Reader's Digest 3月号の記事 'Before They Were STARS' からの引用です。
He even dug up graves for body parts and made masks out of human skin. Robert Bloch who wrote the novel Psycho, co-opted many of Gein's strange obsessions for Bate, including his morbid shrine to his overbearing dead mother.
"co-opted" は見覚えがありますが、意味を思い出せないので辞書を引きます。
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: to take into a group (such as a faction, movement, or culture): absorb, assimilate: The students are co-opted by a system they serve even in their struggle aganst it.
・Collins Dictionary: to appropriate as one's own; preempt: The dissidents have coopted the title of her novel for their slogan.
He even dug up graves for body parts and made masks out of human skin. Robert Bloch who wrote the novel Psycho, co-opted many of Gein's strange obsessions for Bate, including his morbid shrine to his overbearing dead mother.
"co-opted" は見覚えがありますが、意味を思い出せないので辞書を引きます。
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: to take into a group (such as a faction, movement, or culture): absorb, assimilate: The students are co-opted by a system they serve even in their struggle aganst it.
・Collins Dictionary: to appropriate as one's own; preempt: The dissidents have coopted the title of her novel for their slogan.
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