Muhammad Yunusの "Creating a World Without Poverty" を読んでいます。
Another misconception is that developing nations must recapitulate the path of development followed by developed countries decades or even centuries ago. New technologies hold out the potential for leapfrogging steps in the process. It is not necessary for a developing country in Asia, Africa, or Latin America to build a network of land lines to provide telephone service, as was done in Europe and North America in the late nineteenth and early twenties centuries. Instead, those regions can jump directly to wireless cellular telephone service, saving vast amonts of money, years of development time, and precious nonrenewable resources (such as the copper once use in making telophone lines) in the process.
"recapitulate" は次の意味でよく耳/目にします。
・Oxford English Dictionary: to repeat or give a summary of what has already been said, decided, etc.: To recapitulate briefly, the three main points are these…
引用文での使われ方は次の生物学での意味に近いですね。
・Collins Dictionary: (of an animal) to repeat (stages of its evolutionary development) during the embryonic stages of its life
・Wiktionary: (biology, of an organism) To mirror or repeat in analogous form, especially in reference to an individual's development passing through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development.: Similarly this concept of unity provided a powerful impetus for embryological studies and the idea that fetal development recapitulates the steps of phylogenetic development.
Another misconception is that developing nations must recapitulate the path of development followed by developed countries decades or even centuries ago. New technologies hold out the potential for leapfrogging steps in the process. It is not necessary for a developing country in Asia, Africa, or Latin America to build a network of land lines to provide telephone service, as was done in Europe and North America in the late nineteenth and early twenties centuries. Instead, those regions can jump directly to wireless cellular telephone service, saving vast amonts of money, years of development time, and precious nonrenewable resources (such as the copper once use in making telophone lines) in the process.
"recapitulate" は次の意味でよく耳/目にします。
・Oxford English Dictionary: to repeat or give a summary of what has already been said, decided, etc.: To recapitulate briefly, the three main points are these…
引用文での使われ方は次の生物学での意味に近いですね。
・Collins Dictionary: (of an animal) to repeat (stages of its evolutionary development) during the embryonic stages of its life
・Wiktionary: (biology, of an organism) To mirror or repeat in analogous form, especially in reference to an individual's development passing through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development.: Similarly this concept of unity provided a powerful impetus for embryological studies and the idea that fetal development recapitulates the steps of phylogenetic development.
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