世の中には人を騙して他人から大金を巻き上げる人間が幾らでもいるようで、Reader's Digest ５月号に米国での事件を取り上げている記事がありました。今日はその中にあった単語を覚えたい。
With her son dead and her divorce still on her mind, the quality of Deveraux's books deteriorated, the author admits. The amount of money left to take from her dwindled in lockstep, and Marks became harder to reach, Deveraux says.
早速 "lockstep" を辞書で調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Close adherence to and emulation of another’s actions: ‘they raised prices in lockstep with those of foreign competitors’
・Collins Dictionary: a standard procedure that is closely, often mindlessly, followed: Gold has largely moved in lockstep with the euro's performance against the dollar since early April.
この単語は元々軍隊の行進スタイルを表す意味があることも分かりました。
・Online Etymology: Lock-step. A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with and closely follows the corresponding leg of the person directly before him.
With her son dead and her divorce still on her mind, the quality of Deveraux's books deteriorated, the author admits. The amount of money left to take from her dwindled in lockstep, and Marks became harder to reach, Deveraux says.
早速 "lockstep" を辞書で調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Close adherence to and emulation of another’s actions: ‘they raised prices in lockstep with those of foreign competitors’
・Collins Dictionary: a standard procedure that is closely, often mindlessly, followed: Gold has largely moved in lockstep with the euro's performance against the dollar since early April.
この単語は元々軍隊の行進スタイルを表す意味があることも分かりました。
・Online Etymology: Lock-step. A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with and closely follows the corresponding leg of the person directly before him.
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