Reader's Digest 7/8月合併号の記事 'In Praise of Guilty Pleasure' からの引用します。
We all have them: TV shows and movies we love, even though we just know they're bad. Trashy books we simply can't put down. Awful earworms we hate to love.
These are our guilty pleasures--what you might call the junk food in our media diets. Because it's often used in a winking way, the term guilty pleasure feels like a joke we're proving we're in on. But if that joke is about something that brings us genuine joy and isn't harming anyone, then what's the punch line? Shouldn't we be free to enjoy whatever we like?
"guilty pleasure" とは面白い表現ですね。意味は自明ですが、一応辞書の説明を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Something, such as a movie, television program, or piece of music, that one enjoys despite feeling that it is not generally held in high regard.: ‘everybody has a guilty pleasure—for me, it has to be mid 70s disco’
・Wiktionary: (idiomatic) Something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo, unadvisable or lowbrow.: For the renowned sushi chef, eating fish sticks drowned in tartar sauce was a guilty pleasure.
・Merriam-Webster: something pleasurable that induces a usually minor feeling of guilt: Treating yourself to dessert may be your one guilty pleasure.
We all have them: TV shows and movies we love, even though we just know they're bad. Trashy books we simply can't put down. Awful earworms we hate to love.
These are our guilty pleasures--what you might call the junk food in our media diets. Because it's often used in a winking way, the term guilty pleasure feels like a joke we're proving we're in on. But if that joke is about something that brings us genuine joy and isn't harming anyone, then what's the punch line? Shouldn't we be free to enjoy whatever we like?
"guilty pleasure" とは面白い表現ですね。意味は自明ですが、一応辞書の説明を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Something, such as a movie, television program, or piece of music, that one enjoys despite feeling that it is not generally held in high regard.: ‘everybody has a guilty pleasure—for me, it has to be mid 70s disco’
・Wiktionary: (idiomatic) Something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo, unadvisable or lowbrow.: For the renowned sushi chef, eating fish sticks drowned in tartar sauce was a guilty pleasure.
・Merriam-Webster: something pleasurable that induces a usually minor feeling of guilt: Treating yourself to dessert may be your one guilty pleasure.
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