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第185回 TOEIC COUNTDOWN 5

hangover a pain in your head and a feeling of sickness that you get the
day after you have drunk too much alcohol: 
I had a terrible hangover the next day.
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幸い二日酔いにはならずに,朝はいつも通りに起きることができて,ホッとしました。
原稿書きの仕事を優先しているために,朝はラジオ英会話のみ。夜が結構大変なんですわ。

ラジオ英会話(2013年11月12日)

catch sb's eye to attract someone's attention and make them look at something

money/expense is no object used to say that you are willing to spend a lot of
money to get something: Money's no object; I want the best.

get carried away to be overcome by emotion or enthusiasm (in one's thinking
or actions). Calm down, Yuka. Don't get carried away.

英語5分間トレーニン(2003年11月12日)ロールプレイ

A: I've got to get home soon.
B: Why? What's the hurry?
A: There's a documentary I want to watch.
B: You should've set your DVD recorder.

what's (all) the hurry?/why (all) the hurry? spoken used to say that 
someone is doing something too quickly: We've got plenty of time - 
what's all the hurry?

A: I'll buy the next round of drinks.
B: You'll what?
A: Don't act so surprised.
B: It's just that I've never heard you say that.

round if you buy a round of drinks in the bar, you buy drinks for all the people 
in your group: it's my/your etc round (=used to say whose turn it is to buy 
drinks for all the people in your group) What are you having? It's my round.

A: What pleasant weather this is.
B: Excuse me? It's gray and drizzly outside.
A: I love the soft sound of the rain, and the cool, fresh air.
B: To each his own, I guess.

drizzle weather that is a combination of light rain and mist:
A light drizzle had started by the time we left. adj drizzly

杉山一志著『杉山式究極の音読プログラム[初級コース]』国際語学社,2013年4月。

今日の2つのレッスンの暗唱は断念しました。

chapter 11 「ラップミュージック」
chapter 12出生率はどこまであがるか?」


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