purportedly 復習

　イスラム国のリーダーであるバグダディが、空爆によって亡くなった可能性があるという報道が出ています。

ISIS leader Baghdadi may have been killed in strike: Russian military

Russia's military said today that one of its airstrikes in Syria late last month may have killed the leader of ISIS.

The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement it was "checking this through various channels" to determine whether ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in an airstrike May 28 targeting a command post where top ISIS officials were purportedly meeting in the outskirts of Raqqa, the terror group's de facto capital in Syria.

"According to information, which we are checking through various channels, at the meeting was also present the leader of ISIS who as a result of the strike was destroyed. The American side was informed about the time and place of the Russian aviation through the channels of cooperation," the ministry said in its statement.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/isis-leader-baghdadi-killed-strike-russian-military/story?id=48078166

　取り上げるのは"purportedly"です。ここでは副詞で使われていますが、"purport"を『ジーニアス英和辞典』で引いてみると、「（発言、文書などの）趣旨、意味」や「（主に偽って）…であると称する、…であると思われている」とあり、形容詞"purported"では「うわさの、うわさされている」と載っていました。したがって、副詞"purportedly"は「噂によれば、その称するところによれば」となります。

　LDOCEでは"to claim to be or do something, even if this is not true"と表現されています。(Akim)

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