BBCが日本の事をこのように取り上げているけど、ほんと？？
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The neon lights of Tokyo.
For decades, rapidly growing Asian economies have encouraged young workers to leave the fields and flock to the cities.
But now many young Japanese are bucking the trend, abandoning the office and heading back to the fields.
Economic stagnation means millions can't find a permanent job.
New recruits are being welcomed by Japanese farmers, whose average age is more than 65.
これまで数十年間、急成長のアジア経済に引っ張られ若い労働者が田畑から離れ都市に集まってきた。
しかし、今、多くの若い日本人がその流れに逆らい、オフィスを捨てて、田畑に戻りつつある。
経済停滞で数百万の人々が定職を見つけられないからだ。
新人が、平均年齢６５歳以上の日本の農業家から歓迎されている。
encouraged
made happen with incentives
flock to
go in large numbers to
bucking the trend これはイディオム
behaving the opposite way to the norm
heading back
returning
stagnation 動詞はstagnate
no growth
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.
encouraged / flock to / bucking the trend / heading back / stagnation
1.
There is little public appetite across the world for building new nuclear reactors, a poll for the BBC indicates. In countries with nuclear programmes, people are significantly more opposed than they were in 2005, with only the UK and US ____________________.
UKと米国だけが原発推進？
2.
As life begins to return to normal in Libya, the first batch of Bangladeshi migrant workers are _______________ to work in the country.
3.
A campaign is under way to __________ people to cut down on wasting water.
4.
Because if everyone - governments, households and companies - simultaneously tries to save more, that effort will be self-defeating. The result will be economic ___________, or something rather worse.
5.
As night fell in Cairo, thousands more ____________ the symbolic square - the focal point of the protests which overthrew President Hosni Mubarak in February.