English for apes

Sleep on firewood. Lick bitter liver.

disconsolate

2023-01-22 20:04:12 | Reading - not classified
タイトルをみてどうせまたRupert Wingfield-Hayesがいつものようなこといっているに違いない、と思って放置していましたが。
なんと。Rupertは日本を去っていたみたいでしたー。彼のTwitterを見るとマニラにいるみたいですね。

Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63830490

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America and Europe once feared the Japanese economic juggernaut much the same way they fear China's growing economic might today.
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mightが名詞なら意味が通じる。

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[..] how exquisitely clean and orderly Tokyo was compared to any other Asian city. Hong Kong was an assault on the senses, noisy, smelly, a city of extremes - from gaudy mansions on Victoria Peak to the "dark satanic" sweatshops at the north end of Kowloon. In Taipei [..] the streets thronged to the sound of two-stroke scooters spewing acrid smoke that enveloped the city in a blanket of smog so thick you could often see barely two blocks. If Hong Kong and Taipei were Asia's raucous teenagers, Japan was the grown-up. Yes, Tokyo was a concrete jungle, but it was a beautifully manicured one.
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ここの表現は参考になります。

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Japan had emerged from the destruction of World War Two and conquered global manufacturing.
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丸暗記すべき一文。conquer something

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[..]you could be forgiven for thinking Japan is a poster child for efficiency.
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Inside I found a group of disconsolate-looking souls waiting for our punishment to begin.
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Will Japan gradually fade into irrelevance, or re-invent itself? My head tells me that to prosper anew Japan must embrace change.[..]
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日本の記事なので、内容はほぼわかるけど、何度も登場するのにちゃんと覚えられていない&使いこなせていないB1/B2レベルの超基本単語が多数。これじゃあUse of English間違う。
bewilder, prosperous, life expectancy, sublime, sluggish, implore, offspring, plump for, sleek, dubious, a traffic infraction, drone, resentful, mock, endearing, in unison, superlative, enchanting, oddball, veneer, blunt, sceptical, lament, absurd, extinction, hostility, waver, pejorative, fertility, eminent, surrender, overthrow, Meiji restoration, putsch, convulsion, conviction, aggressor, junta, yearn, American-imposed pacifism, pork-barrel politics, blight, pump, stronghold, bout of exasperation, stall, rifle through, fuss over

問題集も3日坊主というか5日で止まってしまいましたが、日本語のTwitter、YouTube、Web記事は見ないというのは1週間継続できています。
新聞アプリも見てない。唯一ウェザーニュースのアプリだけ見てます。天気以外は日本のことは知らない。
Rupert一家の出国がダメ押しになって吹っ切れました。もう日本の時事は知らなくてもいい。
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roam, pretext

2023-01-17 22:30:48 | Reading - not classified
さて数日前のRadioで気になったニュースを文字で再確認。

Historic wild camping tradition outlawed on part of Dartmoor
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64238116

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He said they would now consider their position carefully before deciding on whether to appeal, and on what grounds and in the meantime would amend their website and other information they provide to people who are planning to wild camp on Dartmoor.
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Use of Englishに出てきそうな言い回し。

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"From the outset it was clear that this whole case had nothing to do with the preservation of Dartmoor's delicate ecology," she said. "Instead, this was always one landowner's naked attempt to find any pretext to roll back the public's right to connect with nature on national parkland."
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from the outset/at the outset

制限対象は一部のエリア、当該エリアは許可を貰えばいい、ということではないのかな?
成金っぽい地主が勝訴したことが問題なのかな?まあ、強欲夫婦みたいには聞こえますけど。

Right to wild camp in England lost in Dartmoor court case
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/13/dartmoor-estate-landowner-alexander-darwall-court-case-right-to-camp

Guardianを読んだら意味がわかりましたー。Dartmoorの許可対象に野宿は入っていないという裁判所の判例が出たことが問題ですね。
Right to Roam  Right to Wild Camp The Stars Are for Everyone 読解力もやばい
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articulate, kneejerk

2023-01-16 00:54:21 | Reading - not classified
ボキャブラリーは続けます。繰り返し辞書を引くのですこしずつ単語を覚えられている気がします。

さて。温室効果ガス排出量の多い高級車を34台?所有していると言っていましたが。高級車没収記事に引用されていた記事。
Andrew Tate: How schools are tackling his influence
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-64234568

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Intelligent, articulate and disciplined - that's how secondary school teacher Charlotte Carson describes Andrew Tate, the online influencer who is a role model to many of the boys at her school in Belfast. But the problem is, she says, Andrew Tate is also pathetic, insecure, and promotes "Taliban beliefs" about how to treat women.
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Ms Carson says the pupil eventually backtracked, and agreed they didn't quite see Tate as family - but the kneejerk reaction perhaps shows the desire to protect his status.
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子供達のリアクションはまさに信者。マスクのせいでTwitterアカウントが復活したみたいですが、フォロワー450万人!

私の子供の頃はSNSもインターネットもなかったし、テレビも漫画も雑誌も新聞もあまりみなかったので、もっぱらラジオ。FM。音楽系。
YMOの人たちはインフルエンサーで、信者でした。ユキヒロさん。涙。R.I.P.
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ahead of the curve

2023-01-12 21:17:16 | Reading - not classified
新年早々の大物の訃報。火曜に亡くなったということは。。David Bowieと同じ命日!

今日のTodayに登場したTimesのrock&pop criticの良記事。難しい単語は出てきませんが。
Jeff Beck: A virtuoso who just kept getting better
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/01815564-920b-11ed-8b99-f233af7a7956?shareToken=616d7dd7b9f7d3f76d273eed63cfee78

こちらのobituaryは前半はtributeですが後半が詳細。
Legendary rock guitarist Jeff Beck dies aged 78
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jan/12/legendary-rock-guitarist-jeff-beck-dies-aged-78
East Sussexに住んでたみたいです。若い頃に大きい事故にあったのにずっと現役でギター弾いてたのはすごいです。

Guradianのcriticはさらにマニアック。
Heart full of soul: the maverick genius of Jeff Beck, the ‘guitarist’s guitarist
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/12/heart-full-of-soul-the-maverick-genius-of-jeff-beck-the-guitarists-guitarist

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The single that coupled Happenings Ten Years Time Ago and Psycho Daisies was impossibly potent and sinister, so far-out even by the standards of 1966 that it succeeded in alienating their fans – it barely scraped the charts in the UK – and the critics, one of whom derided it as an “excuse for music”. Not long after its release, Beck acrimoniously departed the Yardbirds. “They kicked me out … f..k them,” he waspishly noted during the band’s 1992 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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It still sounded ahead of the curve when it turned up on Beck’s solo album Truth two years later. [..]presaged the sound of Led Zeppelin, the band Jimmy Page formed from the wreckage of the now defunct Yardbirds. Truth beat Led Zeppelin’s eponymous debut into the shops by six months.
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なんども出てきては忘れている単語ばかりですが。英語の前に話が面白すぎー。

BBC Radioの音楽番組を聞いている途中に速報が入りDJがすぐに曲をかけたのと、
直後のNews番組での訃報がさすがBBC Radioという感じでした。短い中にもちゃんとNigel Tufnelに言及してたし。。
やっぱり一般的にはHi Ho Silver Liningみたいですね。criticsはShapes of Things。私も60年代のが好みですけど。R.I.P.
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pathological, male chauvinism

2023-01-11 01:59:25 | Reading - not classified
昨年末のGretaとのTwitterでのバトルをpodcastで聞いて、誰??となりましたが。有名インフルエンサーのようでした。
misogynyといえば、日本ではColaboが匿名の人たちに叩かれてるようですが。Gretaみたいな機転とユーモアがないんですよね。。

Andrew Tate isn’t feminism’s inadvertent bastard child. He’s sexism’s last gasp
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/08/andrew-tate-isnt-feminisms-inadvertent-bastard-child-hes-sexisms-last-gasp

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“In an age where any and all masculinity is pathological,” writes Patrick Hess at the Critic, “some boys and young men will find Tate’s brand of male chauvinism alluring.”
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Take a look at the world’s more entrenched patriarchies – those countries where men still unequivocally hold the whip hand – and you’ll find just as many angry young men flocking to misogynist ideologues at the merest glimmerings of feminist progress.
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It is true that women in the west are overtaking men in some subjects in the relative meritocracy of formal education.
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「主義」的な語は意味はわかっても、アクセントとか(...smは前アクセント)、綴りとか、変化形とか、使いこなせてないです。

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We rarely ask how young women – barraged by street harassment, low rape convictions and a TV schedule full of dead, sexy female bodies – feel about their own “status”.
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Well, like everyone else, young men are susceptible to the idea that they are special, deserving and that others are to blame for their problems.
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日本が出てこなくてよかったです。韓国の大統領のことは知りませんでした。内容はひどいですが、英語はCAE。

ちなみに例のピザの配達情報から逮捕につながったようです。Gretaの言う通り。めでたし。めでたし。
Greta Thunberg ends year with one of the greatest tweets in history
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/31/greta-thunberg-andrew-tate-tweet
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