Question of the Day #605

A second point, he said, is “to bring home to a wider public, the politicians, the press, just the nature of the way the Chinese Communist Party operates, therefore, whatever policy we devise towards them must take that into account."

From the 9th paragraph of this article at Voice of America News.

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

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

AにBを痛感させる

Answer

According to The Free Dictionary :

To cause something to be more intimately acknowledged, recognized, or understood.

Examples

• Her passionate speech about the environment really brought the importance of conservation efforts home to me.
• The sight surely brought home to me the misery of the lives in Nazi concentration camps.
• his account brought home to us the gravity of the situation
• Ministers said that this would bring home to jurors the victims' distress. Times, Sunday Times (2007)
• And that was brought home to them by their famous visitors. The Sun (2014)

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