Oct.5のThe Japan Times Onlineの記事タイトルを引用します。
BOJ meet to focus on steps to ameliorate yen's strength
"ameliorate" は見た事があるような単語ですが直ぐには意味が浮かんできません。記事の本文を読みます。
The Bank of Japan kicked off a two-day policy meeting Monday to discuss additional monetary easing steps as the yen's strength increases concerns about downside risks to the economy.
"ameliorate yen's strength" はこの場合は円高を抑えるとの意味だと言う事が分かります。 辞書で確認します。
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: to make better or more tolerable; This medicine should help ameliorate the pain.
・V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary: to improve or make better
Tips: Ameliorate is derived from the Latin melior, "better." You'll also notice that meliorate, an earlier form of ameliorate, is a synonym. Ameliorate is related to alleviate and mitigate, but is different in that it is specific to making something better, while the other words connote easing or lessening something. Ameliorate is used to describe improving something that really needs improving.
日本経済も早く良くなって欲しいものです。
BOJ meet to focus on steps to ameliorate yen's strength
"ameliorate" は見た事があるような単語ですが直ぐには意味が浮かんできません。記事の本文を読みます。
The Bank of Japan kicked off a two-day policy meeting Monday to discuss additional monetary easing steps as the yen's strength increases concerns about downside risks to the economy.
"ameliorate yen's strength" はこの場合は円高を抑えるとの意味だと言う事が分かります。 辞書で確認します。
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: to make better or more tolerable; This medicine should help ameliorate the pain.
・V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary: to improve or make better
Tips: Ameliorate is derived from the Latin melior, "better." You'll also notice that meliorate, an earlier form of ameliorate, is a synonym. Ameliorate is related to alleviate and mitigate, but is different in that it is specific to making something better, while the other words connote easing or lessening something. Ameliorate is used to describe improving something that really needs improving.
日本経済も早く良くなって欲しいものです。
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