19 October 2011
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A lavish funeral for a famous Costa Rican crocodile.
People have lined the streets of Siquirres to bid farewell to Pocho, who was 60 years old.
For the past eight years he's been drawing tourists to the town to see him and his owner perform hair-raising tricks.
Now the four-and-a-half metre long reptile is to be embalmed and put in a museum.
有名なコスタリカのクロコダイル
人々が６０歳だったポチョに別れを告げるためにSiquirresの街路に並んだ。
過去８年、彼は旅行者をその町にひきつけ、彼と彼のオーナーが身の毛のよだつトリックを行うのを見せてきた。
今、その長さ４メートル半の爬虫類が防腐処置されて博物館に置かれる。
lavish
something that is impressive and possibly expensive
to bid farewell to
to say goodbye to
drawing
attracting or encouraging visitors to
hair-raising 身の毛のよだつ
exciting and thrilling and sometimes terrifying (which could possibly make the hairs on your body stand up)
embalmed
treated with chemicals to prevent something from decaying
Exercise
Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from a BBC news report.
Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence correctly.
lavish/to bid farewell to/draw/hair-raising/embalmed
1.
The monastery, which was built in 1936, is young by Romanian standards. It was closed throughout the communist period, when it functioned as the offices of the local agricultural co-operative.
But the ancient crosses which _________ the crowds in September and which led to the establishment of the monastery in the first place, were carefully preserved.
（爺）drew だろう=>ニュースはこれ 。正解！
2.
Numerous _______ receptions and parties are integral to the run-up to the Oscars ceremony, which is taking place on 26 February, with film companies devoting substantial budgets to courting voters.
（爺）lavish かな？=>ニュースはこれ 、正解！
3.
Wedding formalities began after the king and his father, former monarch Jigme Singye Wangchuk, entered a sacred chamber of the monastery, which holds the __________ body of the country's 17th Century founder.
(爺）embalmedだろう
4.
Hundreds of people have visited Wellington Zoo ____________ an emperor penguin who washed up on a New Zealand beach in June.
（爺）to bid farewellかな？=>一応確認のため、該当のニュースを探したら、これ 正解！
5.
"The winchman did a wonderful job and the whole helicopter crew. You see all the TV documentaries about the air-sea rescue teams and it all looks ____________. Until it happens to you, you don't appreciate the skill and bravery they show," the judge said.
（爺）hair-raising かな？=> ニュースは、これ 正解！