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2008.12.02
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OPEN-MINDED / CLOSED-MINDED
受け入れやすい／受け入れにくい
- An open-minded person is willing to listen to and consider ideas that are new and different.
The opposite of “open-minded” is closed-minded. - 人について open-minded と言うと、新しい、異なった考えについて、聞いたり考慮したりする意思がある、つまり、（新思想などを）受け入れやすい、という意味です。
open-minded の反意語は、closed-minded で、受け入れにくい、という意味です。
- I'm lucky my parents are so open-minded. They've always let me make my own choices.
- People in this part of the country aren't very open-minded about politics or religion. It's best not to talk about those subjects here.
- Ralph says the only movies he likes are Westerns and action movies, and he's too closed-minded to even try seeing something different.
- The company's top management used to be rather closed-minded to new ideas and afraid of change. But the new CEO has changed all that.
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