2023年12月3日 星期日

mindless, stock car, reality television, mindful, ethos


Oxford’s Word of the Year is based on usage evidence drawn from its continually updated corpus of more than 22 billion words, gathered from news sources across the English-speaking world. The selection, according to Oxford, is meant “to reflect the ethos, mood or preoccupations” of the preceding year, while also having “potential as a term of lasting cultural significance.”


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 “We have to kick the habit of just mindlessly following big companies,” said Koji Okuda, a director at Ota’s Industrial Promotion Organization. “Ota needs to become to manufacturing what Kobe is to beef.”大田區產業振興協會(Ota City Industrial Promotion Organization)的一名官員奧田耕士(Koji Okuda)說,“我們必須戒掉盲目追隨大公司的習慣。大田需要在製造業建立名聲,就像神戶在牛肉上的名聲那樣。”


Stock Cars and Chicken Wings
By ROBIN FINN
The conservative commentator and author takes a weekly break with a day devoted to watching political talk shows, stock car racing and “mindless” reality television.

mindless

 
音節
mind • less
発音
máindlis
[形]
1 〈人・行為などが〉思慮のない, 愚かな;〈仕事などが〉頭を使わなくてよい
mindless behavior
愚かな行為.
2 非情な, 容赦しない.
3 ((叙述))(…に)心を配らない;(…を)意に介しない((of ...))
He wanted to buy the car, mindless of the cost.
値段にかかわらずその車を買いたいと思っていた.
mind・less・ly
[副]
mind・less・ness
[名]

stóck càr[stóck càr]
1 レース用改造車.
2 ((米))《鉄道》家畜車.

n.
  1. An automobile of a standard make modified for racing.
  2. A railroad car for carrying livestock.
reality television/ reality TV

現実[日常]テレビ:庶民の日常生活を撮ったホームビデオで構成される低予算のテレビ番組.

 cf. mindful



the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution

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