From the headline of this article at The Hill.
上記の文で、too close to call の意味は?
In the sentence above, what does "too close to call" mean?
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解答
意味:英辞郎によると、
接戦で勝敗の予測がつかない、わずかな差で予断を許さない
Answer
According to The Free Dictionary:Too close of a competition to identify a clear winner.
Etymology/語源
Dictionary.comによると、この表現は、スポーツから来ている。1600年代中頃からスポーツのおけるcallはa judgment(判断、審判)の意味で使用されている。1960年代からこの表現は、選挙前の調査で使用されるようになって、やがて選挙の結果に対しても使われるようになった。
According to Dictionary.com:
This expression comes from sports, where call has signified “a judgment” since the mid-1600s. In the 1960s it began to be applied to pre-election polls and then to the outcome of elections.
Examples
- Right now the election is still too close to call.
- Exit polls in Britain say that today's parliamentaryelection was too close to call.
- That ball didn't miss by much but it was too close to call,
- In the Senate, the count is too close to call at this point.
- The election was too close to call, so they decided to have a runoff.
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