skirmish 復習
コロンビアで一橋大学の学生が殺害されてしまいました。
Japanese man killed in Colombia identified
Police in Colombia have identified the Japanese man who was killed in the country last week as 22-year-old Ryo Izaki.
Izaki was in his senior year at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. He was shot dead in the city of Medellin on Saturday.
Police say 2 men robbed Izaki of his mobile phone and tablet when he was walking in a residential area. They say he chased the pair and was shot during a skirmish.
Izaki reportedly arrived in the city on that day. The victim's family says he was there to visit the country.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20161121_19/
“skirmish”/sk ə:(r)mɪʃ/を取り上げます。『ジーニアス英和辞典』によると「小競り合い」「小戦闘」とありました。LDOCEでは“a fight between small groups of soldiers, ships etc, especially one that happens away from the main part of a battle – used in news reports”と定義されています。もともと古期フランス語 “escaramouche”から由来しており、中期英語 でskirmisshen 「武器を振り回す」となり、これが語源となっているようです。ここでは「取っ組み合いになったところ、銃で撃たれた」という意味になるかと思います。(lua)
