tyrant

１．今日の単語は tyrant　世界にはいまだ多くの tyrant がいます。油断はなりません。

The Far Right Calls Biden a “Tyrant” Over Vaccine Rules Most Americans Back – President Joe Biden announced on Thursday a number of new strategies to address the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, including vaccine requirements for companies with more than 100 employees, resulting in right-wing media and conservative lawmakers making outlandish and hyperbolic statements in response. (from Truthout)

マスクやワクチンに関する要請をしたバイデン大統領を tyrant と呼ぶ極右派の方々。日本人には理解不能かな、、、

How Hong Kong’s tyrants are taking baby steps towards dictatorship – Hong Kong’s tyrants in diapers have yet to be fully weaned. In fact, it may never happen because their “parents” seem reluctant to allow them to fully develop as they worry that the offspring might not be up to venturing too far on their own. However, the local Quislings are really trying their best to show their parents in Beijing that they are capable. Sometimes they try too hard and sometimes not hard enough but, all in all, baby steps are being taken to transform that unruly playground once known as the One Country, Two Systems Kindergarten into an entity fit for dictatorship. (from HKFP)

香港の行方も気になります。まだ赤ちゃんのようですが、、、小さな一歩を積み重ねればどうなるか。

Queen sends bizarre celebratory message to Kim Jong-un as tyrant ramps up nukes and starves millions – Her Majesty’s note comes amid World War Three fears after it was revealed Kim has built a new long-range cruise missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons. The Monarch’s message only came to light after Pyongyang issued a press release on behalf of the North Korea tyrant. The release, published by North Korean state media states: “Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), received greetings from Elizabeth II, queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on September 7.” (from The Sun)

本当なのでしょうか。。。でも、tyrant といえばまっさきにこの方が浮かぶ方も多いかな。。。もちろｎエリザベス女王ではないですよ。

Tamir, one of several sons of the exiled ruler, vowed he would liberate his country from the tyrant.

tyrant から国を救います。

Overnight my boss seems to have turned into a tyrant.

一夜にして豹変？！

Since 1804 the country has mostly been ruled by tyrants.

昔話だとよく登場しますね。

２．意味は伝わってきました。では、英英辞典と英和辞典の意味を確認しておきましょう。

a ruler who has unlimited power over other people, and uses it unfairly and cruelly:

You can use tyrant to refer to someone who treats the people they have authority over in a cruel and unfair way.

専制［絶対］君主

暴君、圧政君主

暴君のような［独断専行の］人

今日の単語は

tyrant 暴君

でした

4か月前の単語は palpable 明らかな

https://himekurieitango/palpable