Idiom of the Week: Back to the Drawing Board

執筆者 | 2014年05月07日 | Idioms

“What happened here?” “I tried to launch my home-made rocket, but it just exploded. Oh well, back to the drawing board!” The drawing board is a special kind of desk for drawing out plans or designing inventions. If your plan or invention doesn’t work, you have to go...

Phrase of the Week: Come Up With

執筆者 | 2014年04月26日 | Phrases

“I always come up with my best ideas in the shower.” “Come up with” means “think of”. We often come up with ideas, answers or plans. We can also come up with other things, such as money. “There was a great TV on sale, but I couldn’t come up with the...

TOEIC Practice Question of the Week

執筆者 | 2014年04月25日 | TOEIC

“The ______ profits from this project will enable us to upgrade our facilities.” Fill in the blank. A. projection B. projected C. projector D. project 「このプロジェクトの予想利益で設備をアップグレードできるでしょう」 利益profitsは名詞ですので、形容詞が必要です。この中で形容詞として使えるものはBです。 Do more TOEIC practice here!...

Trivia of the Week: Sigmund Freud

執筆者 | 2014年04月24日 | Trivia

On this day in 1923 Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud published his paper on the ego and id. Although Freud’s theories are no longer widely accepted, they became very popular and influential. The “ego” in Freud’s theory is the conscious self,...