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。

2018-08-29から1日間の記事一覧

lenient 復習

北朝鮮に身柄を拘束されていた日本人男性が帰国しました。A Japanese man released by North Korea after being accused of an unspecified crime arrived back in Japan on Tuesday, officials and reports said.Tomoyuki Sugimoto, who was arrested in ea…

trivialize 復習

A 20-year-old woman was found guilty of killing an elderly woman after colliding with her while handling her smartphone on a bicycle in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, in December 2017.中略However, Presiding Judge Kenichi Emi rejected the a…

go down a storm

神奈川県三浦市のビーチに、観光客の間で人気の少し変わった娯楽があるそうです。 MIURA, Kanagawa Prefecture--Here’s a mode of sea transport with plenty of horsepower, and one that is going down a storm with holidaymakers--horse riding in the s…

condone 復習

北朝鮮を観光中に拘束された杉本倫孝さんが日本に帰国しました。前略Tomoyuki Sugimoto, who visited North Korea as a tourist, had been held for criminal investigation until the country "decided to leniently condone him," the state-run Korean Ce…

light at the end of the tunnel 復習

夏季語学研修の宿題の一つに、自分の読んだニュース記事のpersonal responseを書いて提出するというものがあります。前回選んだ記事はタリバンについてのものでした。Personal responseの中でI cannot see the end of this battleといういかにも今までの戦い…

opprobrium

The judicial process is one thing, however; the moral opprobrium that now attaches to Aung San Suu Kyi – revered and idealised for so long, especially in the western world – constitutes a reversal of fortunes that verges on tragedy. (Skip …

quasi-biographical 復習

ちびまる子ちゃんの作者である、さくらももこさんが乳がんで亡くなっていたことがわかりました。Creator of beloved 'Chibi Maruko-chan' series dies at 53Momoko Sakura, the author of “Chibi Maruko-chan,” a long-running and highly popular manga and…

be swamped with 復習

VOX POPULI: Beating the heat is really all about finding good ‘company’Hogeta-san, a company worker, has overslept as usual. Forgetting to don his glasses and take his bag, he rushes out of the door in his bedroom slippers中略Even when we …

retrofit 復習

車の事故を防ぐため、顔認証システムを用いて運転者の顔の表情などを感知する装置の開発が進められています。Driver-monitoring cameras help prevent accidentsCarmakers, among other companies, are competing to develop systems that can detect a driv…

contusion 復習

ながらスマホは大変危険です。大きな事故を引き起こしてしまいます。A 20-year-old woman was found guilty of killing an elderly woman after colliding with her while handling her smartphone on a bicycle in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, in Decem…