執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月30日 | Words
Tucker: Let’s get together for breakfast this Sunday. Paul: Let’s make it lunch. I rarely get out of bed before noon on the weekends. Something that happens rarely does not happen very often. It happens only occasionally. It is not impossible. Paul probably does get...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月23日 | Words
Maurine: Oh no, I forgot my wallet. Could you lend me three dollars for some coffee? Catherine: I would, but I’m completely broke! Sorry! When you are broke, you have no money at all. If you knock a vase off of a table and it breaks, it is not broke; it is broken....
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月16日 | Words
Tour Guide: Only a handful of people have ever seen the view from this mountaintop. Wasn’t it worth the hike? A handful is literally the amount that you can pick up in your hand. At Halloween, children may be invited to grab a handful of candy out of a bowl. But it is...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月09日 | Words
Freddy: Dad, what’s the opposite of “tiny”? Dad: Hmm, how about “huge”? Freddy: What about “love”? Dad: Well, some say “hate”, but others say “apathy”. The opposite of a word is another word that is as different from it as possible on some scale (that is, “elephant”...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月02日 | Words
Ellen: Did you see the new building down the road? It’s finally finished. Opal: Yeah! But what an eyesore! Ellen: I know! It’s a real monstrosity. An eyesore is something really ugly. If your neighbor puts up a big ugly decoration in his yard, you might complain that...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年09月25日 | Words
“Mind your manners, Billy! Stop hammering on the table!” A hammer is a tool used to pound in nails. The word can also be used as a verb, meaning to hit something with a hammer, or to repeatedly pound on something. 「ビリー、お行儀悪いよ！テーブルをバンバン叩くのはやめなさい！」...
