Question of the Day #1264

Low hanging fruit: Energy efficiency weaves the path towards a green, circular economy

From the headline of this article at the UNDP.

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

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

1. 低い位置にぶら下がっている果実
2. 〈比喩〉〔大きな努力をしなくても〕簡単に達成できる目標［目的・仕事］、容易に解決できる問題

   

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

the obvious or easy things that can be most readily done or dealt with in achieving success or making progress toward an objective

 

Examples

1. The truth is, there's always a way to find the low-hanging fruit. — Ellevate, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
2. Choose your moves wisely and don't go for the low-hanging fruit. — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 6 June 2022
3. How to get rid of that barrier is sort of the low-hanging fruit. — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 9 May 2021
4. What has happened, instead, is ICE agents appearing at immigration hearings, faces covered as if they were members of a paramilitary organization and not taxpayer-funded public servants, and making a big show of arresting the low-hanging fruit. From Salon
5. Andreas Østhagen, a senior fellow at the independent Fridtjof Nansen Institute, describes the Arctic as "low-hanging fruit" for Russian-Chinese collaboration. From BBC

   

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