今は、「出題意図が見える！ＴＯＥＩＣテスト９９０点即解リスニング」（イフ外語学院 編）The Japan Times社版 を解いています。（リンクはamazon.co.jpです。）
知らない単語や表現は聞けない、と言いますが、今日は問題を解いていて、そのことを実感しました。。
＜今日の英単語・表現＞
・Should I plan on eight of us for dinner then? ８人で
・bike ：自転車 （バイクと言っても、オートバイだけとは限りません。両方の意味があるので注意が必要です。）
・Is there any way you can give that paper?
～していただけますか？［丁寧な依頼］
・go out with （人）：～と交際する、つきあう
・take it （that節）：～と思う、理解する
--> I take it that you can have those to me by Friday.
・a copy of the paper: 新聞を一部
（そのペーパーを１部、と訳して、ドツボにはまりました・・・）
・grate (vt): ～を怒らせる、イライラさせる
--> My voice grated his nerves.
・be intent on ～ing: ～することに熱中している
--> So, you're really intent on going to that concert then?
じゃあ君は本当にあのコンサートに行きたいのですね。
・auction off ～: ～を競売で売る
--> I auctioned off my T-shirts.
2009-10-18
2009-10-01
Green Line B Train
You know Green Line B Train in Boston? That's the metro line which go along the BU campus.
Following the movie is the scene from the B-train. For alumni, this must be exitement. ;D
http://www.bu.edu/today/node/9444
Following the movie is the scene from the B-train. For alumni, this must be exitement. ;D
http://www.bu.edu/today/node/9444
2009-09-26
Today's words and phrases
Followings are words and phrases from Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons."
immaculate (a) しみ一つない、完全な、純潔の
scowl [スカウル] (vi)（不快で、怒って）顔をしかめる(at, on)、にらみつける(at) ; (vt) 顔をしかめて（不快など）を表す
pneumonia [ニューモウニャ](n) 肺炎
rumble (vi)ゴロゴロなる、とどろく、(vt)～を低いとどろくような声でいう（out, forth）
flabergasted (a) 口がきけない、びっくり仰天した
hush (vt) （人）を黙らせる、《俗》を殺す、消す；(vi)（しばしば命令文で）黙る
haunt (vt)～へしばしば行く、～をずっと悩ます 《be haunted by》（考え・思い出などに）～にとりつかれる
terra firma (n) 陸地、大地
thump (vi) (at, onを)強く殴る、ドシンドシンと歩く
collider (n) 粒子加速器
(cf. corridor (n) 回廊)
blankly (adv) ぼんやりと、ぽかんと； きっぱりと
cleft (n) （岩・地面の）裂け目(crack)
subterranean (a) 地下の(underground)、秘密の
smolder (vi) （火・怒りが）くすぶる、内向する、抑えきれない感情を示す
raspy (a) 荒い、すぐ怒る
→Kohler exhaled a raspy, ailing breath. (p.72)
monogamy (n) 一夫一婦制
immaculate (a) しみ一つない、完全な、純潔の
scowl [スカウル] (vi)（不快で、怒って）顔をしかめる(at, on)、にらみつける(at) ; (vt) 顔をしかめて（不快など）を表す
pneumonia [ニューモウニャ](n) 肺炎
rumble (vi)ゴロゴロなる、とどろく、(vt)～を低いとどろくような声でいう（out, forth）
flabergasted (a) 口がきけない、びっくり仰天した
hush (vt) （人）を黙らせる、《俗》を殺す、消す；(vi)（しばしば命令文で）黙る
haunt (vt)～へしばしば行く、～をずっと悩ます 《be haunted by》（考え・思い出などに）～にとりつかれる
terra firma (n) 陸地、大地
thump (vi) (at, onを)強く殴る、ドシンドシンと歩く
collider (n) 粒子加速器
(cf. corridor (n) 回廊)
blankly (adv) ぼんやりと、ぽかんと； きっぱりと
cleft (n) （岩・地面の）裂け目(crack)
subterranean (a) 地下の(underground)、秘密の
smolder (vi) （火・怒りが）くすぶる、内向する、抑えきれない感情を示す
raspy (a) 荒い、すぐ怒る
→Kohler exhaled a raspy, ailing breath. (p.72)
monogamy (n) 一夫一婦制
Reboot
My current goals are both to get full score of Toeic and to bring me to have no difficulty in communication with native speakers.
That's why I've started to pick up words and phrases from blogs or websites native people wrote and to memorize them for my study.
Some words may be so easy for such big goals. Please do not care so much. ;)
make the switch 切り替える、変更する
Drop me a note. ご連絡下さい。
lithe (a) しなやかな、柔軟な
loathe (vt) ～をひどく嫌う
attest (vi)(vt) 証明する※自動詞・他動詞ともに「証明する」だが、他動詞を使わずに、前置詞toを伴って自動詞で用いられることも多い。
（例）My wife can attest to that.
commenter (n) 評者、注解者
study idea (n) ?
※His commenters have some study ideas there too.と用いられていたのですが、調べてもいまひとつ意味が分かりませんでした。study ideaという言葉自体はあるようですが・・・。
That's why I've started to pick up words and phrases from blogs or websites native people wrote and to memorize them for my study.
Some words may be so easy for such big goals. Please do not care so much. ;)
make the switch 切り替える、変更する
Drop me a note. ご連絡下さい。
lithe (a) しなやかな、柔軟な
loathe (vt) ～をひどく嫌う
attest (vi)(vt) 証明する※自動詞・他動詞ともに「証明する」だが、他動詞を使わずに、前置詞toを伴って自動詞で用いられることも多い。
（例）My wife can attest to that.
commenter (n) 評者、注解者
study idea (n) ?
※His commenters have some study ideas there too.と用いられていたのですが、調べてもいまひとつ意味が分かりませんでした。study ideaという言葉自体はあるようですが・・・。
2009-07-20
my positive life
In these days, I feel I should bring myself to be more independent, stronger, nicer to friends, brighter, happier or in any way be more positive. After keeping hold a hurt feeling and pondering the meaning of a life, I could get one idea as of now.
People cannot avoid some severe happenings through our lives. As sometimes we cannot do anything against that, we can do only accepting those things as they are.
It is easier for us to keep devastated from various kinds of sufferings. In my guess people can keep suffering during a long time they want. However, I think that a person shouldn't be there for a long time. God gave us an ability to forget. This ability is so strong that we forget anything, even one that we never want to forget forever. But anyway thanks for that, hurt feeling becomes cured little by little in the course of our everyday life.
I need to be smily, gentle, generous and kind to people around me. Rather than staying depressed and being at loss, I have to be a person who can help my family and friends when they are in hardships and give a happy feeling even a little in such cases.
The person whom I now respect is Reiko Chiba. Although she is famous ex-idle (celebrity) and the president of IT company, in fact she keep suffering from her mental illness and also her son's. Reading her blog several years ago when she was suffered from more severe mental situations, I can feel her hurt feeling from her depression. She was sad, got devastated, I could get that really easily.
However, she, which I think she is great, kept trying to help others even in that situation. She started to do yoga, brushed up yoga techniques or knowledge intensively, and opened yoga studio. People get together around her. This must be from her personality and her firm belief which she want to save someone. There are a clear and pure belief which only a person through harsh experiences can reach, which I always feel and respect. And I want to be such a person who can share someone's hurt feelings and also happiness.
People cannot avoid some severe happenings through our lives. As sometimes we cannot do anything against that, we can do only accepting those things as they are.
It is easier for us to keep devastated from various kinds of sufferings. In my guess people can keep suffering during a long time they want. However, I think that a person shouldn't be there for a long time. God gave us an ability to forget. This ability is so strong that we forget anything, even one that we never want to forget forever. But anyway thanks for that, hurt feeling becomes cured little by little in the course of our everyday life.
I need to be smily, gentle, generous and kind to people around me. Rather than staying depressed and being at loss, I have to be a person who can help my family and friends when they are in hardships and give a happy feeling even a little in such cases.
The person whom I now respect is Reiko Chiba. Although she is famous ex-idle (celebrity) and the president of IT company, in fact she keep suffering from her mental illness and also her son's. Reading her blog several years ago when she was suffered from more severe mental situations, I can feel her hurt feeling from her depression. She was sad, got devastated, I could get that really easily.
However, she, which I think she is great, kept trying to help others even in that situation. She started to do yoga, brushed up yoga techniques or knowledge intensively, and opened yoga studio. People get together around her. This must be from her personality and her firm belief which she want to save someone. There are a clear and pure belief which only a person through harsh experiences can reach, which I always feel and respect. And I want to be such a person who can share someone's hurt feelings and also happiness.
2009-05-17
memento
ダンス・ダンス・ダンス 村上春樹より
「音楽の鳴っている間はとにかく踊り続けるんだ。
おいらの言っている事は分かるかい？踊るんだ。踊り続けるんだ。
何故踊るかなんて考えちゃいけない。意味なんてもともとないんだ。
そんなこと考え出したら足が停まる。
一度足が停まったら、もうおいらには何ともしてあげられなくなってしまう。
あんたの繋がりはもうなにもなくなってしまう。永遠になくなってしまうんだよ。
そうするとあんたはこっちの世界の中でしか生きていけなくなってしまう。
どんどんこっちの世界に引き込まれてしまうんだ。だから足を停めちゃいけない。
きちんとステップを踏んで踊り続けるんだよ。
そして固まってしまったものを少しずつでもいいからほぐしていくんだよ。
まだ手遅れになって いないものもあるはずだ。使えるものは全部使うんだよ。
ベストを尽くすんだよ。怖がることは何もない。あんたは確かに疲れている。
疲れて、脅えている。誰にでもそういう時がある。
何もかもが間違っているように感じられるんだ。だから足が停まってしまう。」
「でも踊るしかないんだよ。」と羊男は続けた。「それもとびっきり上手く踊るんだ。みんなが感心するくらいに。そうすればおいらもあんたのことを手伝ってあげられるかもしれない。だから踊るんだよ。音楽の続く限り」
I don't want to write the following because doing so by itself brings cutting pain to me. In spite of that I feel I need to write, as I don't forget what is sadness.
A friend told me on a story of a housewife who laughed just after her husband died. Why she did so? That's because sorrow is bottomless. If she doesn't laugh, a deep, dark, bottomless depression just takes her. In short, she "had to" laugh.
A person stand on a very fragile floor. Once it broken, just fallen. A person can be fallen deeper and deeper. This is not only one person's story, but everyone has such possibilities as same.
At present actually I do not have any effective prescriptions against sorrowness although I hope I have. I am still in the dark well. Someone says to me that time soothes everything. Another says "just forget everything except for saving yourself." I think both of them are correct.
Everytime I have a free time, sorrow penetrates and torments me chronically. Maybe this continues for a while (admitting this is also a pain.) But, I want to hope strongly I should not be a heroine of a tragedy. I am really happy to have a family and friends, who are so nice to me. And this kind of sadness could happen to everyone, who lives with such sadness together, but they're so strong and bright. I have to be a person who can save others' sadness. In order to be so, I need to know what is sadness, live with them and laugh.
Still I'm at a loss and I can't think anything well. Only I can say is I just have something to do just now. So at the time like this I believe the best way is just dancing, dancing better.
「音楽の鳴っている間はとにかく踊り続けるんだ。
おいらの言っている事は分かるかい？踊るんだ。踊り続けるんだ。
何故踊るかなんて考えちゃいけない。意味なんてもともとないんだ。
そんなこと考え出したら足が停まる。
一度足が停まったら、もうおいらには何ともしてあげられなくなってしまう。
あんたの繋がりはもうなにもなくなってしまう。永遠になくなってしまうんだよ。
そうするとあんたはこっちの世界の中でしか生きていけなくなってしまう。
どんどんこっちの世界に引き込まれてしまうんだ。だから足を停めちゃいけない。
きちんとステップを踏んで踊り続けるんだよ。
そして固まってしまったものを少しずつでもいいからほぐしていくんだよ。
まだ手遅れになって いないものもあるはずだ。使えるものは全部使うんだよ。
ベストを尽くすんだよ。怖がることは何もない。あんたは確かに疲れている。
疲れて、脅えている。誰にでもそういう時がある。
何もかもが間違っているように感じられるんだ。だから足が停まってしまう。」
「でも踊るしかないんだよ。」と羊男は続けた。「それもとびっきり上手く踊るんだ。みんなが感心するくらいに。そうすればおいらもあんたのことを手伝ってあげられるかもしれない。だから踊るんだよ。音楽の続く限り」
I don't want to write the following because doing so by itself brings cutting pain to me. In spite of that I feel I need to write, as I don't forget what is sadness.
A friend told me on a story of a housewife who laughed just after her husband died. Why she did so? That's because sorrow is bottomless. If she doesn't laugh, a deep, dark, bottomless depression just takes her. In short, she "had to" laugh.
A person stand on a very fragile floor. Once it broken, just fallen. A person can be fallen deeper and deeper. This is not only one person's story, but everyone has such possibilities as same.
At present actually I do not have any effective prescriptions against sorrowness although I hope I have. I am still in the dark well. Someone says to me that time soothes everything. Another says "just forget everything except for saving yourself." I think both of them are correct.
Everytime I have a free time, sorrow penetrates and torments me chronically. Maybe this continues for a while (admitting this is also a pain.) But, I want to hope strongly I should not be a heroine of a tragedy. I am really happy to have a family and friends, who are so nice to me. And this kind of sadness could happen to everyone, who lives with such sadness together, but they're so strong and bright. I have to be a person who can save others' sadness. In order to be so, I need to know what is sadness, live with them and laugh.
Still I'm at a loss and I can't think anything well. Only I can say is I just have something to do just now. So at the time like this I believe the best way is just dancing, dancing better.
2009-05-12
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