おはようございます。KANOです。本日はこちらの記事から。
中国はやることが中国ですよね。独特。
transaction
意味 [C] ＜…の間の＞ （個々の） 取引; ＜人と人の間の＞ 交流
Marriage was a transaction between families, not a love match.
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invariably
意味 変わることなく; きまって, いつも (always)
It led, almost invariably, to a woman moving into her husband’s home.
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dynasty
意味 王朝
Since the Qin dynasty in the third century, a family without adult sons might recruit a poor but healthy man to “lend his strength” to their household as a live-in son-in-law.
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constitutes
意味 構成する
Modern China is becoming more open-minded about what constitutes a good family, and with good reason.
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skew
意味 〈情報· 規則など〉を曲げる, ゆがめる, 〈事実など〉を曲解する; …を斜めにする.
Years of illegal, sex-selective abortions skewed China’s birth ratio.
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census
意味 国勢調査
The census finds that 111 boys are born for every 100 girls.
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outnumber
意味 …を数の上で上回る, …より多い
What is more, women students have outnumbered men on college campuses since 2009.
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affluent
意味 裕福な
The Beijing College Students Panel Survey, a big study, found that women students are more likely than men to come from affluent big-city families (and to study liberal arts).
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obstacle
意味 障害
A native of a small city, Meizhou, he lacks a Guangzhou hukou, another obstacle to buying property.
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中国のこの戸籍制度、中国語勉強中に教科書例文で知ったんですが、他国には理解できないですよね…生まれた場所から基本的に動けないなんて絶望するわ。
vocational
意味 [通例[名]の前で]職業訓練 [指導] の (ための); 職業の; 職業上の.
Men on his books must be graduates of vocational college or university, earn 100,000 yuan ($15,540) a year and be taller than 1.70m.
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Crucially
意味 重要なのは
Crucially, they do not need to own property in Hangzhou.
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crestfallen
意味 [通例 be ～]〈人が〉（予想外に失敗して） 落胆して, がっかりして, しょげて.
“Don’t give up,” he calls after the crestfallen youth.
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scourge
意味 (かたく· 文)[通例単数形で]多大な災難 [苦難] (を引き起こすもの [事件, 人]), 天罰, たたり.
Though he praises self-made men, Mr Li’s business model is really founded on inequality, a scourge of ancient and modern China alike.
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