envisage 復習
フランスでテロを企てたとして7人が逮捕されました。
France: 7 Arrested in Anti-Terror Raids, Attack Thwarted
French anti-terrorism police have arrested seven people in Strasbourg and Marseille, the interior minister announced Monday, saying authorities thwarted a new potential attack.
The raids were linked to a series of arrests in June during the European Championship soccer tournament that was held in cities across France, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
The arrests Sunday in Strasbourg and Marseille "allowed us to thwart a terrorist act that had been envisaged for a long time on our soil," Cazeneuve told reporters in Paris. Investigators are studying whether it was part of a larger plot to attack multiple sites simultaneously.
取り上げる単語は"envisage" /envízɪdʒ/です。
LDOCEで調べてみると、"to think that something is likely to happen in the future"とありました。
また、『ジーニアス英和辞典』第4版(大修館)では「…(の将来)を(…として)心に描く[as]、(…することを/…ということを/…かを)予想する」と載っていました。
"Can you envisage them cooperating?"で「彼らが協力し合うなんて予想できますか」という例文が載っており、"envisage O -ing"で「Oが〜するのを予想する」という使い方が出来ることがわかります。(Akim)
