Asahi Weekly (8/4号) の ‘News at a Glance’ のコーナーに以下のニュースがありました。
日本体操協会は体操女子のパリ五輪日本代表の宮田笙子選手(19)の喫煙と飲酒が発覚したため、代表を辞退することを発表しました。
Just a week before the start of the Paris Games, the leader of Japan's Olympic women's gymnastics team was forced to pull out after she admitted to underage drinking and smoking.
The Japan Gymnastics Association announced the withdrawal of 19-year-old Shoko Miyata on July 19. The association said it received information on July 15 that Miyata had violated the association's code of conduct for athletes. (The Asahi Shimbun AJW)
今回取り上げるのは withdrawal [US] wiðdrɔ́əl / wiθdrɔ́əl [UK] wiðdrɔ́ːəlです。誌面には「離脱」とありました。
『ジーニアス英和辞典』には「1. (軍隊などの/･･･からの)撤退、撤収、引き上げ 2. (支援・サービスなどの)取りやめ、中止、(物品などの)回収3. (活動・組織などから)退くこと、離脱、脱退、脱会 4. 預金のひきだし(額) 5. (麻薬などの)使用中止 6. (前言などの)取り消し、撤回 7. 引きこもり」とありました。
手持ちのACE CROWN には「引っ込めること、引っ込むこと、(預金)の引き出し、取り消し、撤退、撤回」ありました。
LDOCE には‘1 the act of moving an army, weapons etc away from the area where they were fighting. 2 the removal or stopping of something such as support, an offer, or a service. 3 the act of taking money from a bank account, or the amount you take out. 4 the act of no longer taking part in an activity or being a member of an organization. 5 the period after someone has given up a drug that they were dependent on, and the unpleasant mental and physical effects that this causes. 6 the act of saying that something you previously said was in fact untrue.’と記述がありました。
Etymonline で語源を調べると‘1820s, "act of taking back," also "retraction of a statement," from withdraw + -al (2). Earlier words in the same sense were withdrawment (1640s); withdraught (mid-14c.). Meaning "removal of money from a bank, etc." is from 1861; psychological sense is from 1916; meaning "physical reaction to the cessation of an addictive substance" is from 1929 (with an isolated use from 1897; withdrawal symptom is from 1910). As a synonym for coitus interruptus from 1889.’とありました。
異例の４人で今大会に挑まなければならない非常事態となりましたが、安定した演技で予選を5位で通過すると、決勝では惜しくも8位という結果で終わりました。(Capricorn)