今日の単語 perfunctory
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１．Perfunctory が今日の単語。ネットニュースや見出しから意味を想像してみましょう。per + functory ですね。
‘The Big Bull’ movie review: Perfunctory storytelling, lacking an original vision – Despite Abhishek Bachchan’s best efforts to portray the fallen stalwart of the Bombay stock exchange, the film comes across as a drab attempt to glorify its problematic protagonist (from the Hindu)
映画の評論ですね。なかなか手厳しい。。。
Raj labels US report on Fiji ‘perfunctory’ – There were no consultations held with the Fijian government and independent institutions in the formulation of the 2020 report on human rights in Fiji by the United States Department of State. Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Commission Director, Ashwin Raj has labelled the report perfunctory, scant in its interpretation and deconstruction of the law, saying it is saturated with generalisations and is selective in its treatment of facts. (from FBC News)
フィジーでの人権ついての報告書が perfunctory だと批判しているようです。
The Irish Times view on gender equality: a manifesto for change – The Citizens’ Assembly’s recommendations on gender equality go well beyond the pious and perfunctory formulas that so often shape discussion in the area. Few passages in Bunreacht na hÉireann are showing their age more than the clause that stipulates that the State shall “endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home”. For some, those words have always been irrelevant. Others regard them benignly. As then supreme court judge Susan Denham observed in 2001, the clause recognised “the significant role played by wives and mothers in the home” and the “immense benefit” of that work. It did not exclude women from other roles, she remarked. But there is no doubt that the wording, which was fiercely controversial even in 1937, reflected an extremely narrow conception of women’s experiences and their role in society. Calls for its removal have grown louder with the years, and the fresh recommendation by the Citizens’ Assembly, which voted by 80 per cent to replace the passage, should give extra weight to the argument. (from the Irish Times)
男女平等とかいった問題は、perfunctory になりがちです。
There was nothing perfunctory about his thanks. He meant what he said.
いつもこんな感じで使えたらいいですね。
His smile was perfunctory.
こちらは逆ですね。まあ、日常生活ではあることですね。
She asked a few perfunctory questions about my family and then ended the conversation.
これもよくありますね。
２．英英辞典と英和辞典の訳をみてみましょう。
done quickly, without taking care or interest
done quickly, without showing that you care or have much interest
performed by merely as a routine duty, hasty or superficial
lacking interest or care, or enthusiasm, indifferent, apathetic
形だけの、通り一遍の
気のない、投げやりな
いいかげんな、おざなりな
３．類義語もちょっと気になります。
cursory, offhand, sketchy, superficial, apathetic, careless, cool, disinterested, inattentive, indifferent, etc.
今日の単語は
perfunctory おざなりな
でした