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。

season#3


医師が見たガザの状況を伝えた記事になります。パレスチナからの攻撃は止みましたが,砲撃などの影響で建物は破壊しつくされているようです。
 記事の中で気になった単語は"season"です。『Wisdom英和辞典第三版』(三省堂)によると,「な慣れている,適応している」などという意味がありました。熟練した医師が見ても,酷い惨状であるであることが伝わります。(Ume)

A war within a war: The battles fought by Gaza's medics

The seasoned surgeons were shocked by the footage of the emergency room of the Shifa Hospital - Gaza's busiest - on 31 July, when more than 200 injured Palestinians were brought through its doors.

They were part of a team of British doctors from London's King's College Hospital who travelled to Gaza to set up a programme for advanced limb reconstruction for victims of war injuries.

But neither Dr Naveen nor Dr Simon had ever been to the Middle East before, let alone a conflict zone.

The previous week, worlds away in the brightly lit and warm yellow of one of King's operating theatres during a routine procedure, a Nelly Furtado song playing on a radio in the background, plastic reconstruction surgeon Dr Naveen considered the trip ahead.

"I'm terrified of leaving behind my wife and two small children. But I want to do something like this. Someone with the skills that I've been trained with, working in a state-of-the-art facility like King's, ought to be able to transfer these to a place that needs it like Gaza."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29279073

seasoned #2 - 田邉祐司ゼミ 常時英心:言葉の森から
seasoned #1 - 田邉祐司ゼミ 常時英心:言葉の森から