bowed to pressure

取り上げる記事が個人の趣味に偏りすぎるために、英文読解力向上にまったく繋がってません。
こちらもちょっと前の記事で個人的な備忘録。

Tories won’t start wearing masks in Commons because they ‘know each other’, Jacob Rees-Mogg says
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tories-commons-masks-jacob-rees-mogg-b1942647.html

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Sajid Javid, the health secretary, bowed to pressure for Conservative MPs to change their much-criticised stance – as he warned of tougher Covid restrictions if the public’s behaviour does not change.
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The Commons leader suggested MPs from other parties did not like “mixing”, adding: “We on this side have a more convivial, fraternal spirit – and are therefore following the guidance of Her Majesty’s government.”
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SNPとの討議全編
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t3mrgnUDfE

ゴシップ好きとしては一番面白い政治家。
自国の政治家だったら選挙で落としたいと思うでしょうけどね。

さて、来週は頑張ってCOP26の記事でも読みますか。blah blah blah。

grainy and murky

写真がたくさんあると文章を読む気になるかも。
よく知っている有名人たちだし、FCEレベルの単語だし、で簡単に読めてしまうのですが。全然使いこなせてないです。

Joy Division: Photographer Kevin Cummins on capturing the post-punk icons
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59010115

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I wanted... to create an image for them that so that people would look at them and think they were perhaps a lot more cerebral than they were and to make them slightly unattainable.
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cerebral イギリス発音とアメリカ発音でアクセントの位置が違う。

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Few photographers could claim as close a relationship with the band as Cummins. His images of the band reflected their sound and embodied the steely mood of the time - cold, yet determinedly resilient.
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as as構文。こんな感じで使いこなせるようになりたい。

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"What I was trying to do with that shot was to do maybe just to place them in the context of the city. And to have a picture that was almost architectural, where the band were an adjunct to it.
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adjunct アクセントを間違えやすい語。

なんでこの時期なのかなと思ったら。Juvens。

juvenescence
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mass noun
formal
The state or period of being young.
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