おはようございます。KANOです。本日はこちらの記事から。
小説よりこういうノンフィクションの方がいいんでしょうけど、洋書で読みたいのは小説なんですよねぇ。
そしてこの本の内容は重すぎる。
institution
意味 [C] （公共機関· 大学などの大規模な） 施設; 組織, 機構
Smith begins with Monticello, the plantation owned by Thomas Jefferson, which, like many institutions of its time was built mainly by the labor of enslaved Africans.
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takes the shine off A
意味 (くだけて)A を見劣りさせる; A の輝きを奪う.
‘”It really takes the shine off the guy,'” they say to Smith.
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fuel
意味 …に勢いを与える.
How the Northern factories and European industry also were fueled by the labor of the enslaved.
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wreak
意味 (かたく)〈損害など〉をもたらす
It is important to understand the relationship of slavery to colonization; it is important to understand the history of Africa as existing before this violence as well as understanding the legacy that this violence has wrought.
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これは既出単語で、しかも同じ形（wrought）で調べたことあるよ…ふー。
visceral
意味 (文) 本能的な, 根底からの.
The detail and depth of the storytelling is vivid and visceral, making history present and real.
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denial
意味 [U][具体例では[C]] 否定, 否認
Consider the denial of Sally Hemings.
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The past is not past; it is present.
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簡単な単語だけで、記憶に残る一行。
obfuscate
意味 (かたく) （ごまかすために）…を難解にする; うやむやにする, 煙に巻く.
There is a reason Texas tried to obfuscate slavery in textbooks, calling enslaved Africans “happy” and “workers.”
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格好いい単語。文章の内容はひどい話なんだけど。
