The Japan Times Feb.16 のオピニオン記事の次のタイトルが目につきました。
Iran drops the fig leaf of its nuclear fatwa
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As red herrings go, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s “fatwa,” or religious ruling, against nukes has grown funky with age. But that hasn’t stopped officials in Tehran from airing it when convenient, or kept their counterparts in Washington from breathing it in.
タイトルで使われている表現 "fig leaf" はアダムとイブが使っていたイチジクの葉を連想させます。辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A thing designed to conceal a difficulty or embarrassment.: the amendment was just a fig leaf designed to cover the cracks in the party
・Collins Dictionary: People sometimes refer disapprovingly to something which is intended to hide or prevent an embarrassing situation as a fig leaf.: This deal is little more than a fig leaf for the continued destruction of the landscape.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: something that hides something else, especially something that is dishonest or embarrassing: The spokesperson said the information campaign was a fig leaf to hide the most regressive tax in history.
なるほど、分かり易い比喩表現ですね。
Iran drops the fig leaf of its nuclear fatwa
本文の一部を抜粋します。
As red herrings go, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s “fatwa,” or religious ruling, against nukes has grown funky with age. But that hasn’t stopped officials in Tehran from airing it when convenient, or kept their counterparts in Washington from breathing it in.
タイトルで使われている表現 "fig leaf" はアダムとイブが使っていたイチジクの葉を連想させます。辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A thing designed to conceal a difficulty or embarrassment.: the amendment was just a fig leaf designed to cover the cracks in the party
・Collins Dictionary: People sometimes refer disapprovingly to something which is intended to hide or prevent an embarrassing situation as a fig leaf.: This deal is little more than a fig leaf for the continued destruction of the landscape.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: something that hides something else, especially something that is dishonest or embarrassing: The spokesperson said the information campaign was a fig leaf to hide the most regressive tax in history.
なるほど、分かり易い比喩表現ですね。
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