執筆者 Modern English | 2013年01月21日 | Pictures
January 21 is Squirrel Appreciation Day (started by a wildlife rehabilitator in 2001). Squirrels are rodents that live in trees and eat nuts. Squirrels bury nuts to eat during the winter. Sometimes they forget about some of the nuts, and the leftover nuts sprout new...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年01月19日 | Phrases
Phyllis: I love pizza! Jennifer: That makes two of us! Husband: I don’t want you to be transferred overseas. Wife: That makes two of us. In the first example above, Jennifer already knew one person who loved pizza: herself. Then when Phyllis said she loved pizza,...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年01月18日 | TOEIC
The _____ expenses are too high. We need to cut costs to make this project profitable. A. projected B. projection C. progression D. projectile 「予定した経費は高すぎる。このプロジェクトが利益を出すには、コストを低くしなければならない。」...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年01月17日 | Trivia
Sometimes the colors we see when we look at things can be influenced by culture. An American picturing a tiger sees orange and black stripes, but the Hanshin Tigers have yellow and black stripes. The sun on the Japanese flag is red, but Americans usually color the sun...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年01月16日 | Idioms
“How are you?” “I’m sick as a dog. Don’t touch me; it’s contagious.” Dogs are not particularly more prone to sickness than other animals, but when someone is very sick, we say they are as sick as a dog. One theory about the origin of this phrase is that it is because...
