blue-chip
一流の，優良な
A $9 billion blue-chip hedge fund collapsed in the space of a week and Goldman's woes revealed a painful truth of investing in these secretive, lightly regulated, high-fee investments : hedge-fund investing is hard, and no one - not even Goldman Sachs - is infallible.
Newspaper
woe は苦悩，災難。
stellar
優れた，きわだった
For Global Alpha, the $10 billion hedge fund run by Goldman Sachs, 2005 was a stellar year.
Newspaper
back-to-back
次から次の，相次ぐ
At the office, when a junior employee works back-to-back late days to finish a special project and then ask s you for feedback, does he walk away from the conversation feeling competent, capable, and energized - that he has learned from your expertise - or disheartened by the disinterest you have shown him?
Remember who you are
seek to
～しようとする
It forced me to define exactly what kind of difference I sought to make, how I sought to make it.
Remembe who you are
すごくいい話だったんだけど、今はチケットのことが気になってしまって。。。
prestigious
名声のある，一流の
Thanks to vigorous recruiting and pressure from corporate clients, black lawyers are well represented now among new associates at the nation's most prestigious law firms.
Newspaper
vigorous 活発な。associate 外資系の会社の役職で聞いたことあるから，つまりそういうものだろう。
represent の使い方が初めて見るもの。
supplant
追い越す
And while he will never have a Texas-size personality, Mr Watanabe, through his deeds as much as his words, has been raising his profile, stepping out as the leader of a company that may soon supplant GM as the world's biggest automaker.
Newspaper
deed は行い，行為。
caretaker
暫定の
More than a caretaker at Toyota
Newspaper
海外の新聞のトップに写真が載るってのは、どんな気分なんだろう。
トヨタって、やはりすごい。
take note
気づく
The traditional violin-making and violin-playing world is taking note.
Newspaper
読んでみたいと思った記事。振動と音響のシミュレーション技術を用いることで名作といわれるバイオリンと同等以上のものが作れるか？という記事。こういう気分は悪くない。今はメカを前にして目を輝かせる人の気持ちも分かる。それが嬉しい。