Noam Chomsky著のHopes Prospectsを読んでいます。
A majority of the public has long favored a national health care system, which should be far less expensive and more effective, comparative evidence indicates (along with many studies). The United States is alone in to relying on such a system, which, quite apart from its impact on those who are left out, introduces numerous wastful inefficiencies (complex billing costs, close surveillances of doctors by insurance company bureaucrats, advertising, profits, the expenses of cherry-picking and denial of treatment on the basis of millions of uninsured and underinsured, etc.)
米国の医療保険制度の話ですが、この "cherry-picking" は比喩の慣用句に違いありません。
・Collins Dictionary: to choose or take the best or most profitable of (a number of things), esp for one's own benefit or gain ⇒ cherry-pick the best routes: You cannot just cherry-pick evidence that suits your case and ignore the rest.
・Dictionary.com:
1.to select with great care: You can cherry-pick your own stereo components.
2. (in retail use) to buy only the sale items and ignore the other merchandise
いいとこ取り、都合の良い事/物を選ぶニュアンスを含んでいるのですね。
A majority of the public has long favored a national health care system, which should be far less expensive and more effective, comparative evidence indicates (along with many studies). The United States is alone in to relying on such a system, which, quite apart from its impact on those who are left out, introduces numerous wastful inefficiencies (complex billing costs, close surveillances of doctors by insurance company bureaucrats, advertising, profits, the expenses of cherry-picking and denial of treatment on the basis of millions of uninsured and underinsured, etc.)
米国の医療保険制度の話ですが、この "cherry-picking" は比喩の慣用句に違いありません。
・Collins Dictionary: to choose or take the best or most profitable of (a number of things), esp for one's own benefit or gain ⇒ cherry-pick the best routes: You cannot just cherry-pick evidence that suits your case and ignore the rest.
・Dictionary.com:
1.to select with great care: You can cherry-pick your own stereo components.
2. (in retail use) to buy only the sale items and ignore the other merchandise
いいとこ取り、都合の良い事/物を選ぶニュアンスを含んでいるのですね。
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