George OrwellのHomage to Cataloniaを読んでいます。
The police, led by the Prefect of Police in person, occupied the central telephone exchange in the afternoon of 3 May. The police were shot at while discharging their duty. This was the signal for the provocateurs to begin shooting affrays all over the city.
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On Thursday morning the Anarchists daily denied all knowledge or sympathy with it, but La Batalla, the P.O.U.M. paper, reprinted the document with the highest praise. Barcelona, the first city of Spain, was plunged into bloodshed by agents provocateurs using this subversive organization.
外来語のような "provocateur" の意味を調べます。
・Collins Dictionary: a person who deliberately behaves controversially in order to provoke argument or other strong reactions: Obviously he was another agent provocateur, entrapping a suspect.
・Dictionary.com: a person who provokes trouble, causes dissension, or the like; agitator.: He reaches into his pocket to pull out a Ukrainian passport and opens it to prove he is no Russian provocateur.
・Wiktionary: An undercover agent who incites suspected persons to partake in or commit criminal acts.
なるほど、いわゆる工作員も "provocateur" に入るのでしょう。
ついでに語源辞典も見ます。
Online Etymology: 1915 (Emma Goldman), shortened form of agent provocateur "person hired to make trouble" (1845), from French provocateur, from Latin provocator "challenger," from provocare "to call out"
The police, led by the Prefect of Police in person, occupied the central telephone exchange in the afternoon of 3 May. The police were shot at while discharging their duty. This was the signal for the provocateurs to begin shooting affrays all over the city.
...
On Thursday morning the Anarchists daily denied all knowledge or sympathy with it, but La Batalla, the P.O.U.M. paper, reprinted the document with the highest praise. Barcelona, the first city of Spain, was plunged into bloodshed by agents provocateurs using this subversive organization.
外来語のような "provocateur" の意味を調べます。
・Collins Dictionary: a person who deliberately behaves controversially in order to provoke argument or other strong reactions: Obviously he was another agent provocateur, entrapping a suspect.
・Dictionary.com: a person who provokes trouble, causes dissension, or the like; agitator.: He reaches into his pocket to pull out a Ukrainian passport and opens it to prove he is no Russian provocateur.
・Wiktionary: An undercover agent who incites suspected persons to partake in or commit criminal acts.
なるほど、いわゆる工作員も "provocateur" に入るのでしょう。
ついでに語源辞典も見ます。
Online Etymology: 1915 (Emma Goldman), shortened form of agent provocateur "person hired to make trouble" (1845), from French provocateur, from Latin provocator "challenger," from provocare "to call out"
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