conviction the feeling of being sure about something and having no doubts:
It was a reasonable explanation, but his voice lacked conviction.
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カーリング，イギリスにコンシード負け。フィギャースケート観戦に備えて，早めに寝ます。
あ，今日も英語リスニング入門はお休み。TOEIC IP，結局申し込みしませんでした。
ラジオ英会話(2014年2月14日）
Weekly Review
a bad/difficult/sticky/rough patch informal a period of time when you are
having a lot of difficulty: Gemma's going through a bad patch right now.
get on sb's case to criticize someone in an annoying way for something
they have done: I just don't want him getting on my case for being late for work.
(from Cambridge Dictionary Online)
appreciative grateful for something:[+of] She was appreciative of Greg's
concern for her health.
be meant for sb if two people are meant for each other, they are very suitable
as partners for each other: They were meant for each other.
英語５分間トレーニング(2010年2月14日「天気」に関する表現)
What did the weather forecast say?
There isn't a cloud in the sky.
It's going to be a scorcher today.
scorcher informal an extremely hot day: It was a scorcher of a day.
Those clouds are a bad sign.
It's coming down in sheets out there.
sheet a sheet of rain or fire is a very large moving mass of it:
in sheets The rain was coming down in sheets.
This morning we had the first frost of the winter.
Look at that wonderful snowscape.
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