If you profit from something, or it profits you, you gain some advantage or benefit from it. [FORMAL]
ex) So far the French alliance had profited the rebels little.
────────────────────────────── with little dismay, ほとんど慌てる [うろたえる] ことなく ────────────────────────────── Dismay is a strong feeling of fear, worry, or sadness that is caused by something unpleasant and unexpected. [FORMAL]
ex) Local councillors have reacted with dismay and indignation.
────────────────────────────── preclude, (…を) 妨げる、(…を) 阻む = prevent ────────────────────────────── If something precludes an event or action, it prevents the event or action from happening. [FORMAL]
ex) At 84, John feels his age precludes too much travel.
────────────────────────────── conquer, 克服する ────────────────────────────── If you conquer something such as a problem, you succeed in ending it or dealing with it successfully.
ex) I was certain that love was quite enough to conquer our differences.
────────────────────────────── laggard, [名] 怠慢な人 ────────────────────────────── If you describe a country, company, or product as a laggard, you mean that it is not performing as well as its competitors.
ex) The company has developed a reputation as a technological laggard in the personal-computer arena.
イノベータ理論ではラガードとは最後まで新しいことを受け入れ ない層の人のことを言うようです。
────────────────────────────── その他にも、次も押さえておきたい。[誌面の都合上省略] ★は重要表現 ────────────────────────────── be left behind, 遅れを取る、取り残される mend, 繕う、直す by all means, ぜひとも
"NHKラジオ 実践ビジネス英語 Learning to Talk the Talk (4) 5/21 2008"
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