小説が続いたので今度はNoam Chomsk著の"Hopes and Prospects" を読むことにしました。図書館で受け取った時にちょっと厚めの本だったので別の本にすれば良かったと思いましたが期限を１回延長すれば途中でReader's Digestの８月号を読んでも何とか期限内に読めるでしょう。
今日採り上げる単語はPart 1: Latin America, Year 514: Globalization for Whom?からです。
Perhaps the most extreme of the many disasters visited upon Haiti since its liberation was the invasion by Woodrow Wilson in 1915, restoring virtual slavery, killing thousands--fifteen thousand according to Haitian historian Roger Gaillard--and opening up the country to takeover by U.S. corporations. The shattered society was left in the hands of a murderous, U.S.-trained National Guard serving the interests of the Haitian elite, mulato and white, who are even more predatory and rapacious than is the norm in Latin America and who regulary appropriate the aid sent to the country.
上の引用文に出てきた "appropriate" の意味は私の知っている形容詞の意味ではそれこそ "appropriate" ではありません。動詞としてまったく違う意味があるにちがいません。辞書を見ます。
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary:
1: to take exclusive possession of : annex: no one should appropriate a common benefit
2: to set apart for or assign to a particular purpose or use: appropriate money for the research program
3: to take or make use of without authority or right: The economy has been weakened by corrupt officials who have appropriated the country's resources for their own use.
・Cambridge English Dictionary:
1. to take something for your own use, usually without permission: He lost his job when he was found to have appropriated some of the company's money.
2. to keep an amount of money to use for a particular purpose: The government have appropriated millions of pounds for the project.
引用文の "appropriate" は悪い意味の方ですね。
今日採り上げる単語はPart 1: Latin America, Year 514: Globalization for Whom?からです。
Perhaps the most extreme of the many disasters visited upon Haiti since its liberation was the invasion by Woodrow Wilson in 1915, restoring virtual slavery, killing thousands--fifteen thousand according to Haitian historian Roger Gaillard--and opening up the country to takeover by U.S. corporations. The shattered society was left in the hands of a murderous, U.S.-trained National Guard serving the interests of the Haitian elite, mulato and white, who are even more predatory and rapacious than is the norm in Latin America and who regulary appropriate the aid sent to the country.
上の引用文に出てきた "appropriate" の意味は私の知っている形容詞の意味ではそれこそ "appropriate" ではありません。動詞としてまったく違う意味があるにちがいません。辞書を見ます。
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary:
1: to take exclusive possession of : annex: no one should appropriate a common benefit
2: to set apart for or assign to a particular purpose or use: appropriate money for the research program
3: to take or make use of without authority or right: The economy has been weakened by corrupt officials who have appropriated the country's resources for their own use.
・Cambridge English Dictionary:
1. to take something for your own use, usually without permission: He lost his job when he was found to have appropriated some of the company's money.
2. to keep an amount of money to use for a particular purpose: The government have appropriated millions of pounds for the project.
引用文の "appropriate" は悪い意味の方ですね。
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