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

カウントダウン始めるか迷っている週間 Wednesday

hygienist someone who helps a dentist by cleaning patients' teeth and
giving advice about keeping teeth health [syn] dental hygienist AmE
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増田有華さん,本日はTOKYO MXのパチンコ番組に登場。私はパチンコはやらないのですが,
そういえば,今週のパチンコ店の広告は,AKB48フューチャリング状態でしたわ。

TOEIC対策

旧公式ガイド&問題集2

Part 2  26/30
Part 5  33/40


ラジオ英会話 (August 20, 2014)

bump to hit or knock against something: [+into] Tim was a clumsy boy, always
bumping into the furniture.
;例文で二回以上引いていることを思い出しました。orz

black out to be unconscious [syn] faint, pass out

pitch-black completely black or dark: The lights were off and it was pitch-black.

burn out if an engine or electric wire burns out or is burnt out, it stops working
because it has been damaged by getting too hot: The plugs are wired so that 
if one burns out, the others will still start the engine.

black eye if you have a black eye, you have a dark area around your eye 
because you have been hit: Jack looked like someone had given him a black eye.

put a steak on it
;馬肉で冷やすとかあるけど,その類なのか?

old wives' tale
Old wives' tale is a derogatory epithet used to indicate that a supposed truth 
is actually a superstition or something untrue, to be ridiculed. 
The phrase comes with the assumption that a story told by old women could not 
have credibility, regardless of the particulars of the story. (from Wikipedia)

Enjoy Simple English (August 20, 2014)

昔読んだ話と結構違いがありました。

Urashima Taro

ちょっとだけ英語学習

NHK英語でしゃべらナイト『1日5分!英語力さらにアップ多読・多聴ドリル』主婦の友社,2009年。

Solar eclipse

skim to move along quickly over a surface, never touching it often:
seagulls skimming the waves

indentation also indent a cut into the surface or edge of something:
Make an indentation in the center of each cookie.

sink in if information, facts etc sink in, you gradually understand them
or realize their full meaning: He paused a moment for his words to sink in.
The implications of Labor's defeat were beginning to sink in.

発音矯正

工藤夕貴著 野中泉監修工藤夕貴のアイウエオ式発音革命』アスコム,2007年。

一週間で一周できるので,復習なしで,とりあえず,一周します。

Lesson 3 CHとT

ボキャビル

佐久間治著『あの手この手のボキャブラリー増強法』研究社,2002年。

第2章・第3章


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