ニュースで学ぶ「現代英語」
ニュースで学ぶ「現代英語」 ロサンゼルス市 “大谷翔平の日”制定
8月19日(月)
- designated
[ˈdɛzɪɡˌneɪtɪd] - Los Angeles
[loʊs][ˈænʤəlɪs] - Many looked excited to see him.
- small plastic figures made to look like a certain person with an oversized head
- once every 100 years
- Ohtani has earned multiple distinctions since making his Major League debut in March 2018.
- distinction-賞など「名誉、栄誉（の印）」
ニュースで学ぶ「現代英語」 合計特殊出生率 1.20で過去最低
8月20日(火)
- FERTILITY RATE
FERTILITY
[fərˈtɪləti] - some worrying figures
- the country's total fertility rate has been on the decline
- by various degrees
ニュースで学ぶ「現代英語」“ドクターイエロー”運行終了へ
8月21日(水)
- NEARS END OF THE LINE
- fan
- bid farewell to a colorful icon of the tracks.
bid farewell to … 「～に別れを告げる」
bid=> say
farewell
[ˌfɛrˈwɛl]
<>fare [fɛr]
- eye-catching seven-car vehicle
- phase out
- It's off-limits to ordinary passengers
- Seeing it is said to bring happiness,
- Central Japan Railway plans to retire theirs in January.
- West Japan Railway will do the same in
- Going forward,
- lower back pain
- fuzzy
- chances are I haven't.
多分～である - can hardly contain my amazemant on my first ...
- flipped around the seats
- the lyrics from a famous song
- You don't know what you've got till it's gone
ニュースで学ぶ「現代英語」 中国の大学入試 出願最多
8月22日(木)
- has hit a record high
- That's an increase of 510,000 students from last year.
-> That's up by ...
five hundred and ten thousand - amid growing economic uncertainties
- give them an edge in the job market after graduating.
=> give them an advantage in competition - Household expenditures on education
- until they reach 17 years of age.
- I had a blast
ニュースで学ぶ「現代英語」 生成AI使った世論操作の危険性
8月23日(金)
- generative artificial intelligence technologies
- manipulate
in an attempt to manipulate public opinion. - China criticized Japan's release of treated and diluted water from
- were run by groups based in
- I wouldn't doubt it for a second.
- It's disturbingly natural, even.
- can be a double-edged sword
- AI is playing catch-up with humans
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ニュースで学ぶ「現代英語」 去年の落とし物 過去最多 8月12日(月)
- are also increasingly forgotten.
- increased foot traffic post-pandemic is likely the cause.
- as electronic devices get smaller, they're getting easier to misplace
- Police still encourage people to file a report as soon as they realize something's been lost
- one millionが「１００万」-> 30 millionは「３,０００万」
- ear buds（earbuds）ear phones / earphones
- Police say nearly 30 million lost items were turned in last year nationwide, (which is) a new record.
- The National Police Agency says that's the most it's ever seen since data (keeping) began in 1971.
- The agency says increased foot traffic (that occurred) post-pandemic is likely the cause.
- physicist
- we could have avoided the arms race and not been under the terrible danger that we are today from nuclear weapons.
- reflected on the impact
- nuclear warheads
- is raising the alarm about nuclear weapons just as his grandfather did.
- are making big inroads into
－＞inroadsは、通例は複数形で「参入、進出、食い込み」 - a prototype of a microsurgery assistance robot
- laparoscopic keyhole surgeries 腹腔鏡検査の
- is already in use
- I'm always a little nervous about my comments being under the microscope,
- teamed up with
- the spray uses a fine mist to saturate the wings and bodies of mosquitoes to prevent them from flying.
- It does this by using a solution in the spray with low surface tension that reduces the ability of the insect's body to repel water.
- insecticides
- hit a record high of more than 6.5 million.
- join hands 「手を組む、手を取り合う」
-> teamed up with - mosquito-borne infectious disease 「蚊が媒介する感染症」
- I never rally saw mosquitoes as much of a threat
ニュースで学ぶ「現代英語」 東京・恵比寿で36年ぶりビール醸造 8月16日(金)
- brewery
[ˈbruəri] - distillery
[dɪˈstɪləri]
ウィスキーや焼酎などの「蒸留酒の製造所」 - winery
- ceremony
- siteは「場所、敷地、会場、ウェブサイト」
on-site「現地で、現場で、施設で」 - a firsthand look at
- launch
[lɔnʧ] - were named after
- firsthand account 「（現場にいた人の）目撃談、体験談」
- sober curious 「ソバーキュリアス」
sober
[ˈsoʊbər] - tap into ...
- I understand your point, but I see things differently.
- something being a short distance away
- “The nearby train station.”
you can use “close” and “near” — but almost never before a noun like “station.” - now low drinks