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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イスラエルガザ地区の紛争に関する記事です。ケリー国務長官はエジプトに滞在しており,エジプト大統領の力を借りて停戦に向かわせようとしております。しかしその目処は立っておりません。被害は拡大するばかりで,犠牲者の多くがガザ地区の市民です。

記事で気になった単語は"distraught"です。『Wisdom英和辞典第三版(三省堂)』によると「心配などで共起閉じ 動転した, 取り乱した, 気が違った」などという意味がありました。ODでは,"Very worried and upset"と定義されております。"distract"の形容詞であり,これらは"stretch"という単語に影響を受けたそうです。関連する記事を読んでいて,国民の生命を守る機能を果たす国家が完全に無力化していると思います。(Ume)

Gaza conflict: UN chief Ban urges end to fighting

At the scene - the BBC's Yolande Knell in Gaza City
Some 50 Palestinians have been killed here since midnight local time. Health officials told us that doctors tried to rescue the baby of a pregnant woman from Jabaliya who was killed in an air strike, only for the child to die.

Close to the BBC office in Gaza City, body parts could be seen in the rubble of the "Peace Tower" apartment building. Two families - 11 people - were killed overnight.

A distraught man told us how his dead relatives who were staying there had relocated twice first from Beit Hanoun and then Shajaiya, areas that received Israeli military evacuation orders.

At the Rafah border crossing a BBC team was told only two injured people were able to exit to Egypt, leaving a frustrated crowd behind them.

Most ordinary Palestinians are weary and afraid. They sorely want an end to this fighting but many also insist conditions for a ceasefire must be met - including easing the tight border restrictions imposed on Gaza by Israel and Egypt.

Gaza conflict: UN chief Ban urges end to fighting