執筆者 Modern English | 2012年09月01日 | Phrases
Jenny: Oh no! I have brain freeze! Mandy: That’s what happens when you eat your ice cream so fast. Brain freeze is the feeling you get in your head when you eat or drink something cold too fast. It feels as if your brain has frozen. ジェニー：いやあ！頭がきんきんする！...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年08月31日 | TOEIC
Finding errors in the text before it goes to print is ______ of the proofreader. A. a responsibility B. the responsibility C. responsibility D. all responsibility 印刷する前に間違いを見つけるのが校正者の責任です。 Aは少し不自然です。いくつかのうちの一つの責任とはとれますが、その場合「one...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年08月30日 | Trivia
Calico cats are cats with three colors of fur. The colors are black, orange, and white. Calico cats are almost always female. This is because the genes for black fur and orange fur are both found on the X chromosome, and male cats, like male humans, have only one X...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年08月29日 | Idioms
Husband: Lily, you play entirely too many video games. How much have you spent on games this year? Wife: Oh, something in the ballpark of $500. That’s not so much! The ballpark is a place to play baseball. You need a lot of space to play baseball, so it’s a wide open...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年08月28日 | Words
The thief tried to sneak into the museum, but a guard spotted him climbing the wall. “Spot” usually means a patch of color, but as a verb it can mean “to see” or “to catch sight of”. If you are looking around trying to see something, and you finally succeed, you have...
