TOEIC 11/16

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受験票

  • 前回受験したのが7月末だから、かれこれ4ヶ月ぶりに受験票を受け取りました。
  • なかなか開封できないと思って力を込めて引っ張ったら、「切り離さずに会場にお持ちください」となっているところが思いっきりちぎれた。orz
  • まあ、片割れを無くさなければ何とかなるだろう。

石井本

  • 8-2 631-660 23/30
  • 微妙だ...
  • reinforce: to give support to an opinion, idea, or feeling, and make it stronger
    • Conclusions from the report have been reinforced by more recent studies.
  • The woman called City Hall to try to find out a coupleof pieces of information.
  • That warehouse store over there mean the station sells a great deal of merchandice(UC) at unbelievably low prices.
  • Tomorrow is Sunday. == It is Sunday tomorrow.
  • tidy up: きれいにする
  • the others: 残りの全ての人
    • ●●● + ○○○...○
    • ○は範囲が明確に特定されていて、そこに属する全ての人をさす。
  • It is time for 人 to do
    • It is time for all new students to go and meet the principal.
  • Name of the children in the school wanted either teacher to leave, but numbers...
  • Three of us share this office but fortunately neither of the others smokes.
    • 三人いて、自分以外には二人しかいないと明確に範囲指定されているので、neitherでうける。
  • スポーツは無冠詞
    • I enjoyed playing valleyball very much.
  • tights, trouses -> 足は二本あるから複数形なんだって。
  • put a run in 〜を伝線させる
    • I've just put a run in my tights, and I don't have time to by any more before the party.
  • something -> some things
    • He couldn't eat some food due to allergies, but there were still some things that were OK.
    • allergy[c,uc]: a medical condition in which you become ill or in which your skin becomes red and painful because you have eaten certain food, touched certain things etc.
      • Do you suffer from any allergies?
      • 痛くなるよりは、かゆくなる方が多いんじゃないかなあ。アナフィラキシーショックだとそんなこと言ってられないだろうけど。
  • ○ was a successful meeting we had last Friday, wasnt it?
    • ○を推測するパーツとして、付加疑問文のitにも目を向けること。
  • fussy: too concerned or worried about small, unsually unpleasant details, and difficult to please
    • Leona was fussy about her looks.
  • Most of the politicians who are fighting this election haven't mae any effort to present their policies.
  • None of the politicians who are fighting this election hasn't made any effort to present their policies.
    • Noneが三人称として使われることはチェキ。
  • Although the soccer club denied any wrongdoing, one of its players was taken into cuotody for questioning.
    • take 人 into custody 人を拘留する
  • another 4 hours -> 4 more hours
  • Some of the products will not work in this .. due to voltage supply diffefence but the others should be OK.
    • ある集合に対して、
      • 特定部分はSOMEで表し、
      • その補集合はTHE OTHERESで表すみたいですね。:-)
    • こういう表現は数学的な表現の本を参照してみるとよさそうだ。