今日もThe Art of ChoosingのI, Robot?の章から引用します。
The cumulative result of these tactics is that though we may feel steeped in variety, we actualy have far fewer qualitatively different options than we realize. This makes choosing a fraught process because we spend a lot of energy trying to sort through a plethora of options for no good reason, and we can't help but wonder if the wool is being pulled over our eyes.
最後に出てきた "the wool is being pulled over our eyes" は文字通りに解釈すると「目 がウールで覆われる」ですが、いかにも慣用句・比喩表現の様です。辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Deceive someone by telling untruths.: He presents it as though he's pulling the wool over our eyes, only we are all too stupid to notice.
・Dictionary.com: to deceive or delude someone: The boy thought that by hiding the broken dish he could pull the wool over his mother's eyes.
なるほど、だます、ごまかすために、目をウールで覆うのですね。何故か反対に近い「目から鱗が落ちる」を連想してしまいます。
The cumulative result of these tactics is that though we may feel steeped in variety, we actualy have far fewer qualitatively different options than we realize. This makes choosing a fraught process because we spend a lot of energy trying to sort through a plethora of options for no good reason, and we can't help but wonder if the wool is being pulled over our eyes.
最後に出てきた "the wool is being pulled over our eyes" は文字通りに解釈すると「目 がウールで覆われる」ですが、いかにも慣用句・比喩表現の様です。辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Deceive someone by telling untruths.: He presents it as though he's pulling the wool over our eyes, only we are all too stupid to notice.
・Dictionary.com: to deceive or delude someone: The boy thought that by hiding the broken dish he could pull the wool over his mother's eyes.
なるほど、だます、ごまかすために、目をウールで覆うのですね。何故か反対に近い「目から鱗が落ちる」を連想してしまいます。
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