Are You Smart Enough to Work at Googleからの引用です。
This isn't just a Google thing. "In an up market, say the late 1990s, the cost of making a bad hiring decision was low," according to Alec Levenson of the University of Southern California's Center for Effective Organizations. "The company could be a lot more cavalier about hiring, because if the worker doen't fit, the chances are that he'll move on soon."
"cavalier" は騎士とか紳士を連想しますが、上記の "cavalier" は名詞ではないし、意味も紳士的とは反対方向の意味の様です。辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Showing a lack of proper concern; offhand.: Anne was irritated by his cavalier attitude
・Cambridge English Dictionary: not considering other people's feelings or safety: That's a rather cavalier attitude.
V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionaryに "cavalier" について次の説明がありました。
Tips: Cavalier is usually used to describe someone who makes decisions without considering the risk or negative consequences of the decision, usually in a very arrogant way. It is also used as a noun, referring to a knight or a gallant and chivalrous gentleman, but this meaning is no longer used in modern English.
確かに現代には騎士はいないので、引用文に使われている意味を最初に覚えるべきですね。
This isn't just a Google thing. "In an up market, say the late 1990s, the cost of making a bad hiring decision was low," according to Alec Levenson of the University of Southern California's Center for Effective Organizations. "The company could be a lot more cavalier about hiring, because if the worker doen't fit, the chances are that he'll move on soon."
"cavalier" は騎士とか紳士を連想しますが、上記の "cavalier" は名詞ではないし、意味も紳士的とは反対方向の意味の様です。辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Showing a lack of proper concern; offhand.: Anne was irritated by his cavalier attitude
・Cambridge English Dictionary: not considering other people's feelings or safety: That's a rather cavalier attitude.
V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionaryに "cavalier" について次の説明がありました。
Tips: Cavalier is usually used to describe someone who makes decisions without considering the risk or negative consequences of the decision, usually in a very arrogant way. It is also used as a noun, referring to a knight or a gallant and chivalrous gentleman, but this meaning is no longer used in modern English.
確かに現代には騎士はいないので、引用文に使われている意味を最初に覚えるべきですね。
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