執筆者 Modern English | 2015年03月27日 | TOEIC
“The chef will prepare anything you ___.” Fill in the blank. A. desire B. despair C. despise D. despite 「シェフがあなたの食べたいものを何でも作って差し上げます。」 最後の部分は「あなたが欲しがるもの」ですので、「欲しがる」に一番近い動詞を選びましょう。Dは動詞ですらないのでアウトです。Bは「絶望する」という意味で、Cは「強く嫌う」なので残るAが正解です。 Do more TOEIC practice...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年03月26日 | Trivia
Classically, trolls are a kind of humanoid monster that lives under bridges. In one famous story, three goats must cross a bridge without being eaten by the troll that lives underneath. Nowadays, “troll” usually refers to troublemakers on the internet....
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年03月25日 | Idioms
“Let’s rent this movie today.” “A fantasy movie? You know I don’t care for magic and unicorns and all that mumbo jumbo.” “Mumbo jumbo” is a negative word for something complicated or confusing that we don’t...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年03月24日 | Words
“This knife is getting dull. I think I’ll get a new one.” “I never did well in grade school. Everyone thought I was just a dull kid, but actually the classes were so dull, I never paid attention. When I took more challenging classes I did...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年03月23日 | Pictures
A pineapple is not an apple and it doesn’t grow on a pine tree. When English speakers first saw pineapples, they thought they looked line pine cones, but they had fruit inside, like an apple....
