suggest that a woman's social network is more than just a diversion : it's basic to the survival of the species.(NEWSWEEK,NOV24,2003,p48)
2) [count] a DETOUR
◇ *Diversion to Ishigaki costs the average vessel $4,500 in tonnage dues and commissions paid to one of the local shipping agencies, netting Japan about $18 million a year in fees.
(NEWSWEEK,Mar29,2004,p40)
* diversity : the fact that very different people or things exist within a group or place:
◇ The Polish countryside, she says, has maintained the kind of natural *diversity that's been sacrificed to the interests of agribusiness elsewhere in Europe. Wolves and bears still roam the patch of primeval forest on the country's eastern borders.
(NEWSWEEK,JUNE7/JULY14,2004,p22)
◇President George W. Bush has won plaudits for the *diversity of his cabinet officials, most notably when he promoted Condoleezza Rice, an African-American woman, to secretary of State in his second term. (NEWSWEEK,MAY9,2005)
diversity（多様性）には実に多くの派生語があり、diversify（動詞）で「多角化する」、diversion（名詞）には「寄り道」、「気晴らし」といった意味があります。ただいずれの意味も共通性がありますので、以下のようにまとめて覚えると効率的です。定義はマクミラン英英辞典を参照しました。
* diverse : very different from each other
◇With an April by-election looming, voters still don't know where the party stands on important issues-nor do many of its members. That's because efforts to forge internal consensus among *diverse factions have left the DPJ manifesto vague and diluted.(TIME,April24,2006)
◇At Tokyo University, which has traditionally educated an economically *diverse population, nearly half the parents of undergraduates now have incomes higher than $82,500 (well above the national average of about $57,500 for men in their 50s).(NEWSWEEK,Aug21,28,p44)
* diversify : BUSINESS to develop new products or activities in addition to the ones you already provide or do
◇ Unlike many oil states, Mexico has a relatively *diversified economy-only 10 percent of its exports come from oil.(NEWSWEEK,Nov8,2004,p42)
◇ Chavez's interest in *diversifying Venezuela's oil-export markets *dovetails with his long-term strategy to promote a "multi-polar" balance of power among nations as a counterweight to U.S. supremacy. (NEWSWEEK,Feb14,2005,p34,)
◇Dubai is successfully *diversifying beyond oil in part because its own small reserves are dwindling. (NEWSWEEK,Mar13,2006)
◇North or south, there appears to be plenty of business to go around. While the world debates whether China or India will become the economic leader of the developing world, Vietnam is seen as an opportunity for companies to *diversify their manufacturing base. (TIME, MAY1,2006,p36)
* diversification : the process of developing new products or business activities:
◇*Diversification and increased productivity are what ITC is promoting with its computer program, which seeks to increase farmers' yields, raise their income and boost their confidence to try their hands at more lucrative crops.(NEWSWEEK,Mer14, 2005, p42)
* divert :
1)to do something to take people's attention away from something that you do not want them to concentrate on or notice:
◇ Meanwhile, the country's economic success has *diverted attention from Thaksin's more controversial policies, including this year's deadly crackdown on drug dealers.(TIME,OCT27,2003,p37)
2)to make something move or travel in a different direction:
◇ Spain last year ditched ambitious plans to *divert the River Ebro to drought-prone plains of the south and opted instead to build several new desalination plants. .(NEWSWEEK,Mar7,2005,p46)
◇We had arranged visas to the U.S. for them from Rio, but they needed help getting on an evacuation flight. On April 29, I boarded an Air Vietnam 707 in Bangkok bound for Saigon. But Tan Son Nhut airport had fallen overnight, and after circling over the Mekong Delta, the flight was *diverted to Hong Kong.(TIME,MAY2,2005,p56)
* diversion :
1)[count] FORMAL an activity that you do for fun:
◇ The findings suggest that a woman's social network is more than just a diversion : it's basic to the survival of the species.(NEWSWEEK,NOV24,2003,p48)
2) [count] a DETOUR
◇ *Diversion to Ishigaki costs the average vessel $4,500 in tonnage dues and commissions paid to one of the local shipping agencies, netting Japan about $18 million a year in fees.
(NEWSWEEK,Mar29,2004,p40)
* diversity : the fact that very different people or things exist within a group or place:
◇ The Polish countryside, she says, has maintained the kind of natural *diversity that's been sacrificed to the interests of agribusiness elsewhere in Europe. Wolves and bears still roam the patch of primeval forest on the country's eastern borders.
(NEWSWEEK,JUNE7/JULY14,2004,p22)
◇President George W. Bush has won plaudits for the *diversity of his cabinet officials, most notably when he promoted Condoleezza Rice, an African-American woman, to secretary of State in his second term. (NEWSWEEK,MAY9,2005)
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