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infraction

2023年12月03日 | 英単語
Reader's Digest 11月号の記事 "All in a Day's Work" からの引用です。
If you have a small bladder, don't think about taking a job with Anpu Electric Science and Technology. The Chinese company has a once-a-day toilet break policy. Need to pee again? You'll be labeled a slacker and fined 20 yuan (about $3) for every infraction.

"infraction" を辞書で調べます。

・Oxford English Dictionary: an act of breaking a rule or law: minor infractions of EU regulations
・Collins Dictionary: An infraction of a rule or law is an instance of breaking it.: ...an infraction of school rules.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: an occasion when someone breaks a rule or law: infraction of Any attempt to influence the judges will be seen as an infraction of the rules.
なるほど、軽い規則違反ですね。 次の辞書は規則違反の種類について説明しています。
・Vocabulary.com: When you break school rules about gum chewing, you commit an infraction. An infraction is a petty crime or a minor breaking of rules.
When you think of the word infraction, think that your offence has just crossed the line into wrong. Something like a parking ticket is an infraction. When you commit an infraction, you're not knee deep in wrong, you've just dipped your toe into wrong to see what it feels like. A misdemeanor is a more serious crime such as theft, and murder is considered a felony, the most serious of crimes.

私もこの中国の会社では勤まりません。
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