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若いテロ未遂犯に名作を読ませて反省を促すというニュース。猛批判ですよねぇ、さすがにこの時代にそれはないわー。
sentence
意味 ＜…の刑を＞〈人〉に宣告する ＜to＞; ＜…するよう＞〈人〉に判決を下す ＜to do＞ （しばしば受け身で）
A white supremacist in the UK found with bomb-making instructions has been sentenced to read Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” and other classics to avoid going to prison, reported The Telegraph.
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possession
意味 所持
John was found guilty in August of possession of terrorist materials, according to Lincolnshire Police.
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white supremacist
意味 白人至上主義者
Investigators found an electronic publication called “Anarchy Cookbook Version 2000” in his hard drive, which contains bomb-making instructions. Police said they also found almost 68,000 documents in his hard drives containing “a wealth of white supremacist and antisemitic material.”
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Per
意味 それぞれ, 各….
Per the BBC, the Lincolnshire Police described John as a “white supremacist with neo-Nazi ideology.”
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folly
意味 (かたく) [U] （非常に） 愚かであること, 愚かさ; [C]ばかげた行為 （[!]通例重大な結果を招く行為について用いる）
Judge Spencer called John’s crime “an act of teenage folly” and an isolated incident, reported iTV.
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by the skin of one’s teeth
意味 (くだけて) かろうじて (narrowly), 危ないところで.
The judge added that John had escaped prison only by “the skin of his teeth.”
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「首の皮一枚で」「間一髪で」なニュアンスかな。
