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里見女流四冠が棋王戦本戦入り!etc.

棋王戦予選決勝

森悠太五段vs里見香奈女流四冠戦,里見女流四冠が先手番。
振り飛車の出だしだったようですが,里見女流四冠が居飛車の対抗形。
里見女流四冠が時間を残しての勝利で,本戦入りを決めるとともに,
棋士編入試験の受験資格を獲得しました。
これはすごいことになりました。

CNN 10

(CNN)May 27, 2022

As China's zero-Covid policy takes a toll on its economy, we're following a CNN reporter through Beijing to see what life is like under restrictions in the capital.
The average age of American cars reaches a record, as people drive them longer than ever.
A Boeing spacecraft makes an overall successful flight after a string of setbacks.
And a "sharkcano" erupts in the Pacific.

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8月までお別れですね。

NHKラジオ講座

エンジョイ・シンプル・イングリッシュ

The Amazing Sherlock Holmes
A Case of Identity ~Part One~

この話も読んだことがありません。

ニュースで学ぶ「現代英語」

ウォーホル作品 250億円で落札
WARHOL'S MARILYN MONROE PORTRAIT SELLS FOR $195 MIL.

come/go under the hammer
to be sold at an auction (= public sale where objects are bought by the people who offer the most money):
A private collection of her early paintings is expected to go under the hammer next year.

fetch verb mainly UK
UK /fetʃ/ US /fetʃ/
fetch verb (SELL) [T]
to be sold for a particular amount of money:
The paintings fetched over a million dollars.
The house didn't fetch as much as she was hoping it would.
(from Cambridge Dictionary)

put (something) up for (something)
To select or offer something for sale.
I can't believe he's putting up his whole record collection for sale—he must really be strapped for cash!
The bank put their house up for auction when they couldn't pay their mortgage any longer.
(from Farlex dictionary of idioms)

オークションネタは取り上げられることが多いですね。

“Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” / fetched 195 million dollars / at an auction in New York.

shoot verb
UK /ʃuːt/ US /ʃuːt/
shot | shot
shoot verb (WEAPON)
B1 [I or T] to fire a bullet or an arrow, or to hit, injure, or kill a person or animal by firing a bullet or arrow at him, her, or it:
shoot verb (FILM)
C1 [I or T] to use a camera to record a video or take a photograph:
(from Cambridge Dictionary)

英検の受験票が届く

会場は専修大学松戸高等学校でした。
天気が良いことを期待したいです。

“If there’s anything I’m proud of, it’s having been a soldier for democratic republicanism. I’d never condone turning the alliance into an undemocratic system as an excuse to oppose the empire’s political dictatorship. I’d much rather the alliance perish as a democracy than survive as a dictatorship.”
(from Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Vol.5.)