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語源

Refers to the speed of actual glaciers^[1] which is about 1 meter per day.

名詞

glacial speed (複数形 glacial speeds)

1. (geology) The speed at which a glacier moves
2. (idiomatic) A very slow pace
   • 1917, Everybody's Magazine - Volume 37, Issue 2, Ridgeway Company, page 56:

     He could remember a day that he had spent the whole of (he couldn't have been more than ten) running one of the great, creaking freight elevators at a glacial speed, answering the calls of the bell—one ring, five rings, three rings—with an almost unbearable sense of responsiblity.

   • 1953, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services, Defense Department Authorization and Oversight, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 1251:

     I understand that you commented that the Japanese are moving at glacial speed. This is not the only area where they are moving at glacial speed. They are moving at glacial speed in terms of trade barriers, and it is one thing that the American people recognize.

   • 1999, Michael Goodchild, Max J. Egenhofer, Robin Fegeas, Cliff Kottman, Interoperating Geographic Information Systems, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 133:

     Paradoxically, then, the electronic speed offered by computer-based decision-making is often overwhelmed by the glacial speed of data reformatting and checking.

   • 2014, John P. Kotter, Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World, Harvard Business Review Press, →ISBN, page 96:

     Lower-level people added front-line information that ordinarily wouldn't have made it up the hierarchy to the executive committee (または would have made it at glacial speed).

   • 2014, Stuart E. Eizenstat, The Future of the Jews: How Global Forces are Impacting the Jewish People, Israel, and Its Relationship with the United States, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 105:

     The Gulf States and Saudi Arabia are modernizing but at a glacial speed in a world moving at digital speed.

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