問 1
What is the main idea of the passage?
- The right-to-repair movement challenges a normalised culture of disposability built into how products are designed and sold.
- Governments have no legitimate role in regulating how products are designed.
- Modern electronic devices are simply too complex for anyone to repair safely.
- Repairing old devices is always cheaper than buying replacements.
a challenge to the assumption that everything we buy is destined, by design, to be thrown away
本文の論旨は『修理する権利運動は、設計に組み込まれた“使い捨て文化”への異議だ』。
「The right-to-repair movement challenges a normalised culture of disposability built into how products are designed and sold.」
正解最終段で著者は a culture of disposability has been quietly normalised と述べ、To insist on the right to repair is ... a challenge to the assumption that everything we buy is destined, by design, to be thrown away と締める。第1-2段の修理妨害と運動の主張もこれに収束する。よって『設計に組み込まれた使い捨て文化への異議』が主旨。
「Modern electronic devices are simply far too complex for anyone at all to repair safely at home these days.」
= 複雑すぎて誰も安全に修理できない ━ 本文は意図的に修理を妨げると述べ、複雑さ自体が原因とはしない。
「governments have no legitimate role」
= 政府に正当な役割はない ━ several governments ... mandate と肯定的に紹介しており逆。
「Repairing old devices is always cheaper than buying replacements.」
= 修理は常に買換えより安い ━ always は言い過ぎで、本文は費用負担に触れるだけ。
| パターン | 意味 | 例 |
|---|---|---|
| by design | 意図的に・設計上 | destined by design to be thrown away |
| a culture of disposability | 使い捨て文化 | a culture of disposability |
| be normalised | 常態化される | It has been quietly normalised. |
| be destined to ~ | ~する運命にある | destined to be thrown away |
| thwart repair | 修理を妨げる | engineered to thwart repair |
Disposability has been quietly normalised.
使い捨ては静かに常態化してきた。
The movement challenges a deep assumption.
その運動は根深い前提に異議を唱える。
Goods are destined by design to be discarded.
製品は設計上捨てられる運命にある。
主旨設問は最終段の総括文 (is ... a challenge to ~) を取る。技術的細部 (glued parts) は根拠であって主旨ではない。always など極端な限定語の肢は外れやすい。