groomed to win

09:02 Nov 26, 2012
English to Japanese translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Government / Politics
English term or phrase: groomed to win
someone is groomed to win. 選挙の文脈です。groomed to winで一つの用語になっているのでしょうか?よい翻訳を教えてください。

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3 +1臨戦態勢を整えた/臨戦態勢に入った/臨戦態勢は整った
Akiteru Sasayama
2groom
j.takahashi (X)


  

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臨戦態勢を整えた/臨戦態勢に入った/臨戦態勢は整った


Explanation:
groomは、「整える、調整する」などの意味があるので、勝つための準備を整えたというニュアンスで「臨戦態勢~」とし、文脈によって「~」の部分を考えられてはいかがでしょう。

Akiteru Sasayama
Japan
Local time: 09:37
Native speaker of: Japanese
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groom


Explanation:
選挙用文章ということで、仕立て上げる、とか、推薦する、という意味ではないか。
「ある人物が(選挙で)勝つために推薦される。」

Example sentence(s):
  • The party groomed him as a presidential candidate. 党は彼を大統領候補者に仕立てた. - 研究社 新英和中辞典
  • He was being groomed as a presidential candidate. 大統領候補者として推薦されていた。 - Tanaka Corpus

    Reference: http://ejje.weblio.jp/sentence/content/groomed
j.takahashi (X)
Japan
Local time: 09:37
Native speaker of: Japanese
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