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こういう挿絵大好き。内容は長くて難しくて理解できませんでした！
literal
意味 [通例[名]の前で]文字通りの, 元の言葉に忠実な （⇔figurative）
People with power, he suggests, can take a literal revenge on their enemies: an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
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triumph
意味 勝利
But their triumph could not produce much by way of concrete action to change their lives.
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disarray
意味 混乱
Johnson, unlike Trump, does not want never-ending disarray.
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work out
意味 〈事が〉うまくいく, よくなる
Even without the pandemic, things would not have worked out like that.
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inexorably
意味 容赦なく
Brexit does not really change much, except, slowly but inexorably, for the worse.
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extract
意味 ＜…から＞〈物〉を取り除く; 抜き出す ＜from＞
Because the EU was an imaginary enemy, all that has been extracted from cutting the UK’s ties to it is imaginary revenge.
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extravagant
意味 贅沢な
More damagingly, he raised the question of who had paid for Johnson’s extravagant renovation of his flat in Downing Street:
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with a vengeance
意味 (くだけて) 猛烈に; 激しく; 極度に; まさしく
The politics of revenge is back with a vengeance.
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「vengeance」はそもそも「復讐」という意味なのでこの一文が面白くなってますね。
burlesque
意味 [C][U]バーレスク, 茶番, パロディ, 戯画 (小説· 劇· 言動などを茶化したもの).
The scandal that has been called “cash for curtains” or “cash for cushions” has the same burlesque quality.
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gushing
意味 大げさに感情を表す.[[名]の前で]ほとばしる, あふれる.
The trouble started with a rather gushing cover story on her by Anne McElvoy in the April 2021 issue of Tatler, a magazine for rich people and their fans.
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