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juicy factoid

2017年01月11日 | 英語の本を読む

Reader's Digest 11月号の記事 "Secrets the FBI May Not Want You to Know" から引用します。
Jucy factoid from inside the nation's most private agency
Even if you've never been arrested, your fingerprints are probably on file. If you've had your prints taken as part of a backgound check, they likely live in the FBI's Next Generation Identification system, a database of more than 77 million prints.
"Jucy factoid" とは何でしょうか? 辞書には "jucy factoid" の項目は見当たらなかったのでそれぞれの単語の意味を調べます。
juicy:
・Oxford English Dictionary: Interestingly scandalous.: juicy gossip: The media is interested in content that will appeal to their readers, which should preferably be juicy.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: used to describe information that is especially interesting because it is shocking or personal: I've got some really juicy gossip for you.
次に "factoid" をチェックします。
・Oxford English Dictionary: An assumption or speculation that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact.: When does a piece of data go from being a factoid to being a fact?
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: a) an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print b) a briefly stated and usually trivial fact: The book is really just a collection of interesting factoids.
考えてみれば "factoid" の接尾辞 "oid" は "android" の接尾辞 "oid" と同じですね。

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