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スピーキング試行錯誤週間 Day 3

drab boring [syn] dull: people forced to live grey, drab existences in ugly towns
grey boring and unattractive [opp] colorful: visions of a grey and empty world
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ヒロ前田先生の本,なんとか読了しました。登場人物に感情移入しずらかったかもしれません。
そういえば,最近,電車の中で公式問題集解いている方を見かけません。
900点超えの吉兆なのですが。これから『闘耳』の発音バイエルやって,寝ます。

ラジオ英会話(2013年2月5日)

朝できず,夜は途中で電話がかかってきて,きちんとできませんでした。
6:45-7:00にやらないとダメですわ。

pour sth <-> out if you pour out your thoughts, feelings etc, you tell someone
all about them, especially because you feel very unhappy: 
pour out your heart/soul (=tell someone all your feelings, including
your most secret ones)

like pulling teeth if you say that making someone do something was like pulling
teeth, it was very difficult and they did not want to do it

go on to continue doing something or being in a situation

heart-to-heart (n.) a conversation in which two people say honestly and 
sincerely what they really feel about something
heart-to-heart (adj.) a heart-to-heart talk

cool off to become calm after being angry [syn] calm down:
He slammed the door and went for a walk to cool off.

英語リスニング入門(2003年8月8日Groundhog Day)

Part 2

burrow a passage in the ground made by animal such as a rabbit or fox 
as a place to live

stump the bottom part of a tree that is left in the ground after the rest of it 
has been cut down: an old tree stump

gobble informal also gobble up/down to eat something very quickly,
especially in an impolite or greedy way [syn] wolf
wolf also wolf down  informal to eat something very quickly, swallowing it 
in big pieces [syn] gobble

wheat the grain that bread is made from, or the plant that it grows on
;リスニングで反応できず。breadの前にあるから分かりそうなものだったのだが。

Listen and Fill In the Blanks
ひとつも正確に書き取れず。feet andがfeelingに聞こえる始末でした。orz

Words and Expressions

or not
whether, ifで始まる節の最後にしばしば登場するので,このフレーズが出てくると,
その前には,whetherやifがあった可能性を示す。

Do you know if Fred is a member of this committee or not?

due ・・・することになっている

Bob's plane is due to arrive in about an hour.

Sounds and Sound Changes

Step by Step
ハ行の音に聞こえがちな音(2)[f](3)[hw]
Quiz 3/3

In Context
(1)going to going toは,くずれて,最もくずれた音がよく聞かれる。
(2)and スキットでは,andの母音が[i]に近くなっており,andがinのように聞こえる。

英語5分間トレーニン(2010年2月5日リスニング)

A: What's this bag of socks doing here in the kitchen?
B: It's part of my effort to be more thrifty.
A: But don't socks go on your feet or in a closet?
B: These are worn-out socks. They make great rags.

rag a small piece of old cloth, for example one used for cleaning things: 
He wiped his boots dry with an old rag.

Hey, Jason. You're good with computers, right? Come over here. I can't 
figure out what happened here. I push the buttons and nothing happens.

Can I give you some advice, Larry? Don't take this the wrong way,
but you shouldn't let your kids boss you around. As a parent,
your job isn't to make them happy. It's to help them grow into
good, responsible adults.

boss to tell people to do things, give them orders etc, especially
when you have no authority to do it: boss sb about BrE/around
Five-year-old girls love to boss people around.


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