Not long after the rest of the world had openly laughed at his boss as he addressed the United Nations General Assembly, US National Security Advisor John Bolton mustered his best Jacobean menace on Tuesday. "According to the mullahs in Te…

An Indonesian teenager who survived 49 days adrift at sea after the wooden fish trap he was employed to mind slipped its moorings says he ran out of food within a week and survived on fish and seawater he squeezed from his clothing.中略The…

UG先生 こんばんは。ご無沙汰しております。卒業生のGomezです。いくぶん残暑もやわらぎ、過ごしやすくなってきたこの頃、いかがお過ごしでしょうか。お変わりなく忙しい日々を過ごされていることと存じます。私におきましては、忙しくも楽しい日々を過ごし…

スイスで男女の賃金格差の平等化を求めるデモがありました。Some 20,000 people marched in Bern Saturday demanding wage equality between the genders, organizers said, warning that women are prepared to go on strike if Swiss parliamentarians do …

貴乃花親方が日本相撲協会に引退（退職）届を提出し都内で会見を開きました。Takanohana steps down from JSAThe Japan Sumo Association attempted to force stablemaster Takanohana to admit that the accusations he filed to the Cabinet Office in Mar…

幼児教育の現場にも、ICTの波が押し寄せています。Toys can teach toddlers simple programming or use augmented reality to bring story characters digitally alive, said Seiter, whose organization spearheads The Genius of Play, a U.S.-based progr…

インドネシアの海上で漂流し、49日目にして無事に救助されるという奇跡が起きました。Indonesian teen rescued after 49 days at seaAn Indonesian teenager who survived 49 days adrift at sea after the wooden fish trap he was employed to mind slippe…

今回取り上げる表現は flutter one’s eyelashes です。最近、ゼミ生の1人が色目を使ってきます（笑）。英語で「色目を使う」をどう表すか疑問に思い調べたところ、『ジーニアス英和辞典』(第五版、大修館)にてこの表現に出会いました。 flutter は「(虫など…

UG先生に教えて頂いた表現を紹介します。それがhazing /héɪzɪŋ/ です。昨日のスポーツ新聞で大谷選手が大人な歌を歌ったことが取り上げられていました。この状況に当てはまるのが上記の単語です。『ジーニアス英和辞典』第４版（大修館）にはhaze/heɪz/ で「…

アライグマの生息域が広がり、各地で農作物に被害が出ています。The population of non-indigenous raccoons gone feral has exploded across Japan, earning them public enemy status for the damage they cause to agricultural crops.以下省略http://www…

The pros and cons over the LDP plan to add a provision defining legal grounds for the Self-Defense Forces to Article 9 of the Constitution was reversed in the latest survey. Thirty-nine percent of respondents, down from 45 percent, said th…

定期的に、Social Justice, Human Rights and the Media の授業ではPop-up discussionというものを行います。その中ではその回に割り当てられたグループが、アメリカ国内で発生した事件などを取り上げ、そこから見える「人権」は何か、またその例が作り出す…

Canadian historyの授業にて用いられている教科書を読んでいる中で多く目にした語を紹介します。 root outです。最初のイメージとしては、root「根っこ」とout「外へ、外れて」を連想し、文脈上カナダにおける植民地争いについての話題であったことから、「…

Japan's Abe, Trump to continue close coordination on N. KoreaNEW YORK (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday he and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to continue working closely toward North Korea's denuclearization, ki…

タイガー・ウッズ選手が5年ぶりとなる優勝を果たしました。Tiger Woods caps off amazing comebackTiger Woods, in his Sunday red shirt, both arms raised in victory on the 18th green. For so many years, the scene was familiar.This time, it was su…

ラグビーワールドカップの日本開催が来年に迫り、愛知県豊田市ではそれを記念してスクラムを組む人数でギネス記録への挑戦が行われました。Record scrum sets mood for 2019 Rugby World CupTOYOTA, Aichi Prefecture--These scrummers don’t do things by h…

China, which imports a far smaller amount from the United States, is running out of new products to target, but analysts say it still has other options to retaliate. They include charging even higher tariffs, imposing import quotas, restri…

現在履修しているSocial Justice, Human Rights, and the Mediaの宿題に取り組んでいた時に気になる単語を見つけました。この授業では二週間に一回程度の割合でオンラインディスカッションが課されるのですが、今回はリンカーンにある教会がテーマです。それ…

大坂なおみ選手が、東レ・パンパシフィック・オープン決勝に臨み、準優勝に終わりました。前略That buzz and her newfound superstardom in the wake of her triumph in New York appeared to finally take its toll on Sunday in front of a partisan crowd…

女子テニスの東レ・パンパシフィック・オープンの決勝が行われ、カロリナ・プリスコバ選手が初優勝を飾りました。Pliskova snatches title from OsakaFormer world No. 1 Karolina Pliskova utilized her big serve to full effect to ease to a 6-4, 6-4 vi…

Families appeal for abductees' returnThe families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea have urged the Japanese government to make the utmost efforts to bring their loved ones home.中略They also want the Japanese government to main…

日本橋のデパートはお客さまに様々なサービスを提供しています。Two long-established Japanese department store firms are scheduled to open newly refurbished stores in Tokyo’s Nihonbashi district this autumn in an attempt to develop a wider cus…

Aichi Prefectural Police report that on the night of July 30 a 73 year-old woman was walking through Nakagawa Ward in Nagoya, the prefecture’s capital city, while carrying two handbags. Suddenly, a boy of 14 or 15 years of age came up behi…

Japanese artist sues association over goldfish-filled phone boxNARA, Japan (Kyodo) -- An artist filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a local merchant association in the western Japan prefecture of Nara, alleging it had plagiarized one of his …

自民党総裁選の結果についての記事から取り上げます。Winning nearly 70 percent of votes in an election generally signals a mandate for the victor, but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe faces high hurdles after winning his third term as ruling party p…

it provides some respite from veteran cravat-wearers whingeing about ageism on television and helps executives use up all the expensive spare time on those eye-watering contracts. (Skip the rest)https://www.google.co.jp/amp/s/amp.theguardi…

UG先生 白金台支所4年のStone-wellです。 まず、教育実習が2週間経過しましたので、近況を報告させて頂きます。私は母校で先週の木曜日から授業をさせていただいています。英語表現を3クラス、英語コミュニケーションを2クラス担当しております。学校は大学…

貿易摩擦はどうなっていくのでしょうか。The United States is optimistic about finding a way forward in its trade dispute with China, but it does not have a date scheduled for further talks as it assesses Beijing’s response to the latest roun…

K-popファンにとってアーティストは神的存在なのでしょうか。(CNN)If Taylor Swift was a South Korean artist, she would be in deep trouble.（中略）While Hyuna and E'Dawn did suffer for coming forward about their relationship, they also saw a wa…

カラオケは進化を遂げてきましたが、一方で著作権などで問題が発生しています。VOX POPULI: Karaoke for the masses, but where to draw the line?Old-time karaoke machines were not for the faint of heart. Since there was no video screen displaying …