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。

pit

今年もそんな時期になりました。ここのpit(s)以下はどのような意味でしょうか、Kawadaくん、どうぞ。(Astroriver)

Dolphins killed as Taiji's controversial hunting season resumes in Japan

The slaughter of dolphins has begun again in a small Japanese village, in a controversial annual hunt that pits Western environmentalist values against what locals say are traditional hunting practices.

Taiji, a coastal town of 3,500 people in the Japanese prefecture of Wakayama, has a dolphin hunting season from September to March every year.

Local fishermen are permitted by the Wakayama prefectural government to hunt an annual quota of nearly 2,000 dolphins and porpoises from seven different species, in accordance with what the government says is traditional practice.

Most of the dolphins are killed for their meat, but many are sold live to aquariums around the world.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/24/world/asia/japan-taiji-dolphin-hunt/index.html?hpt=ias_c2