今日の覚えたい単語もReader's Digest 1月号の映画紹介コーナーからで、JACK AND JILLと言う題名の映画の説明文にありました。
Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angels with a beautiful wife and kids, dreads one event each year; the Thanksgiving visit of his twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness maddens Jack, and turns his normally tranquil life upside down.
"neediness" は "need/needy" と関係がありそうですが、上記引用文での意味との関係が分かりません。早速辞書を見ます。
・Collins English Dictionary: the state of being needy; poverty
・Vocabulary.com: a. the quality of needing attention and affection and reassurance to a marked degree: “he recognized her neediness but had no time to respond to it” b. a state of extreme poverty
なるほど "needy" と言うのは、お金や愛情が必要・足りないと言う事なのですね、納得。
Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angels with a beautiful wife and kids, dreads one event each year; the Thanksgiving visit of his twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness maddens Jack, and turns his normally tranquil life upside down.
"neediness" は "need/needy" と関係がありそうですが、上記引用文での意味との関係が分かりません。早速辞書を見ます。
・Collins English Dictionary: the state of being needy; poverty
・Vocabulary.com: a. the quality of needing attention and affection and reassurance to a marked degree: “he recognized her neediness but had no time to respond to it” b. a state of extreme poverty
なるほど "needy" と言うのは、お金や愛情が必要・足りないと言う事なのですね、納得。
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