Reader's Digest 7月号からブログに取り上げる単語、表現は4つですが、その内の三つがSNSを話題にした記事からで、今日の単語もその記事からです。
We're quick to forget that the web wasn't invented by 13-year-olds; it was created by today's seniors. I'd never try foisting social networks on those with no interest or with an inherent aversion to frivolous twittering (hi, Dad). But don't let the talk of age divides put you off. There's nothing to stop boomers from reclaiming the network their own generation created.
上の引用文に出てきた "foisting" の意味が分かりません。辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Impose an unwelcome or unnecessary person or thing on: ‘don’t let anyone foist inferior goods on you’
・Collins Dictionary: often foll by off or on to sell or pass off (something, esp an inferior article) as genuine, valuable, etc: There are also people who are keen to foist their religion on you.
なるほど、分かりました。ダメ押しでいつものようにVocabulary.comも見ます。
Did your parents foist your baby sister on you when they went out? It means they forced her on you. Anything — a person or object or idea — can be foisted if it's done by force upon an unwilling party.
Foist used to imply a degree of deception rather than just brute force, but that's a meaning that's pretty much lost now: if something's foisted upon you, you know about it. The earlier meaning comes from an old Dutch term for palming a loaded die into a game. Today we call that cheating.