reheat [+obj] to make (cooked food has become cool) hot again
I'm just going to reheat some leftovers for dinner.
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代々木に，FM FUJIの公開生放送を見に行くので，帰宅は明日になって
しまう可能性が高いので，お昼にブログを更新しておきます。
今後の英語試験受験予定
5/21 TOEIC L&R
6/4 STEP 1st Grade
6/25 TOEIC L&R
7/1 TOEFL ITP
7/22 TOEIC IP
7/23 TOEIC L&R
8/6 TOEIC S&W
9/23 TOEIC L&R
5月と6月のTOEIC L&Rは丸腰に近い形での受験形態で，7月の3週間だけ
必死こいて，公式系模試7セットをやり込む予定です。9月は英検１級の
結果次第ですわ。
英検１級に向けて
英検準１級のものでまずはならし運転をします。
和泉有香著『図解でわかる！はじめての英検準１級総合対策』ASK，2014年。
DAY1, DAY5
『英検１級英作文問題』旺文社，2014年。
Chapter 1 ウォーミングアップ
Enjoy Simple English (まだ講座は聞いていません)
The Flying Trunk
Hans Christian Andersen grew up in a different time and a different place,
and yet his stories still bring joy to the children across the world.
In his time, the world was changing fast. It was opening up into the new
global economy, there were new ideas, new inventions, new social order
and new morals.
People were looking at the world and wondering what was worth keeping
and what was worth embracing.
People were afraid of the future and the changes they would see in their own
homes and nation given that the world was opening up with the industrial
revolution, imperialism and the mass migration of old Europe to the New World
created destabilization and the breakdown of family and religion, and thus morals.
Sound familiar?
His world could be superimposed on the modern world and the only thing that
would be different is the speed that everything happens, but the rate of change,
the blending of the old and new and the fear of the future were all the same.
Andersen responded to this change by returning to the fairy tale and reinventing
them for his 'modern' audience.
Originally, he started with established fairy tales but then his own imagination
got the better of him and he create pieces of whimsy that floated above
the chain of his centralized moral and The Little Mermaid, The Snow Queen,
The Ugly Duckling and The Emperor's New Clothes are wonderful examples of
this type of story.
However, it was the floating story of The Flying Trunk that captured my
imagination as a child. The story of a wealthy merchant's son who squandered
all his inheritance until all he had left was a trunk that was, remarkably,
a flying trunk.
The young man then takes off on a delightful adventure in Arabia somewhere and
wins the heart of a princess who has been locked up in a tower so that she
doesn't fall in love with the man that was prophesied to break her heart.
All the themes start intertwining and start to resemble The Prodigal Son
among other things. But unlike the prodigal son the merchant's son does not
learn from his mistakes and so the same weaknesses that led him to squander
all his father's money also led him to lose the princess's trust.
Once you start digging into the story it is possible to see many of the themes
of Andersen's modern world competing attention in the story.
There is the beginning of globalization as the merchant's son travels to
an exotic and faraway country, it is possible to see multiculturalism as
the audience reads and understand's the dress and culture of the faraway land,
there is the breakdown of family as the young man has nobody to care for him
and the hint of international trade and mechanization or imperialism where
a merchant can grow rich on the suffering of others.
All of this is there, but hidden under the joy of the story.
Hans Christian Andersen preferred moral endings to happy endings.
The world wasn't a happy place.There was pain and disillusionment, fear and
rapid change. Our world isn't big on happy endings either. There is pain,
suffering, civil unrest, exploitation and rapid change.
It's just our world isn't all that big on moral endings.
No matter what period of time you live in, children still deserve a bit of hope
that there is something better out there.
ボキャブライダー
plan to think about and arrange the parts or details of (something)
before it happens or is made
[+obj]
We are busy planning the party.
The students are planning a protest.
We have something very special planned for your birthday.
Their wedding is planned for June.
- sometimes + out
Her success was no accident. She had the whole thing planned out.
[no obj]
Always remember to plan ahead.
organize [+obj] to arrange and plan (an event or activity)
They hired a professional to help organize their wedding.
We are organizing a fund-raiser.
invite to ask (someone) to go somewhere or do something
He invited a few friends (to come) over to his house after work.
She invited them (to go) out to dinner.
I'm planning to invite them for the weekend.
arrange to organize the details of something before it happens :
to plan (something)
[+obj]
Please arrange a meeting with your partners.
Let's arrange our schedules so that we can meet for lunch.
[no obj]
- often + for
You'll need to arrange for transportation from the airport.
She arranged for a car to puck us up at our house.
Can you arrange for us to meet your friend?
- often followed by to + verb
I can arrange to have the day off from work.
They arranged to meet each other at the restaurant.
基本的な単語なので，互いに入り乱れています。
にゃもし
