執筆者 Modern English | 2014年11月21日 | TOEIC
“Please ____ a list of the issues we need to address before the project can move forward.” Fill in the blank. A. complete B. commit C. compile D. compost Aの「完成する」はありえますが、もっと自然な言い方があります。Cの compile は「集める」という意味があります。 Bは commit a crime で「罪を犯す」、 commit resources...
執筆者 Modern English | 2014年11月20日 | Trivia
“He still hasn’t given up? He’ll never get that terrible book published.” “Hope springs eternal.” Have you ever heard the phrase “Hope springs eternal”? “Hope” is easy to understand. “Eternal” means “forever”. “Spring” here is not the season, or “jump”, but more like...
執筆者 Modern English | 2014年11月19日 | Idioms
“I’ve been working so much overtime to finish this project that it’s hard to spend any quality time with my family, even on the weekends.” “Quality time” is special time spent together with people you love. We usually think of quality time as time spent doing...
執筆者 Modern English | 2014年11月18日 | Words
“It’s not clear what he wants me to do.” “The water was so clear you could see the fish at the bottom of the river.” “Clear” means “obvious” or “easy to understand”. It also means “transparent” or “see-through”. If someone is speaking too fast and the words run...
執筆者 Modern English | 2014年11月17日 | Pictures
The pomegranate is an unusual fruit because it’s full of delicious fleshy seeds. In Greek mythology, Persephone ate six pomegranate seeds while in the underworld, and therefore has to spend six months of the year there. During those months the harvest goddess Demeter...
