escapade

やや旧聞に属しますが、トランプ米大統領がセクハラまがいの行為を働いていたというのは大統領選の時から取り上げられていました。


Adult magazine Penthouse has received three claims for its $1 million offer to anyone who could provide real tapes of President-elect Donald Trump’s alleged and unproven sexual escapades at the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow, the publication’s editor exclusively revealed to International Business Times Thursday.

Penthouse editor Raphie Aronowitz said the magazine isn’t conducting a “witch hunt,” but wants to prove whether the allegations against Trump are true. Aronowitz said the lucrative offer falls in line with the magazine’s well-established brand, though to his knowledge Penthouse has never made such an exorbitant offer before.

“If the story is real, which we don’t know if it is or not, it really kind of hits at the intersection between politics, scandal and sex, which as a brand both historically and currently is our sweet spot,” Aronowitz said in a phone interview.
(Penthouse may have proof of Trump’s ‘golden shower’ tryst at Moscow hotel. International Business Times. January 13, 2017.)


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sexual escapades


とあるのですが、"escapade(s)"というのは「いたずら」という日本語訳がつけられています。

この"escapade"という単語は、動詞"escape"と語源を同じくしています。

元々、"escape"とは接頭辞ex-と、頭を指すcappaから成る単語で、頭を覆い隠すものという意味合いです。「隠れる、逃れる」という意味に通じますね。