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増田有華ファンが英語学習に悪戦苦闘する日記

第185回 TOEIC COUNTDOWN 3

idle not serious, or not done with any definite intention
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明治大学リバティーアカデミーから,TOEFL ITPの受験票が届きました。
原稿が少しも進まないのにもかかわらず,TOEICの公開試験,TOEFL ITPは,お構いなしに
やってくるので,かなり焦っています。申し込まなければよかったと思っている今日このごろですわ。

ラジオ英会話(2013年11月14日)

remorse a strong feeling of being sorry that you have done something very bad: 
Throughout the trial, he had shown no remorse.

blame to say or think someone or something is responsible for something bad: 
blame sth on sb/sth One of the computers is broken and she's blaming it on me.

half price half the usual price 

英語5分間トレーニン(2003年11月14日)

Is it this, or do we have more to do?

Would you like something cold to drink?

He is a difficult person to be with.

He came all the way from America to see me.

all the way down/across/through etc (sth) (=the full distance or length of something) 

They played well only to lose the game.

only to used to say that someone did something, with a disappointing or surprising result: 
I arrived only to find that the others had already left.

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。

chapter 14 「人口の流動性

Within no longer than a decade or two, the probability of spending part of one's life
in a foreign culture will exceed the probability a hundred years ago of ever leaving 
the town in which he was born.
;最後のところ,heよりtheyの方がいいのではないかと思いますわ。そういえば,ライティングの試験で,he/sheとか,(s)heとかって,使えるのか???


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