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mutatis mutandis

2018年02月27日 | 英単語

The God Delusion by Richard DawkinsのThe God Delusionを読むことにしました。
まず序文の一部を引用します。
If you feel trapped in the religion of your upbringing, it would be worth asking yourself how this came about. The answer is usually some form of childhood indoctrination. If you are religious at all it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false, knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan, you are the victim of childhood indoctrination. Mutatis mutandis if you were born in Afghanistan.
宗教の信仰は親の影響が最も大きいと言うのは当然の話ですね。最後に出てきたラテン語由来のような "Mutatis mutandis" が分からないので調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: (used when comparing two or more cases or situations) making necessary alterations while not affecting the main point at issue.: what is true of undergraduate teaching in England is equally true, mutatis mutandis, of American graduate schools
・Wiktionary: With the necessary changes being made, with the necessary modifications.: What is said of the army here is to be taken also to apply, mutatis mutandis, to the air force and the navy.
なるほど便利な表現ですね。

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