brazen sth out to deal with a situation that is difficult or embarrassing for you
by appearing to be confident rather than ashamed
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英検１級の合格点が発表されました。難しかったので低めという前評判通り，低めの７８点でした。
惨敗の私には遙かなる数字ですわ。金曜日にまた公開処刑ですわ。
サッカーのワールドカップ予選，韓国対イランという好カードがあるので，観戦することにしました。
イラン，韓国ワールドカップ出場決定おめでとう。
裏でウズベキスタンが得失点差を詰めてきている展開がよかったよね。
ヒロ前田先生の『時短特急』
TEST 2 L 11/14(2/2,5/6,2/3,2/3) R 14/14
リスニングの最中に何度となく，コクリとなりました。
ボキャビル
第１部スポーツの巻。今日も休みます。第２部音楽の巻へ行こうかなあ。
発音のトレーニング
IPA，aとeの合体した記号がなぜかうまく表示されていません。
昨日のブログで「音だけ」と書きましたが，English Journalの記事には音だけの音声はありません。
あいうえおとの絡みから，発音すべき音を探していくわけですが，正しいのかどうか自分では
よくわかりません。
英語リスニング入門(2002年6月19日分June Brides)
Listen and Fill in the Blanks
andとfinishedが書き取れず。
Are you sure ...?
不安を装った表現として使われることもある。
I think I'm going to have to ...
表現を和らげる効果がある。
wow (informal) to make people admire you a lot [syn] impress
immune not affected by something that happens or is done
[+to] The Labour Party is not immune to new ideas.
arrogance when someone behaves in a rude way because they think
they are very important
it is (not) for sb to do sth used to say whether it is someone's right or duty
to do something
It will be for you to decide what action you should take.
hang around/round (informal) to wait or spend time somewhere, doing nothing
I hung around the station for an hour but he never came.
stuff to fill something until it is full | be stuffed with sth a pillow stuffed with
feathers
put your foot in your mouth to say something without thinking carefully,
so that you embarrass or upset someone
Lead on, Macduff. ここから。
‘Lead on Macduff’is an invitation for someone to take the lead and that you will
follow on. But as any keen Shakespearian or wordsmith will tell you, this is a
misquotation from Shakespeare's Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 8.
So when and how did this misquotation come about? This is challenging question
and unlikely to be answered for misquotations often arise through ignorance or
mishearing.
Sounds and Sound Changes
発言を強めるイントネーション 発言を強めるためにアクセントのある音節を低く言う場合がある。
文頭でのthatのくずれ
[t]の後のandのくずれ
finish singingのくずれ
英語５分間トレーニング(2011年6月18日分リスニング)
I read that mystery novel you gave me. You know, the one that's
supposedly sweeping the nation? I don't see why it's so popular.
It just seemed to rehash other stories I'd already read.
You know the detective character, Furuhata Ninzaburo? He's an exact replica of
Frank Colombo, a character from a TV series from the 1960s.
This new novel may be a big hit. You even called it your all-time favorite.
But as for myself, I don't care for it.
sweep if an idea, feeling, or activity sweeps a group of people or a place, it quickly
becomes very popular or common sweep the country/nation/state etc
rehash to use the same ideas again in a new form that is not really different
or better
not care for sb/sth (formal) to not like someone or something
I don't much care for his parents.
all-time used when you compare things to say that one of them is the best,
worst etc that there has ever been
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