outdo
GP君が接頭辞out-を使ったoutslugの記事を書いていました。The Independentを読んでいたらわたしも接頭辞out-を使った表現に出会ったのでアップしておきます。赤字に注目ください。接頭辞out-の意味がわかっていれば簡単です。赤字のoutdoは、「〜にまさる、〜を凌ぐ」という意味です。他にも面白い表現がありましたので、ご確認ください。
例えば、他の強調箇所のcurtain-raiserは、「前座、開幕劇、皮切り」などを意味します。もう一箇所、at the rate of knotsは、通常at a rate of knotsの形で使われ「素早く」というイングランドの英語です。後者は以前IELTSのテストにも出題された記憶があります。
話がそれますが、乙武洋匡さんがTwitterにて、24時間テレビについて興味深いことを呟いていました。詳しくはURL先をご覧下さい。わたしもまったくその通りだと思います。いつか地上波でパラリンピックを観られる日が来て欲しいと思っています。(Othello)
You think it’s tough to follow Beijing? Try following Danny Boyle
The creative team behind the opening ceremony of the Paralympics are well aware of the challenge they face to outdo the Olympic gala, but they are ready
Jenny Sealey and Bradley Hemmings have, in some ways, the most unenviable task out of anybody involved in the Paralympics.
It will fall to them, come Wednesday evening, to emulate Danny Boyle’s spectacular Opening Ceremony and dazzle the world once again at the curtain-raiser for London’s second Games. As the ceremony draws closer, the pair have been locked in rehearsals almost every waking hour. Yet despite the scale of the task in front of them, enthusiasm – albeit tinged with nerves – is the order of the day.
“It is immensely exciting and always terrifying, especially as the days are passing at the rate of knots,” said Sealey, speaking ahead of the first run-through this week. “There’s lots of work still to do. We are on a rollercoaster of a journey. And with us we have an awesome creative team, a wonderful, professional cast and an extraordinary team of volunteers.” Hemmings, her creative partner, says that the pair “couldn’t be prouder”. All those involved in the ceremony are under strict orders not to give away secrets, but The Independent can reveal that double Mercury Prize-winning singer PJ Harvey has been working with disabled artists who will premiere their music with her during the ceremony.
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