cherry picker 復習

リオデジャネイロの五輪公園で, 約20メートルの高さから空中カメラが落下し, ７人が軽傷を負う事故が起きました。

TV camera falls on Rio Games visitors in latest mishap

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) — An overhead television camera suspended by cables crashed to the ground in the Olympic Park on Monday, injuring seven people including two children, in the latest of a string of mishaps to hit South America’s first Games.

No one was badly hurt in the accident, which comes as another embarrassment for organizers already facing safety concerns after the armed robbery of U.S. gold medalist swimmer Ryan Lochte and three of his teammates over the weekend as well as the robberies of two visiting government ministers.

The aerial camera, encased in a heavy black cover, belonged to the official Olympics broadcast unit and fell about 20 meters after cables snapped, sending screams through the crowd, witnesses and officials said.

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One of the camera’s cables had already broken before it fell and a walkway directly beneath had been cordoned off while the Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) unit arranged for a cherry-picker to go to the scene and hoist someone up to it, OBS said.

But the camera came down at an angle, falling outside the cordon, said Adams, the British visitor, who was taking pictures of the park at the time.

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0003152865

本日取り上げる表現は “cherry-picker” です。

『新英和大辞典』(第五版, 研究社)で調べると, “cherry picker” と表記され, 「(俗)(物を垂直に持ち上げる)起重機[クレーン]」とありました。今回は, 破損したケーブルを修繕するために出動させようとした車両を指していることがわかります。

Oxford-Dictionaries com には “a hydraulic crane with a railed platform at the end for raising and lowering people, for instance to work on overhead cables” と定義され, “We had to use cherry picker to get the appropriate camera angles.” という例が挙げられていました。

動詞 “cherry-pick” は, よく似た表記ですが, 「(小売店で, 特売品・目玉商品などだけを)えり好みして買う」という別の意味を表します。(『リーダーズ英和中辞典』(研究社))(Cayu)

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