今日の単語 proffer

proffer

今日の単語は proffer です。offer に似ていますが意味はどうでしょうか。

to offer something by holding it out, or to offer advice or an opinion:

If you proffer something to someone, you hold it towards them so that they can take it or touch it.

差し出す、提案する

意味も似ていましたね。では、例文で使い方を確認しましょう。

He shook the warmly proffered hand.

優しく差し出された手を彼は振り払った

I didn’t think it wise to proffer an opinion.

ここで意見を言うのは賢明ではないと思った

She proffered a gloved hand.

彼女は手袋をした手を差し出した

I sent in today’s discourse very late and that was because I had already done a follow up write up to “Barbaric, uncivilized and unreligious” which was published last week. Under the title, “Taming the madness in the country”, I had gone ahead once again to proffer solutions to the growing insecurity in the country. The solutions I put forward are not the usual ones we hear, like “increase number of security personnel”, “take decisive action”, which have become clichés now. I came through with very new and fresh recipe for dealing with deviants stoking the land. (from The Sun)

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今日の単語は

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