'100 Essential Things You Didn't Know'（前回書いたように正式な題名はもっと長いのですが、省略します。）を読んでいます。
Simple geometry can create beautiful designs but it can also provide unexpectedly elegant solutions to awkward design problems. An interesting example of a far-reaching simple idea is the problem of how to design an aircraft carrier's flight deck. When the US and Royal Navies first trialed the idea of launching and landing aircraft from stationary and moving ships during the period 1910-17, it was a pretty hazardous business.
"trial" は動詞の "try" の名詞形と思っていましたが、動詞でもあるのですね。 辞書で "trial" の動詞の項の説明を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: with object Test (something, especially a new product) to assess its suitability or performance.: ‘all seeds are carefully trialed in a variety of growing conditions’
・Collins English Dictionary: to test or make experimental use of (something): the idea has been trialled in several schools
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to test something in a formal way to discover how effective or suitable it is: We will trial the new drug in several hospitals.
スペルについては他の辞書も見たところ "trialed" と "trialled" の両方とも使われている様です。
Simple geometry can create beautiful designs but it can also provide unexpectedly elegant solutions to awkward design problems. An interesting example of a far-reaching simple idea is the problem of how to design an aircraft carrier's flight deck. When the US and Royal Navies first trialed the idea of launching and landing aircraft from stationary and moving ships during the period 1910-17, it was a pretty hazardous business.
"trial" は動詞の "try" の名詞形と思っていましたが、動詞でもあるのですね。 辞書で "trial" の動詞の項の説明を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: with object Test (something, especially a new product) to assess its suitability or performance.: ‘all seeds are carefully trialed in a variety of growing conditions’
・Collins English Dictionary: to test or make experimental use of (something): the idea has been trialled in several schools
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to test something in a formal way to discover how effective or suitable it is: We will trial the new drug in several hospitals.
スペルについては他の辞書も見たところ "trialed" と "trialled" の両方とも使われている様です。
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