Jane Austenの "pride and prejudice" を読んでいます。
“But my dear Elizabeth,” she added, “what sort of girl is Miss King? I should be sorry to think our friend mercenary.”
“Pray, my dear aunt, what is the difference in matrimonial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent motive? Where does discretion end, and avarice begin? Last Christmas you were afraid of his marrying me, because it would be imprudent; and now, because he is trying to get a girl with only ten thousand pounds, you want to find out that he is mercenary.”
今日取り上げる "mercenary" も以前「(外国人の)雇い兵」の意味しか知らなかった時に出会い、なるほどそれで「雇い兵」の意味なったのだと知り、このブログで取り上げた記憶があるのですが、やはり記録には残っていないので（再度？）取り上げます。辞書の説明を引用します。
・Oxford English Dictionary: (of a person or their behavior) primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics.: she's nothing but a mercenary little gold digger
・Collins Dictionary: If you describe someone as mercenary, you are criticizing them because you think that they are only interested in the money that they can get from a particular person or situation.: Instead, there is a management view that the players are mercenaries, people who are there to collect a cheque.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: interested only in the amount of money that you can get from a situation: He had some mercenary scheme to marry a wealthy widow.
“But my dear Elizabeth,” she added, “what sort of girl is Miss King? I should be sorry to think our friend mercenary.”
“Pray, my dear aunt, what is the difference in matrimonial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent motive? Where does discretion end, and avarice begin? Last Christmas you were afraid of his marrying me, because it would be imprudent; and now, because he is trying to get a girl with only ten thousand pounds, you want to find out that he is mercenary.”
今日取り上げる "mercenary" も以前「(外国人の)雇い兵」の意味しか知らなかった時に出会い、なるほどそれで「雇い兵」の意味なったのだと知り、このブログで取り上げた記憶があるのですが、やはり記録には残っていないので（再度？）取り上げます。辞書の説明を引用します。
・Oxford English Dictionary: (of a person or their behavior) primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics.: she's nothing but a mercenary little gold digger
・Collins Dictionary: If you describe someone as mercenary, you are criticizing them because you think that they are only interested in the money that they can get from a particular person or situation.: Instead, there is a management view that the players are mercenaries, people who are there to collect a cheque.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: interested only in the amount of money that you can get from a situation: He had some mercenary scheme to marry a wealthy widow.
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