執筆者 Modern English | 2013年12月07日 | Phrases
“All I want for Christmas is a pony!” “All I want is for you to be happy.” “All I want” or “the only thing I want” is something I’ll be satisfied if I get, but dissatisfied if I don’t. In other words, it’s the most important thing to me. This phrase appears in the...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年12月06日 | TOEIC
“Oh no! I forgotten the flash drive with my presentation on it!” Find the mistake. A. forgotten B. flash drive C. presentation D. on it 「しまった！プレゼンが入っているUSBメモリーを忘れた！」 「forget(忘れる)」の過去形は「forgot」です。現在完了形でもかまいませんが、その場合は「have」を入れる必要があります：I have forgotten又はI’ve...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年12月05日 | Trivia
After playing outside in the snow, there is no better drink than hot chocolate. Sometimes it has a marshmallow or whipped cream. Drinking chocolate goes back to the Mayan civilization 2000 years ago. But it was not sweet like chocolate today!...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年12月04日 | Idioms
“Hey, throw me that light bulb.” “Are you nuts? It’ll break!” “He brushed his teeth with whipped cream? He must be nuts!” “Nuts” means “crazy”. It sounds like peanuts, walnuts, cashew nuts, etc. But don’t worry! Eating nuts will not make you crazy. 「その電球こっちに投げてくれ。」...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年12月03日 | Words
A ski lift is a little bit like an escalator with chairs. Skiers cannot stand on an escalator wearing their skis, but they can sit with their feet dangling and be carried up the mountain to ski down again. It is notoriously tricky to get off a ski lift....
