Miyuki Manabeの「火車」All She Was Worthを読んでいます。
Shoko Sekineの行方を捜しているHonma刑事は弁護士のMizoguchiに会いに行きました。Mizoguchiは借金で個人破産になるのは単に借金をした人間のみが悪い訳ではなく、金融業、法律、金融の仕組みが個人破産に至る人間を生み出していることを説明します。
"Young people are particularly susceptible. And consumer financing businesses are really pushing nowadays to expand into the youth market. They'll say anything to get a new customer. So it's up to us to get smart. As things stand, we have a gaping hole here. This year marks exactly the twentieth since the major city banks first started to issue credit cards to students. But in all those years has any school or university offered instruction on how to use cards properly? This is something we could start doing immediately. In Tokyo public high school, I hear they assemble the girl students before graduation for lessons in using cosmetics. Well, if they've got the time and inclination for that sort of thing, they can darn well teach them the basics for surviving when it comes to money matters!" He slammed his fist down on the table. "I'm not one to blame everything on the people upstairs, but this one really gets my goat. The whole problem falls between the cracks in the bureaucracy. There ought to be one agency in charge of keeping track of the whole consumer credit industry."
"gets my goat" は以前とりあげた覚えがあるのですが、記録にありません。改めて辞書を見ます。
・McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs: to irritate someone; to annoy and arouse someone to anger.: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get your goat. Jean got Sally's goat and Sally made quite a fuss about it.
・Farlex Dictionary of Idioms: To annoy or anger someone. That guy just gets my goat every time he opens his mouth.
・The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: To make someone annoyed or angry: “Gavin may seem unflappable, but I know a way to get his goat.” This expression comes from a tradition in horse racing. Thought to have a calming effect on high-strung thoroughbreds, a goat was placed in the horse's stall on the night before the race. Unscrupulous opponents would then steal the goat in an effort to upset the horse and cause it to lose the race.
ヤギがいるとサラブレッドが落ち着くとの語源説は眉唾ですが、子供から気に入っている玩具やヌイグルミを取り上げる事を連想すれば納得ですね。
Shoko Sekineの行方を捜しているHonma刑事は弁護士のMizoguchiに会いに行きました。Mizoguchiは借金で個人破産になるのは単に借金をした人間のみが悪い訳ではなく、金融業、法律、金融の仕組みが個人破産に至る人間を生み出していることを説明します。
"Young people are particularly susceptible. And consumer financing businesses are really pushing nowadays to expand into the youth market. They'll say anything to get a new customer. So it's up to us to get smart. As things stand, we have a gaping hole here. This year marks exactly the twentieth since the major city banks first started to issue credit cards to students. But in all those years has any school or university offered instruction on how to use cards properly? This is something we could start doing immediately. In Tokyo public high school, I hear they assemble the girl students before graduation for lessons in using cosmetics. Well, if they've got the time and inclination for that sort of thing, they can darn well teach them the basics for surviving when it comes to money matters!" He slammed his fist down on the table. "I'm not one to blame everything on the people upstairs, but this one really gets my goat. The whole problem falls between the cracks in the bureaucracy. There ought to be one agency in charge of keeping track of the whole consumer credit industry."
"gets my goat" は以前とりあげた覚えがあるのですが、記録にありません。改めて辞書を見ます。
・McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs: to irritate someone; to annoy and arouse someone to anger.: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get your goat. Jean got Sally's goat and Sally made quite a fuss about it.
・Farlex Dictionary of Idioms: To annoy or anger someone. That guy just gets my goat every time he opens his mouth.
・The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: To make someone annoyed or angry: “Gavin may seem unflappable, but I know a way to get his goat.” This expression comes from a tradition in horse racing. Thought to have a calming effect on high-strung thoroughbreds, a goat was placed in the horse's stall on the night before the race. Unscrupulous opponents would then steal the goat in an effort to upset the horse and cause it to lose the race.
ヤギがいるとサラブレッドが落ち着くとの語源説は眉唾ですが、子供から気に入っている玩具やヌイグルミを取り上げる事を連想すれば納得ですね。
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