今日の単語は flummoxed

flummoxed

今日の単語は flummoxed です。ニュアンスがでる単語ですね。まずは辞書から。

so confused that you do not know what to do

perplexed or bewildered

当惑［困惑・混乱］した

めんくらった

例文で雰囲気を見てみましょう

He looked completely flummoxed.

彼は見るからに面食らっていた

Doctors were flummoxed by the boy’s symptoms.

少年の症状にドクター陣も困惑した

Zelenskyy says trapped Ukrainians will ‘fight till the end,’ Pentagon says Russians have been ‘flummoxed’　(from CNBC)

ゼレンスキー大統領の強い意志。ペンタゴンによればロシア軍は度肝を抜かれている、とのこと

Ron Perry | Flummoxed by Government Spending – Once again I am flummoxed! My wife and I each worked hard all our adult lives, paid our taxes and felt blessed to be in the working class in a country that allowed us to do that. Now we are retired and living on a modest retirement and still paying taxes on retirement funds and Social Security. Then this morning (March 31) we heard the news about a new program by L.A. County that is going to give a thousand people $1,000 a month for three years that they can spend any way they want. (One more step toward wealth distribution and socialism.) (from The Signal)

とある読者から編集長への手紙です。自治体から一部の人達への給付金計画について不満のようです。困惑が隠せない。

What Next for the cost-of-living crisis? Even retail Nostradamus Wolfson is flummoxed – Next boss Lord Wolfson is seen as retail’s Nostradamus, with an uncanny ability to predict what will happen not just in retail, but on a broader macroeconomic level. In fact, he was one of the first business people to predict the 2008-09 economic crisis. However, as the UK faces into the biggest cost-of-living squeeze in more than 30 years, even Wolfson is stumped on what to expect next. “We’ve never seen anything like this before and we’re not quite sure how it will pan out,” he admits. “The uncertainties in the year ahead are not ones we’ve had any experience of in the last 20 or 30 years, in terms of the level of inflation in essential goods or inflation in our own products.” (from Retail Gazette)

小売業界のノストラダムスと言われている人物さえも困惑させる現在の状況。生活費上昇危機の次にくるのは何か。あまりに不透明。

今日の単語は

flummoxed 度肝を抜かれる、めんくらう

でした

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