frenzied
マンハッタンで発生した爆弾テロの容疑者が逮捕されました。
Ahmad Khan Rahami Is Arrested in Manhattan and New Jersey Bombings
The man who the police said sowed terror across two states, setting off bombs in Manhattan and on the Jersey Shore and touching off a furious manhunt, was tracked down on Monday morning sleeping in the dank doorway of a neighborhood bar and taken into custody after being wounded in a gun battle with officers.
The frenzied end came on a rain-soaked street in Linden, N.J., four hours after the police issued an unprecedented cellphone alert to millions of people in the area telling them to be on the lookout for Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, who was described as “armed and dangerous.”
Even as the remarkably swift arrest eased fears across the region, investigators were still in the earliest stages of trying to determine what provoked the attacks, why a street in Chelsea was one of the targets and whether the bomber was aided by others. While investigators have been focused on Mr. Rahami’s actions immediately before and after the bombings, they were also working on Monday to trace his activities and travel in both recent months and years.
One law enforcement official said that the bomb technicians involved in the investigation believed that Mr. Rahami constructed all the devices and that his handiwork raised the possibility that he had received training from someone with experience building improvised explosive devices.
“If you’re working off the premise that the guy made all these devices,” the official said, “then the guy is a pretty good bombmaker. And you don’t get that good on the internet.”
It could not be determined on Monday whether Mr. Rahami had a lawyer, and his father did not respond to questions from reporters waiting outside the family’s apartment.
Mr. Rahami and his family had traveled periodically to Pakistan, and on one trip, he stayed for nearly a year. A senior law enforcement official said that no evidence had yet been uncovered that he had received military training abroad.
The senior law enforcement official said agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation were examining Mr. Rahami’s electronic devices as part of an effort to determine if he was inspired or directed by the Islamic State or any other terrorist organization.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/nyregion/nyc-nj-explosions-ahmad-khan-rahami.html
今回取り上げる表現は、“frenzied”です。『ウィズダム英和辞典』(第３版、三省堂)を引いたところ、「熱狂的な、半狂乱の、取り乱した；大変興奮した〈行為・人など〉」とありました。”frantic”が類義語であるとも載っていました。
LDOCEでは、“frenzied activity is fast and uncontrolled, usually because it is done by someone feeling very anxious or excited”と定義されていました。
今回の記事の中では“frenzied end”と用いられております。銃撃戦も行われたということなので、慌ただしい終わりを迎えたことを表現しています。(Blue Sky)
以前に今回の表現の名詞形である“frenzy”を含む表現が取り上げられておりました。そちらもご覧ください。
