汚染除去基金
解説 Definition
汚染除去基金（おせんじょきょききん）は、環境汚染された地域を浄化するために設立された米国の基金です。危険な廃棄物地域をクリーンアップするための資金源です。
Superfund is a United States government program and funding system for cleaning up sites contaminated by hazardous substances. The name is also used attributively in expressions such as “Superfund site” and “Superfund program.”
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
super＋fundという透明な複合語で、単なる「巨大基金」ではなく、米国で有害廃棄物汚染地を浄化する制度・資金を指す。Superfund site（浄化対象地）、Superfund program（制度）という典型表現と、政府がcleanupに資金を出す場面を一緒に覚える。固有名では通常Superfundと大文字にする。
Break the name into super and fund, but remember that it does not simply mean any unusually large fund. In the United States, Superfund specifically refers to the federal system that finances and manages the cleanup of land contaminated by hazardous substances. Link it with the common phrases Superfund site, Superfund cleanup, and Superfund program. Picture the government identifying a polluted industrial area and providing money for extensive cleanup. The official program name is normally capitalized as Superfund.
例文
The Superfund site requires extensive cleanup.
その汚染除去基金サイトは広範な浄化が必要です。
The government allocated millions to the Superfund program.
政府は汚染除去基金プログラムに何百万ドルを配分した。
Superfund sites are often near residential areas.
汚染除去基金サイトはしばしば住宅地の近くにあります。
superfund の類義語・関連語
superfund の語源・成り立ち Etymology
superfund は super＋fund の複合語です。super はラテン語 super「上に・超えて」、fund はラテン語 fundus 由来で「資金の土台」を表し、直訳は「特別に大きい基金」なので、汚染除去のための巨額基金という意味が腑に落ちます。関連語は supercharge, funding。
Superfund is a compound of super and fund. Super ultimately comes from Latin super, meaning “above” or “beyond,” while fund traces through Latin fundus, “bottom” or “foundation,” and developed the financial sense of a stock of money. The name arose as an informal shortening associated with the large federal fund established under the United States hazardous-waste cleanup law. In modern use, it names the cleanup program as well as its financing mechanism.
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