執筆者 Modern English | 2015年03月14日 | Phrases
“You look tired. Did you not sleep well?” “I slept okay, but I stayed up late last night doing homework.” When you stop sleeping in the morning, you wake up. Then, when you’re not asleep at night, you are staying up. Children usually have...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年03月13日 | TOEIC
“It takes time to ____ up a strong customer base.” Fill in the blank. A. set B. build C. take D. put 出店やブースならば「set up」（設置する）や「put up」（建てる、飾る）を使います。寄付なら「take up」（募集する、あつめる）です。毎回買ってくれるお客さんは徐々に増えるものです。自分の意思で顧客を増やすことは出来ません。いい商品を売っているとそのうち勝手にお客さんは増えますね。答えはBです。...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年03月12日 | Trivia
A certain plant can have purple or white flowers. Most of the plants have purple flowers, because the white flowers are a recessive trait. Each plant receives one copy of the gene that controls flower color from each of two parent plants. One version creates purple...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年03月11日 | Idioms
“Wow, that typewriter is pretty old. Is it an antique?” “Yeah, I think it came off the ark.” The ark is the boat that Noah made to survive a big flood in a story in the Bible. The flood was a long, long time ago, so if something was on the ark...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年03月10日 | Words
“These mushrooms look very similar, but this one is poisonous and this one is okay to eat.” Something that contains poison is “poisonous”. For example, some mushrooms are poisonous, so it’s dangerous to eat mushrooms you found growing...
