er/estとmore/mostが付く単語の差

-er, -est
1音節しかない形容詞
2音節でyで終わるもの
2音節で-le,-ow,-erで終わるもの
-> yをiに変えて-er, -est

more, most
2音節以上の形容詞

GAとは

GA - General Availability
・正式リリース
・一般公開
・製品出荷

exacerbate

- exacerbate vs exaggerate
Exaggerate means to generally enlarge beyond the bounds of truth. Exacerbate means to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of, as in a disease. Exacerbate can also mean: to embitter the feelings of a person.

AugmentとIncreaseの違い

While both augment and increase share the concept in their definitions of "adding something", augment implies an action that effects a change in quality in the target object, while increase effects a change in quantity.

augmentは質の向上で、increaseは量の増加


http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=5263

【違い】Prisoner vs inmate

Prisonerは収監された囚人の他に、戦争での囚人の意味もあり、物理的に行動を制限されている人。
Inmateは隔離された場所、施設、に収監されている、拘束されている人。
といったイメージか。

Effigy

effigyは日本語訳だと肖像、彫像となるが、通常のsculptureと違い文脈による制限がある。
使われるのは以下のような場合
- recumbent effigy
- funeral effigy
- burn in effigy
- caricature effigy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effigy

国連英検Ａ級1次試験

国連英検Ａ級1次試験を受けてきたので、内容をメモ

設問Ⅰ　国連知識　10問
設問Ⅱ　文法：単語の形態選択　10問
設問Ⅲ　文法：長文のなかの単語並べ替え　10問
設問Ⅳ　空欄補充：二つの単語選択　10問
設問Ⅴ　文法：文法の誤りを選択　10問
設問Ⅵ　読解：長文のなかの単語の意味を選択　10問
設問Ⅶ　読解：長文のなかの単語の置き換え　10問
設問Ⅷ　空欄補充：長文の中で意味の通じる単語を選択　10問
設問Ⅸ　エッセイ

同じ意味になる自動詞/他動詞

account for / explain
deal with / handle
respond to / answer
speak to, speak with / say
participate in / attend
arrive at, get to / reach
lead to / cause
object to / oppose

TED - Rachel Botsman: The case for collaborative consumption

4 key Drivers

1. A renewed belief in the importance of community
2. A torrent of peer-to-peer social networks and real-time technologies
3. Pressing unresolved environmental concerns
4. A global recession that has fundamentally shocked consumer behaviors

These four drives are fusing together and creating the big shift...

Collaborative Consumption

1. Redistribution Markets
2. Collaborative Lifestyles
3. Product Service Systems

From possession to experience

"where access is better than ownership"

http://www.ted.com/talks/rachel_botsman_the_case_for_collaborative_consumption.html

PTO

PTO 英語略語
Paid Time Off
有給休暇

heart

heart

　　 1. 〈俗〉～を愛する、かわいがる、大事にする、～に恋する、（人）にほれる、～にほれ込む◆同義のloveの代わりにハートマークを用いることから、同じ意味で使われるようになった。

　　 2. 〈俗〉～が大好きだ

　　    ・I heart you. （あなたのこと）大好き。◆特にメールや手紙などで。

I continue to heart my apartment. 

"Wreck It Ralph"

hobo　ホームレス
gritch 不平を言う
glitch 故障
for good 永遠に
puke 吐く



For goodの語源？
http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1310596793
http://www.talkles.com/today/20102181745.php

・元来はfor good and allと表現されていたらしい
・goodにはfullの意味がある
・for goodは、for good (time, days, years)で、「相当長い時間」という意味から、永遠という意味が生じているらしい

RPM

RPM＝インプレッション収益
＞Revenue Per 1,000 Impression
＞1/1000 = Mil （ミル・長さの単位、1000,千)

英検準１単語

inflict　押し付ける
emission　排出
repel 　はじく、混じり合わない
replenish　補充する

Friends 10-9

firm stand on　強い態度を取る
get one's hopes up　高い期待を抱く
we'Re standing firm on "not getting our hopes up"?
believe it or not 信じられないような話だけど、まさかと思うだろうけど、驚くべき事に
go out デートする、付き合う
there you go! そうそう！
intimidating　威圧的な、脅威的な
on top of it　その上
reverend 牧師
get along 仲良くやる
We were getting along, having a really nice time.
take out デートする、誘う、交際する
I take a girl out
padlock　南京錠
nuts 〜に夢中で、〜に首ったけで
get into 〜に夢中になる
in good hands　安心で
behold 見よ！
on top of うまく処理して
on top of stuff
turn heads 注目を集める
pull off 　うまくやる
have got to 〜しなければならない (=have to)
twe-way street 相互的関係
bear false witness 偽証する
turn out 結局〜であることが分かる

Friends 10-8

stay out of 口を挟まない
in your face! 思い知ったか！ざまあ見ろ！
go all the way とことんまで行く
foam finger　発泡体のゆびのやつ
inexcusable　許せない、弁解できない
distorted ゆがめられた
in for に直面するだろう、　きっと経験するだろう
they are in for a world of pain
soggy 湿っぽい
vein　血管
drool　よだれ

Friends 10-7

irrational 不合理な、理不尽な
radiant　キラキラした
jury duty　陪審義務
spruce　（服装などを）きちんとする、こぎれいにする
daredevil　向こう見ずな、命知らずな
wholesome 健全な、有益な
rat bastard　嫌な奴
tainted　汚れた
pissed　腹を立てて
step in 介入する
put one's foot down　強く反対する
generous　気前のよい

Friends 10-6

little black book ガールフレンド/ボーイフレンドアドレス帳
interfere 邪魔する
stipulation 〔契約・規則・法律などの〕規定、条項
ethical 倫理的な
underdog 敗残者、弱者

1min pitch0315

find　d音が消えないよう気を付ける
advertising 強勢は第一音節、後半に強勢を入れないように気を付ける

Jon Stewart's Post 9/11 Speech

September 20, 2001

With Jon Stewart

Good evening and welcome to the Daily Show. We are back. This is our first show since the tragedy in New York City and there is really no other way to start the show then to ask you at home the question that we asked the audience here tonight and that we’ve asked everybody we know here in New York since September 11, and that is, "Are you okay?" And we pray that you are and that your family is.

I'm sorry to do this to you. It's another entertainment show beginning with an overwrought speech of a shaken host--and television is nothing if not redundant. So I apologize for that. Its something that, unfortunately, we do for ourselves so that we can drain whatever abscess is in our hearts and move on to the business of making you laugh, which we haven’t been able to do very effectively lately. Everyone has checked in already. I know we are late. I’m sure we are getting in just under the wire before the cast of Survivor offers their insight into what to do in these situations. They said to get back to work. There were no jobs open for a man in the fetal position under his desk crying. . . which I gladly would have taken. So I come back here and tonight’s show is not obviously a regular show. We looked through the vault and found some clips that we think will make you smile, which is really what’s necessary, I think, right about now.

A lot of folks have asked me, "What are you going to do when you get back? What are you going to say? I mean, jeez, what a terrible thing to have to do." And you know, I don’t see it as a burden at all. I see it as a privilege. I see it as a privilege and everyone here does. The show in general we feel like is a privilege. Even the idea that we can sit in the back of the country and make wise cracks. . . which is really what we do. We sit in the back and throw spitballs--but never forgetting that it is a luxury in this country that allows us to do that. That is, a country that allows for open satire, and I know that sounds basic and it sounds like it goes without saying. But that’s really what this whole situation is about. It’s the difference between closed and open. The difference between free and. . . burdened. And we don’t take that for granted here, by any stretch of the imagination. And our show has changed. I don’t doubt that. And what it has become I don’t know. "Subliminible" is not a punchline anymore. Someday it will become that again, Lord willing it will become that again, because it means that we have ridden out the storm.

The main reason that I wanted to speak tonight is not to tell you what the show is going to be, not to tell you about all the incredibly brave people that are here in New York and in Washington and around the country, but we’ve had an unenduring pain, an unendurable pain and I just. . . I just wanted to tell you why I grieve--but why I don’t despair. (choking back tears) I’m sorry. . . (chuckles slightly) luckily we can edit this. . . (beats lightly on his desk, collects himself).

One of my first memories was of Martin Luther King being shot. I was five and if you wonder if this feeling will pass. . . (choked up). . . When I was five and he was shot, this is what I remember about it. I was in school in Trenton and they turned the lights off and we got to sit under our desks. . . and that was really cool. And they gave us cottage cheese, which was a cold lunch because there were riots, but we didn’t know that. We just thought, "My God! We get to sit under our desks and eat cottage cheese!" And that’s what I remember about it. And that was a tremendous test of this country's fabric and this country has had many tests before that and after that.

The reason I don’t despair is that. . . this attack happened. It's not a dream. But the aftermath of it, the recovery, is a dream realized. And that is Martin Luther King's dream.

Whatever barriers we put up are gone. Even if it's just momentary. We are judging people by not the color of their skin, but the content of their character. (pause) You know, all this talk about "These guys are criminal masterminds. They got together and their extraordinary guile and their wit and their skill. . ." It's all a lie. Any fool can blow something up. Any fool can destroy. But to see these guys, these firefighters and these policemen and people from all over the country, literally with buckets, rebuilding. . . that’s extraordinary. And that's why we have already won. . . they can't. . . it's light. It's democracy. They can't shut that down.

They live in chaos. And chaos, it can't sustain itself--it never could. It's too easy and it's too unsatisfying. The view. . . from my apartment. . . (choking up) was the World Trade Center. . .

Now it's gone. They attacked it. This symbol of. . . of American ingenuity and strength. . . and labor and imagination and commerce and it's gone. But you know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. . . the view from the south of Manhattan is the Statue of Liberty. . .

You can’t beat that. . .