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veg out

2018年07月04日 | 英単語
Reader's Digest 5月号の記事 'How to Create an Aha! Moment' からの引用です。
The default mode network, as Dr. Raichle came to call it, is crackling with activity, burning perhaps 20 times the metabolic resources of the conscious brain. So the brain's resting-state circuitry--which is turned on, paradoxically, when you stop focusing on a problem and just veg out--is very likely the best place to park a problem, for it employs the best, wisest, and most creative (though not necessarily fastest-working) mechanics.
"veg out" は "11/29/2010" にも取り上げているので復習です。
・Collins Dictionary: to relax in an inert passive way; vegetate: vegging out in front of the television set
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to relax and spend time doing very little: I'm exhausted - I think I'll just go home and veg out in front of the TV tonight.
The Phrase Finderの次の説明はとても参考になります。
Relax in a slothful and mindless manner.: This phrase derives from the association of vegetables with mental incapacity; in the way that mentally disabled people are sometimes referred to as vegetables. 'Couch potato' comes from the same notion.
The term originated in the 1990s. Most of the early uses of it come from the London literary elite, although the earliest I've found is in the 1990 film Pretty Woman. In that, Julia Roberts' character uses this line: "Let's watch old movies all night... we'll just veg out in front of the TV."
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