今日の単語 overshadow
O 0件のコメントovershadow
１．今日の単語は overshadow です。特に難しくも感じないですよね。文脈で意味もわかりそうです。ただ、この単語を使っているかと聞かれると、ぜんぜん使ったことないです。（私は）使えるようになるため、例文から学んでみたいと思います。
Troubling fourth act of Bill Gates’s life can overshadow the three that came before it. (from the Economic Times)
ビルゲイツさんの離婚に関するあれこれの記事ですね。完璧な人なんていませんから、このタイトルもちょっと厳しいと思いますが。
Osaka distraction threatens to overshadow Roland Garros amid potential ban (from the Australian )
大坂なおみ選手の言動が物議をかもしておりますが、、、頑張ってほしいな。
When an Iconic Founder Overshadows the Family Business – It’s not uncommon to see family businesses in which the founder or leader plays such a public role that they become “iconic.” Often, the lasting effects of an iconic founder can stretch beyond his or her impact on the family to thwart the growth of the business going forward. An icon can cultivate and leave behind a “workforce of the past,” with loyal long-term employees defaulting to the icon’s preferred ways of managing at the expense of fresh ideas. They can nurture a culture of “yes” people rather than independent thinkers, and drive creative next-generation family members away from the business into their own endeavors where they have more control. When family members recognize the complexities of having a truly iconic founder, they can feel trapped. But there are steps they can take to prevent an iconic founder from overshadowing the next generation’s chance to grow and develop. (from Harvard Business Review)
Harvard Business Review の記事はいつも長いので読むのが大変ですが、記事の最初にサマリーがあるのに今更ながら気が付きました。ありがたき。
Karen has always felt overshadowed by her famous elder sister.
日本語ならどんな表現にしますか。
My happiness was overshadowed by the bad news.
意外と悩みます。日本語。
Fears for the President’s safety could overshadow his peace-making mission.
この場合は日本語に訳しやすいですね。
The mayor said stations should be in the open, near housing, not overshadowed by trees or walls.
もともとの意味ですね。このイメージを映像で頭の中に持っておこう。
２．意味はわかりました。では、英英辞典と英和辞典の意味を確認してみます。
to cause someone or something to seem less important or less happy
(of a building) to be much taller than another building and therefore block the sun from it.
to cast a shadow, over with shadows, clouds, darkness, etc. ; darken or obscure
to make sad or hang heavily over; cast a pall on
If an unpleasant event or feeling overshadows something, it makes it less happy or enjoyable
If you are overshadowed by a person or thing, you are less successful, important or impressed than they are.
If one building, tree, or large structure overshadows another, it stands near it, is much taller than it, and cast a shadow over it.
影を投げかける
見劣りする
～を暗くする
今日の単語は
overshadow 影を落とす、見劣りする
でした