tally 復習
Year's record heat engulfs Japan, 2,000 taken to hospitals
A heat wave continued to scorch Japan on Monday, with some regions seeing temperatures hitting record highs for the year.
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Over 2,000 people were taken to hospitals for heat exhaustion or heatstroke and five of them died on Monday alone, the last day of a three-day weekend, according to a Kyodo News tally. On Sunday, two died and over 2,000 were transported to hospitals.
今回取り上げるのは、tally /tˈæli/ です。以下で意味等を確認していきます。
まず、LDOCEで意味を引いてみると、“a record of how much you have spent, won etc by a particular point in time”とあり、『ジーニアス英和大辞典』には、「勘定、計算、(金額などの)記録」と載っていました。
続いて、ODEで語源を調べてみると、“late Middle English (denoting a notched tally stick) : from Anglo-Norman French tallie, from Latin talea ’twing, cutting’. Compare with TAIL.”と定義されていました。過去のブログにも取り上げられています。（Otoyo）
