Hot Words No.61

Adjunct

発音：

[ǽdƷʌŋkt]

意味：

サポートや補助の目的で付け足されたもの

Something that is added as a support or complement

例文1：

He started his career as an adjunct to the president and worked his way up to deputy president.

例文2：

Lobbyist groups act almost as adjuncts of political parties.

Brook

発音：

[brúk]

意味：

受諾または許容する

To accept or tolerate

例文1：

She is hard to work with as she doesn’t brook any constructive criticism.

例文2：

The dictator brooks no dissent.

Cut in on

発音：

[kʌ́t ín άn]

意味：

参加させてやる、儲けさせてやる

To allow someone to participate in, or to make a profit from, something

例文1：

The school was nice enough to cut me in on the heath care plan.

例文2：

The lawmakers are trying to cut publishers in on their articles and book contents which are quoted in Internet search engines.

Diffuse

発音：

[difjúːz]

意味：

幅広く広がった、構成力に欠ける、言葉多く意味が不明な

Spread widely; unorganized and unfocused; verbose and unclear in meaning

例文1：

Gradually, the Roman Empire grew diffuse.

例文2：

The mobs’ anger and resentment weren’t diffuse.

例文3：

This fat book I started reading is diffuse and disorganized.

Ethos

発音：

[íːθɑs]

意味：

共有されている価値観や倫理規範

A set of shared values or ethical standards

例文1：

He acted in adherence to the tenets of the samurai ethos.

例文2：

Their actions were much in the spirit of this ethos.

Fleece

発音：

[flíːs]

意味：

金を巻き上げる、オーバーチャージする

To defraud or overcharge

例文1：

He outsmarted the organization and exposed its plan to fleece the investors.

例文2：

The taxi driver tried to fleece me, but I didn’t let him.

Gauge

発音：

[ɡéidƷ]

意味：

推測する、計る

To guess or estimate; to measure

例文1：

Under the current circumstances, it’s hard to gauge what the beleaguered nation will do next.

例文2：

We can gauge his electoral prospects by how he performs in the next primary.

Hard-wired

発音：

[hάːrd-wáiərd]

意味：

自然としてそうなっており変更不可能な

Naturally so and impossible to change

例文1：

Anxiousness and impatience seem hard-wired into my character.

例文2：

There is no point in reasoning with her. She is hard-wired to be loose with money.