Question of the Day #800

Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF’s emergency programs director who just returned from Ukraine, said having 4.8 million of Ukraine’s 7.5 million children displaced in such a short time is “quite incredible.”

From the 2nd paragraph of this article at the Huffington Post.

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

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

1. 〔通常の位置から～を〕動かす、移す、ずらす
2. 〔～を〕取り換える、〔～に〕取って代わる
3. 〔人を〕立ち退かせる、〔人を〕強制退去させる
4. 〔人を〕解雇する、〔人を〕免職する
5. 《化学》〔化合物の原子を〕置換する、置き換える
6. 《物理》〔沈んだ物が液体量を〕変位させる
7. 〔船が〕～の排水量がある

問題文の場合は、三番目の訳が最も適切です。  

Answer

According to :

1.                     
                
   1. to remove from the usual or proper place
      specifically: to expel or force to flee from home or homeland
      (e.g.) displaced persons
                
   2. to remove from an office, status, or job
                
   3. obsolete: to drive out : BANISH
                
2.              
                
   1. to move physically out of position
                
   2. to take the place of (as in a chemical reaction) : SUPPLANT
                

 

Examples

• The war has displaced thousands of people.
• The hurricane displaced most of the town's residents.
• It’s not just the storyline of science fiction that they could learn to evade human control and create disasters, displace people, and cause mass unemployment.
• Destroy hospitals, collapse the social order, displace and deport the populace, render powerless the rule of law, and faith in the state is lost.
• Singapore Won’t Displace Hong Kong as a Financial Center

 

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