Yasuo Uchidaの "The Togakushi Legend Murders" を読んでいます。
Takemura always cautioned himself never to forget, even when dealing with a suspect, that human pain was still human pain. Some of his colleagues, of course, considered him a bleeding heart. They felt their job was to exercise the authority of the state to its limits, and any sympathy toward the target of an investigation was to them taboo.
"bleeding heart" は文脈からすると同情し易い人を意味している様ですが、辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: a person who you think is too kind towards people who do not deserve it: They thought he was a bleeding-heart liberal.
・Collins Dictionary: If you describe someone as a bleeding heart, you are criticizing them for being sympathetic towards people who are poor and suffering, without doing anything practical to help.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: someone who shows too much sympathy for everyone: [before noun] I'm sick of bleeding-heart liberal politicians.
どの定義も肯定的ではありませんが、特にCollins Dictionaryの定義は辛辣かつ皮肉を込めていますね。
Takemura always cautioned himself never to forget, even when dealing with a suspect, that human pain was still human pain. Some of his colleagues, of course, considered him a bleeding heart. They felt their job was to exercise the authority of the state to its limits, and any sympathy toward the target of an investigation was to them taboo.
"bleeding heart" は文脈からすると同情し易い人を意味している様ですが、辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: a person who you think is too kind towards people who do not deserve it: They thought he was a bleeding-heart liberal.
・Collins Dictionary: If you describe someone as a bleeding heart, you are criticizing them for being sympathetic towards people who are poor and suffering, without doing anything practical to help.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: someone who shows too much sympathy for everyone: [before noun] I'm sick of bleeding-heart liberal politicians.
どの定義も肯定的ではありませんが、特にCollins Dictionaryの定義は辛辣かつ皮肉を込めていますね。
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