opticsとは

opticsという言葉が次のように使われていました。

7:40

Another major development this week, of course, was — David, was the return of Brittney Griner, superstar women's national basketball, WNBA superstar.

She'd been held for most of this year in Russia, traded for a notorious arms dealer, Viktor Bout. What do you make of the administration? You have heard their explanation, that they — it was either — it was either this or nothing. What do you make of the decision to do this, the optics of it, the reality of it?

文脈から「見え方」「捉え方」なんだろうなという想像ができましたが、ジーニアスは語義として上げてくれていました。多くの英英辞典では取り上げていたのですね。

ジーニアス

optics

2［比喩的に］（政策などに対する）国民の見方［印象］, 国民受け.

オックスフォード

optics

 [plural] (especially North American English) the way in which an action or event is seen and understood by the public

アメリカンヘリテージ

optics

2. (used with a pl. verb) Informal The way a situation or action appears to the general public: Voters were put off by the optics of the candidate's financial dealings.

ウエブスター

optics

: the aspects of an action, policy, or decision (as in politics or business) that relate to public perceptions

… when a broken-down bailout recipient like Citigroup tries to pay its top executives gigantic bonuses or to acquire a new private jet, it has failed to reconsider the optics.

 Nick Paumgarten

一例として次のような動画を見つけました。もっと用例にあたらないとまだ使えそうもありません。。。

1:30

The Chinese Communist Party is keenly aware

that the optics of sending in the People's Armed Police

to crush a peaceful democracy movement in Hong Kong,

is not a good look.