執筆者 Modern English | 2013年10月16日 | Idioms
“Did your mother say you could go out today? I thought you had a lot of homework.” “Well, not in so many words, but she implied it!” When we talk about what someone said, we often rephrase it using different words. We especially like to shorten things so we don’t have...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年10月15日 | Words
“Please rake all the leaves in the yard into a pile.” In autumn, leaves fall off the trees and pile up all over the ground. If someone talks about raking up leaves, you know they mean the fallen leaves. If they say the leaves are pretty, they probably mean the leaves...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年10月12日 | Phrases
Mom: “That haunted house sure was scary! Are you okay? Not too scared?” Daughter: “It wasn’t that scary! They weren’t real ghosts!” If something was less scary than we expected, or not as scary as someone said it would be, we say it wasn’t “that scary”. You can use...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年10月11日 | TOEIC
It appears we gave you the wrong flyers. We apologize for the _____. Fill in the blank. A. mix-up B. switch C. mismatch D. wrong Dは形容詞ですが他はみな似た意味ですね。「The flyers were...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年10月10日 | Trivia
Zombies are dead bodies that come back to life. Zombies are different depending on which scary story they appear in. Many zombies move slowly. They can lose arm and legs and not be affected. They chase people to eat their brains. If a zombie bites you, you become a...
