執筆者 Modern English | 2015年01月21日 | Idioms
“Hi, Bob, long time no see!” “Yeah, I guess the last time was at the Jill’s wedding!” “Long time no see” is a cute greeting to use when you haven’t seen someone in a long time. It’s not really grammatically correct: “It’s been a long time and I have not seen you.”...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年01月20日 | Words
“The yard was mostly covered with snow, but the grass showed in a few places.” “Mostly” can be used in some of the same places as “almost”. In the sentence above, you can use either word. However, you could not use “almost” in this sentence: “My cat is mostly black,...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年01月19日 | Pictures
An avalanche is when a lot of snow slides down the mountainside. In movies, this usually happens when the characters make a noise that disturbs the snow, but in reality this is not common....
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年01月17日 | Phrases
“In spite of the difficult conditions, she carried on and made it to the top of the mountain.” “In spite of” is followed by a noun phrase to show that something made it difficult or unlikely for the rest of the sentence to happen. “In spite of the bad weather, the...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年01月16日 | TOEIC
“Please ___ the shirts before you put them in the drawer.” Fill in the blank. A. bend B. fold C. twist D. crumple 「引出しに入れる前にシャツをたたんでください。」 Dは「ぐちゃぐちゃにする」、Cは「ねじる」、Aは「折る、曲げる」なので違います。Bの fold は「折りたたむ」という意味ですので適切ですね。 Do more TOEIC practice here!...
