independent not controlled or ruled by another country
The country recently became independent.
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昨日，寝る前にチェックしたら，放送予定になかった大坂なおみ選手の試合が
流れていたので，結局，大坂なおみ選手の試合も観戦してしまいました。
４大大会，初勝利おめでとうございます。一方で，バブリンカ選手は初戦敗退。
ビランデル，レンドルと並んで，ウィンブルドンだけ駄目なパターンで終わるのか？
ロジャー・フェデラー選手の試合に備えて，仮眠します。
TOEIC L&R対策
澄子本の鉄則シリーズのリスニングパートのPart 2とリーディングパートの
Part 5部分半分をやりました。評価低めの教材ですが，結構好きなんですわ。
NHKラジオ講座
Enjoy Simple English
Folklore and Fairy Tales: The City Mouse and the Country Mouse
A modest life with peace and quiet is better than a richly one with danger and strife.
(from http://www.storyit.com/Classics/Stories/citycountrymouse.htm)
Moral Of The Story:
The story of the town mouse and the country mouse moral is that it's better to
live happily with little and be content, rather than live with abundance or
a lot of something, but in fear all your life.
The town mouse had the best of food and luxury at the town house he lived in,
but every minute was lived in fear for his life.
The country mouse though doesn’t have much to live on, but he's happy and content
with it and lives each day with satisfaction.
(from http://www.momjunction.com/articles/town-mouse-country-mouse-story-kids_0096674/#gref)
Moral
Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
(from http://fablesofaesop.com/the-town-mouse-and-the-country-mouse.html)
ボキャブライダー
stand [count] a partially enclosed structure where things are sold
or displayed a hot-dog/ice-cream/vegetable stand
He set up a stand [=booth] at the fair.
We have display stands in many bookstores.
concession stands a roadside stand
cotton candy [noncount] US candy made from sugar that is boiled, spun into
a soft material using a special machine, and then wound around a stick
- called also (Brit) candy floss
goldfish [count] a small usually orange fish that people often keep
in pounds or in fishbowls or tanks as a pet
bouncy ball
bouncy able to bounce well a bouncy rubber ball
定期購読
紙の媒体をペラペラと眺めてはいるのですが。。。
Quotations
A perfect democracy is therefore shameless things in the world.
[Edmund Burke, 1729-97, Reflections on the Revolution in France]
See you later.
