常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

2018-06-04から1日間の記事一覧

Reflecting Eiken

Yesterday, I also took an EIken #1 in 2018. As a reflection of this examination, I would like to focus on two points which I have to overcome from now on.First thing is my vocabulary size. In the reading section, I realized that I did not …

I have butterflies in my stomach 復習

語学学校で受けている授業の中にOral Communication & Presentation Skillsというものがあります。その中で先生に教えていただいた表現を紹介します。I have butterflies in my stomachです。先日は、先生が持ってきた箱の中から紙を一枚引き、その中に書か…

wallow 復習

海に残ったプラスチックの残骸が生態系に及ぼす影響はどれほどのものなのでしょうか。Alarm sounded over plastic debris polluting deepest seasThe pervasive problem of marine plastic pollution has been highlighted by the discovery of pieces of a …

dementia 復習

Kyoto Univ. research team develops self-checklist for predicting risk of dementiaKYOTO -- A research team at Kyoto University here has developed a self-checklist to easily calculate an individual's risk score for developing dementia for the…

英検 反省

I took an EIKEN exam. This time, I wanted to feel that I had made a progress but unfortunately not so much.In part1, I often hesitated to choose the correct answers. The same things happened in the reading section. I nailed down to the two…

enshrine 復習

米国国防省は、昨年アメリカの軍事作戦によりイラク、シリア、アフガニスタン、イエメンなどで500近くの民間人が死亡したと発表しました。The report also said there were no credible claims of civilian casualties in Libya.Such discrepancies are not …

sunbathe 復習

It's 9 a.m. on a May morning in Thailand's Maya Bay in the Andaman Sea, a destination made famous by "The Beach" movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio. But instead of the pristine, empty shores seen in the film directed by Danny Boyle, the scen…

patronizing 復習

墨田区が企画した動画コンテストで受賞した男性が景品うまい棒10000本を小学校に送りました。He declined because he did not want to be patronizing. He was also shy about getting up in front of people.(以下省略)http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles…