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新年なので目についたそれっぽい記事を。
rekindle
意味 (かたく)〈興味· 感情など〉を再びかき立てる, …を再び燃えたたせる
John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, rekindled the idea in 1740, with an annual new year’s service of resolution – his included a promise never to laugh, which might explain why we also choose punishment over joy.
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あれ？…AmazonのKindleってそういう意味か！これは覚えやすい！こういう紐づけしやすい単語好き！
What if,
意味 もし…したらどうなるだろうか
What if, instead of being motivated by guilt and shame, we leverage our worst habits to serve us better?
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represent
意味 ＜行事· 会合などの場で＞〈人· 団体· 地域など〉を代表する
“But body positivity was a movement created by fat and black women as a space to celebrate themselves because they didn’t see themselves represented,” says Chrissy King, activist and founder of the Body Liberation project.
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emphasising
意味 強調する
“And it’s been co-opted by thinner, straight white women emphasising a little bit of cellulite or fat rolls and saying, ‘I love myself anyway’. That was never the point of the movement.”
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おぉ…辛辣な…。個人的には、広告やアパレルECでは美しい人を見たいです。肥満向けアパレルなら分かるんですがね。。
breezily
意味 さわやかに
When your cat dies and someone breezily says, “Never mind, you can get a new cat,” that’s toxic positivity.
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invalidate
意味 …を無効 [無価値] にする; …の法的効力を失わせる.
When we try to cheer someone up who actually just wants to be heard, “toxic positivity feels invalidating”.
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bear
意味 (話)[通例否定的文脈· 疑問文で]〈不快な事· 人· 物〉に耐える, …を我慢する; [[ bear to do/doing ]]…することに耐える
They want to fix things in part because they can’t bear being near difficult feelings, and this is the second problem with toxic positivity: it often masks a distrust of uncomfortable or unpleasant emotions.
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suppress
意味 抑制する
“But if you suppress one emotion, you suppress them all,” Biswas-Diener says.
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blindside
意味 (米) （死角から）…に突然ぶつかる; 〈人の弱点など〉を攻撃する; …をふいに驚かせる.
Learning to feel difficult emotions makes it easier when things go wrong in future; we won’t be blindsided by both events and our own reactions to them.
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resilient
意味 〈人などが〉回復力のある, 立ち直りの早い.
If you’ve never had to navigate sadness, anger or fear, it’s almost impossible to be resilient.
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unequivocal
意味 あいまいでない, 明白な.
We’ve been socialised into thinking that being well organised is an unequivocal good, without ever asking whether that’s really true.
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panacea
意味 万能薬
Mindfulness is not a mental health panacea – despite new Nice guidance suggesting that mindfulness should be recommended before medication for depression.
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counterproductive
意味 逆効果
“We now have a century of research that shows overwork is counterproductive,” says Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, a four-day week campaigner and author of Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less.
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clutter
意味 乱雑に散らかった物; 散らかった山.
Love your clutter
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“I’m someone who collects a lot of stuff,” says the maximalist designer Bethan Laura Wood, who wears and makes fantastically layered and colourful patterns. “For some people, my home, which has a lot of objects in it, feels uncomfortable. I find being in a space with less stuff in it uncomfortable – so it’s about what brings joy to you.”
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私はミニマリスト寄りですが、物があふれてないと不安な人も居ますよね。周りに強要しなければ皆好きに生きていいよ！
incidental
意味 [通例[名]の前で]付随的な, 2 次的な; 臨時の
One of the pleasures of an invitation to someone’s home is seeing their mix of precious and incidental objects, telling the story of their life.
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pursuit
意味 追求
“The pursuit of meaning is not fundamentally a bad thing,” says Wendy Syfret, author of The Sunny Nihilist: How a Meaningless Life Can Make You Truly Happy.
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gruelling
意味 厳しい
“Before you try diets or gruelling exercise programmes, spend one week treating yourself and your body the way that you would want the person you love most to speak to themselves,” says Shahroo Izadi, a behaviour change expert and author of The Last Diet, about how to improve our relationships with food and our body.
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as opposed to A
意味 A ではなくて, A とは反対 [対照的] に
Many of Izadi’s clients focus on the outcome – weight loss – as opposed to adjusting their behaviour.
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deserve
意味 〈人· 行いなどが〉〈称賛· 報酬· 罰など〉に値する, ふさわしい; [[ deserve to do ]]…するに値する
This is not how we deserve to experience food, she says.
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Embrace
意味 (かたく) （熱心に）〈考え· 提案など〉を受け入れる, 採用する.
Embrace being single
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compromise
意味 [C][行為では[U]]＜…との/…の間の＞ 妥協, 譲り合い, 歩み寄り
She says life (and parenting) is easier and involves less compromise than when she was married.
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この「compromise」を感じるのが苦手→人と暮らすのが苦痛→生涯独身なんですが、同じような性格で言語勉強好きな人達とは繋がりたいんです。無二の親友になれそう。
upsetting
意味 [通例 be ～]（人を） 動揺 [心配] させる (ような); 悩ませる.
“The question is how you’re going to handle it. There are times when anger is functional, and there are times when it’s not. There’s a big difference between in-the-moment anger, and using that anger at some future time. So, do you explode at a work meeting? Or do you think, ‘What that person said is upsetting. I’m going to address it, but not now.’ You can’t really tell anger to go away, because it’s too strong – it’s high energy, it’s not comfortable and it’s going to take some time to be calm.”
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アンガーマネジメントは一生の課題ですね…。478呼吸をすれば数分後には落ち着くことが分かっていても、苛ついた瞬間に表に出してしまうことはあるのでね。
side hustle
意味 a part-time job that a person does as well as their regular job oxfordlearnersdictionaries
“I’m not about to give in to people who say I should have a side hustle or improve myself.”
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moan
意味 (ややくだけて) ＜…について/人に＞ 不平を言う, 愚痴をこぼす (on) ＜about, over/to, at＞
“We’re frightened that we’re going to miss out, and that no one will notice we’ve gone. We moan about notifications, but [many of us] don’t turn them off because we like them and they make us feel busy and important.”
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