今日採り上げるのはJapan Times Online、Dec. 31の記事です。
In Fukushima, abandoned pets are multiplying
With authorities' hands tied, NPO takes up challenge of spaying, neutering cats and dogs.
It isn’t only humans that are suffering in the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima. Scores of feral animals are eking out a precarious existence in the surrounding areas, including cats and dogs that were once somebody’s pets.
"spaying" は知らない単語ですが、その後に "neutering" とあるので、その同意語と思いますが、辞書で確認します。
・Collins Dictionary: (transitive) to remove the ovaries, and usually the uterus, from (a female animal): The animal-rights advocate has already managed to halt a New Delhi program to spay and neuter stray dogs, saying it was cruel.
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: to remove the sex organs of (a female animal) : to make (a female animal) unable to have babies: Our cat has been spayed.
"neuter" との違いが気になるので今度は "neuter" も辞書で再確認します。
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: to remove the sex organs from (an animal): She had her dog neutered by the veterinarian.
・Macmillan Dictionary: to perform an operation on an animal's sexual organs so that it cannot have babies. You can also say that you spay a female animal or castrate a male animal.
なるほど、"spay" はメスに、 "castrate" はオスに、"neuter" はどちらにも使える言葉ですね。"spay" 以外の単語は知ってはいましたが、うろ覚えでした。
In Fukushima, abandoned pets are multiplying
With authorities' hands tied, NPO takes up challenge of spaying, neutering cats and dogs.
It isn’t only humans that are suffering in the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima. Scores of feral animals are eking out a precarious existence in the surrounding areas, including cats and dogs that were once somebody’s pets.
"spaying" は知らない単語ですが、その後に "neutering" とあるので、その同意語と思いますが、辞書で確認します。
・Collins Dictionary: (transitive) to remove the ovaries, and usually the uterus, from (a female animal): The animal-rights advocate has already managed to halt a New Delhi program to spay and neuter stray dogs, saying it was cruel.
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: to remove the sex organs of (a female animal) : to make (a female animal) unable to have babies: Our cat has been spayed.
"neuter" との違いが気になるので今度は "neuter" も辞書で再確認します。
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: to remove the sex organs from (an animal): She had her dog neutered by the veterinarian.
・Macmillan Dictionary: to perform an operation on an animal's sexual organs so that it cannot have babies. You can also say that you spay a female animal or castrate a male animal.
なるほど、"spay" はメスに、 "castrate" はオスに、"neuter" はどちらにも使える言葉ですね。"spay" 以外の単語は知ってはいましたが、うろ覚えでした。
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