NEWS DIGEST 2010 Vol.25 完了。
どうもです。
1週間くらい前に，ほぼフルディクテーション，完了しました。
ほいで，お次のテキストを何にしようかと悩んでいたんですが，
既に2週くらいやっている，「TOEFL TEST 対策徹底リスニング」をやることにしました。
もちろん音声スピードを上げて。
30%アップでやろうとしたけど，さすがにしんどすぎる。
なので，20%アップでやっています。
ディクテイションはそれほど苦なくできるけど，
シャドーイングはしんどい。
英語力アップのための勉強にはいくつか要素があると考えています。
1つは未知の音に慣れる。1つは，知っている音を定着させる。他にも先を推測する力とか。
ま，何が言いたいかというと，今回の目的は，知っている音を自分の物にして，
自分の中に定着させる，簡単に言うと，自転車の乗り方を覚える的な感じかな。
勉強方法はこれまで通りに，「全部」ディクテイションして，
単語チェックして，シャドーイング。
これね。
TOEFL TEST対策徹底リスニング―実力250点へのLogic & Practice
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NEWS DIGEST 2010 Vol.25の単語とか。
まとめときましょ。
| 単語 | 意味 | 例文 |
|---|---|---|
| logistics | 補給，後方支援，物資の効率的な管理を行うシステム | Developed by the Italian Space Agency, the Leonardo multipurpose logistics module is a large pressurized container used on space shuttle mission to transfer cargo to and from the ISS. |
| cylindrical | 円筒形の | The cylindrical module, named after Italian artis Leonardo da Vinci, measures 6.4 meters in length and 4.6 meters in diameter. |
| joined forces with | 〜を協力する | Yamazaki joined forces with crew mate to manipulate the station's robotic arm to pick up Leonardo and lift it out of the Discovery's payload bay. |
| payload bay | 貨物室 | |
| stay aboard | 〜に滞在する | Yamazaki will stay aboard the space station until April 16. |
| Tokyo District Court | 東京地方裁判所 | The Tokyo District Court ordered the government to disclose diplomatic documents related the 1972 reversion of Okinawa to Japan from the United States. |
| reversion | 返還，戻ること，復帰，反転，先祖返り | |
| in damage to | 〜への損害に対して，〜への損害賠償として | The court also ordered the government to pay 100,000 yen in damage to each of the 25 plaintiffs, conceding that their right to know was damaged by the state's decision not to disclose the information. |
| plaintiffs | 原告 | |
| conceding | 〜を認める | |
| handed down | 〜を言い渡す，遺伝する，伝わす，正式に発表する | The foreign minister handed down a rejection without taking measures normally necessary in confirming the existence of the documents. |
| nurse practitioners | 看護診療師 | Twenty-eight U.S. states are considering expanding the authority of nurse practitioners because of a looming shortage of primary-care doctors likely to worsen as the country's new health-care reform offers coverage to millions more people. |
| primary-care | 一次医療 | |
| narcotics | 麻酔薬，鎮痛薬 | These nurses with advanced degrees want the right to practice without a doctor's watchful eye and to prescribe narcotics. |
| doctorate | 博士号 | And if they hold a doctorate, they want to be called ``doctor.'' |
| office visits | 外来診療 | They say they're highly trained and as skilled as doctors at diagnosing illness during office visits. |
| residency training | 臨床研修 | Doctors generally spend four years in undergraduate school, four years in medical school and an additional three in primary-care residency training. |
| sets the pace | ペースを決める，先導する | The government's Medicare program for the elderly, which sets the pace payments by private insurance, pays nurse practitioners 85 percent of what it pays doctors. |
| veterinarians | 獣医 | Nurse practitioners say patients aren't confused by veterinarians calling themselves ``Dr,'' or chiropractors. |
| chiropractors | 整体療法士 | |
| DNP | The Doctor of NursingPractice | By 2015, most new nurse practitioners will hold doctorates, or a DNP, in nursing practice, according to a goal set by nursing educators. |
| nursing practice | 看護診療 | |
| Madagascar | マダガスカル | In Madagascar, where per capita rice consumption is the highest in Africa, Indonesian farm experts are lending a hand to help increase production of the staple crop. |
| Indonesian | インドネシアの | |
| staple | 主要産物，特産物 | |
| thrasher | 脱穀機 | Dispatched by the Indonesian government last October, 42-year-old Joko Ptioyo demonstrated a wooden thrasher he made at a cost of about 200,000 ariary to farmers in Antsirabe. |
| ariary | アリアリ | |
| winnower | もみ殻選別機 | His mission is to develop and popularize small machines for poor farmers, including a winnower and a weed-eater. |
| weed-eater | 除草機 | |
| dramatize | 劇的に表現する | The crew was able to restart them, but incidents like that dramatize why hundreds of flights every year are diverted around such gritty debris. |
| gritty | 砂のような，ざらざらした，辛辣な | |
| jetliners | ジェット旅客機 | But Thursday's disruption of air travel underlines what airborne ash can mean for jetliners. |
| plumes | 羽，羽毛，噴煙 | Such a huge effect on airline schedules is unusual because ash plumes usually appear well away from the most crowded airspaces. |
| airspaces | 空域 | |
| Philippines | フィリピン | Of the more than 20 aircraft damaged by ash from the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, most were flying more than 900 km from the volcano. |
| harrowing | 痛ましい，悲惨な | The effects can be harrowing. |
| congeal | 〜をこおらせる，凝結する | The melted ash can then congeal on the blades of the engine's turbine like spray paint. |
| take refuge | 避難する | Worried about where to take refuge in case of an asteroid hitting the Earth, a nuclear attack or some other apocalyptic event? |
| asteroid | 小惑星 | |
| apocalyptic | 黙示録的な，終末の | |
| bunkers | 燃料庫，防護質，地下壕 | The bunkers will be designed to withstand outdoor temperatures of 700 degrees Celsius, winds of 700 kph, 500 hours of flooding or earthquakes exceeding 10 on the Richter scale. |
| Celsius | 摂氏 | |
| Richter scale | 震度，リヒタースケール | |
| glitzy | 華やかな，きらびやかな | It prompted critics to speculate whether Saudi Arabian luxury shopper would be forced to unveil themselves on the glitzy Champs Elysees. |
| Champs Elysees | シャンゼリゼ通り | |
| eschewed | を避ける，しりぞける | He eschewed more-moderate proposals that focued on limits in state institutions such as schools and town halls. |
| draft bill | 法案 | The draft bill will be presented to the Cabinet next month. |
| in the space of | 〜の間に | He would suffer his second constitutional defeat in the space of a few month. |
| burqa | ブルカ | The government says women who wear all-covering veils, such as the Afghan burqa or the niqab, would not be forced to take them off on the spot, but would be asked for their name and address, and be sent a warning and fined. |
| niqab | ニカブ | |
| reigned as | 〜として君臨する，支配する | She made her farewell Friday after a career in which she reigned as No.1 for three years. |
| humility | 謙虚さ，謙遜 | But what has always been the most impressive to the players is the way in which Lorena was able to balance her rise to greatness with such humility. |
| ajar | 少し開いて，半開きで | She left the door slightly ajar to play a few more tournaments. |
| full-blown | 本格的な，満開の | But a full-blown return seems unlikely. |
| befriending | 交流する，仲良くする | The director recalled Ochoa visiting the company's factory and befriending the workers. |
| not mince words | 不快なことを遠慮せずにはっきり言う | Shokichi Kina does not mince words when talking about the large U.S. military presence on his sun-kissed island. |
| sun-kissed | 太陽の降り注ぐ | |
| hypocrisy | 偽善 | That's hypocrisy. |
| rift | 亀裂，切れ目，不和，対立 | In recent months the issue has come to dominate politics, with the rift over Futenma, souring ties between Tokyo and Washington. |
| souring | 悪化させる，気むずかしくする，をすっぱくする | |
| dithered | ぐらつく，おろおろする | While he has dithered on the issue since taking power in September, he has faced pressure from Washington, seen his poll ratings dive below 30 percent. |
| poll ratings | 世論調査による支持率 | |
| lingering | 長引く，根強い | The outspoken Kina said that having Okinawa host more than half of the 47,000 U.S. troops in Japan reflects lingering discrimination against the island chain, which Japan annexed in the 19th century. |
| annexed | 併合する，付け加える | |
| palm-fringed | ヤシの木が連なる | With its palm-fringed and coral reefs, Okinawa is often seen as Japan's holiday paradise. |
| tapped in | タップインする，トンとたたいて入れる | The 18-year-old Ishikawa tapped in for par-4 18th after 4.5-meter birdie try slid a few centimeters by the cup. |
| Pakistani | パキスタンの，パキスタン人の | A Pakistani-American man has been arrested for driving a failed car bomb into New York's Times Square last Saturday. |
| U.S. Attorney General | 米司法長官 | ``The intent behind this terrorist act was to kill Americans,'' U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said at an early morning news conference. |
| sport utility vehicle | スポーツ用多目的車，SUV | Shahzad is believed to have bought the 1993 Nissan sport utility vehicle used to carry the crude bomb made of fuel and fireworks. |
| bore the brunt of | 〜の矢面に立つ，〜をまともに受ける | For New Yorkers who bore the brunt of the Sept. 11 attacks by al-Qaida militans in 2001, the scare was a reminder that their city remined under constant threat. |
| al-Qaida | アルカイダ | |
| planted | 仕掛ける | The Taliban in Pakistan said Sunday it planted the bomb to avenge the killing in April of al-Qaida's two top leaders in Iraq. |
| Myanmar | ミャンマー | He prepared to leave Myanmar after holding nearly two hours of closed-door talks with detained opposition leader, whose party was disbanded last week as a result of its refusal to register for the polls, slated for sometime this year. |
| slated for | 〜に予定される | |
| compassion | 思いやり，同情，慈悲 | She has demonstrated compassion and tolerance for her captors in the face of repeated indignities. |
| indignities | 侮辱，冷遇 | |
| Burma | ビルマ | It is simply tragic that Burma's generals have rebuffed her countless appeals to find a peaceable solution for a more prosperous future. |
| peaceable | 平和的な | |
| U.N. Security Council | 安全保障理事会 | A U.N. Security Council resolution bans all North Korean arms exports. |
| resolution | 決議 | |
| junta | 軍事政府 | But the junta had instead moved forward unilaterally without consulting oppostion and independent voices. |
| unilaterally | 単独で，一方的に | |
| sham | 偽物，まがい物 | The elections have been widely dismissed as a sham to create a facade of democracy in a country ruled by the military for almost five decades. |
| appealed | 〜することを懇願する，求める，アピールする | It was the second time that the protester publicly appealed for the King to step in to resolve the two-month standoff, as he has done in the past during six turbulent decades on the throne. |
| standoff | 行き詰まり，膠着状態 | |
| on the throne | 王位にある | |
| crawled | はう，のろのろ進む | During a 1992 uprising, the king summoned military and protest leaders who crawled toward him on their knees in dramatic televised scenes that effectively brought the violence to an end. |
| televised | テレビ放送された | |
| Thais | タイ人 | The king, seen by Thais as a demigod, continues to command immense affection and respect among his subjects. |
| demigod | 半神，神格化された人 | |
| command | 集める，命ずる，指揮する | |
| bout | 一勝負，一期間， | But during this bout of unrest, the monarch has been confined to a hospital. |
| deputy prime minister | 副首相 | Britain's new deputy prime minister has pledged to lead a sweeping drive to protect civil liberties, curbing official surveillance and data collection by scrapping an unpopular national identity card program, limiting the retentino of DNA profiles and regulating the spread of closed-circuit TV cameras. |
| pledged to | 〜することを誓う | |
| sweeping | 大胆な，思い切った，広範囲の | |
| scrapping | 粉砕する，廃止する | |
| institute | 実施する，制定する | He also promised to institute changes to the country's political system, including the right to recall errant lawmakers. |
| errant | 誤った，逸脱した | |
| fact-finding mission | 事実調査団 | He visited Britain's capitalin a fact-finding mission recently in the wake of the thwarted Times Square bombing. |
| in the wake of | 〜を受けて，〜をきっかけに | |
| creep | 忍び込み，はうこと，こそ泥，忍び足で歩く | It insisted the plans will halt the unwanted creep of cameras into offices, malls, and on transport networks. |
| sketchy | 漠然としている，おおざっぱな，vague，不完全な | He said many plans in Clegg's speech appreared sketchy. |
| distress | 苦悩，苦痛 | Letters of child porn victims record their distress. |
| anguish | 苦痛，苦悶する，苦しめる | Some Japanese women have written about their fears and anguish in being betrayed by adults they had trusted, and in imagining that lewd images of themselves could be still circulating on the Internet. |
| lewd | みだなら，わいせつな，obscene | |
| vomit | 嘔吐する，吐く | She said all the pornographic images she saw looked like her own, made her cry and vomit. |
| struck poses | ポーズをとる | She well remembered the room in which dozens of these photos were taken, as she smiled and struck poses naked. |
| despicable | 卑劣な，卑しむべき | I sincerely hope that those despicable human beings who use little girls as tools to satisfy their distorted disires will be punished. |
| booted out | 追い出す，クビにする | Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Friday booted consumer affairs minister Mizuho Fukushima out his cabinet. |
| ruling bloc | 与党グループ，支配連合 | She said the Social Democratic Party will discuss whether to quit the ruling bloc in an executive meeting Sunday. |
| deal blow to | 〜に打撃を与える | Its departure would deal another blow to Hatoyama's struggling Democratic Party of Japan ahead of the July Upper House election. |
| crossed off | 消す，抹消する，帳消しにする | They were crossed off due to operational reasons of the U.S. Marine Corps. |
| follow through with | 〜をやり遂げる | He also apologized to the people of Okinawa for not being able to follow through with his promise to move Futenma out of the prefecture. |
| tantamount | 〜と同等な，と等しい | ``Dismissing me from the Cabinet is tantamount to cutting of ties with Okinawa and betraying the public,'' she told reporters after her ouster. |
| ouster | 追放，剥奪 | |
| ear-to-ear smile | 満面の笑み | Eri Yoshida bounced off the mound with an ear-to-ear smile, looking every bit like an 18-year-old who had just graduated high school and was enjoying a new country. |
| sidearm | サイドスローの | Yoshida showed she and her sidearm knuckleball can hang with the men. |
| hang with | 〜と渡り合える，〜と親しくする | |
| unfazed | へっちゃらでいる，屁の河童で | The Knuckle Princess was unfazed when a former major leaguer opened the game by bunting for a hit. |
| bunting | バントをする | |
| idol | 偶像，崇拝される人，アイドル | She had a few pitches that danced almost as much as that of her idol, Tim Wakefield of the Boston Red Sox. |
| all in all | 概して，大体，結局の所 | But all in all, the debut was a success, especially considering she hit an RBI single in her only at-bat against David Rivas. |
| at-bat | 打席 | |
| sellout | 完売の | That led to a standing ovation from the near sellout crowd on Girl Power Night. |
| retire | アウトにする，解雇する | She failed to retire any of the three batters she faced. |
| media outlets | 地方局，支局 | About 25 media outlets received credentials for the game and the team drew a much larger crowd than usual. |
| upbringing | 育ち，子供時代のしつけ | Despite the disparity in age, experience, gender, and cultural upbringing, Yoshida is fitting in well. |
| top aide | 側近 | A top aide to U.S. President Barack Obama predicted a smoother relationship with Japan. |
| honor | 約束などを守る，尊重する | He was encouraged by the new prime minister's pledge at a news conference to honor the relocation deal on Futenma military base. |
| rash | 性急な，気の早い | He said that it would be rash to declare an end to the long-festering Futenma dispute. |
| long-festering | 長く続く，長期にわたって悪化した | |
| expansive | 広範な，開放的な | In some of the U.S. administration's most expansive remarks on diplomacy with Japan, Bader hit back at critics who accused Obama of letting his frustration become too visible with Hatoyama. |
| hit back at | 〜に反論する |
