TOEICでリゾート気分

公式問題集vol6のパート５に小説のタイトルとしてHanaleiというハワイのビーチが何気に登場していました。問題ポイントには絡んでいませんのでご安心ください。

Zoe O’Heir’s novel Hanalei Sunset experienced such success … that …

この部分だけを見てもso X that Y（文章）と同様のsuch X（名詞）that Y（文章）が登場しているな、動詞がexperience （名詞）のかたちの他動詞として用いられているが、successというポジティブな意味を持つ名詞を目的語にとることがあるのか、といった気づきがあります。

動詞experience （名詞）は辞書の例文にあるように、問題や困難などネガティブな意味を持つ名詞が続くことが多いです。TOEICでもexperience financial difficultyやexperience declines in revenueなどが登場しています。

（ケンブリッジ）
experience
if you experience something, it happens to you or affects you:
experience a problem/difficulty We experienced a lot of difficulty in selling our house.
New companies often experience a loss in their first few years.
This family business has experienced steady growth and now employs 40 people.

（ロングマン）
experience
if you experience a problem, event, or situation, it happens to you or affects you
experience problems/difficulties
Many old people will experience problems as the result of retirement.
Children need to experience things for themselves in order to learn from them.



なんとこのHanaleiは２００９年にアメリカのベストビーチに選ばれたようです。

Hanalei Bay named America's top beach - NBC News
updated 5/22/2009 11:59:28 AM ET
HANALEI, Hawaii — If life is a beach, Hanalei Bay must be heaven.

This remote, two-mile crescent-shaped beach on Kauai where the emerald mountains meet the sparkling sea was selected No. 1 on “Dr. Beach” Stephen P. Leatherman's 2009 list of top 10 beaches, which was released Friday.

Hanalei beat out other shores stretching from San Diego to Cape Cod.

“The sheer beauty of Hanalei Bay is breathtaking,” said Leatherman, director of Florida International University's Laboratory for Coastal Research. “It's really an idyllic setting.”

Hanalei features postcard views from every angle and is untouched by the feverish development that has transformed the coastlines of other islands. It's cherished by both locals and tourists as the perfect spot to swim, surf, snorkel or simply escape and unwind.

問題作成者はこのニュースを知って「行きたいな〜」と思いながら作っていたのでしょうか。