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duplicitous

2010年12月15日 | 英語学習
Reader's Digest 9月号のThe Inanity Defence と題された間抜けな犯罪者の事件簿からです。
You leave IOUs. Graham Price of South Wales ripped off the bank where he worked, but he wasn't completely duplicitous. He left a note in the safe: "Borrowed, seven million pounds" - signed "Graham Price".
"duplicitous" は2と関係が有るようですが何でしょう。辞書で調べます。
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: deceptive in words or action; warned her not to trust the duplicitous art dealer
・WordNet 3.0 Vocabulary Helper: ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued -- marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another
同意語が "two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued" とあるように2と関係がありましたね。二枚舌や裏表のある人につける形容詞でした。
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今 The Remains of the Dayを読んでいますが、各国... (Bane)
2011-11-13 09:20:59
'Ah. A kind of temperamental difference, you might say,' Mr Lewins's smile seemed to broaden slightly as he said this. He nodded to himself, as though many things had now become clear to him, and drew on his cigar. It is possible this is a case of hindsight colouring my memory, but I have a distinct feeling that it was at that moment I first sensed something odd, something duplicitous perhaps, about this apparently charming American gentleman.
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