昨日の続きです。メルマガのArcaMax Vocabularyに "Comprise" と "Compose" 意味の違いについて解説がありましたので紹介します。
The facts: Strictly, "comprise" means "to include or be made up of," e.g. "New York City comprises five boroughs, while "compose" means "to constitute, make up," e.g. "Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island" compose New York City." Put simply, the whole comprises the parts, and the parts compose the whole.
更に解説は続きます。
However, an increasing number of speakers and writers now use "comprise" to mean "constitute, make up," e.g. "Five lakes comprise The Great Lakes." And "comprised of" is now often used instead of "comprise," e.g. "The index is comprised of 30 stocks" instead of "The index comprises 30 stocks."
The decision: The aforementioned uses of "comprise" and "comprised of" are now so widespread that it's pedantic to insist on the traditional use of these terms. The court rules that that it's acceptable to use "comprise" to mean "constitute" and to use "comprised of" to mean "comprise."
言葉の乱れ、意味、用法の変化はどこの言葉にもあるのですね。
The facts: Strictly, "comprise" means "to include or be made up of," e.g. "New York City comprises five boroughs, while "compose" means "to constitute, make up," e.g. "Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island" compose New York City." Put simply, the whole comprises the parts, and the parts compose the whole.
更に解説は続きます。
However, an increasing number of speakers and writers now use "comprise" to mean "constitute, make up," e.g. "Five lakes comprise The Great Lakes." And "comprised of" is now often used instead of "comprise," e.g. "The index is comprised of 30 stocks" instead of "The index comprises 30 stocks."
The decision: The aforementioned uses of "comprise" and "comprised of" are now so widespread that it's pedantic to insist on the traditional use of these terms. The court rules that that it's acceptable to use "comprise" to mean "constitute" and to use "comprised of" to mean "comprise."
言葉の乱れ、意味、用法の変化はどこの言葉にもあるのですね。
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