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Turkey’s main opposition nominates combative former teacher to challenge Tayyip Erdogan
ANKARA – Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Friday nominated one its most prominent and combative lawmakers to challenge President Tayyip Erdogan in the June 24 snap presidential election.
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Against Erdogan, a masterful campaigner, the CHP has failed to gain momentum outside its core base of secular voters. In the last parliamentary election in November 2015 it took 25.3 percent of the vote, with much of that coming from large cities such as Istanbul and Izmir and the western coastal region.
以下省略
gain momentum /moʊménṭəm/ を取り上げます。『ウィズダム英和辞典』によると、gain［gather］momentumで「勢いを増す」とあり、反意語としてlose momentumで、「勢いを失う」も載っていました。続いて、ODEで語源を調べてみると、“late 17th cent, : from Latin, from movimentum, from movere ‘to move’.”と載っていました。
記事では、「トルコの野党である共和人民党（CHP）は、勢いをつけるのに失敗してきた」といった訳になると思われます。（Otoyo）
audacious/momentum - 田邉祐司ゼミ 常時英心：言葉の森から - はてなダイアリーd.hatena.ne.jp › touch
