増田有華さんを応援しながら英語学習+α

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Count Down TOEFL ITP 7 TOIEC SP 14 IP 15

margin the difference in the number of votes, points etc that exists between 
the winners and the losers of a competition or election
by a wide/narrow/significant etc margin
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昨日放送されたテレビ朝日「カラオケ得点対決下剋上カラオケサバイバル」の録画を見ました。
残念ながら,増田有華さん,惜敗していました。勝ちに行っていて,カラオケ高得点用に
バリバリにチューニングしていました。
こちらも音痴改善トレーニングを早く再開したいですわ。

OJiM監督の優子ラジオ聞きました。ながら仕事と思ったけど,聞き入っちゃいました。
言語学(脳科学)ネタのところは特に刺激を受けました。
最後,追加料金請求されるんじゃないかと心配になってしまいましたよ。
OJiM監督アンド優子ズのみなさん,お疲れ様でした。
ラジオ聞きながらの仕事難しそうなので,明日のラジオの聴取は仕事が完了しない場合,
自粛せざるを得ないと思います。

TOEFL ITPおよびTOEIC対策はお休みします。
今日,神崎先生の『簡単模試』解かなくてはならなかったのですが,精神的に余裕がありません。

英語5分間トレーニン(2003年11月23日)モノローグ

Yuka is dumping on Tomomi again.
She's quick to criticize.
But she doesn't examine herself much.

dump (sth) on sb to tell someone all your problems and worries:
We all dump our troubles on Yuka.

be quick to do sth to react quickly to what someone says or does:
The government was quick to deny any involvement in the attack.

I'm considering buying an SUV.
But it would be nice to have a sports car.
I'm still sitting on the fence.

sit on the fence to avoid saying which side of an argument you support
or what your opinion is about a particular subject: The weakness of the book
is that it sits on the fence on important issues.

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 23 「未来を読み取る力」

Predicting the future used to be the job of people with super-natural powers.
Now, however, it can be done by computers. With enough information about 
the present and enough understanding of the dynamics of change, 
we can make many accurate predictions. There is one thing, however, 
which remains highly unpredictable, and that is human activity. 
Unfortunately, this will determine the fate of our planet.

英語リスニング入門

(2003年5月16日Homecoming Review)

stumble to hit your foot against something or put your foot down awkwardly
while you are walking or running, so that you almost fall [syn]trip:
[+over/on] Yuka stumbled over the step as she came in.
trip also trip up to make someone fall by putting your foot by accident
so that you fall or almost fall: Yuka tripped and fell.
;この2つの単語,1度ブログで書いているはずだが,音を聞いて,イメージできず。

(2003年5月19日Thanksgiving Introduction)

In the United States, Thanksgiving Day is observed on the fourth Thursday of November.
It's a public holiday on which people offer thanks for the crops which have been harvested.
American thanksgiving goes back to the 17th century, when the Pilgrims settled at Plymouth
in what is now the state of Massachusetts. Their first winter was devastating, and
many of them died. In the autumn of the following year, when the harvest was bountiful,
the remaining Pilgrims had a feast to celebrate it. To this celebration they invited 
the Native Americans who had helped them survive the difficulties they had faced in the new land.

devastating badly damaging or destroying something
devastating effect/impact Acid rain has a devastating effect on the forest.

bountiful if something is bountiful, there is more than enough of it [syn] plentiful:

feast a large meal where a lot of people celebrate a special occasion: 
a wedding feast


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