常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

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またまた陰惨な事件が起きました。事件はコリアン系アメリカ人のコミュニティがある場所で起きました。cater to/forは「ケータリング(サービス)」というカタカナで日本語の中にも入ってきています。これは「(パーティーなどの)料理を調達する、賄う」という意味ですが、同時に「〜の要望に答える、要求を満たす」("to provide what is required or desired" --Collins)という意味でも使われます。(GP)

(CNN) -- Seven people died and three others were wounded in a shooting at a small California religious college Monday, Oakland police said.
An Asian male in his 40s was detained as a suspect, but he has not yet been charged in the shooting, according to police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said.
"We believe that this is the person," Watson said.
Police would not release the suspect's name or confirm his relationship to his victims or Oikos University in East Oakland, she said.
Several of the victims were students, Watson said.
Gunfire erupted inside the single-story building that houses the private Christian college about 10:30 a.m. (1:30 p.m. ET), according to Lucas Garcia, who was teaching an English class when it began.
Garcia told CNN affiliate KGO-TV that he counted about six gunshots from a nearby nursing classroom when he heard someone yell, "He's got a gun."
Garcia evacuated his students from the building while the gunfire continued, he said.
The college, which caters to the Korean American Christian community, offers degrees in theology, music, nursing and Asian medicine, according to its website.
The suspect was arrested outside a Safeway convenience store in nearby Alameda, California, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Henry Lee told CNN.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/02/us/california-shooting/index.html