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http://www.englishcompanion.com/pdfDocs/toolcharcardbmark.pdf
Character Card Bookmark
The following two pages contain a set of four bookmarks. The pages are intended to be photocopied back to back (they SHOULD line up)
and when cut should make four bookmarks. This bookmark is designed specifically to be used with narratives, especially those that contain
many names and places. One side of the bookmark contains spaces in which students should write the character’s (or place’s) name and,
below that, a brief description. The back side of the bookmark includes “Core Skills” and the questions or prompts students can use to
develop those skills.
The Character Card Bookmark is free and should be shared with other teachers, though I do ask that you let them know where you found it.
This and ot her helpful resources can be found at: www.englishcompanion.com.
The Character Card Bookmark was created by Jim Burke. For more information about this and other resources, please go to
www.englishcompanion.com or write to me at jburke@englishcompanion.com
Useful Literary Terms
便利な文学用語
• allusion 引喩
• analogy 類似（点）, 相似, 近似；共通性
• antagonist 反対語
• character
• conflict
• convention(s)
• diction
• exposition
• imagery
• irony
• motif
• narrator
• persona
• plot
• point of view
• protagonist
• setting
• theme(s)
• tone
• voice
Character Card
Useful Literary Terms
• allusion
• analogy
• antagonist
• character
• conflict
• convention(s)
• diction
• exposition
• imagery
• irony
• motif
• narrator
• persona
• plot
• point of view
• protagonist
• setting
• theme(s)
• tone
• voice
Character Card
Useful Literary Terms
• allusion
• analogy
• antagonist
• character
• conflict
• convention(s)
• diction
• exposition
• imagery
• irony
• motif
• narrator
• persona
• plot
• point of view
• protagonist
• setting
• theme(s)
• tone
• voice
Character Card
Useful Literary Terms
• allusion
• analogy
• antagonist
• character
• conflict
• convention(s)
• diction
• exposition
• imagery
• irony
• motif
• narrator
• persona
• plot
• point of view
• protagonist
• setting
• theme(s)
• tone
• voice
http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm
文学用語
Core Skills
ASK QUESTIONS
• Who is involved? 関与しているのは誰ですか？
• What are they doing? (Why?) 何やっているの？（なぜ？）
• What do they want very badly? (Why?) 彼らは非常に不器用に何をしたいですか？（なぜ？）
• What is the situation or problem? 状況や問題とは何ですか？
• Who is telling the story? (Why?) 誰が話をしますか？ （なぜ？）
• How is the story designed? (Why?) 物語はどのように設計されています？ （なぜ？
• What is the source of tension? 緊張の源は何ですか？
• Can you trust the narrator? あなたは、語り手を信頼できますか？
• I wonder why....
1.I wonder why it's so crowded here today.
どうして今日はこんなに混んでいるのかしら。 [F]
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2.I wonder why he was absent.
彼はなぜ休んだのかしら。 [F]
3.I wonder why tennis is played in mini-skirts?
テニスウェアってなんでミニスカートなのかしら？ [F]
4.I wonder why it is that some plants become annuals and others perennials?
なぜ一種の植物が一年生の草本になったり、多年生の木本になったりするのでしょうか。
5.I wonder why she didn't tell him about it.
彼女はどうしてそのことを彼に話さなかったのだろう。
6.I wonder why he did not come to the party.
彼はなぜパーティーにこなかったのだろう。
7.I wonder why they took my name off the list.
どうしてリストから私の名前を外したのかしら。 [F]
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8.I wonder why karaoke is so popular.
どうしてカラオケがこんなに人気があるのかしら。 [F]
9.I wonder why she is so worried.
彼女がなぜそんなに心配しているのかしら。 [F]
10.I wonder why he is late.
彼の帰りの遅いのが気になる。
• What caused...
What caused it
4.What do you think caused him to lose his job?
何故彼は失業したと思いますか。
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5.What was it that caused you to change your mind?
君が心を変えたのは何故ですか。 [M]
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6.What do you think has caused the present trade friction between Japan and the U.S?
現在の日米貿易摩擦の原因は何であると思いますか。
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What caused World War 1
• I think...
I Think | If knowledge is power, should truth be useful?
I think I love you
I think that as long as I don't overeat I will certainly lose weight.
食べすぎさえしなければ、必ず痩せると思います。
4.Summer vacation is near. Can you think of a good place for the holidays?
夏休みも近いけど、どこかいいところ思い当たりますか。
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5.I think you'd better take an umbrella in case it rains.
雨が降るといけないから傘を持っていったほうがいい。
6.I think it is my business to study hard.
一生懸命に勉強するのが私の仕事だと思う。
7.I think a movie is more entertaining than any book.
映画の方がどんな本より面白いと思う。
• This is similar to...
1.This watch is similar to mine I lost yesterday.
この時計は昨日なくした私のものと似ている。
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2.This one is similar to that one.
これはあれに似ている。
3.This game is similar in some ways to today's American football.
この競技はいくつかの点で現在のアメリカン・フットボールと似ています。
4.The important point to note is both parties offered similar solutions to this problem.
注目すべき重要な点は、両方の政党がこの問題に対しては似たような解決策を提示したことである。
• This is important because...
The Weiner Story Is Important Because...
Why Is Teacher Development Important?: Because Students ...
.This is because their jobs are secure.
これは彼らの仕事がしっかりしているからです。
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2.This is because they are trying to prove they are somewhat independent.
このような（子供の）態度は、自分たちがある程度独立していることを示そうとしての結果なのである。
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3.This is because of the difference between Japanese politeness and American politeness.
これは日本の礼儀正しさとアメリカの礼儀正しさとの間の違いによるものです。
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4.This is true partly because non-Westerners have begun to take pride in their own cultures and partly because those areas of the world where forks are not used have some of the highest birth rates.
一つには、西洋人ではない人々が自分たち独自の文化に誇りを持ち始めてきたためと、また一つには、フォークを使わないそれらの地域は最も高い出生率の地域を抱えているという理由から、このことは当たっている。
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5.This puppy is crying, because it is homesick for its mother.
この子犬は里心がついて泣いているんだ。
6.I want to buy this book not because it is cheap, but because it is useful.
安いからではなく、役に立つから私はこの本を買いたい。
7.I like this picture, not just because it is famous, but because it really is a masterpiece.
私がこの絵が好きなのは、単に有名だからではなくて本当に傑作だからだ。
8.I like this picture, not because it is a masterpiece, but because it has charm.
私がこの絵が好きなのは、名画だからではなくて人をひきつけるからだ。
9.This is definitely, 'The good you do for others is good you do yourself'! It's a reward because I was helpful!
これは絶対、情けは人のためならず！いいことしたからご褒美なんだよ！
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10.Because this is such a highly technical subject, I would like to point out in advance the likelihood that some of what I'm about to say may include information that is incorrect.
高度に専門的な話題で、多分に誤った情報が含まれる可能性があることはあらかじめお断りしておきます。
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• What do they mean by...
What does that mean?―What do you mean by that?―What is meant by that?
それはどういうことか - 斎藤和英大辞典
What do you mean by that?
あれって何のこと - 斎藤和英大辞典
What do you mean by that?―Say that again.
なんだと - 斎藤和英大辞典
• What I find confusing is...
• What will happen next is...
次に何が起こるか
• I can relate to this because...
PREDICT
• What will happen next?
• Why do you think that?
• What effect will that have on the story
or the characters?
SUMMARIZE
• What happened?
• What is essential to tell?
• What was the outcome?
• Who was involved?
• Why did this happen?
• Is that a detail or essential information?
CLARIFY
• Read ahead if you have a basic
understanding of the text
• Ask questions
• Re-read what you don’t understand
• Identify what you don’t understand so
you know what to ask help on
SYNTHESIZE
• Three important points/ideas are...
• These are important because...
• What comes next...
• The author wants us to think...
• At this point the article/story is about...
• I still don’t understand...
• What interested me most was...
• This means that...
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Occupy Wall Street, What Do They Want?
categories: anti-capitalism | demands | marxism | new york | occupy | protest | wall street
For the past week, Occupy Wall Street has been the focus of much media coverage, and community concern in New York City. Many people, myself included, have asked "Just what is it they want?" I received this unattributed missive, from a friend who knew I was looking for more specific information on OWS's goals, and post it here as a subject for consideration. This is not an "Official Document". To this point, as far as I know, there have been no "official documents" released from OWS, but this communiqué does present general concerns and demands.
What Do They Want?
You’re going to pretend you don’t know what they want? Okay. I’ll humor you.
They want jobs. There aren’t enough, because small businesses can’t afford to stay in business, or hire them, or pay for healthcare or retirement plans or the other typical parts of a compensation package that it takes to maintain a standard of living suitable for living in a first-world country. They’ve done everything they were supposed to do to earn a decent living and now they want the rewards that make the work worthwhile.
Let’s break that down.
Because of the cost of healthcare and credit, small businesses can’t compete with corporate giants. Corporate giants can outsource labor overseas at a fraction of the price. And are happy to do so.
Because of the greed of Wall Street, because of outright fraud from trusted financial institutions, because of the insane avarice of the five hundred family dynasties that have captured half the wealth from the sweat of an entire nation by decades and decades of constant niggling and lobbying and legislation from pet powermad senators and representatives and justices and key committee members for whom they’ve bought positions of influence…. Because of this, the system we should count on for justice, for providing equal footing among children no matter who their parents are, is warped beyond repair, draining every last penny from the pockets of those who are the most defenseless into the bulging wallets of those that have thousands of times more than they need. Because of this, there is, finally, just not enough money to go around, and the people ― the flesh-and-blood human beings whose sweat is the lubrication for all of this mighty machinery ― are starting to falter, and starve, and lose all hope for any reward worth their work.
Because of this, it’s finally starting to hit the children of those who were rewarded for integrity and hard work. And retirees. And veterans.
Parents can’t afford to pay for worthwhile education for their children.
People can’t afford medical care or nursing care for their elderly parents.
Students can’t afford to pay back the loans they have to take out to get even a basic degree.
Students with degrees ― and advanced degrees, which we’ve been preaching for ages is the key to success and a reasonable standard of living ― can’t get jobs that would allow them to have a place to live AND food AND pay back their loans, and now there is no way to defer those payments or even seek the crippling relief of bankruptcy. Because you THOUGHT you were voting for “personal fiscal responsibility”, and what you ACTUALLY voted for was for the vampire banks to be able to suck the last drop of life out of your children.
The 40-hour work week ― not a luxury, but a target for a good balance of work life and private life and social life and mental and physical health ― is a joke. Some people can’t find one job, while others work themselves to death with one and a half, or two, or three ― and still can’t afford healthcare or daycare or sick days, vacation days, or dropping spare coins into a savings plan. Or whatever joke a retirement plan would be. Everybody has something on the side to try to fill in the gaps and it’s not paying off. It just makes people literally sicker.
Look up the figures. Worker productivity: all-time high. Worker salaries: decreasing. Unemployment: sky-high. And STILL there is actual growth, but none of the proceeds make it to any American who isn’t a company officer. And if your share does increase, it’s at the expense of someone below you on the food chain.
“Work hard and you can get ahead,” is what we’ve been telling our kids since we pulled out of The Great Depression. But working hard doesn’t get you ahead anymore. It’s treading water at best. And maybe the reason you don’t hear the voices of all of those people behind you who have already fallen down the slope is because you’re concentrating so hard on not losing your footing while you watch your own feet slide backwards.
Trust me, though. You’re next. All it takes is an expensive, lingering death in the family. An illness that your own private death panel of an insurance company won’t cover. A car wreck. A fire. An altercation at work. A spurious lawsuit. A branch office closing. A corporate merger that eliminates YOUR job. Even bad weather. These are inevitabilities. You have already taken a number. You’re just waiting for your number to be called.
If you’re wondering why the media hasn’t been covering it, first, think of who owns them. The Free Press has all been bought up by corporations that are either owned by banks or owe money to them. Second, you really don’t want to hear about poverty, sickness, and starvation. You’ve been telling the press that for years. The media only reports on blood, sports, and celebrities because you have zero interest in anyone else’s pain or troubles. You have enough troubles of your own. You don’t want to hear it. You’ve ignored it. And now it’s in your own goddamn house and you still ignore it.
“How do we get out of this mess?” you ask. “Does anyone have a plan other than whining and chanting slogans and making broke-ass cities pay their cops overtime?”
Well, yes. There is a plan. And it’s a simple one.
1) Reinstate all the restrictions on banking and securities that have been removed since The Great Depression, seeing as those restrictions were put in place to prevent another one. You can see what’s happened with them gone.
2) Figure out why healthcare has gotten so damn expensive ― in the USA alone of all the countries in the world ― and fix that. I guarantee you that the insurance companies and drug manufacturers are at the bottom of it, so I suggest you start looking there.
3) Revoke any idea of the “personhood” and “rights” of a corporation. They don’t need freedom of speech ― all of their constituent members already have that. They don’t need ANY rights ― until they can also be held as responsible and accountable as an actual human being, who can be imprisoned and stripped of possessions and, in some cases, executed for the levels of villainy we’ve been seeing.
4) If a corporation makes money from US labor, resides on US land, uses US agricultural resources, manufactures products or improves materials to be later used in production in the US, provides services to US residents using US infrastructures of road and pipes and wires and satellites, excretes wastes into US environmental resources of land or air and water, then it should pay taxes to the US people for the use, upkeep, and repair of the commonwealth and its valuable infrastructure. NO EXCEPTIONS. Practices allowing shuffling of assets overseas to prevent paying owed taxes should be banned as fraudulent.
5) The tax burden on individuals should be rebalanced. People need a certain amount of spare cash to live and eat and have a roof. Above that, the more you make, the more you should be taxed. Let’s be serious: If you can afford a car, you can afford to buy a bike for someone less fortunate so he can get to work and back. If you can afford a yacht, then you can afford to buy a couple of buses for your city municipal transit system so a hundred people can get to work and back. Everyone should pay their taxes. NO EXCEPTIONS.
6) The government is NOT FOR SALE. Huge campaign donations from individuals and corporations are nothing but bribes. EVERYONE KNOWS THIS, yet the Supreme Court says this kind of bribery is a right of free speech for corporations. MY ENTIRE ASS. Everyone knows this is a crock. Every two years, every four years, every six years, our elected officials go trick-or-treating for enough dribblings from the corporations and the wealthy ― basically begging for their bribes ― to buy television spots and talk shit about one another. They do this campaigning INSTEAD OF DOING THEIR JOBS. Every two years, every four years, every six years, people are elected based on the shininess of their ads and the cleverness of their sound bites and the number of newspapers they could get pictures of their faces in and, amazingly enough, nobody knows what anyone stands for. Except they’d really like you to buy a $1000 plate of spaghetti to help fund it all. Seriously, figure out where to draw the line and arrest anyone who crosses it. Dissolve any corporation that crosses it.
7) Who are we at war with again and why? Playing supercop policeman to the world is an expensive hobby. If our friends out there want us to do this, then they can help finance it. If we’re going to do it, we should do it for good reasons ― not so we can sloppily slide tax revenues into the back pockets of our friends who make weapons and bunkers and tanks and jet fighters and armored transports or sell us oil on the cheap. As a non-economic aside, anyone who takes part in these things, as soldiers or US contractors or foreigners in US employ, should be held to our criminal codes, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, and our rules of civilized society no matter whose soil they’re standing on, or whether they’re in international waters ― or any other lame excuse for weaseling out of being a human being and acting like animals.
8) Stop encouraging people to profit from someone else’s misery. This is just a guideline to measure things by. This means looking at the effects of rulings and legislation and corporate practices to make sure the people who are hit hardest aren’t the ones already at the bottom end of the economic spectrum, the sick, the young, the elderly, the disabled, cultural minorities, etc. Every time something slips past this test, our humanity takes another knife to the neck. People die from being poor, disadvantaged, depressed. Unchecked greed literally kills people.
So this is what those people out there chanting want. Maybe they’re not eloquent enough to say it ― or maybe they’re just too angry to be coherent. Or maybe this stuff is too complex for a kid with nothing under his or her belt but a watered-down public high school education to even understand without a good run-up. But they have no hope of ever being paid what they’re worth, of being rewarded on scale with their work, of ever getting out from under the crushing debt you encouraged them to take on, and they’re unhappy.
And they’re doing all this for you, because you’re next.
Join them from your chair ― or keep waiting until you have no choice but to join them on the street. Your choice.
PS:
If you think these words speak for you, use them. I don’t care about credit or attribution or any of that stuff. Just say what needs saying. Put it out there. Link, rephrase, cut-and-paste ― whatever you need, whatever works. And good luck.
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辞書
1.I finally found my way out of the confusing maze.
やっとややこしい迷路の外に出られた。
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2.We tried to figure out the problem our professor had given us, but it seemed confusing.
私たちは教授の示した問題を解こうと試みたが、とても面倒な問いに思えた。
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3.The debate has been interesting, confusing, and sometimes horrifying.
ここでの討論はおもしろいものでしたし、困惑させるもの、ときにはぞっとする内容のものもありました。
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4.She is always confusing salt with sugar.
彼女はいつも塩と砂糖を混同している。
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5.I'm always confusing John with Paul.
私はいつもジョンとポールを混同してしまう。
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6.I was mixed up by the confusing explanation.
そのややこしい説明では私は訳がわからなくなってしまった。
1.We shouldn't confuse solitude with isolation. They are two separate things.
孤独と孤立を混同してはいけない。それぞれ異なったものである。
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2.I gave no answer for fear I should confuse him.
彼を当惑させてはと思い私は答えなかった。
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3.Don't confuse desire with love.
欲望を愛と混同するな。
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4.You should not confuse business with personal affairs.
公私を混同してはいけない。
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5.At times I confuse curve with carve.
私は時々CurveとCarveを混同してしまう。
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6.Never confuse pity with love.
同情と愛情を決して混同しないように。
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7.Never confuse art with life.
絵に書いた餅は食べられない。
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8.I always confuse John and his twin brother.
私はいつもジョンを双子の弟と混同する。
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9.Don't confuse sugar with salt.
砂糖と塩を間違えるな。
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10.Don't confuse "dare" and "dear"
dare（デアー）とdear（ディアー）とを混同するな。
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デイリーコンサイス英和辞書
confuse
[kənfjúːz]
他動詞
混乱させる
混同する ()
当惑させる, まごつかせる.
派生
confused
形容詞
うろたえた.；
confusedly
副詞
[-idli]
ポケコン英和辞典（旺文社）
confuse
[kənfjúːz]
［動］(他)
１…を混乱させる, 乱す
２…を困惑させる, まごつかせる
３…を混同する, …の区別を誤る〈 with〉
４…をぼやかす, 不明確にする
派生
confusable
［形］［名］
http://endic.naver.jp/srch/ex/10/confusing
辞書
http://www.eibunpou.net/12/chapter28/28_7.html
whatの用法
whatもthatと同じく主格と目的格は同形で所有格はありません。先行詞を兼ねた、あるいはそれ自身に先行詞を含んだ関係代名詞で、「・・・のこと（もの）」（＝the thing(s) which）、「・・・はすべて〔どんなものでも〕」（＝all〔anything〕that）の意味を表します。
whatが導く節は名詞節で、主語・補語・目的語の働きをします。
なお、whatには限定用法のみで、継続用法はありません。
What you can see here is only a part of the property.
（ここにあるものは資産のごく一部にすぎない）
This is just what I wanted to know.
（これこそ私が知りたいと思っていたことだ）
I will do what I can (do) for you.
（きみにしてやれることはなんでもやろう） 〔主 語〕
〔補 語〕
〔目的語〕
1.For that reason the outcome of the primary nursing care requirement authorization has to relate to the amount of nursing care required.
そのため、要介護認定の結果は介護サービスの量と関係している必要があります。
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2.It is difficult to relate to someone who has different values from you.
価値観の違う人とうまくやっていくのは難しい。
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3.Being active at night may relate to the behavior of seals, which feed at night on various fish that come up closer to the surface.
アザラシは、海面近くまで上がってくるさまざまな魚を夜食べるのである。
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4.I see no reason why he doesn't relate to the firm.
彼が会社になじめないとは理由が分からない。
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デイリーコンサイス英和辞書
relate
[riléit]
他動詞
話す, 述べる
関係[関連]させる.
品詞の変化
自動詞
関係がある；.；
熟語
relating to
に関して(の), かかわる.
ポケコン英和辞典（旺文社）
relate
[riléit]
［動］(他)
１…を関係［関連］づける
２…を話す, 物語る
３…と血族的に結びつける〈 to〉
━(自)
１関連がある
２指す, 関係する
３（口）理解［共感］できる；協調できる〈 to〉
熟語
relating to ...
…に関して
strange to relate
驚いたことには, 奇妙な話だが
派生
relater
［名］物語る人
relator
［名］話し手；〔法〕告発者
http://www.englishcompanion.com/Tools/notemaking.html
http://www.englishcompanion.com/pdfDocs/bookmark2.pdf
http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm
http://www.englishcompanion.com/pdfDocs/toolcharcardbmark.pdf
Character Card Bookmark
The following two pages contain a set of four bookmarks. The pages are intended to be photocopied back to back (they SHOULD line up)
and when cut should make four bookmarks. This bookmark is designed specifically to be used with narratives, especially those that contain
many names and places. One side of the bookmark contains spaces in which students should write the character’s (or place’s) name and,
below that, a brief description. The back side of the bookmark includes “Core Skills” and the questions or prompts students can use to
develop those skills.
The Character Card Bookmark is free and should be shared with other teachers, though I do ask that you let them know where you found it.
This and ot her helpful resources can be found at: www.englishcompanion.com.
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Useful Literary Terms
便利な文学用語
• allusion 引喩
• analogy 類似（点）, 相似, 近似；共通性
• antagonist 反対語
• character
• conflict
• convention(s)
• diction
• exposition
• imagery
• irony
• motif
• narrator
• persona
• plot
• point of view
• protagonist
• setting
• theme(s)
• tone
• voice
Character Card
Useful Literary Terms
• allusion
• analogy
• antagonist
• character
• conflict
• convention(s)
• diction
• exposition
• imagery
• irony
• motif
• narrator
• persona
• plot
• point of view
• protagonist
• setting
• theme(s)
• tone
• voice
Character Card
Useful Literary Terms
• allusion
• analogy
• antagonist
• character
• conflict
• convention(s)
• diction
• exposition
• imagery
• irony
• motif
• narrator
• persona
• plot
• point of view
• protagonist
• setting
• theme(s)
• tone
• voice
Character Card
Useful Literary Terms
• allusion
• analogy
• antagonist
• character
• conflict
• convention(s)
• diction
• exposition
• imagery
• irony
• motif
• narrator
• persona
• plot
• point of view
• protagonist
• setting
• theme(s)
• tone
• voice
http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm
文学用語
Core Skills
ASK QUESTIONS
• Who is involved? 関与しているのは誰ですか？
• What are they doing? (Why?) 何やっているの？（なぜ？）
• What do they want very badly? (Why?) 彼らは非常に不器用に何をしたいですか？（なぜ？）
• What is the situation or problem? 状況や問題とは何ですか？
• Who is telling the story? (Why?) 誰が話をしますか？ （なぜ？）
• How is the story designed? (Why?) 物語はどのように設計されています？ （なぜ？
• What is the source of tension? 緊張の源は何ですか？
• Can you trust the narrator? あなたは、語り手を信頼できますか？
• I wonder why....
1.I wonder why it's so crowded here today.
どうして今日はこんなに混んでいるのかしら。 [F]
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2.I wonder why he was absent.
彼はなぜ休んだのかしら。 [F]
3.I wonder why tennis is played in mini-skirts?
テニスウェアってなんでミニスカートなのかしら？ [F]
4.I wonder why it is that some plants become annuals and others perennials?
なぜ一種の植物が一年生の草本になったり、多年生の木本になったりするのでしょうか。
5.I wonder why she didn't tell him about it.
彼女はどうしてそのことを彼に話さなかったのだろう。
6.I wonder why he did not come to the party.
彼はなぜパーティーにこなかったのだろう。
7.I wonder why they took my name off the list.
どうしてリストから私の名前を外したのかしら。 [F]
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8.I wonder why karaoke is so popular.
どうしてカラオケがこんなに人気があるのかしら。 [F]
9.I wonder why she is so worried.
彼女がなぜそんなに心配しているのかしら。 [F]
10.I wonder why he is late.
彼の帰りの遅いのが気になる。
• What caused...
What caused it
4.What do you think caused him to lose his job?
何故彼は失業したと思いますか。
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5.What was it that caused you to change your mind?
君が心を変えたのは何故ですか。 [M]
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6.What do you think has caused the present trade friction between Japan and the U.S?
現在の日米貿易摩擦の原因は何であると思いますか。
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What caused World War 1
• I think...
I Think | If knowledge is power, should truth be useful?
I think I love you
I think that as long as I don't overeat I will certainly lose weight.
食べすぎさえしなければ、必ず痩せると思います。
4.Summer vacation is near. Can you think of a good place for the holidays?
夏休みも近いけど、どこかいいところ思い当たりますか。
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5.I think you'd better take an umbrella in case it rains.
雨が降るといけないから傘を持っていったほうがいい。
6.I think it is my business to study hard.
一生懸命に勉強するのが私の仕事だと思う。
7.I think a movie is more entertaining than any book.
映画の方がどんな本より面白いと思う。
• This is similar to...
1.This watch is similar to mine I lost yesterday.
この時計は昨日なくした私のものと似ている。
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2.This one is similar to that one.
これはあれに似ている。
3.This game is similar in some ways to today's American football.
この競技はいくつかの点で現在のアメリカン・フットボールと似ています。
4.The important point to note is both parties offered similar solutions to this problem.
注目すべき重要な点は、両方の政党がこの問題に対しては似たような解決策を提示したことである。
• This is important because...
The Weiner Story Is Important Because...
Why Is Teacher Development Important?: Because Students ...
.This is because their jobs are secure.
これは彼らの仕事がしっかりしているからです。
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2.This is because they are trying to prove they are somewhat independent.
このような（子供の）態度は、自分たちがある程度独立していることを示そうとしての結果なのである。
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3.This is because of the difference between Japanese politeness and American politeness.
これは日本の礼儀正しさとアメリカの礼儀正しさとの間の違いによるものです。
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4.This is true partly because non-Westerners have begun to take pride in their own cultures and partly because those areas of the world where forks are not used have some of the highest birth rates.
一つには、西洋人ではない人々が自分たち独自の文化に誇りを持ち始めてきたためと、また一つには、フォークを使わないそれらの地域は最も高い出生率の地域を抱えているという理由から、このことは当たっている。
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5.This puppy is crying, because it is homesick for its mother.
この子犬は里心がついて泣いているんだ。
6.I want to buy this book not because it is cheap, but because it is useful.
安いからではなく、役に立つから私はこの本を買いたい。
7.I like this picture, not just because it is famous, but because it really is a masterpiece.
私がこの絵が好きなのは、単に有名だからではなくて本当に傑作だからだ。
8.I like this picture, not because it is a masterpiece, but because it has charm.
私がこの絵が好きなのは、名画だからではなくて人をひきつけるからだ。
9.This is definitely, 'The good you do for others is good you do yourself'! It's a reward because I was helpful!
これは絶対、情けは人のためならず！いいことしたからご褒美なんだよ！
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10.Because this is such a highly technical subject, I would like to point out in advance the likelihood that some of what I'm about to say may include information that is incorrect.
高度に専門的な話題で、多分に誤った情報が含まれる可能性があることはあらかじめお断りしておきます。
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• What do they mean by...
What does that mean?―What do you mean by that?―What is meant by that?
それはどういうことか - 斎藤和英大辞典
What do you mean by that?
あれって何のこと - 斎藤和英大辞典
What do you mean by that?―Say that again.
なんだと - 斎藤和英大辞典
• What I find confusing is...
• What will happen next is...
次に何が起こるか
• I can relate to this because...
PREDICT
• What will happen next?
• Why do you think that?
• What effect will that have on the story
or the characters?
SUMMARIZE
• What happened?
• What is essential to tell?
• What was the outcome?
• Who was involved?
• Why did this happen?
• Is that a detail or essential information?
CLARIFY
• Read ahead if you have a basic
understanding of the text
• Ask questions
• Re-read what you don’t understand
• Identify what you don’t understand so
you know what to ask help on
SYNTHESIZE
• Three important points/ideas are...
• These are important because...
• What comes next...
• The author wants us to think...
• At this point the article/story is about...
• I still don’t understand...
• What interested me most was...
• This means that...
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Occupy Wall Street, What Do They Want?
categories: anti-capitalism | demands | marxism | new york | occupy | protest | wall street
For the past week, Occupy Wall Street has been the focus of much media coverage, and community concern in New York City. Many people, myself included, have asked "Just what is it they want?" I received this unattributed missive, from a friend who knew I was looking for more specific information on OWS's goals, and post it here as a subject for consideration. This is not an "Official Document". To this point, as far as I know, there have been no "official documents" released from OWS, but this communiqué does present general concerns and demands.
What Do They Want?
You’re going to pretend you don’t know what they want? Okay. I’ll humor you.
They want jobs. There aren’t enough, because small businesses can’t afford to stay in business, or hire them, or pay for healthcare or retirement plans or the other typical parts of a compensation package that it takes to maintain a standard of living suitable for living in a first-world country. They’ve done everything they were supposed to do to earn a decent living and now they want the rewards that make the work worthwhile.
Let’s break that down.
Because of the cost of healthcare and credit, small businesses can’t compete with corporate giants. Corporate giants can outsource labor overseas at a fraction of the price. And are happy to do so.
Because of the greed of Wall Street, because of outright fraud from trusted financial institutions, because of the insane avarice of the five hundred family dynasties that have captured half the wealth from the sweat of an entire nation by decades and decades of constant niggling and lobbying and legislation from pet powermad senators and representatives and justices and key committee members for whom they’ve bought positions of influence…. Because of this, the system we should count on for justice, for providing equal footing among children no matter who their parents are, is warped beyond repair, draining every last penny from the pockets of those who are the most defenseless into the bulging wallets of those that have thousands of times more than they need. Because of this, there is, finally, just not enough money to go around, and the people ― the flesh-and-blood human beings whose sweat is the lubrication for all of this mighty machinery ― are starting to falter, and starve, and lose all hope for any reward worth their work.
Because of this, it’s finally starting to hit the children of those who were rewarded for integrity and hard work. And retirees. And veterans.
Parents can’t afford to pay for worthwhile education for their children.
People can’t afford medical care or nursing care for their elderly parents.
Students can’t afford to pay back the loans they have to take out to get even a basic degree.
Students with degrees ― and advanced degrees, which we’ve been preaching for ages is the key to success and a reasonable standard of living ― can’t get jobs that would allow them to have a place to live AND food AND pay back their loans, and now there is no way to defer those payments or even seek the crippling relief of bankruptcy. Because you THOUGHT you were voting for “personal fiscal responsibility”, and what you ACTUALLY voted for was for the vampire banks to be able to suck the last drop of life out of your children.
The 40-hour work week ― not a luxury, but a target for a good balance of work life and private life and social life and mental and physical health ― is a joke. Some people can’t find one job, while others work themselves to death with one and a half, or two, or three ― and still can’t afford healthcare or daycare or sick days, vacation days, or dropping spare coins into a savings plan. Or whatever joke a retirement plan would be. Everybody has something on the side to try to fill in the gaps and it’s not paying off. It just makes people literally sicker.
Look up the figures. Worker productivity: all-time high. Worker salaries: decreasing. Unemployment: sky-high. And STILL there is actual growth, but none of the proceeds make it to any American who isn’t a company officer. And if your share does increase, it’s at the expense of someone below you on the food chain.
“Work hard and you can get ahead,” is what we’ve been telling our kids since we pulled out of The Great Depression. But working hard doesn’t get you ahead anymore. It’s treading water at best. And maybe the reason you don’t hear the voices of all of those people behind you who have already fallen down the slope is because you’re concentrating so hard on not losing your footing while you watch your own feet slide backwards.
Trust me, though. You’re next. All it takes is an expensive, lingering death in the family. An illness that your own private death panel of an insurance company won’t cover. A car wreck. A fire. An altercation at work. A spurious lawsuit. A branch office closing. A corporate merger that eliminates YOUR job. Even bad weather. These are inevitabilities. You have already taken a number. You’re just waiting for your number to be called.
If you’re wondering why the media hasn’t been covering it, first, think of who owns them. The Free Press has all been bought up by corporations that are either owned by banks or owe money to them. Second, you really don’t want to hear about poverty, sickness, and starvation. You’ve been telling the press that for years. The media only reports on blood, sports, and celebrities because you have zero interest in anyone else’s pain or troubles. You have enough troubles of your own. You don’t want to hear it. You’ve ignored it. And now it’s in your own goddamn house and you still ignore it.
“How do we get out of this mess?” you ask. “Does anyone have a plan other than whining and chanting slogans and making broke-ass cities pay their cops overtime?”
Well, yes. There is a plan. And it’s a simple one.
1) Reinstate all the restrictions on banking and securities that have been removed since The Great Depression, seeing as those restrictions were put in place to prevent another one. You can see what’s happened with them gone.
2) Figure out why healthcare has gotten so damn expensive ― in the USA alone of all the countries in the world ― and fix that. I guarantee you that the insurance companies and drug manufacturers are at the bottom of it, so I suggest you start looking there.
3) Revoke any idea of the “personhood” and “rights” of a corporation. They don’t need freedom of speech ― all of their constituent members already have that. They don’t need ANY rights ― until they can also be held as responsible and accountable as an actual human being, who can be imprisoned and stripped of possessions and, in some cases, executed for the levels of villainy we’ve been seeing.
4) If a corporation makes money from US labor, resides on US land, uses US agricultural resources, manufactures products or improves materials to be later used in production in the US, provides services to US residents using US infrastructures of road and pipes and wires and satellites, excretes wastes into US environmental resources of land or air and water, then it should pay taxes to the US people for the use, upkeep, and repair of the commonwealth and its valuable infrastructure. NO EXCEPTIONS. Practices allowing shuffling of assets overseas to prevent paying owed taxes should be banned as fraudulent.
5) The tax burden on individuals should be rebalanced. People need a certain amount of spare cash to live and eat and have a roof. Above that, the more you make, the more you should be taxed. Let’s be serious: If you can afford a car, you can afford to buy a bike for someone less fortunate so he can get to work and back. If you can afford a yacht, then you can afford to buy a couple of buses for your city municipal transit system so a hundred people can get to work and back. Everyone should pay their taxes. NO EXCEPTIONS.
6) The government is NOT FOR SALE. Huge campaign donations from individuals and corporations are nothing but bribes. EVERYONE KNOWS THIS, yet the Supreme Court says this kind of bribery is a right of free speech for corporations. MY ENTIRE ASS. Everyone knows this is a crock. Every two years, every four years, every six years, our elected officials go trick-or-treating for enough dribblings from the corporations and the wealthy ― basically begging for their bribes ― to buy television spots and talk shit about one another. They do this campaigning INSTEAD OF DOING THEIR JOBS. Every two years, every four years, every six years, people are elected based on the shininess of their ads and the cleverness of their sound bites and the number of newspapers they could get pictures of their faces in and, amazingly enough, nobody knows what anyone stands for. Except they’d really like you to buy a $1000 plate of spaghetti to help fund it all. Seriously, figure out where to draw the line and arrest anyone who crosses it. Dissolve any corporation that crosses it.
7) Who are we at war with again and why? Playing supercop policeman to the world is an expensive hobby. If our friends out there want us to do this, then they can help finance it. If we’re going to do it, we should do it for good reasons ― not so we can sloppily slide tax revenues into the back pockets of our friends who make weapons and bunkers and tanks and jet fighters and armored transports or sell us oil on the cheap. As a non-economic aside, anyone who takes part in these things, as soldiers or US contractors or foreigners in US employ, should be held to our criminal codes, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, and our rules of civilized society no matter whose soil they’re standing on, or whether they’re in international waters ― or any other lame excuse for weaseling out of being a human being and acting like animals.
8) Stop encouraging people to profit from someone else’s misery. This is just a guideline to measure things by. This means looking at the effects of rulings and legislation and corporate practices to make sure the people who are hit hardest aren’t the ones already at the bottom end of the economic spectrum, the sick, the young, the elderly, the disabled, cultural minorities, etc. Every time something slips past this test, our humanity takes another knife to the neck. People die from being poor, disadvantaged, depressed. Unchecked greed literally kills people.
So this is what those people out there chanting want. Maybe they’re not eloquent enough to say it ― or maybe they’re just too angry to be coherent. Or maybe this stuff is too complex for a kid with nothing under his or her belt but a watered-down public high school education to even understand without a good run-up. But they have no hope of ever being paid what they’re worth, of being rewarded on scale with their work, of ever getting out from under the crushing debt you encouraged them to take on, and they’re unhappy.
And they’re doing all this for you, because you’re next.
Join them from your chair ― or keep waiting until you have no choice but to join them on the street. Your choice.
PS:
If you think these words speak for you, use them. I don’t care about credit or attribution or any of that stuff. Just say what needs saying. Put it out there. Link, rephrase, cut-and-paste ― whatever you need, whatever works. And good luck.
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辞書
1.I finally found my way out of the confusing maze.
やっとややこしい迷路の外に出られた。
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2.We tried to figure out the problem our professor had given us, but it seemed confusing.
私たちは教授の示した問題を解こうと試みたが、とても面倒な問いに思えた。
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3.The debate has been interesting, confusing, and sometimes horrifying.
ここでの討論はおもしろいものでしたし、困惑させるもの、ときにはぞっとする内容のものもありました。
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4.She is always confusing salt with sugar.
彼女はいつも塩と砂糖を混同している。
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5.I'm always confusing John with Paul.
私はいつもジョンとポールを混同してしまう。
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6.I was mixed up by the confusing explanation.
そのややこしい説明では私は訳がわからなくなってしまった。
1.We shouldn't confuse solitude with isolation. They are two separate things.
孤独と孤立を混同してはいけない。それぞれ異なったものである。
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2.I gave no answer for fear I should confuse him.
彼を当惑させてはと思い私は答えなかった。
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3.Don't confuse desire with love.
欲望を愛と混同するな。
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4.You should not confuse business with personal affairs.
公私を混同してはいけない。
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5.At times I confuse curve with carve.
私は時々CurveとCarveを混同してしまう。
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6.Never confuse pity with love.
同情と愛情を決して混同しないように。
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7.Never confuse art with life.
絵に書いた餅は食べられない。
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8.I always confuse John and his twin brother.
私はいつもジョンを双子の弟と混同する。
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9.Don't confuse sugar with salt.
砂糖と塩を間違えるな。
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10.Don't confuse "dare" and "dear"
dare（デアー）とdear（ディアー）とを混同するな。
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デイリーコンサイス英和辞書
confuse
[kənfjúːz]
他動詞
混乱させる
混同する ()
当惑させる, まごつかせる.
派生
confused
形容詞
うろたえた.；
confusedly
副詞
[-idli]
ポケコン英和辞典（旺文社）
confuse
[kənfjúːz]
［動］(他)
１…を混乱させる, 乱す
２…を困惑させる, まごつかせる
３…を混同する, …の区別を誤る〈 with〉
４…をぼやかす, 不明確にする
派生
confusable
［形］［名］
http://endic.naver.jp/srch/ex/10/confusing
辞書
http://www.eibunpou.net/12/chapter28/28_7.html
whatの用法
whatもthatと同じく主格と目的格は同形で所有格はありません。先行詞を兼ねた、あるいはそれ自身に先行詞を含んだ関係代名詞で、「・・・のこと（もの）」（＝the thing(s) which）、「・・・はすべて〔どんなものでも〕」（＝all〔anything〕that）の意味を表します。
whatが導く節は名詞節で、主語・補語・目的語の働きをします。
なお、whatには限定用法のみで、継続用法はありません。
What you can see here is only a part of the property.
（ここにあるものは資産のごく一部にすぎない）
This is just what I wanted to know.
（これこそ私が知りたいと思っていたことだ）
I will do what I can (do) for you.
（きみにしてやれることはなんでもやろう） 〔主 語〕
〔補 語〕
〔目的語〕
1.For that reason the outcome of the primary nursing care requirement authorization has to relate to the amount of nursing care required.
そのため、要介護認定の結果は介護サービスの量と関係している必要があります。
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2.It is difficult to relate to someone who has different values from you.
価値観の違う人とうまくやっていくのは難しい。
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3.Being active at night may relate to the behavior of seals, which feed at night on various fish that come up closer to the surface.
アザラシは、海面近くまで上がってくるさまざまな魚を夜食べるのである。
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4.I see no reason why he doesn't relate to the firm.
彼が会社になじめないとは理由が分からない。
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デイリーコンサイス英和辞書
relate
[riléit]
他動詞
話す, 述べる
関係[関連]させる.
品詞の変化
自動詞
関係がある；.；
熟語
relating to
に関して(の), かかわる.
ポケコン英和辞典（旺文社）
relate
[riléit]
［動］(他)
１…を関係［関連］づける
２…を話す, 物語る
３…と血族的に結びつける〈 to〉
━(自)
１関連がある
２指す, 関係する
３（口）理解［共感］できる；協調できる〈 to〉
熟語
relating to ...
…に関して
strange to relate
驚いたことには, 奇妙な話だが
派生
relater
［名］物語る人
relator
［名］話し手；〔法〕告発者
http://www.englishcompanion.com/Tools/notemaking.html
http://www.englishcompanion.com/pdfDocs/bookmark2.pdf
http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm
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