tour d'horizonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

tour d'horizon (複数形 tours d'horizon)

1. An extensive tour; figuratively, a wide-ranging or general survey.
   • 2007, James Brady, Warning of War: A Novel of the North China Marines:

     The observation plane made two lazy circles in the darkening sky and then, not wanting to be caught up there with full night coming, it broke off the second tour d'horizon and headed home, south and east.

   • 2012, Edith D. de Leeuw, Joop Hox, Don Dillman, International Handbook of Survey Methodology, page 419:

     This chapter provided a tour d'horizon of survey documentation as it stands today and might develop in the near future.

   • 2013, David Brown, The Development of British Defence Policy: Blair, Brown and Beyond:

     For example, in their otherwise welcome tour d'horizon of developments in British Defence Policy during the New Labour era, Cornish and Dorman skim over the content and consequences of the New Chapter relatively quickly (Cornish かつ Dorman, 2009).

   • 2014, William A. Blair, Journal of the Civil War Era: Summer 2014 Issue, page 227:

     A tour d'horizon of the Western Hemisphere showed slavery confined to the American South, Brazil, and Cuba.

   • 2015, Anthony Quinn, Curtain Call, page 389:

     The book that remained at my side while I wrote this novel was Juliet Gardiner's brilliant and enthralling tour d'horizon The Thirties (2010).

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