おはようございます。KANOです。本日はこちらの記事から。
長ーい記事だった。でもvoxは読みやすい。
bizarre
意味 奇妙な
So what is it about American culture that produces these bizarre panics?
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これ最近の記事でも調べたわーくやしいー。
latch onto A
意味 A を理解する, 飲み込む.A に強い興味を持つ.
Her show — and her broader work — is all about understanding why we latch onto the stories we latch onto, and what that says about us and our culture.
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sum up A
意味 （簡潔に）A〈人· 事など〉を表現する.
Seriously, can you sum up what happened in the ’80s and ’90s with the Satanic Panic? How was this even possible?
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ignite
意味 (かたく)…に点火する, 火をつける, （突然）…を発火させる; …を燃やす.〈人· 心など〉を刺激する, 興奮させる.
Let’s talk about the spark that ignites the fire.
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allegations
意味 申し立て、主張
What were some of the actual allegations?
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connote
意味 (かたく)〈言葉· 名前などが〉…を言外に意味する; …を含意 [暗示] する (imply).
And when they found a black robe in the closet of one of the women who ran the McMartin preschool, they took it as a black robe for a satanic ceremony, connoting that this woman was a witch. And of course, it was a graduation robe.
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最後の一文が…怖いわ。
The nuclear family opening up to the world felt new and worrying to people.
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核家族って、まんま「nuclear family」なんだ…英語直訳語だったんだね。
extension
意味 [U][具体例では an (…) ～]（力· 影響· 領土などの） 拡大, 拡張, 伸長; 範囲, 程度
Is QAnon just an extension of the ’80s panic, or is what we’re seeing today so different that it has to be seen as another species of panic?
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