今日の単語 Amenable

Amenable

１．今日の単語 amenable まずは例文を読んでみましょう

‘Childhood cancers are more amenable to treatment and have better cure rates as compared to adult cancers’ (from Times of India)

Customers are amenable to augmented reality (from the Business of Retail）

Mr. Johnson is in a position to make his party more amenable to minorities, especially blacks. He should seize the moment.

2. 思いのほか幅広く使われている単語のようです。英英辞典の解説を見てみたいと思います。

ready or willing to answer, act, agree or yield; open to influence, persuasion or advice; agreeable, submissive or tractable

willing to accept or be influenced by a suggestion

3. 英和辞典の説明を見てみましょう

(指示、忠告、提案などに）素直に従う、逆らわずに受け入れる

従う義務がある

制裁を受けて

検査することができる

４．類義語が理解の役にたちそうです。

agreeable, responsive, susceptible, influenceable, manageable, obedient, open, persuadable, docile, etc.

5. 　多くの例文に接したほうがよさそうな単語だと感じます

While no one yet knows how wide … margins can go, contracts establish royalty rates and project them far into the future. Many agents have thus pushed for a term of license of just a few years. Publishers, however, are not always amenable.— Steven M. Zeitchik, Publishers Weekly, 14 June 1999

She might be more amenable to the idea if you explained how much money it would save.

“An early cancer is more amenable to cure than one which has been present for some time. Therefore, it is important to pay attention to the first suspicious sign or symptom,” (from the Indian Express)

Trump reportedly entertained a plan to replace the acting attorney general with a different Justice Department lawyer who was more amenable to pursuing his unfounded claims of voter fraud. (from the Philadelphia Inquirer)

今日の単語は

amenable

でした

昨日の単語は perpetrate

今日の単語 Perpetrate – ほぼ、日めくり英単語 (himekurieitango.com)

1週間前の単語は repeal

今日の単語 Repeal – ほぼ、日めくり英単語 (himekurieitango.com)

1か月前の単語は ingenious と ingenuous

今日の単語は ２つ　Ingenious と Ingenuous – ほぼ、日めくり英単語 (himekurieitango.com)