Reader's Digest 4月号に掲載された女優Judi Denchについての記事から引用します。
Her recent work includes the comedy The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, the Bond epic Skyfall, and now the tender, intimate Philomena. She also starred with Ben Whishaw in a West End run of Peter and Alice - playing the elderly Alice Liddell, who as a girl had inspired Lewis Carroll. It reminds you that, at 79, not only does Judi Dench refuse to be pigeonholed, but she's not slowing down either.
"pigeonhole" は４年前に採り上げた単語で、「分類して置く」の意味を覚えましたが、上の引用文の様に型にはめる、決め付ける意味の使いかたも出来るのですね。 "pigeonhole" の説明を辞書で再確認します。
・Wiktionary: To categorize; especially to limit or be limited to a particular category, role, etc. Fred was tired of being pigeonholed as a computer geek.
・Collins English Dictionary: to classify or categorize, esp in a rigid manner: Only a fool would now pigeonhole them as makers of cheap and cheerful cars.
Her recent work includes the comedy The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, the Bond epic Skyfall, and now the tender, intimate Philomena. She also starred with Ben Whishaw in a West End run of Peter and Alice - playing the elderly Alice Liddell, who as a girl had inspired Lewis Carroll. It reminds you that, at 79, not only does Judi Dench refuse to be pigeonholed, but she's not slowing down either.
"pigeonhole" は４年前に採り上げた単語で、「分類して置く」の意味を覚えましたが、上の引用文の様に型にはめる、決め付ける意味の使いかたも出来るのですね。 "pigeonhole" の説明を辞書で再確認します。
・Wiktionary: To categorize; especially to limit or be limited to a particular category, role, etc. Fred was tired of being pigeonholed as a computer geek.
・Collins English Dictionary: to classify or categorize, esp in a rigid manner: Only a fool would now pigeonhole them as makers of cheap and cheerful cars.
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