Question of the Day #49

"Am I the only one who thinks that President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania are the perfect examples of a sugar daddy and a trophy wife?"

上記の文で、sugar daddyとtrophy wifeの意味は？
In the dialogue above, what does "sugar daddy" and "trophy wife" mean?

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解答

意味： 英辞郎によると、


Sugar daddyは、

〈話〉シュガーダディー、パパ、パトロン◆若い女に金品を貢ぐ中高年の男。

そして、trophy wifeは、


〈話・侮蔑的〉トロフィーワイフ◆金や権力のある男性が自分の社会的地位を誇示するために迎えた（と世間から思われている）若くて美人の妻のこと。

Answer

According to Dictionary.com:

Sugar daddy means:

a wealthy, middle-aged man who spends freely on a young woman inreturn for her companionship or intimacy.

Trophy wife means:

the young, often second, wife of a rich middle-aged man.

Etymology/語源

Online Etymology Dictionaryによると、sugar daddyの語源は、

１９２６年に初めて使用された。

Wiktionaryによると、trophy wifeの語源は、

1989年、Fortune誌の記事の中でJulie Connelly氏が作った言葉で、不動産業のtrophy buildingに例えた。

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary the origin of sugar daddy is:

also sugar-daddy, "elderly man who lavishes gifts on a young woman" [OED], 1926, from sugar + daddy.

According to Wiktionary the origin of trophy wife is:

Coined 1989 by Julie Connelly in a Fortune magazine cover story, by analogy with a real estate trophy building.

Examples

• From the outside, a mutually beneficial, or sugar daddy, relationship seems immoral.
• As seen from that point of view, the sugar daddy might have been a little icy himself about his Sugar Baby.
• In straight relationships with an age gap, words like ‘gold-digger’ and ‘trophy wife ’ get thrown around.
• Its horrific title aside, trophy wife was the closest thing in style, tone, and humor to Modern Family that ABC had ever produced.