Australia is often referred to as “the lucky country,” which most people use favorably, but was actually a derogatory term coined by journalist Donald Horne in his book of the same name, and with April 25 a landmark date in Aussie history now called ANZAC Day, it got me thinking about fortune and the role it plays in lives. Australia had the misfortune to fight its first day of war as an independent, federated country on April 25, 1915, and thousands of young men were brutally mowed down in meaningless slaughter in the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign of World War I…
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lucky country, the Australian English Australia. The term was coined by historian Donald Horne in irony. He argued that Australia was lucky as it became a rich land only because of its natural resources instead of the cleverness or effort shown by other nations. Instead of being shocked by the term, Australians adopted “the Lucky Country” to use as a favorable synonym to describe their land. 日本語 オーストラリアのこと、ラッキーな国。もともと歴史学者ドナルド・ホーン氏が1964年に「ラッキーな国」を皮肉たっぷりに使った表現だ。同氏は、オーストラリアがほかの先進国と違って、知恵や努力で発展したではなく、資源豊富さだけで豊かとなって、とても「ラッキーな国だ」と言った。しかし、多くのオーストラリア人がホーンの本来の意味を無視、今一般に自国名をいい風に表現できる同義語として使うようになった。 Plain English Australia. Strine Dictionary Related posts: Dictionaries and Search Engines/辞書及び検索サイト About Bikkie/クッキー G’day Fairy floss/綿あめ Japanese Government Ministries & Agencies/政府省庁ウェブサイト Croweater/南オーストラリア州出身 Brekkie/朝食 Galah/アホ Larrikin/いたずらっ子 Powered by YARPP.
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