広島市に、珍しいピザの自動販売機が設置されたようです。HIROSHIMA — Just put your money in the vending machine and in three minutes, you’ll get piping hot pizza. A rare pizza vending machine from Italy, called Pizza Self, has appeared in Nis…

Astronomers observe 'monster galaxy'A team of international scientists has made the first close observation of a star-generating "monster galaxy" that was formed shortly after the Big Bang.The team, led by a Japanese astronomer, used a rad…

福島市にある巨大像「サン・チャイルド」の撤去が決まりました。FUKUSHIMA--Fukushima city will remove a large statue of an injured child wearing a yellow hazmat suit after complaints rolled in that the artwork grossly exaggerates the damage fr…

Intercultural Communicationに向けた予習の中で気になる表現を見つけました。本日は、hot-button issueを取り上げます。文脈に基づき、この表現を見た時「大変な問題」と解釈したことは覚えています。『ジーニアス英和辞典』(第五版、大修館書店)を引いてみ…

Young Tokyo man pleads guilty to murdering pregnant classmate in 2017TOKYO -- A 19-year-old man pleaded guilty to murdering his pregnant classmate last year after the victim asked the defendant to kill her, during the first hearing of his …

昨日、ゼミで年齢に関する表現を先生に教えていただきました。それがbe on the wrong side of 〜という表現です。 この表現は、「〜歳以上である」という意味になります(『ウィズダム英和辞典』)。この表現は少しネガティブな印象を与えてしまう表現のような…

和歌山と大阪を結ぶ高速バスが渋滞を迂回しようとしたところ、道を間違え、狭い山道で立ち往生していたことがわかりました。Bus driver takes wrong turn, strands riders on a cliffDozens of terrified passengers riding on an expressway bus were stuck…

Fascists, charlatans and propagandists are as old as time, but never before have they been mobilised with today’s powerful tools, which can coalesce forces globally and amplify messages in a flash. (Skip the rest)https://www.google.co.jp/a…

裏ゼミで扱った記事から表現を紹介します。Toyota ponies up $500 mil. for joint project with Uber SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Toyota Motor Corp. will invest $500 million in Uber to jointly work on developing self-driving cars, the companies sai…