執筆者 Modern English | 2014年11月04日 | Words
“Is the cake gone? I didn’t get any!” “Don’t worry. There’s another cake in the kitchen.” “Another” is used to show “one more” of a countable noun. You can see the parts “an” and “other” in the word. If it’s an uncountable noun, we usually use “some more” instead: “Is...
執筆者 Modern English | 2014年11月01日 | Phrases
“It’s already eight o’clock. I don’t think I can do any more work this evening. Let’s call it a day and finish it up tomorrow.” “Calling it a day” means declaring your work finished for the day. There is more you could do, but you have done enough for one day, so you...
執筆者 Modern English | 2014年10月31日 | TOEIC
“I’m trying to get a new law passed to protect homeless cats and dogs. Would you sign my partition?” Find the mistake. A. law passed B. protect homeless C. Would you D. my partition 「野良猫や野良犬を守るための法案を作ろうとしています。請願書に署名をお願いできますか？」...
執筆者 Modern English | 2014年10月30日 | Trivia
In many stories, a silver bullet is the only thing that can kill a werewolf or other monster. Because of this, we use the phrase “silver bullet” to mean a simple but very effective solution to a problem. 多くの物語では、狼男やモンスターを唯一殺せるものが Silver Bullet（特効薬）です。そういう訳で、 Silver...
執筆者 Modern English | 2014年10月29日 | Idioms
“Why did you buy this huge bag of oranges?” “They were selling them dirt cheap outside the supermarket!” “Dirt cheap” is very cheap, as cheap as dirt. Dirt is everywhere, so it’s basically free. We can compare something that is extremely cheap to dirt, which costs...
