ヘレン・ケラーの "The Story of My Life" から引用します。
In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities."
"disfranchised" は "franchise" と関係がありそうですが、私の知っている "franchise" は特に飲食店に多い "franchise" ですが、ここではそんな事とは無関係な様です。 "disfranchised" と "franchise" を辞書で見ます。
・Dictionary.com("disfranchised"):
1.to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
2.to deprive of a franchise, privilege, or right.
・Dictionary.com("franchise"):
1.a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
2.the right or license granted by a company to an individual or group to market its products or services in a specific territory.
どの辞書を見てもこの程度の説明しかありませんが、ヘレン・ケラーは文学を楽しむ事については不自由ではないといっているのに違いありません。私の知っている "franchise" の意味は "the commercial licensing sense is from 1966" と最近の事で、選挙権の意味の方は古くからある事を今頃知りました。
In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities."
"disfranchised" は "franchise" と関係がありそうですが、私の知っている "franchise" は特に飲食店に多い "franchise" ですが、ここではそんな事とは無関係な様です。 "disfranchised" と "franchise" を辞書で見ます。
・Dictionary.com("disfranchised"):
1.to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
2.to deprive of a franchise, privilege, or right.
・Dictionary.com("franchise"):
1.a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
2.the right or license granted by a company to an individual or group to market its products or services in a specific territory.
どの辞書を見てもこの程度の説明しかありませんが、ヘレン・ケラーは文学を楽しむ事については不自由ではないといっているのに違いありません。私の知っている "franchise" の意味は "the commercial licensing sense is from 1966" と最近の事で、選挙権の意味の方は古くからある事を今頃知りました。
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