増田有華さんを応援しながら英語学習+α

増田有華ファンが英語学習に悪戦苦闘する日記

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swamp [usually in passive] to suddenly give someone a lot of work,
problems etc to deal with [syn] inundate: be swamped by/with sth
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年越しの懸念事項の最後の一歩がなかなかどうしてうまく進行しておらず,
英語学習も完全に停滞状態。本当にTOEIC1月の公開試験,受験していなくてよかったですわ。

ラジオ英会話(2014年1月7日)

accomplished an accomplished writer, painter, singer etc is very skillful:
highly/very accomplished a high accomplished designer

play sth by ear if someone can play a musical instrument by ear,
they can play a tune without looking at written music

improvise to invent music, words, a statement etc from your imagination,
rather than planning or preparing it first

virtually almost [syn] practically: Virtually all the children come to school
by bus.
practically especially spoken almost: I've read practically all of her books.


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