Friend10-4

take a hint　気を利かす、察する
You can take a hint.
He does't know how to take a hint.
gee　うーん、うわー
frigging　いまいましい
antsy　そわそわして、イライラして
=have ants in one's pants
resemblance　類似性
uncanny　神秘的な
The resemblance is uncanny.
testicle　睾丸
start over やり直す
take off　急いで出発する
draw straws　くじを引く
obscene　わいせつな
phallic　男根の

V+O+to do

want him to study
allow him to study
expect him to study
ask him to study
invite him to study
enable him to study
advise him to study
permit him to study
encourage him to study
persuade him to study
force him to study
tell him to study

動名詞

動名詞のみを目的語に取る動詞

admit doing
enjoy doing
avoid doing
finish doing
keep doing
deny doing
suggest doing
consider ding

動名詞・分詞を使った表現
it goes without saying that S+V
busy doing
spend time/money doing
have trouble/difficulty doing
feel like doing
it is no use doing
worth doing

P.S. I Love You 2

morbid　ゾッとする
get dolled up おめかしする
pick up on に気付く、理解する
social cues　社会的合図
go figure　不思議だ、奇妙だ、信じられない
bruise　傷、打ち身
on the table 検討中で
brat　ガキ
make an issue　大騒ぎする、問題にする
leprechaun　レプラコーン
eat one's head off 　にぶつぶつ言う、を責める
In fact, she ate me head off about coming out tonight.
let someone off the hook　を見逃してやる
I never let him off the hook.

memo

must not　〜してはいけない
must　に違いない　＞　can't であるはずがない

memo

canが可能性を表す場合、習慣的な可能性を表す。

○It can rain a lot in December in the region.
×It can rain a lot tomorrow.

must have doneには「〜したに違いない」の意味がある

Could/was able to/could have doneの違い

Could 習慣的能力があった
was able to　することができて実際にやった
could have done　やろうと思えばできたがしなかった

He could run very fast when he was young.
I was able to pass the exam although it was difficult. (I could pass the exam although it was difficult.とは言えない)
When I went on a business trip to Tokyo, I could have stayed with one of my friends there, but I put up at a hotel.



submerge　潜水する
staff　（複数扱い）
or so　〜かそこらで
It takes 40 minutes or so

Friends10-3

self-loathing 自己嫌悪
graze　軽く触れる
thigh　もも
x-rated　成人向けの
brag　自慢する
catch on quick　察しが良い
gas　冗談
thy　汝の
hold up well　良く持ちこたえる
under torture　拷問による
top down　逆さまに
pop open　パッと開く
clasp 留め金
abs　腹筋
abdominal muscle　腹筋
musty　かび臭い
kick into high gear　
shrill　けたたましい
scrappy 戦闘的な
claw one's way　必死で先に進む（つめで引っかいて障害物をかきわけ進む）

P.S. I Love You 1

walk-up エレベーターのない
bitch about　について不平を言う
deep down　心の底では
ravishing 魅力的な、とても美しい
done with　と関係を断つ、を終える
pull oneself together　立ち直る
good riddance 清々した、いい厄介払い
pimple　にきび
at some point いつか、ある時点で

Friends10-2

calm oneself　心を落ち着ける
dread 不安
you bet　確かに、まさにその通り
thoughtful　心のこもった、気が利く
adorable 愛らしい
just for argument's sake　議論の糸口として
on some level ある程度
give someone a heads up 　早めの情報を提供する

Friends10-1

eavesdrop　盗み聞きする
get over here こっちに来い
nonchalant　平然とした
enunciate　宣言する、明確に発言する
hold off　遅らせる
filthy　下品な、卑猥な
scalp 頭皮
roam about　はいかいする
roam　歩き回る
generous 寛大な
edge out 僅差で勝つ、押しのける
at the break of dawn　夜明けに
cornrow　髪型のひとつ。細かい三つ編で黒人女性っぽいやつ。
antidepressant　抗鬱剤
rattle　ガラガラ（赤ちゃんのおもちゃ）
shoot　どうぞ
"I have something to tell you." "OK, shoot!" 「話したいことがあるんだけど」「じゃあ、話して！」
pull oneself together 立ち直る、更生する、しっかりしろ
wang　ペニス
kiss and tell　信頼を裏切る、秘密を暴露する
I don't like to kiss and tell, but...
untangle　もつれを解く、解決する
gnaw　ガリガリかじる
fray　すり切れる、ほつれる


I'll be straight with you. 正直に言いましょう

Friends8 22-24

8-22
pain in the ass　いらいらさせるやつ
hung up on 〜にこだわる、苛立つ
surrogacy　代理母
insemination　受精
fertility clinic 不妊治療院
rule out 除外する
aside from 〜はさておき、のほかに
waltz in　軽快に進む
swept off one's feet 〜に夢中になる
out cold　気を失って
He's out cold.
diabetes 糖尿病
gout 痛風
brace　歯列矯正用ブリッジ
nympho　淫乱な
stick up for　〜を支持する
lose face　メンツを失う
distillation　蒸留
perticle　粒子
upwind　向かい風、逆風の
iceberg　冷淡な人

8-23,24
flattering 　お世辞の
That is very flattering.　それはそれは
hung up on こだわっている、恋煩いをする
a thong　Tバック
thongs　サンダル
lust after 〜に色情を抱く
shortcoming 欠点
carbon dating　放射性炭素年代測定
meddler　余計な世話を焼く人
meddle　干渉する
in that case　その場合
know all along　最初から知ってる、すべてお見通しだ
unbearable　耐えられない
step on the toes of　（人）の権利を侵害する
brag about 〜を自慢する
frostbite　凍傷
drape　厚手のカーテン
adjoining　隣の
cornea　角膜
blow away 感動させる
take it too far 無理する
turn out to be 結局は〜の結果である
forfeit　剥奪される
musing　物思い
go over　繰り返す
cocky　図に乗る
for the best　最終的にはベスト
I think it's for the best.
enough is enough　もうたくさんだ
blister　まめ、水ぶくれ
Shake it off! どんまいどんまい
herbivore　草食動物
carnivore　肉食動物
go out with 付き合う

Friends 9-20, 21

8-20
hook someone up with〈俗〉（人）に～を与える
fool around with　遊び半分で付き合う
off the top of my head　思いつきでいうと
windbag　おしゃべり
by any chance　ひょっとして
mutagenesis　突然変異
I will behave　行儀よくする
play fast and loose with with　〜に大して無責任である、もてあそぶ
poultry　家禽
move on　口説く
inhibitions　抑圧
pry　せんさく
costar　共演スター
slutty　だらしない

8-21
get laid　セックスする
think less of me　私をより低く見る、低く評価する
grab a bite　軽く食事をする
tight-ass　ケチ、堅物
arouse　性的に興奮する

Friends 9-13 ,14 and 15

9-13
waxing　むだ毛処理
tweeze　～をピンセットで抜く
self-loathing　自己嫌悪
Mace　催涙ガススプレーのひとつ
all over the place　理性を失う、おかしくなる
I'm just all over the place.
one of the best　一流の、屈指の

9-14
fall back to sleep　寝直す、二度寝する
fix up　デートの相手を見つける、異性を紹介する
slim pickings　わずかの収入
keep it down　静かにする
obituary　死亡記事
get stood up　（デートを）すっぽかされる
kill it　もうやめだ。
I think we killed it.
canoodle　いちゃつく
hump　セックスする
screw　セックスする
fulfilling　充実した
studio apartment　ワンルームアパート
infertile　不妊の
be stood up　待ちぼうけを食わされる、すっぽかされる
Ross is stood up somewhere
be meant to　〜になるように運命づけられてる
If it was meant to be, it's meant to be.
just as well　かえって好都合だ
bummed　がっかりした、凹んだ、落ち込んだ
give it a rest　いい加減にしてくれ

9-15
by any chance　ひょっとして
look out for 〜に注意する
callbacks　再オーディション
I have a confession to make. 打ち明けなければならないことがあります。
by any chance ひょっとして
happen to　ひょっとして〜する
You didn't happen to tell...

Friends 9-12

fussy　ぐずる
Somebody's getting a little fussy.
cry oneself to sleep　泣き寝入りする
I cried myself to sleep last night.
come to think of it　考えてみれば、そういえば
put food out for　えさをだす
unsanitary　非衛生的な
spa treatments　温泉療法、美容施術
pompous　気取った
obnoxious　感じの悪い
leer　色目を使う
in a kind of way　多少
in an obvious kind of way
for once　一度ぐらい、たまには
go after　を追い求める
go after a girl
drive away 追い払う
I wouldn't want anything to drive her away.
any day now　いつでも
grow on trees　簡単に手に入る
Nannies like her don't grow on trees.
not grow on trees そんじょそこらにはない、簡単には手に入らない
for a walk 散歩に
stable　家畜小屋、馬屋
she's the princess and I'm the stable boy.
as a matter of fact　実際のところ
from now on これからずっと、今後は
I can't stand him　あいつには我慢ならない
preoccupied　夢中になった、没頭している
right behind you 見方をする、支援する
bummed がっかりした
I just get bummed...
make up for 補う、埋め合わせする、

Postpone mail and Friends 9-11

I am afraid that I already have appointment tonight.
Could you arrange next phone call on a different day?
Would it be possible to have a brief conversation tomorrow instead today.

Thank you for your consideration.


9-11
pain in the ass　イライラさせる
bitten by　〜に夢中になる
- Have you ever been bitten by a hungry Italian?
short on cash
- I'm a little short on cash.
word spread 　うわさが広がる
dawdle　ぶらぶら過ごす、無駄に時間を費やす
temp　派遣社員 = temporary staff
quick wit　回転の速い頭
incidentally　ちなみに、ついでに、ところで、
from the top　始めから
fill me in 　教えて、説明して、
obsolete　時代遅れの
knock someone dead　（人）を感動させる
shook up　気が動転した
botch　へま、しくじる

GOLDFISH

I looked at the airplane track that was dividing the sky.
The white line was going to separate the blue sky,
however, the line dissolved in the blue. The sky united again.

I hope the line which God draws fade away someday like airplane tracks.
Someday, beyond language and distance and air, I wish everything unite.



In this world, each town has different air.
Even if we go to the next neighborhood,
we always need respiratory assistance such as a fishbowl form.
A life supporting device, which called the Fishbowl, save our life in other town.

However, everyone is similar to me.
Each town is almost the same, too. Only the air is different.
Therefore, it happens sometimes that people take off the Fishbowl because they become mixed up or stressed about living in another town.
They inhale the different air, smile a little,
then they finish up dead.



The towns have relationships with each other.
I'm going to another town
that I've never been to before.



I carry a goldfish.
"It's funny a goldfish is kept by you who wear the Fishbowl"
It is wonderful if the goldfish brings a opportunity to talk to somebody like this.



I took a train which runs so long long into the distance.
In the train, I observe so many people wearing Fishbowls.
Conductor also wore a Fishbowl.



To live in another town,
is to not to have heart and soul.
My job is to build up the heart and soul of our hometown in this town.
My goldfish and I start living here after a little welcome party.



Hermin Fanfinnyo.
I take up with a Fishbowler who was also sent here from another town.
Her town is far from here and the opposite direction from my hometown.
I had never known the name of her town.
We didn't need time to become friendly because of our circumstances. She too is building the love and soul of this town.
Unfortunately, her mission ends soon.

"It's easier to think often that we would have distance from each other.
Do not despair of your loneliness,
Bless ourself to have a chance to know each other."

She said to me with her hand on my Fishbowl before she goes.
I also placed my hand on her Fishbowl.
We can't touch each face directly, ever.
She left with our promise to meet again.



After I used to live here, I got time to think.
Different custom, rule, value...

"I am stranger in the town"
Unconsciously, I often let out a sigh.
The goldfish is the only friend of mine.




Cuse Maylioult.
I once loved someone.
He is local person and so kind person.
And he is the person who care about my loneliness and anxiety.

But the reason might be that I am foreigner, he said.

"I like you, however,
it seems unlikely that we will be together in the future"

While I had been weeping away in my room all night long,
the goldfish was swimming as always.



A world of Fishbowl is separated by a glass wall.
A view of my room is separated by a glass wall.
Some wall surely exists between us also. It makes difficulty to understand each other.

One day, I held a little home party.
The room had an agreeable tea aroma.
Everyone wore a Fishbowl except me
and talked with each other in my room.
Here is my town air.
The goldfish came up to the surface,
She opened and closed her mouth unconsciously.



Karue Fass.
He doesn't have a hometown.
His hometown burned down and was designated a polluted area.
Nobody can be there.
So he was living in another town with a Fishbowl, always.

"We can die anytime.
But there is not the necessity of death.
That's why I live"

The positive with negative thought.
His cheerful disposition could be a result of a difficult past.
I felt he shows a happy exterior.
He knows many people.
However, I never se him with the same people.



Famstan Zebilion.
His father is in the next town, his mother in this town.
When he was a child, he could live without a Fishbowl in both towns.
However he grows up,
he can only live without a Fishbowl in the town where he breathed in more air.
He is still his teens.

"Even so, someday,
there will be more people like me.
Everybody can live without air barrier,
and everybody can just live together ordinarily.
I wish so"

I wonder which town will he adjust?
Will he still wish to be a mixed-towner when he grow up?



Washirumin Keitarioslingun.
He is local, but he is a peculiar person.

"There is not equality in the world.
Somebody gets everything anytime,
somebody loses everything anytime.
It is meaningless to think about anyone else.
Ask you just yourself a question"

He has many hobbies.
He tries everything else.
In other words, nobody knows what he is doing.
He treated me the same as locals.
It seems the locals think he is weird.



Time goes by. Fleeting. My stay is coming to an end.
I have a lot of work,
however I also have a lot of free time.
Although I chose to visit and stay here by myself,
I hadn't made a plans.
As the day nears,
my anxiety and regret is increasing in my mind.
I walk with a hazy feeling,
The noise of footsteps, has caught my attention. Out of my fishbowl I see a leaf flaps in the wind.

I stop and think over and over.
What did I do?
What could I have done?



A farewell party.
I greet guests with a smile.
However, I notice that I can't get preference over locals.
I feel permanently barriered in my Fishbowl glass.
If we become friendly, it's just more friendly than strangers.
It is even difficult to become closer someone than a longtime acquaintance.
I felt more sadness than pleasure in the party.



As usual, I looked at the goldfish alone.

Somehow, recently she has an unhealthy complexion.
"Hey, what are you thinking?"
Always you are surrounded by water, and you face me across the glass.
I believe in your friendship. What do you think about me?



Suddenly huge regret grasped me.
"Why didn't I bring her as a pair"
A goldfish can't live together with an other town goldfish either.

she swims, like always, without concern.



The day before my departure, she died.
"You were going to home tomorrow.
You could have had friends and lovers.
you can live together.
You were lonely.
I'm sorry.
Sorry..."
I mumble it a dozen times to myself holding the fishbowl.
She felt more solitude than me.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry for not realizing.



I folded her body softly.
I hope she will find solace in returning to our land and air.
I'm headed to the train station.



The town which I have stayed long;
The view which I have gotten used to seeing;
I couldn't touch the town truly.
This some-other town.

Yet, I can also find similarities with my hometown here.
A human is a human. A town is a town.
There is no difference except for the Fishbowl barrier.
Does my mind generate the barrier?



I felt discomfort wearing the Fishbowl.
It is same world. I know.
I felt as if I could have taken a breath here in the town without the Fishbowl.

Should I take off the Fishbowl?
What's gonna happen?
Will I die?



If I go back hometown, what do I have?

I want to clear away the glass,
take a breath of air,
I want to brake it all barriers - go beyond the glass and air.
Even if this is a fantasy,
I want to unite.



Feeling a dazzle, I looked up.
The Fishbowl shines iridescently. Light falls through the leaves and reflects off the glass.
It is very beautiful.
"Because I am wearing this Fishbowl, I can see this now."

We just live in the town we were born.
We are bound by circumstances.
For all that we can go around the world.
There are restrictions, always.
However, there are many possibilities, too.

People who come from other towns;
People who live here;
I learned about loneliness through frequent meetings.
Therefore I also learned the joy of be with friends.
Loneliness let you love someone,
a love lets you feel a loneliness.
Even if the same town people couldn't understand each other,
Even if a Fishbowl make us separate and we can't breath same air,
We can understand each other in some way.



We're living alone in a fishbowl like a goldfish.
We can care about someone because we feel loneliness.
Because we can't touch each other through our Fishbowls,
We can cherish each other, too.



When the goldfish looked up, at the hazy sun
through a wavering surface of water,
what was she dreaming?

When I look up at the faraway sky
through my glass of helmet,
what am I dreaming?



As I was getting on the train,
I realized someone was there; A friend with a hat low over his eyes.

Washirumin Keitarioslingun smiles nervously.
He gives me flowers.

"The flowers don't die out of this town.
The flowers grow in any town.
The place is not important.
If you give flowers what they need,
they will grow."

I'm crying and smiling with a whole handful of flowers.

"Humans are the same. I believe in this"
He touches my Fishbowl, then he graces to bow.

"See you someday"

He smiles.

"See you someday"

My words are a hope, a dream and my will.
I'm smiling with my face buried in the flowers.

alexとの会話から

tempt fate　怖いもの知らず（自分が死なないことを試すような）

1.copout 言い訳、責任逃れ、現実逃避
2.endrun うまく避けて通る、巧みに外す
3.catch 22　にっちもさっちもいかない状況、絶体絶命、ジレンマ状態

pursue 追跡する
pursuit　追跡

tutoring

in turmoil　混乱状態にある
intuitive　直感的に
to spell it out : to explain something very clearly
ruminate　熟考する
demeanor　様子、態度、品行

SGIC

reservation　制限
asthma　ぜんそく
snowball effect
slippery slope
sledding　そり滑り
culmination　最高点
poignant　心に強く訴える
mediocre　良くも悪くもなく普通の

intimidate　〜を怖がらせる、おびえさせる
round-robin　総当たり戦

starch　デンプン
poultry　鶏肉
stale　新鮮でない
keen = interesting
squid = calamari
appetizer = starter