執筆者 Modern English | 2015年06月06日 | Phrases
“I didn’t do very well on the test.” “Well, you have only yourself to blame. I know you never studied and stayed up all night playing video games before test day.” When something goes wrong, people want to know whose fault it is. When...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年06月05日 | TOEIC
“All students must abide to the school rules.” Find the mistake. A. All students B. must abide C. to the D. school rules 「全ての生徒は学校のルールに従わないといけません。」...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年06月04日 | Trivia
The “praying mantis” gets its name from the way it holds its front legs as if it were praying. Sometimes female praying mantises decapitate and eat males during mating. However, this seems to be more common in the laboratory than in nature....
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年06月03日 | Idioms
“If this photo gets out, the journalists will have a field day! You’d better destroy every copy.” “A field day” brings to mind a day of fun and activities outdoors (i.e. in a field), or a festival. But we use it as an idiom to mean a...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年06月02日 | Words
“I love to walk along the beach at twilight.” Twilight is the time after sunset before it’s completely dark. Its adjective form is “twilight” (lit by twilight): “The twilit garden was a romantic setting.” 「黄昏の海辺を歩くのが大好き。」...
