Yuval Noah Harariの "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" を読んでいます。
Lesson 8 (Religion)から引用します。
Just as in the case of rainmaking, so also when it comes to economics, it is the long-honed expertise of religious scholars in reinterpreting texts that makes religion irrelevant. No matter which economic policy Khamenei chooses, he could always square it with the Quran. Hence the Quran is degraded from a source of true knowledge to a source of mere authority.
ここでの "square" の意味を調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: to make two ideas, facts or situations agree or combine well with each other; to agree or be consistent with another idea, fact or situation: What she was being asked to do did not square with her political beliefs.
・Collins Dictionary: If you square two different ideas or actions with each other or if they square with each other, they fit or match each other.: He set out to square his dreams with reality.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to match or agree with something, or to think that one thing is acceptable together with another thing: Her story doesn't quite square with the evidence.
この意味・用法では "square with" で覚えた方が良さそうだ。
Lesson 8 (Religion)から引用します。
Just as in the case of rainmaking, so also when it comes to economics, it is the long-honed expertise of religious scholars in reinterpreting texts that makes religion irrelevant. No matter which economic policy Khamenei chooses, he could always square it with the Quran. Hence the Quran is degraded from a source of true knowledge to a source of mere authority.
ここでの "square" の意味を調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: to make two ideas, facts or situations agree or combine well with each other; to agree or be consistent with another idea, fact or situation: What she was being asked to do did not square with her political beliefs.
・Collins Dictionary: If you square two different ideas or actions with each other or if they square with each other, they fit or match each other.: He set out to square his dreams with reality.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to match or agree with something, or to think that one thing is acceptable together with another thing: Her story doesn't quite square with the evidence.
この意味・用法では "square with" で覚えた方が良さそうだ。
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