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quench 復習
コカ・コーラ社は現在日本で一番の売り上げを誇る企業です。
Coca-Cola is No. 1 in Japan with drinks galore, but not with Coke
EBINA, Kanagawa Prefecture--Coca-Cola has been the No. 1 beverage maker in Japan for half a century, but it's not thanks to the popularity of Coke. Instead, the American soft-drink brand has adapted to the quirky ways this society quenches its thirst.
Coca-Cola's nearly 1 million vending machines account for about half of all the vending machines in Japan. Many of them do stock Coke and Coke Zero. But most of the beverages sold by those state-of-the art machines have nothing to do with the company's namesake soda.
以下省略
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201611290074.html
今回取り上げる表現は、“quench”です。『ウィズダム英和辞典』(第３版、三省堂)を引いたところ、第２義に「〈喉の渇き〉をいやす；〈欲求・欲望〉を満たす」とありました。
LDOCEには、“quench your thirst”の形で“to stop yourself feeling thirsty, by drinking something”と定義されています。
『ウィズダム英和辞典』の第１義には「〈火・光など〉を消す」という意味が載っており、“quench a fire/flames”といった具合に用いられます。(Blue Sky)
