The Japan Times Onlin、June 19にあったキャプションです。
Karzai hints key donor Japan's firms may get leg up on minerals
"leg up" は慣用句に違いありません。 新聞記事は本文を読むと分かり易いので記事を読んで見ます。
"Morally, Afghanistan should give access as a priority to those countries that have helped Afghanistan massively in the past few years," he said, noting Japan has been his country's No. 2 aid donor.
"What . . . we have to reciprocate with is this opportunity of mineral resources, that we must return at the goodwill of the Japanese people by giving Japan priority to come and explore and extract," he said.
なるほど、経済復興を支援してくれた国にアフガニスタンの鉱物資源に対する優先的な権利を与えると言う事のようです。 "leg up" の意味を辞書で確認します。
・COED: 1 an act of helping someone to mount a horse or high object. 2 a boost to improve one’s position.
・Dictionary.com: a. a means of help or encouragement; assist; boost: Studying the material with a tutor will give you a leg up on passing the exam. b. advantage; edge.
・McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs: Fig. a kind of help where someone provides a knee or crossed hand as a support for someone to place a foot on to get higher, as in mounting a horse or climbing over something. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone ~.) I gave her a leg up, and soon she was on her horse. Can I give you a leg up? Could I please have a leg up?
なるほど、馬の乗るのを助ける事から出来た表現なのですね。
Karzai hints key donor Japan's firms may get leg up on minerals
"leg up" は慣用句に違いありません。 新聞記事は本文を読むと分かり易いので記事を読んで見ます。
"Morally, Afghanistan should give access as a priority to those countries that have helped Afghanistan massively in the past few years," he said, noting Japan has been his country's No. 2 aid donor.
"What . . . we have to reciprocate with is this opportunity of mineral resources, that we must return at the goodwill of the Japanese people by giving Japan priority to come and explore and extract," he said.
なるほど、経済復興を支援してくれた国にアフガニスタンの鉱物資源に対する優先的な権利を与えると言う事のようです。 "leg up" の意味を辞書で確認します。
・COED: 1 an act of helping someone to mount a horse or high object. 2 a boost to improve one’s position.
・Dictionary.com: a. a means of help or encouragement; assist; boost: Studying the material with a tutor will give you a leg up on passing the exam. b. advantage; edge.
・McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs: Fig. a kind of help where someone provides a knee or crossed hand as a support for someone to place a foot on to get higher, as in mounting a horse or climbing over something. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone ~.) I gave her a leg up, and soon she was on her horse. Can I give you a leg up? Could I please have a leg up?
なるほど、馬の乗るのを助ける事から出来た表現なのですね。
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