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　ミャンマーで軍事政権が発足して依頼，初の公平な選挙が行われております。同国にとっては25年ぶりの国民主体の選挙となります。ただし，議席の内25%は軍事関係者が占めており，残りの75%を選挙で争うことになります。アウンサンスーチー氏が率いる国民民主連盟（NLD）が与党になれば，自身は憲法上大統領にはなれませんが，スーチー政権が誕生する可能性もあります。
　記事の中で気になった単語は"marquee"です。『Wisdom英和辞典第三版』（三省堂）によると「〘英〙（屋外イベント用の）大テント，〘米〙（劇場などの入口上の）ひさし; 看板」などという意味がありました。ODには"chiefly British A large tent used for social or commercial functions"，"North American A canopy projecting over the entrance to a theatre, hotel, or other building"という定義がありました。形容詞にもなり，たとえば" marquee value"で「観客動員力」という意味になります(『Wisdom英和辞典第三版』（三省堂）)。（Ume）

Myanmar votes in first open election in 25 years

I watched people lining up in the dark long before the polling station opened in the Kyi Myin Daing neighbourhood, which straddles the Yangon River.
As the sky brightened, the queue stretched to the end of this crowded street and around the corner. There were people of all ages: young women in jeans and T-shirts, older men and women in more traditional Burmese longyis, all clutching their pink national identity cards and white voter registration documents.
The one thing nearly all of them have in common is that they have never before had the opportunity to elect a new government.
There have been reports of irregularities, intimidation and people being left off official voter lists, but, at this polling station, we saw no problems, with officials calmly explaining the procedure for filling out ballot papers and placing them in the sealed boxes.
Here voting took place in a temporary marquee erected between run-down old apartment blocks. Several young men helped lift an older man in his wheelchair inside to vote.
Everyone we spoke to expressed their happiness about this historic moment, and their hope that it would help make theirs a better country.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34756381

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