The Japan Times June 26付の記事タイトル 'Osaka takes stock a week after violent rush-hour quake' の "takes stock" に引っ掛かりました。
新聞記事の場合、タイトルの意味が分からない時は記事の中身を読むと分かる場合が多いので、記事を読みます。最初の段落を引用します。
Hundreds of Osaka residents were living in shelters Monday as the city and prefecture began to take account of the damage from the short but violent rush-hour temblor that killed five and injured over 400 across Kansai a week ago.
"take stock" を英英辞書で確認します。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Review or make an overall assessment of a particular situation, typically as a prelude to making a decision.: he needed a period of peace and quiet in order to take stock of his life
・Collins Dictionary: If you take stock, you pause to think about all the aspects of a situation or event before deciding what to do next.: It was time to take stock of the situation.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: To take stock (of something) is to think carefully about a situation or event and form an opinion about it, so that you can decide what to do: After two years spent teaching overseas, she returned home for a month to take stock of her life.
3/15/2011に私のブログで "Cause there's a, a kind of, that feeling of winding down and taking stock." を引用して "take stock" を取り上げていました。ブログに取り上げても忘れる事が多いので、ブログのネタが無くなることは無いと、良いように解釈します。
新聞記事の場合、タイトルの意味が分からない時は記事の中身を読むと分かる場合が多いので、記事を読みます。最初の段落を引用します。
Hundreds of Osaka residents were living in shelters Monday as the city and prefecture began to take account of the damage from the short but violent rush-hour temblor that killed five and injured over 400 across Kansai a week ago.
"take stock" を英英辞書で確認します。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Review or make an overall assessment of a particular situation, typically as a prelude to making a decision.: he needed a period of peace and quiet in order to take stock of his life
・Collins Dictionary: If you take stock, you pause to think about all the aspects of a situation or event before deciding what to do next.: It was time to take stock of the situation.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: To take stock (of something) is to think carefully about a situation or event and form an opinion about it, so that you can decide what to do: After two years spent teaching overseas, she returned home for a month to take stock of her life.
3/15/2011に私のブログで "Cause there's a, a kind of, that feeling of winding down and taking stock." を引用して "take stock" を取り上げていました。ブログに取り上げても忘れる事が多いので、ブログのネタが無くなることは無いと、良いように解釈します。
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