常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

coalition 復習

 シリア北部で、またもイスラム国による空爆によって12人以上が行方不明、または死亡したとのことです。
Dozens dead or missing from airstrike in IS-held north Syria

Syrian activists said Wednesday that dozens of people were killed or missing after an airstrike the day before leveled a school near the Islamic State-held city of Raqqa where displaced families had sought refuge.

The activist-run Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently said some 50 families had been sheltering at the school in the northern Syrian village of Mansoura and that their fate was still unknown. Mansoura is 26 kilometers (16 miles) west of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the extremists' self-described caliphate, and is under their control.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 33 bodies had been pulled from the rubble. The two organizations rely on local contacts to smuggle news out of Islamic State-held territory.

It was not immediately clear who carried out the airstrike. Syrian Kurdish forces have been advancing on Raqqa under the cover of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and are now 8 kilometers (5 miles) north of the city. Syrian and Russian aircraft have also carried out strikes against the IS group.

Elsewhere in Syria, insurgents advanced on government-held towns and positions north of the central city of Hama, the country's fourth largest city. An al-Qaida-linked group spearheaded the assault, launched Tuesday, by detonating a car bomb in the nearby town of Souran.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/dozens-dead-missing-airstrike-held-north-syria-46294655

 記事の中で気になった単語は、"coalition" /kòʊəlíʃən/です。文脈から、組織や団体などを表す語だと予測しましたが、実際はどのような意味があるのでしょうか。

 『ジーニアス英和辞典』第4版(大修館)で調べてみると、「(党、国家などの一時的)連合、合同、(政治)提携」という意味があることが分かりました。"coalition government"で「連立政権」となります。
LDOCEでは、"a union of two or more political parties that allows them to from a government or fight an election together"と定義されています。

 ここでは、「アメリカの連合軍による空爆」となります。(Akim)

the coalition camp - 田邉祐司ゼミ 常時英心:言葉の森からgrand coalition - 田邉祐司ゼミ 常時英心:言葉の森から