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中国共産党の変化について。毛沢東から習近平まで。
とても長くて難しかったので途中までにした。いつかちゃんと読み直したい。
belief
意味 [C][通例～s]信仰, 信心; 信条 (faith)
Roughly two thousand years ago, the arrival in China of Buddhism from India brought major changes not only to China’s belief systems but to many aspects of its daily life.
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disturbing
意味 不安にさせる, 心をかき乱す, 不穏な, 衝撃的な
Then, beginning about two hundred years ago, the only comparably large foreign cultural influence on China began with the arrival of British gunboats on the Chinese coast. This was more disturbing.
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perish
意味 (書)〈物· 国· 人が〉崩壊 [消滅] する (collapse)
To China the West seemed to say, “Catch up or perish.”
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内容は不穏だけど、この一文かっこいいなあ。
watchword
意味 [C]合言葉, スローガン; モットー, 標語.
Today, Xi Jinping’s watchword is “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.”
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by definition
意味 定義上, 当然のこととして
Some of his claims resemble Mao’s of the late 1960s: the East is rising over the West; China is a new model for the world; the Great Leader is correct by definition; Chinese people everywhere can identify with the New China and feel proud.
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rapturous
意味 (かたく)[通例[名]の前で]熱狂的な, 熱烈な
He and his classmates had to sleep and do their physics homework on a gymnasium floor. Still, Fang was rapturous.
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