Reader's Digest 11月号の記事 "How To Get Along With Anyone " からの引用です。
Though all these personalities are different, none is more so than the Frenemy--that is, someone equal parts friend and enemy--a relationship phenomenon so subtle, personal and complicated that sometimes you have to be in it to know it's there.
何故か大文字で始まっている "frenemy" は初めて見る単語ですが、意味は文中にあり、スペルからも直ぐに推測できます。辞書に出ている単語か確認します。
・Oxford English Dictionary: a person or organization that you are friends with because it is useful or necessary to be their friend, even though you really dislike or disagree with them: The internet giant is seen by many as a frenemy, a company they cannot afford not to work with.
・Wiktionary: (sometimes humorous) Someone who has traits of an enemy and a friend.: Frienemies who when you're down ain't your friend
・Merriam-Webster: a person who is or pretends to be a friend but who is also in some ways an enemy or rival: In Hollywood, everyone has lots of frenemies, usually people who are doing comparatively well at any given moment.
Though all these personalities are different, none is more so than the Frenemy--that is, someone equal parts friend and enemy--a relationship phenomenon so subtle, personal and complicated that sometimes you have to be in it to know it's there.
何故か大文字で始まっている "frenemy" は初めて見る単語ですが、意味は文中にあり、スペルからも直ぐに推測できます。辞書に出ている単語か確認します。
・Oxford English Dictionary: a person or organization that you are friends with because it is useful or necessary to be their friend, even though you really dislike or disagree with them: The internet giant is seen by many as a frenemy, a company they cannot afford not to work with.
・Wiktionary: (sometimes humorous) Someone who has traits of an enemy and a friend.: Frienemies who when you're down ain't your friend
・Merriam-Webster: a person who is or pretends to be a friend but who is also in some ways an enemy or rival: In Hollywood, everyone has lots of frenemies, usually people who are doing comparatively well at any given moment.
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