doppelganger

Impulse by Dr David Lewisを読み始めました。副題は 'Why We Do What We Do Without Knowing Why We Do It' となっています。我々人間の行動は考えた上の行動よりも余り考えないで衝動的な行動の方が多いとのことでしょうか？
Introductionから引用します。
It still has a full head of hair - each one individually and painstakingly inserted by hand - while mine is fast receding. Its brow is smooth while mine is furrowed. An even more important difference is that you can lift the top of the head of my doppelganger and remove the brain.
"doppelganger" は9/7/2015に取り上げて覚えた単語なので、復習です。
Vocabulary.com: Someone who looks spookily like you, but isn't a twin, is a doppelganger.
たしかに、双子でもないのに自分にそっくりの人間がいたら気持ちが悪いかも？

another jerk

Reader's Digest 4月号のLaughter The Best Medicneからの引用です。
One lazy Sunday morninc, as the wife and I are sitting around the breakfast table, I said, "When I die, I want you to sell all my stuff immediately."
She asked, "Now, why would you want me to do something like that?"
"I figure you'd eventually remarry, and I don't want some other jerk using my stuff."
She looked at me intently and said, "What makes you think I'd marry another jerk?"

Note: jerk: stupid person, usually a man: You stupid jerk! You've just spilled beer all down my new shirt! (Cambridge English Dictionary)

bank

Reader's Digestには山や海での遭難から助かった話が毎号のように掲載されますが、今年の 4月号には海に墜落した 'The Pilots Who Crashed Into" の記事がありました。その記事からの抜粋です。
Then Uemoto heard the whir of the helicopter again. "It's coming!" she shouted. "This is it, Syd," McMahon said. "This is the one God sent for us." McMahon and Uemoto waved frantically. The helicopter flew overhead and then banked toward them. They'd been seen.
この "bank" はヘリコプターのどの様な動きを示しているのでしょうか？ ・Oxford English Dictionary: (of an aircraft or vehicle) tilt or cause to tilt sideways in making a turn.: [no object] the plane banked as if to return to the airport; [with object] I banked the aircraft steeply and turned.
・Collins Dictionary: When an aircraft banks, one of its wings rises higher than the other, usually when it is changing direction.: A plane took off and banked above the highway in front of him.

episode

Reader's Digest 4月号の記事 'Surprisingly Ordinary Allergy Triggers' からの抜粋です。
Stress
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While the study did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship, stress is known to exacerbate many health problems and allergies appear to be among them. "While alleviating stress won't cure allergies, it may help decrease the episode of intense symptons," said the study's author, Amber Patterson, MD.
"episode" は日本語にもなっていますが、病気にも使われるとは？　辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A finite period in which someone is affected by a specified illness.: acute psychotic episodes: Asthma was defined by a past history of at least three episodes of wheezing.
・Collins Dictionary: An episode of an illness is short period in which a person who suffers from it is affected by it particularly badly.: The new drug lessens the severity of pneumonia episodes.

Good Samaritan

Reader's Digest 4月号の記事 'Life in these United States' からの抜粋です。
As I pulled into the gas station, I noticed a woman trying to push her car toward the pump. Having always considered myself a Good Samaritan, I parked and joined her in pushing her car.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"I'm giving you a hand," I said.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm stretching before my run."
サザエさんの漫画に出てきそうなオッチョコチョイですね。
"Good Samaritan" は聖書に出てくる言葉です。
・Collins Dictionary: New Testament: a figure in one of Christ's parables (Luke 10:30?37) who is an example of compassion towards those in distress
・Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary: a person who helps other people and especially strangers when they have trouble: We had a flat tire on the highway but fortunately a Good Samaritan stopped to help us change it.

ear pop

Reader's Digest 4月号の記事 '8 Things You Should Never Do on an Airplane' からの抜粋です。
FALL ASLEEP BEFORE TAKE OFF
If you do, it will be harder for you to equalize the pressure in you ears (which you'll do more quickly if you chew gum or yawn). If you're prone to flight-induced haeadaches, hold off on your snooze until your ears pop.
"ears pop" は飛行機に乗っていて、特に上空で経験する耳が痛くなる現象の事ですね。辞書の説明を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: (of a person's ears) make a small popping sound within the head as pressure is equalized, typically because of a change of altitude.: I remember my ears popping as we rode the elevators to the top.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: If your ears pop, you experience a strange noise and feeling in your ears as a result of a sudden change in air pressure: My ears always pop as the plane comes in to land.
私の場合は耳が痛くなるだけで音や雑音はきこえませんが、英米人の耳は何か雑音が聞こえるのでしょうか？　もちろん痛みを止めるために空気抜けをする時には音がしますね。