From the headline of this article at The Atlantic.
上記の文で、bookend の意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "bookend" mean?
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解答
意味：英辞郎によると、
～を〔ブックエンドのように両脇から〕はさむ
Answer
According to Merriam-Webster:to serve as or mark the beginning and ending of (something): to be the first and last parts or events of (something)
Examples
- Steven Spielberg bookended "Saving Private Ryan" with 5 pointless opening minutes and 5 even more pointless closing minutes.
- … a movie that, together with All the President's Men, bookends the era of heroic investigative journalism. — Rand Richards Cooper
- This account is based on interviews with people involved in and familiar with the discussions and negotiations that stretched between Mr. Musk’s first tweets and a blog post late Friday night that put a bookend on the deal. — Tim Higgins, WSJ, "Public Bravado, Private Doubts: Inside the Unraveling of Elon Musk’s Tesla Buyout," 27 Aug. 2018
- … the period bookended by the Civil War and the civil rights movement. — Christopher Benfey
- The anthology is bookended by an introductory essay by the editors … and an epilogue … — C. L. Salter
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