John J. Rateyの "SPARK" を読んでいます。
Aside from the usual financial considerations, the custody of several children was at stake for the defendant, a patient of mine--I'll call her Amy--who was being divorced by her husband. I had taken the witness stand at the behest of her legal team, to testify about her mental state, and now I was under cross-examination.
"at the behest of" は慣用句の様ですね。辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A person's orders or command.: ‘they had assembled at his behest’
・Collins Dictionary: If something is done at someone's behest, it is done because they have ordered or requested it. [formal]: Both posts were removed at the school's behest.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: because someone has asked or ordered you to do something: The budget proposal was adopted at the mayor's behest.
"at sb's behest" あるいは "at the behest of sb の形で使われる慣用句として覚えます。
Aside from the usual financial considerations, the custody of several children was at stake for the defendant, a patient of mine--I'll call her Amy--who was being divorced by her husband. I had taken the witness stand at the behest of her legal team, to testify about her mental state, and now I was under cross-examination.
"at the behest of" は慣用句の様ですね。辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A person's orders or command.: ‘they had assembled at his behest’
・Collins Dictionary: If something is done at someone's behest, it is done because they have ordered or requested it. [formal]: Both posts were removed at the school's behest.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: because someone has asked or ordered you to do something: The budget proposal was adopted at the mayor's behest.
"at sb's behest" あるいは "at the behest of sb の形で使われる慣用句として覚えます。
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