Question of the Day #434

"And often when a story doesn’t reach the threshold of various forms of newsworthiness or informativeness or it doesn’t seem like something that I can do justice to, then I don’t do the story."
From the third paragraph of this article at Intelligencer.

上記の文で、do justice toの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "do justice to" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、


1. ～に正当な取り扱いをする、～を公平に評価する、～の良さ［持ち前］を十分に発揮させる、（人）を実物どおりに表す、～の本当の価値を認める
2. ～を堪能する、～を十分に食べる、～を満喫する

言うまでもなく、問題文の意味は前者です。

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

to treat or show (something or someone) in a way that is as good as it should be

Examples

• Words could never do justice to her beauty.
• The movie does not do justice to the book.
• a brief summary that does not do justice to the complexity of this issue
• Your plan is excellent - it really does justice to all of the ideas we put forward.
• To do justice to her beauty, you should photograph her in nature; not in a studio.

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