English Dictionary

two solitudes

名詞

カナダ英語 複数形 複数形のみ

(Canada, social criticism) The historical and, by some accounts, current dysfunctional relationship between the Anglophone and Francophone groups in Canada, characterized by poor communication and mutual exclusion.

日本語の意味

（カナダにおける）英語系とフランス語系の集団間の歴史的かつ時には現在も見られる、貧弱なコミュニケーションや相互排除に特徴づけられる非機能的な関係を示す。

Many commentators still see two solitudes at the heart of Canadian politics, a persistent cultural divide between Anglophone and Francophone communities.

多くの評論家は、カナダの政治の中心には持続する文化的分断、すなわち英語話者とフランス語話者の長年の隔たりがあると見ている。

意味（1）

(Canada, social criticism) The historical and, by some accounts, current dysfunctional relationship between the Anglophone and Francophone groups in Canada, characterized by poor communication and mutual exclusion.

[I]t may be pleaded that scholastic philosophy as it exists in Quebec has neither influenced, nor been influenced by, the development of modern philosophy elsewhere throughout the country during the last hundred years. Philosophically, Canada is a land of two solitudes.