多義語の意味を推測するのは未知語の意味を推測するよりも難しいことがあります。なぜならば、既知の意味のイメージが邪魔になって文脈にあった意味を想像できないことがあるからです。その意味で、「一語一義主義」と呼ばれる受験英語の流儀は非常に弊害の多い学習法です。ネイティブの書いた英文には多義語が頻出する以上、早い段階から多義語への対応力を養成する必要があります。
年金制度改革を目指すサルゴジ大統領の人気低迷を報じたSarkozy Under Pressure as French Strikes ContinueというTIME誌の記事の２頁目、結論部分に以下のようなくだりがあります。
True, polls indicate that were the election held today, Sarkozy would lose to either Socialist Party leader Marine Aubry or Dominique Strauss-Kahn, now head of the International Monetary Fund and once a leading Socialist minister. On the right, he might be challenged by his archenemy, Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister under Chirac. But it isn't in Sarkozy's makeup to back down.
（中略）
On the other hand, for all the things that the French say they don't like about him today, Sarkozy has shown himself to be a formidable political talent. It's way too early to write him off.
makeupとwrite him offの意味がおわかりでしょうか？解説は次回。全文が長いので思考時間の目安は２０分としてみます。
年金制度改革を目指すサルゴジ大統領の人気低迷を報じたSarkozy Under Pressure as French Strikes ContinueというTIME誌の記事の２頁目、結論部分に以下のようなくだりがあります。
True, polls indicate that were the election held today, Sarkozy would lose to either Socialist Party leader Marine Aubry or Dominique Strauss-Kahn, now head of the International Monetary Fund and once a leading Socialist minister. On the right, he might be challenged by his archenemy, Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister under Chirac. But it isn't in Sarkozy's makeup to back down.
（中略）
On the other hand, for all the things that the French say they don't like about him today, Sarkozy has shown himself to be a formidable political talent. It's way too early to write him off.
makeupとwrite him offの意味がおわかりでしょうか？解説は次回。全文が長いので思考時間の目安は２０分としてみます。
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