far cry from 復習

　日本の給食制度が高く評価されているようです。

Japan's School Lunch Program Puts Others to Shame

Tell that to Japan, where more than 10 million kids receive delicious, fresh food every school day, in large part because the country considers lunch part of a child’s education, not a break from school. What students there receive is a far cry from the processed, reheated meals you’d find in American schools. Picture a tray filled with fish with pear sauce, mashed potatoes, and vegetable soup. The ingredients come from local farmers or the school’s farm, and a team of cooks made the dishes that morning.

Elementary and junior high school students eat lunch in their classroom, where they learn about nutrition and Japan’s food history and culture. They also take turns serving the meal to each other, cleaning up, and recycling. As government school lunch experts Nobuko Tanaka and Miki Miyoshi write, this helps children acquire “a sense of gratitude” and “spirit to appreciate foods and social manners.”

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https://www.citylab.com/navigator/2017/03/the-school-lunch-program-putting-all-others-to-shame/519792/

　今回はfar cry fromという表現を拾います。

　Oxford Dictionary of English (Second Edition Reserved, Oxford University Press)で調べたところ、 “be a far cry from”のかたちで “be very different from”と定義されておりました。

　『ジーニアス英和辞典』（第五版，大修館）には、「〈人・事が〉…には程遠い，…と大いに異なる，…どころではない」と載っておりました。

　またインターネットサイトRoll Off The Tongueに、 “Early 19th Century, British and English - The origin of this expression is most likely the notion that a cry, or shout is something that is used to deliver information over distances. For example, before newspapers were widespread, a “town crier” would travel far and wide literally shouting important news to residents. If something is within “shouting distance” that means it’s relatively close. An association was formed between crying and distance.”と説明がされておりました。このサイトには面白い絵でfar cry fromが紹介されていたので、リンク先にぜひとんでみてください。（Gomez）

http://rollsoffthetongue.tumblr.com/post/103809027635/a-far-cry-origin-early-19th-century-british

a far cry from - 田邉祐司ゼミ 常時英心：言葉の森から