delve 復習
アメリカのテネシー州で4人の海軍が銃殺されるという痛ましい事件がありました。犯人は射殺されましたが、今も綿密な操作が続いているようです。
Chattanooga shootings: Four Marines killed at Tennessee US Navy centre
A local district lawyer said the shootings were being investigated as an "act of domestic terrorism". The gunman, who was shot dead, was named as 24-year-old Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez by the FBI and local reports said he was born in the Middle East.President Barack Obama said the attack was "heartbreaking" and said the suspect appeared to be a "lone gunman".
(中略)
The investigation is still at an early stage, but it appears that Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez was acting alone. What made him do what he did will be the subject of intensive inquiries that will delve deep into his past and that of his friends and family,and into his state-of-mind.(以下省略)
ここでは、"delve"という単語を取り上げたいと思います。『ジーニアス英和辞典第5版』によると、「探究する、徹底的に調べる」とありました。ここでは容疑者の過去を徹底的に深く調べるという訳ができると思います。似たような意味で "delve for" 「〜を求めて掘り下げる」という意味も併せて記したいと思います。(Mt.Fuji)
