"Slam Dunks and No-Brainers" にあった次の文をまず読んで下さい。
Talk's too informal, dialogue and the rest are too high-falutin' to carry the social and political freight.
"dialogue and the rest" の "the rest" はこの引用文のちょっと前に "talk, debate, discussion, discourse, or dialogue" とあるので "debate, discussion, discourse" の事を指しています。
私の知らない単語 "high-falutin'" はこのスペルではOneLookの検索でも引っ掛かりませんでしたが、結局スペルとしてはhighfalutin', hifalutin', hifalutin, high falutin, highfalutingなど色々あり、American Heritage Dictionaryによると米国生まれの単語であることがわかりました。
H.L. Mencken, in his famous book The American Language, mentions highfalutin as an example of the many native U.S. words coined during the 19th-century period of vigorous growth. Although highfalutin is characteristic of American folk speech, it is not a true regionalism because it has always occurred in all regions of the country, with its use and popularity spurred by its appearance in print.
ところでその "high-falutin'" の意味は：
Dictionary.com: pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious
Wiktionary: (US, informal) Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical; tending to show off or hold oneself in unduly high regard.
例: It's only a matter of time before some highfalutin developer builds a huge hotel and ruins the scenery.
とあります。
Talk's too informal, dialogue and the rest are too high-falutin' to carry the social and political freight.
"dialogue and the rest" の "the rest" はこの引用文のちょっと前に "talk, debate, discussion, discourse, or dialogue" とあるので "debate, discussion, discourse" の事を指しています。
私の知らない単語 "high-falutin'" はこのスペルではOneLookの検索でも引っ掛かりませんでしたが、結局スペルとしてはhighfalutin', hifalutin', hifalutin, high falutin, highfalutingなど色々あり、American Heritage Dictionaryによると米国生まれの単語であることがわかりました。
H.L. Mencken, in his famous book The American Language, mentions highfalutin as an example of the many native U.S. words coined during the 19th-century period of vigorous growth. Although highfalutin is characteristic of American folk speech, it is not a true regionalism because it has always occurred in all regions of the country, with its use and popularity spurred by its appearance in print.
ところでその "high-falutin'" の意味は：
Dictionary.com: pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious
Wiktionary: (US, informal) Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical; tending to show off or hold oneself in unduly high regard.
例: It's only a matter of time before some highfalutin developer builds a huge hotel and ruins the scenery.
とあります。
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