Question of the Day #255

"Trump reverses course, signs order to keep families together"
From the headline of this article at CNN.com.

上記の文で、reverse course の意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "reverse course" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、


針路を反転する

になるが、比喩的な使い方ができるので、この例文の場合は、「政策を変更する」または「政策を元に戻す」になる。

Answer

According to Stackexchange.com:

"Reverse course" is an idiom. A "course" is the path that a ship or airplane takes to reach its destination. To "reverse course" is to stop and go back the way you came, to head back to your starting point.

Examples

• European Union leaders agreed to suspend visa and investment talks with Russia on Thursday in reaction to its seizure of Crimea, and said they would freeze Russian assets and withdraw from a G8 summit if Russia does not reverse course.
• To revive growth, the ECB needs to stop raising interest rates and reverse course.
• Women 's percentage continues to be low in the higher grades compared to men despite a reverse course in progress.
• By reversing course on the WTO, Putin has again shown himself to be Russia’s master.
• European fixed-income markets rallied strongly as a result, only to reverse course days later when Trichet and his colleagues made it clear that the markets had "misread" him.