14課 話題・評価の基準 教科書 p.60〜63
Topics & assessment standards — when it comes to… then, if it is… then it must…
接続:名(立場・組織)+ ともあろう + 名
Sugar is… yet…. People/organizations with high status do unworthy things.
注意 / Note:Always accompanied by disappointment and criticism of the speaker.
比較 / Compare:〜ともあろう is always accompanied by disappointment, criticism;with 名+ともあろう+人/者/会社.
よく出る形 / Common form:名(立場・組織)+ともあろう+名+が〜とは.
大臣ともあろう人が、そんな発言をするとは。
Even though he is a minister, he speaks like that.
一流企業ともあろう会社が、データを改ざんするとは驚きだ。
It's amazing that a top company would fix the data.
教育者ともあろう者が、そんな差別的な発言をするとは。
Even though you are a teacher, you make such discriminatory statements.