Op-Ed Contributor
The Crisis of European Democracy
By AMARTYA SEN
Reform on a well-thought-out timetable must be distinguished from reform done in extreme haste.
WASHINGTON — President Obama, beginning his final push for a health care overhaul, called Wednesday for Congress to allow an “up or down vote” on the measure, and sketched out an ambitious — and, some Democrats said, unrealistic — timetable for his party to pass a bill on its own within weeks.
“I believe the United States Congress owes the American people a final vote on health care reform,” Mr. Obama said during a 20-minute speech in the East Room of the White House. He said there was no point in starting over, as Republicans are demanding, and called on nervous Democrats to stick with him, declaring there was no reason “for those of us who were sent here to lead to just walk away.”
“up or down vote” 成或敗
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[類語]「(〜を〜と)区別する」の意ではtell ... apart, 次いでdifferentiateが一般的.
後者は特に部類としての区別という側面を含む. distinguishは類似物についてのしばしば個体レベルでの区別.
discriminateは類似したものの間にすでに備わっている相違に気づき, それに基づいて選択, 異なる扱い方をするという意味合い.
2 ((通例canと共に用いて))〈物の〉(形状を)(視覚・聴覚などによって)はっきりと認める, 感知する. ▼進行形不可
4 ((〜 -selfまたは受身))(…で)目立つ, りっぱ[有名]になる[である]((for, by ...;as ...))
He is distinguished as a painter.
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━━(自)(…間の)相違を示す;(…を)弁別する, 見分ける((between ...))
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