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。

Retribution

米カリフォルニア サンタバーバラでの悲惨な事件。心が痛みます(F10からの発射というのも衝撃的でした)。

Video examined after rampage leaves 7 dead, 11 hurt in Calif. college town

A mentally disturbed 22-year-old man possibly bent on retribution sprayed bullets from a slow-moving luxury car and plowed over pedestrians in a Southern California college town, killing six people and injuring at least 11, Santa Barbara County sheriff's deputies said Saturday.

Police have not identified the man who created 10 minutes of deadly chaos Friday night near the University of California, Santa Barbara. But the family of Elliot Rodger think he's the killer, based on information police provided, family spokesman and attorney Alan Shifman told reporters.

The younger Rodger died from a gunshot wound after his car crashed Friday night in the Isla Vista community, police said. It was unclear whether the fatal head wound was self-inflicted or the result of a firefight with police.
Three of the slain people were thought to be University of California students, state university system President Janet Napolitano said. The system has a campus in Santa Barbara.

Eleven people were injured, she said. Injured people were being treated in a hospital for gunshot wounds or traumatic injuries, including at least one who was in surgery, said sheriff's office spokeswoman Kelly Hoover.

"The sheriff's office has obtained and is currently analyzing written and video evidence that suggests this was a premeditated mass murder," Hoover said.

Hoover was referring to a YouTube video titled "Retribution."

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/24/justice/california-shooting-deaths/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

容疑者と思われる男性がpostしたYouTubeビデオのタイトルはRetribution。これは「天罰」という意味です。re+tributionという成り立ちは明白ですね。

もっともこれにはプラスイメージの"reward"という用法もあります。でもほとんどが、「(自分の行為に対する当然の)報い」というネガティブなニュアンスで用いられる言葉です ("something given or exacted in recompense; especially : punishment--Webster)。(UG)