George OrwellのHomage to Cataloniaを読んでいます。
The thing that attracts ordinary men to Socialism and makes them willing to risk their skins for it, the ‘mystique’ of Socialism, is the idea of equality; to the vast majority of people Socialism means a classless society, or it means nothing at all. And it was here that those few months in the militia were valuable to me. For the Spanish militias, while they lasted, were a sort of microcosm of a classless society. In that community where no one was on the make, where there was a shortage of everything but no privilege and no boot-licking, one got, perhaps, a crude forecast of what the opening stages of Socialism might be like.
連語の "on the make" が分からないので辞書を引きます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Intent on gain, typically in an unscrupulous way.: He was certainly an ambitious young man who was always on the make, looking for the next angle.
・Collins Dictionary: If you say that someone is on the make, you disapprove of them because they are trying to get a lot of money or power, possibly by illegal or immoral methods.
・Dictionary.com: Seeking personal gain, as in Tom's a young man on the make—he doesn't care whom he offends.
全ての財産が共有財産の共産主義だと "no one was on the make" と云うのは聞いた事があります。上に引用した辞書の説明では "on the make" には悪いことのニュアンスがあるので、 "no one was on the make" は良い事にも思われますが、仕事をサボる人も出て、向上性のない人が増え、理想と現実は違ってくるのですね。
The thing that attracts ordinary men to Socialism and makes them willing to risk their skins for it, the ‘mystique’ of Socialism, is the idea of equality; to the vast majority of people Socialism means a classless society, or it means nothing at all. And it was here that those few months in the militia were valuable to me. For the Spanish militias, while they lasted, were a sort of microcosm of a classless society. In that community where no one was on the make, where there was a shortage of everything but no privilege and no boot-licking, one got, perhaps, a crude forecast of what the opening stages of Socialism might be like.
連語の "on the make" が分からないので辞書を引きます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Intent on gain, typically in an unscrupulous way.: He was certainly an ambitious young man who was always on the make, looking for the next angle.
・Collins Dictionary: If you say that someone is on the make, you disapprove of them because they are trying to get a lot of money or power, possibly by illegal or immoral methods.
・Dictionary.com: Seeking personal gain, as in Tom's a young man on the make—he doesn't care whom he offends.
全ての財産が共有財産の共産主義だと "no one was on the make" と云うのは聞いた事があります。上に引用した辞書の説明では "on the make" には悪いことのニュアンスがあるので、 "no one was on the make" は良い事にも思われますが、仕事をサボる人も出て、向上性のない人が増え、理想と現実は違ってくるのですね。
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