spirit #2
今日は白金台支所の授業をキャンセルしてA30で仕事です。もう少しで会議があります。その前に梅チャンのfollow-upです。
Nigerian Girls Seen in Video From Militants
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — The fears have been mounting for weeks: that the girls have been sold, married off, spirited across international borders, and perhaps even killed. Their fate has become the focus of intense international concern, with Michelle Obama holding up a placard appealing for their safe return and governments across the globe pledging to help track them down.
On Monday came the first hint that many of them may still be alive: a video from Boko Haram, the radical Islamist group that claimed responsibility for kidnapping more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls last month, shows scores of girls, covered from head to toe, stone-faced, somewhere in the pervasive semidesert scrub that covers this arid region.
After weeks of global concern over the girls’ plight, Boko Haram appears to have seized on the international attention and begun to use the girls as bargaining chips in its war with the Nigerian state.
動詞のspiritは、例の「千と千尋の神隠し」Spirited Awayでおなじみになったと思いますが、これにはこっそりと連れ出す、誘拐する」とニュアンスがあります。ということでここは「誰にも知られることなく国境を越えて連れて行かれたのだろうか」となります。（UG）
