執筆者 Modern English | 2013年09月20日 | TOEIC
Thanks to the achieving of the marketing team, the new product is flying off the shelves. Find the mistake: A. achieving B. marketing team C. new product D. flying off マーケティング部の成果のおかげで新商品の売れ行きが好調です。 「Flying off the...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年09月19日 | Trivia
Butterscotch is a sweet flavor. Real butterscotch is made of brown sugar and butter, like toffee but not boiled as long. Butterscotch-flavored sweets don’t always contain real butterscotch, though. It is common as an ice cream topping or a flavor for hard candies or...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年09月18日 | Idioms
Ted: You all want green peppers on your pizza right? We’ll have two large pizzas with green peppers. Steve: I hate green peppers! Fred: Don’t rock the boat, Steve! Everyone else loves them. Rocking the boat means making trouble for the group. If one person in a boat...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年09月17日 | Words
“I splurged on this Blu-ray box set of my favorite TV show.” To splurge is to spend a lot of money on something extravagant. Sometimes we want to buy something nice even though it is pretty expensive. It’s okay to treat ourselves to something now and then....
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年09月14日 | Phrases
“I love to make my friends smile.” Often we use the word “make” to mean “to force someone or something to do something”, but this is not always what it means. It’s good to make someone smile, but you shouldn’t force them! “Make” means that the smile would not have...
