retracted
撤回された
解説 Definition
retracted は、発言・約束・主張などが「撤回された」という意味の形容詞です。また、物理的に何かが引っ込められた状態を表すこともあります。
Withdrawn after having been stated, published, promised, or claimed, often because it was incorrect or no longer supported. In a physical sense, it can also describe something pulled back or held inside rather than extended.
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原形 retract は re-「後ろへ」と tract「引く」から、「いったん出したものを引き戻す」と捉えます。retracted は過去分詞・形容詞形で、原形が t の音で終わるため -ed は id と発音します。retracted statement なら撤回済みの声明、claws retracted なら引っ込んだ爪です。
Break retract into re-, suggesting back, and tract, from a root meaning pull: a retracted thing has been pulled back. Retracted is the past-participle and adjective form of retract. Since retract ends in a t sound, -ed is pronounced id. Imagine a company removing a retracted statement, a journal marking a paper as retracted, or a cat keeping its claws retracted. The same core picture works in both abstract and physical uses: something previously put forward or extended is drawn back.
例文
The retracted statement was removed from the company website.
撤回された声明は会社のウェブサイトから削除された。
The scientist apologized for the retracted paper.
その科学者は撤回された論文について謝罪した。
The cat sat with its claws retracted.
その猫は爪を引っ込めた状態で座っていた。
retracted の類義語・関連語
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retracted の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語の接頭辞「re-（後ろへ）」と語根「tract（引く）」に由来します。発言や決定を後ろへ引き戻すイメージが、「撤回された」という意味に繋がっています。同じ語根を持つ単語にはextract（引き出す）やtractor（牽引機）があります。
Retract comes from Latin retrahere and its participial stem retract-, formed from re-, meaning back, and trahere, meaning to draw or pull. It therefore literally suggests pulling something backward. The physical idea developed naturally into the figurative act of withdrawing a statement, claim, or promise. Extract, attract, contract, and tractor contain related forms of the same Latin pulling root.
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