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Ludite holdout

2023年04月27日 | 英単語
Yuval Noah Harariの "Sapiens" を読んでいます。 'The Luxury Trap' の章から引用します。

Here and there a Luddite holdout refuses to open an email account, just as thousands of years ago some human bands refused to take up farming and so escaped the luxury trap. But the Agricultural Revolution didn't need every band in a given region to join up.

"Luddite holdout" の "Luddite" は固有名詞なので次の辞書しか説明はありませんでした。

・Urban Dictionary: A person who is averse to addapting to technology.: He is a ludite because he does not want to use myspace as a means of communication, in order to manage his relationships--business, or otherwise.

百科事典のWikipediaには詳しい説明がありました。以下はその冒頭の記述です。
The Luddites were a secret oath-based organisation of English textile workers in the 19th century who formed a radical faction which destroyed textile machinery. The group is believed to have taken its name from Ned Ludd, a legendary weaver supposedly from Anstey, near Leicester. They protested against manufacturers who used machines in what they called "a fraudulent and deceitful manner" to get around standard labour practices. Luddites feared that the time spent learning the skills of their craft would go to waste, as machines would replace their role in the industry.

"Luddite" の名前は忘れていますが、イギリスの産業革命時代にこの様な事件があったことを歴史で習ったことは憶えています。
"holdout" は辞書に次の様な説明があります。
・Collins Dictionary: A holdout is someone who refuses to agree or act with other people in a particular situation and by doing so stops the situation from progressing or being resolved.: France has been the holdout in trying to negotiate an end to the dispute.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a person, organization, or country that continues to do something, despite other people trying to force them not to: It's time to shame holdouts into signing the treaty.
これは1年ちょっと前に電車内で見かけた婦人がマスクをしていないで首から大きなカードを下げていて、カードには「睨まれてもマスクはしません」とあったことを思い出しました。

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