執筆者 Modern English | 2015年07月01日 | Idioms
“That’s a crazy idea! Do you have a screw loose?” If someone “has a screw loose”, it means they are crazy. Imagine them as a machine or a robot. If a machine has a loose screw, it might not function properly. So when someone acts or talks...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年06月30日 | Words
“I was born in the year 2000.” It can be easy to make mistakes with “born” because it’s actually the passive form of “bear”. If a woman bears a child, the child is born. The past tense is “bore”: “She bore...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年06月29日 | Pictures
This is a picture taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Although you can’t see anything in this tiny square of the night sky with your eye, the powerful telescope found many distant galaxies....
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年06月27日 | Phrases
“This is impossible. I give up.” “Don’t give up. You’ll never achieve anything like that!” “I just can’t get this program to work on my computer. I’m going to ask my sister to do it. She’s good with...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年06月26日 | TOEIC
“It’s a difficult problem, but if we put our heads together I’m sure we can figure it ____.” Fill in the blank. A. up B. down C. in D. out 「難しい問題だけど皆で力を合わせればきっと解決法がわかるはずだ。」 努力して難しい問題を解いたりするときに使う動詞。Figureだけでも「考える」として使うことはあります。I figure he must be...
