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heatstroke [noncount] medical a serious condition that happens
when someone has been in high temperatures for a long time and
that causes a person to stop sweating, have a very high body
temperature, and become exhausted or unconscious
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FIFAコンフェデレーションズカップ,3位決定戦後,仮眠して,決勝を
観戦しました。いずれもヨーロッパ勢が勝ちました。ドイツは1.5軍でも
十分に強かったですわ。目覚まし時計をかけて,90分の二度寝をしました。

ウィンブルドン開幕,錦織圭選手,順調な勝ち上がりでした。

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移動中のリスニングパートの聞き流しと澄子本の鉄板編のみ。orz


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festival a special time or event when people gather to celebrate something
Each year, a festival was held to celebrate the harvest.
The town has a summer festival in the park.

celebrate to do something special or enjoyable for an important birthday, 
occasion, holiday, etc.
[+ obj] We are celebrating my birthday by going out to dinner.
The family gathered to celebrate Christmas.
We are celebrating our anniversary next week.
They are celebrating the birth of their third child.
[no obj] We won! Let's celebrate!

pray to speak to God especially in order to give thanks or to ask for something
[no obj] praying to God/Allah daily
There's little else to do now but hope and pray.
The minister said, “Let us pray.”
- often + for  We prayed (to God) for their safe return.
[+ obj] The family prayed (to God) that she wouldn't need surgery.
He prayed that they would have the strength to go on.

community [count] a group of people who live in the same area (such as a city,
town, or neighborhood) a respectable member of the community
The festival was a great way for the local community to get together.
Many communities are facing budget problems.
People in the community wanted better police protection.

葵わかなさんの後は,浜辺美波さんでした。
西郷どん鈴木亮平さんを期待していたのですが(笑)。

定期購読

休みます。

Quotations

Heat, ma'am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it
but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
[Sydney Smith, 1771-1845, in Lady Holland, Memoir, Vol.i, Ch. 9]

Bye for now.