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Count Down TOIEC SP 3 IP 4

pressing needing to be discussed  or dealt with very soon
[syn] urgent: pressing problem/matter/need etc 
Poverty is a more pressing problem than pollution.
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増田有華さん,明日放送予定のNTV「ダウンタウンDX~冬の未公開スペシャル~」に
出演するらしい。

ラジオ英会話(2013年12月4日)

convict someone who has been proved to be guilty of a crime and sent
to prison: an escaped convict 

be at large if a dangerous person or animal is at large, they have
escaped from somewhere or have not been caught:
The escaped prisoners are still at large.  

do time to spend a period of time in prison:
Tommy was doing time for burglary.

scale to climb to the top of something that is high and difficult to climb:
Rescuers had to scale a 300m cliff to reach the injured climber.

inmate someone who is being kept in a prison

comb to search a place thoroughly: comb sth for sb/sth
Police are still combing the woods for the missing boy.

英語5分間トレーニン(2009年12月4日リスニング)

A: I want to ask you, Sam ... What are we doing?
B: We're drinking cola and watching a TV show.
A: I'm talking about our relationship, our life together.
B: Uh-huh. Hey, look at that. A chimp is riding a skateboard.

chimpanzee also chimp an intelligent African animal that like a large monkey 
without a tail

Aの女性は,「だめんず・うぉ~か~」属性設定なのか?
ちなみに私の頭のなかでは,倉田さんと西原さんがごっちゃになっています(笑)。

We sure will miss you around here. But we're also very proud of you,
getting promoted like that. Promise us you'll come back and see us
now and then.

(every) now and then/now and again sometimes:
I hear from her every now and then.

We were really looking forward to the debate last Friday.
But one of the candidates pulled out at the last minute.
The event wasn't canceled, though. Instead, it was changed into
one of those“town hall meetings.”

pull out to stop doing or being involved in something, or to make
someone do this: Hummer pulled out with an injury at the last minute.

the last minute the last possible time, just before it is too late:
at the last minute Yuka cancelled her trip to Osaka at the last minute.

 
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