Jennifer WeinerのFly Away Homeを読んでいます。
The only thing that kept her sane, that kept her from flying down the highway, back to Philadelphia, and begging Doug to take her back, was that tiny ember that had kindled in her heart when he’d not only rejected her but rejected, implicitly, her son. Milo was not expendable. Crazy in love as she might have been, she would never have foisted him on a man who didn’t want him.
"foisted" の意味を辞書で見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Impose an unwelcome or unnecessary person or thing on.: Don't let anyone foist inferior goods on you.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to force someone to have or experience something unwanted or undesirable: She charged that junk food is being foisted on children by TV commercials.
前者の辞書に次の語源説明がありました。
Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘palm a false die, so as to produce it at the right moment’): from Dutch dialect vuisten ‘take in the hand’, from vuist (see fist).
"fist" と関係があるのを知ると、この語源が納得できそう。
The only thing that kept her sane, that kept her from flying down the highway, back to Philadelphia, and begging Doug to take her back, was that tiny ember that had kindled in her heart when he’d not only rejected her but rejected, implicitly, her son. Milo was not expendable. Crazy in love as she might have been, she would never have foisted him on a man who didn’t want him.
"foisted" の意味を辞書で見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Impose an unwelcome or unnecessary person or thing on.: Don't let anyone foist inferior goods on you.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to force someone to have or experience something unwanted or undesirable: She charged that junk food is being foisted on children by TV commercials.
前者の辞書に次の語源説明がありました。
Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘palm a false die, so as to produce it at the right moment’): from Dutch dialect vuisten ‘take in the hand’, from vuist (see fist).
"fist" と関係があるのを知ると、この語源が納得できそう。
トータル
