2013/04/03

英検1級、TOEIC満点、通訳案内士試験を本気でパスしたい方是非ご覧ください!

本気で英検一級合格、TOEIC高スコア、そして英語通訳案内士試験合格を目指している方にこれまた本気の対策教材をご紹介します!
 

英語書籍著者で有名な石井隆之先生(私も先生の著書3作持っています^^)が先生のこれまでのすべての経験、そして知識を総動員して完成したのがこれらの資格試験マニュアル! 百聞は一見にしかず!とりあえずご自分がターゲットとしてる資格試験の説明をクリックしてご覧ください!!



英検1級試験合格マニュアル


TOEIC完全攻略方程式


英語通訳案内士試験合格マニュアル



どうですか!わくわくしませんか!石井先生に合格するまで手取り足取りサポートしてもらえるなら目標達成できそうな気がしませんか??(え?私だけ??笑)電子書籍スタイルでの販売形式となっているためこの手の書籍独特の怪し~い感じが一見しますが中身は本物中の本物!

ご覧になってわかるようにこれは書籍ではなく通信講座になります。石井先生の学習法、試験の攻略法を伝授してもらうだけでなく添削や質疑応答などのサポートも充実しているのもすばらしいと思います。無料で英語力診断を受けられるのもありがたい!各講座先着300名までと厳しく制限が設けられているのも塾生(購入者)が本当に目標を達成するまで面倒をみるというパッションを感じます!ただ単に試験をパスするだけの講座ではなく総合的な英語力をアップさせるのがこの講座の特徴!自己流で勉強を続けてきたもののスキルが伸び悩んでいるあなた!そして本気で試験をパスしたい方!石井先生の塾生となって英語力の本気磨きをしませんか?



英検1級試験合格マニュアル



TOEIC完全攻略方程式


英語通訳案内士試験合格マニュアル



石井隆之先生のこれらの通信講座に興味のある方!これらの通信講座の購入は各先着300名までなのでお急ぎくださいませ!締め切り迫ってますよ~!価格が高いとお考えの方!アル○の通信講座(TOEIC)はもっと高いですよ!それに対策本購入費用や受験料など考えたらやっぱり高くはないかと思います。このチャンスを見逃すべからず!



2010/02/20

英語メモ(2/17,18日分)


◆ludicrous:こっけいな、ばかげた(ridiculousより強意的)

例文)His remarks about that matter was absolutely ludicrous.
(その問題についての彼の発言は全く持ってばかげていた。)


◆recuperate:(健康、力など)を回復する、療養する 

例文)She spent a year recuperating from the illness.
(病気から回復するのに彼女は1年を費やした。)


◆subside:平常の位置(状態)に戻る、(水、洪水が)ひく、(風雨、暴動、怒りなどが)おさまる, 弱まる 
例文)The flood waters began to subside two hours later.

(2時間後洪水の水は引き始めた。)


◆disruptive:破壊的な、混乱を引き起こす、秩序を乱す

例文)The boy was expelled from the school because of his disruptive behavior.
(その少年は彼の秩序を乱す振る舞いのせいで学校から退学させれた。)


◆ease up:(緊張、痛み、激しさ、圧力、厳しさなどを)和らげる、緩和する、和らぐ。

例文)The storm is easing up a bit.
(嵐がちょっと弱まってきたね)

例文)Don't ease up on this job, OK? It's important!
(いいか?この仕事では手を抜くなよ!重要なんだからな!)


◆cut it fine:(時間、空間などの)余裕を見ない、ギリギリを見込む 

例文)If we don't leave now, we will be cutting it fine for the bus.

(今出発しないと、バスに乗るのギリギリになっちゃうよ~!)

2010/02/17

英語メモ:昨日ツイッターにアップした英語表現(2/16)

昨日ツイッターにアップした英語表現↓

◆blow~away:~を圧倒させる、感動させる、打ち負かす(=stun) 

例文)His outstanding performance totally blew me away.

(彼のパフォーマンスには完全に圧倒させれたよ!)


◆daunting:気が遠くなるくらい面倒な、過酷な 

例文)We are facing a daunting task at the moment but I know we can pull this off.
(私達は今過酷な課題に直面しているが私は乗り越える事が出来ると信じている)


◆mope around: ふさぎこむ、ウジウジする。

例文)You've been moping around all day. Why don't you go outside and have fun?
(あなたったら一日中ウジウジしてるじゃない!外に出て遊んでらっしゃい!)



◆diversion:(わきへそれる事から)気晴らし、娯楽 

例文)He never saw you as anything but a diversion.

(彼はあなたのことなんかただの気晴らしとしか思ってないわよ)


◆fling:(ひとときの)情事、浮気

例文)One of Mike's friends had a fling with his wife behind his back.
(マイクの友人の一人は彼の奥さんと彼に隠れて浮気した。)


2010/02/16

英語メモ:昨日アップした使える英語表現!

昨日ツイッターにアップした使える英語表現↓↓



◆rejuvenate: 〔若さ・活力を〕取り戻させる、若返らせる、〔元気を〕回復させる

例文)After a workout, I feel rejuvenated!
(運動して若返った気分だわ!)

◆moral support:精神的援助、支え 

例文) She desperately needed some moral support from her family and friends after she lost her child in a car accident.

(子供を車の事故で亡くした後彼女は家族や友人からの精神的支えをひどく必要としていた)


◆grow on:〔~に対する不安・好意・関心などが〕だんだん大きくなってくる、募ってくる

例文)I didn't like natto at first but it has grown on me.

(最初は納豆が好きじゃなかったんだけど、だんだん好きになったのよね)


◆suck it up:愚痴を言わない

例文)
A: This exercise is too hard! I want to give up!
B: If you want to lose weight, just suck it up and keep doing it!

(A:このエクササイズきつ~~っぅ。もうやめたいよ~!
B:痩せたいんならごちゃごちゃ行ってないでやりなさい!)


◆turn a blind eye to~:~に対してみて見ぬフリをする、無視する 

例文)I think in the end we'll have to pay the price for turning a blind eye to the problems of the world.

(結局のところ私達は世界の数々の問題を見てみぬ振りしてきたツケを払わなくてはなまrらなくなるだろうと思うよ。)



英語学習法 E-book プロジェクト

英語学習歴15年以上の経験を得て
ようやく効果的な英語学習法を見出した気がします。
最近ちょっとだけ思ってるのが内容を本格的にまとめてみようかと・・本となるとなんだか堅苦しいし、ハードルが高そうなのでE-BOOKだったらどうかなと思ったり・・・手軽だし。ま、まずは書かなきゃですけど(^^;)実はこれ最初はパートナーとの軽い冗談だったんですけどね^^;でもよくよく考えてみると私の人生のおよそ半分は英語学習で成り立ってきてるわけで。その中で培ったノウハウはこれから英語学習をスタートさせる人、そして今英語学習の樹海をさまよってる人のお役に立てるのではないかと思ったのです。

現在の日本の英語事情を考えると正直ぞっとします。日本が国際社会から孤立し他の国々においてかられるのではないかと心底懸念しています。これから日本が 発展していくためには『ここは日本でしょ?英語なんて要らないよ!』なんて甘っちょろい事などいってられなくなると思います。(もしかしたら世界共通語は 英語じゃなくて中国語になるかもしれないですけど^^;)

何とかせねば・・・ですね。

このプロジェクト少しずつ進めていけたらいいな。

2010/02/03

使える表現 rattled

rattled(adj) : ぎょっとする、困惑する、焦る、動揺する

rattled: Nervous and not confident because of something that has happened.

例文)He is a good player because he doesn't get rattled easily.
(彼は簡単には動揺しないのでいいプレーヤーだ)

例文)I got rattled when she asked me where I was last night.
(彼女が僕が昨日どこにいたか尋ねた時焦ったよ)


これはオージードラマNeighboursから。rattle ときいてすぐに思いつくのがrattle snakes(ガラガラヘビ)!rattle にはガタガタいわせる、動かすという意味があり、この単語、精神的な意味でも使えるんですね!精神的に揺さぶりをかける、つまり『動揺させる、焦らせる』という意味。おもしろい!

使える表現 hone

hone(V) :(才能など)を磨く、~を砥石でとぐ(=polish)

To improve your skill at doing something, especially when you are already good at.

例文)It was during this period that Bush honed his diplomatic skills.
(ブッシュが外交上のスキルを磨いたのはこの段階であった。)【英英辞書より】

例文)I need to hone my English skills because I have to make a presentation in English next week.
(来週英語でプレゼンをしないといけないから英語を磨かないと!)

*プロサーファーがさらに腕を磨いて新たな野望にチャレンジするというニュースでこのhoneが使われていました。ちなみにこのhone, polishは区動詞にしてhone up とか polish upとはいわないそうです。


2010/01/28

使える表現 temperamental


t
emperamental:気まぐれな、感情の起伏がはげしい、(機械などが)日によって調子が異なる(=fickle)

例文1)I can't handle her any more! She is so temperamental!
(もう彼女ったら手に負えないよ!ホントお天気屋なんだから!)

例文2)Our hot water system is so temperamental! Some times it boils water right after we turn it on but most of the time it takes forever to get the hot water! It's so frustrating!
(うちの湯沸かし器ったらホント気まぐれなのよ!蛇口ひねったらすぐお湯が出る日もあるんだけどほとんどの場合どれだけ待ったってお湯が出ないんだから!まったくストレスたまるわ!) *実話です(笑)

Huey のおっさん(チャンネル10の料理番組のホスト)が新しいガス台がなかなか点火しなかったときにこのtemperamentalを使っていました!人にも機械にも使えるんですね!

2010/01/26

文法なしでの英語マスターはありなのか?

前回の記事でスピードラーニングについて書きましたが・・
この通信講座がいいか悪いかというのは横に置いといて、
この講座が宣伝しているメソッドについて考えされられています。


聞き流しで言語をマスターできるのか?

『聞き流す』だけじゃ無理だとは思います。。
成果を得るには十分なリスニング(精聴)が必要でしょう~!

しかしがならこのメソッドは文法を必要としていません。
この部分がひっかかっとるのです。

リスニングだけで言語をマスターできるのか?

つまり

言語習得に文法は必要なのか?


どうなんだろう・・いままでこの方法(リスニングのみ)という方法をとったことがないので正直わからないといったところが本音。

私は文法はやって当然!という学習法が学生時代から染み付いてるので聞き取りだけで語学をマスターできるかというと正直わからないのがホントのところ。たぶん無理かなとは思うけど。でもひょっとしたらアリかもしれないかもなとも思ったりもしています。・・結局のところ赤ちゃんも聞いて言葉を覚えますもんね。あ、でも赤ちゃんはゼロからのスタート、私達は日本語が入った状態でのスタートなんだよな・・・そこが大きく違うな・・母国語と外国語では習得方法は違うのか??う~ん深いな~。

一つ思うのが決まりきったフレーズやシンプルな構成の文章とかだったら聞き流しでそのまま覚える方法でいいと思うのですが、これだと話せる幅が極端に狭くなる気が・・例えばちょっと言いたい内容が変わったときや自分の考えや状況を説明する時など複雑な内容を表現する際に言葉がでてこなくなる→ということはやっぱり文法が必要になってくるんじゃないかなとも。う~んどうだろう・・

聞き流しではリスニングは鍛えれらるけど
スピーキングは難しいかも知れないな。
マスターは・・・無理だろうな。

じゃ文法なしでリスニング+リピーティングだとどうだろう?
う~んこれもやっぱり限度がありそうやな。。

でもね、この先新しい言語を学ぶ機会があったら

文法なしでいけるか是非実験したいなと思ってる今日この頃なのです。

2009/08/06

使える英語表現:Bring it on!!

使える英語表現 

Bring it on! :かかってこい!

英英辞書より Bring it on=
said to show that you are prepared and willing to compete in a competition or to do something difficult.

例文)
(*A and B are playing ping-pong. A is just about to serve.)
A: Are you ready?
B: Sure, bring it on!

日本語訳
(*AとBは卓球をしている。Aは今まさにサーブを打とうとしている)
A:用意はいいか?
B:もちろん、かかってこい!

*Bring it on のitはこれからやろうとしていること(困難など)を指します。


2009/06/27

使える表現:knock-off

使える表現 

knock-off :(名詞)[主にブランド品などの]模造品、コピー商品、偽物

英英辞書より: knock-off= a cheap copy of something expensive

例文)My boyfriend gave me this handbag for my birthday. I thought it was a real Gucci but it was just a knock-off made in Korea.

(彼氏が私の誕生日にこのハンドバッグをくれたの。本物のグッチだと思ってたんだけど韓国製の偽物だったわ。)


Synonyms(類義語)

・imitation
・copy
・fake
・phony
・counterfeit (主に貨幣、文書の偽造、ねつ造)
・forgery (偽造、贋作、にせ金)

2009/05/29

新聞記事で英語学習:At your service...sometimes


At your service ... sometimes

I WAS trying to get my bag into the overhead (頭上の locker of the plane recently when a man lunged forward and put it up for me.

"Thank you so much," I said. "Please don't thank me. I live for moments like these!" he boomed (声高にいう)enthusiastically. I wanted to ask him what he meant, but he scuttled off (急いで逃げ去る)down the plane and I didn't get a chance to talk to him again. I presumed he meant he lived for moments when he could be of service(役立って、貢献して) since he didn't return to chat me up. 

The incident came to mind last week after encounters with two strangers. One was a council man who had come to mow the lawns in my street. Like the man on the plane, this fellow
= a man couldn't do enough to be of service, helping neighbours with all sorts of things, trimming bushes, carrying rubbish out for us, warmly offering advice. He saved me a great deal of time and effort given(~を考慮すれば=considering) I've only recently moved into the neighbourhood. "It's a pleasure to help," he smiled. 


The second stranger did the opposite. I wanted to do my
good deed(よい行い)for the week - for the people whose home I'd moved into. Their mail redirection had run out and I offered to handle it for them, and even to pay a year's redirection, given they were overseas. Grateful for the offer, they emailed me written instructions, entrusting (~に任せる、委ねる)me with the process. 

"No," said the post office man when I turned up with a bagload of mail, the redirection form, and email. "You need written permission from them," he said stiffly.
 

"But here is the letter, with their email address, details, licence number and specific instructions." "No!" he said defiantly.
 

"But why?" I pleaded.
 

"Australia Post has the right to decline all requests
at its discretion(=の思うままに、勝手に)," he said, reading from the small print. "But you're not 'Australia Post', you're you, the local post office man. You know these people. They lived right there - across the road, for 20 years. I've just moved into their house. I have proof." 

Like the comical travel agent woman from TV show Little Britain who
thwarts(挫折させる、くじく) all requests ("Computer says, 'Naaaaah'"), he just shrugged, forcing me to post the bundle(束) myself each week - a waste of time and money. 

The late Larry Adler, founder of FAI Insurance, once told me that real power was in the little things, and personal power could never be underestimated. "If a bus driver doesn't stop for you in the rain when your car has broken down, you could catch pneumonia and die." Likewise we too have the power to let - or not let - another driver out of a side street, thus potentially changing their destiny. We don't know the result of our actions. But it feels good to be of service and it's
win-win (上手くいくことが確信できる)given the laws of karma(因果応報). What goes around comes around. True? "Computer says, 'Naaaaah!' " 

( from The Australian online 493 words)


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見返りを求めずに与え続ける、、、、ふむ、、、精進します。。

一番身近な人にこそ、give and give だ!




2009/05/27

使える英語表現☆be stoked


使える英語表現☆


・be stoked (形容詞、スラング):気分がかき立てられた、ワクワクした



 英英辞書より=very happy and excited about something good that is happening and that you didn't expected


*be stoked about ~:~に興奮している、大喜びである

例文) I won the lottery and I am stoked about it! (宝くじに当たってめっちゃ嬉しい!)


Synonyms :類義表現
・be exhilarated
・be ecstatic
・be elated
・be overjoyed
・be over the moon
・be on cloud nine
・be in the seventh heaven





*************
こんな感じ↑で 
こちらで出会った使えそうな英語表現を
簡単にまとめてアップしていこうとおもいます。

以前書いていたネイティブ英語表現の姉妹版、、的な感じかな。



2009/04/15

新聞記事で英語学習!Barack Obama warns of more pain in 2009 before recovery

Barack Obama warns of more pain in 2009 before recovery

 PRESIDENT Obama can detect (=notice, discover)bright "signs of economic progress" on a dark horizon while warning that there was "much more work to be done" before America was safe from the storm that has thrown millions out of jobs and homes.

"Times are still tough," Mr Obama said. "But from where we stand, for the very first time, we are beginning to see glimmers(わずかなしるし) of hope." 

His speech to
Georgetown University in Washington was designed to show that the economy remains the administration's priority even as he prepares to head to Mexico and Trinidad tomorrow.
 

Rejecting criticism that he had been spending
with "reckless abandon"( in a careless way), Mr Obama said: "History has shown repeatedly that when nations do not take early and aggressive action to get credit flowing again, they have crises that last years and years instead of months and months - years of low growth, years of low job creation, years of low investment, all of which cost these nations far more than a course of bold, upfront action." 

He insisted that his $US787 billion stimulus plan and efforts to strengthen the banking system and rescue the car industry were
bearing fruit (実を結ぶ=succeed)with an increase in mortgage refinancing and more lending by small businesses. 

Despite this, Mr Obama said, 2009 would continue to be a difficult year with "more job loss, more
foreclosures (差押さえ)and more pain before it ends". 

Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, also offered a "fundamentally optimistic" assessment yesterday, using a speech in Atlanta to highlight recent data on home sales and consumer spending as "
tentative (=not definite or certain) signs that the sharp decline in economic activity may be slowing". 

The need for caution, however, was emphasised by new figures showing that US retail sales fell by 1.1 per cent last month while purchases of cars and other vehicles declined by 2.3 per cent. Overall spending remains 10 per cent down from a peak last June.
 

US bank shares slumped, dragging down the New York stock market, which grew
jittery(= anxious or nervous) over a spate of ( = a large number of~)impending results from leading American financial institutions over the next two weeks. The markets were nervous despite Goldman Sachs reporting a strong first quarter and announcing a surprise promise to repay its $10 billion government loan. 

Mr Obama said the task was to ensure that this "crisis never happens again". Invoking Christ's Sermon on the Mount, he said that the economy could not be rebuilt on a "pile of sand" but on investment in clean energy, education and healthcare.
 

"We must build our house upon a rock. We must lay a new foundation for growth and prosperity: a foundation that will move us from an era of borrow and spend to one where we save and invest," he said. "We will not finish it in one year, we will not finish it in many," he added, "but if we persist and
persevere (= continue to try to do something)against the disappointments and setbacks that will surely lie ahead, then I have no doubt that this house will stand." (550 words)

お久しぶりです!仕事に行く前にちょこっと勉強!

では いってきます~~!

2009/03/17

新聞記事で英語学習!:alcopopの酒税、値上げになるか??

Alcopops makers want $290m raised from tax spent on education

 ALCOPOPS (果汁や炭酸の入った低アルコール飲料)manufacturers have written to health groups asking for advice on how to spend the $290 million raised by the tax hike (値上げ) on ready-to-drink alcoholic beverages.

The tax seems likely to fail at a final vote in the Senate today after exasperated (very annoyed and upset crossbenchers (無所属議員) said last night they could not support the tax unless more of the proceeds go to alcohol education. 

The tax increase was announced in April last year. It must be formally approved before parliament
rises (閉会する) at the end of the week for the autumn recess or the funds already collected will have to be returned. 

The Distilled Spirits Industry Council has
called on (~を要求する)all money raised to be invested in alcohol education. 

"DSCIA strongly believes that a 70 per cent
excise(酒税) increase on pre-mixed drinks simply won't achieve what its supporters say it will," executive director Gordon Broderick said in a letter to health groups today. 

"We strongly believe that the funds should be directed to community-based programmes aimed at genuinely addressing the abuse of alcohol in
Australia.
 

"As such, we would be interested in your detailed views or proposals
as to(~に関して) how those refunded(返済する) monies could be allocated(割り当てる)." 

The Senate could
vote down (否決する)the tax increase but validate (~を法的に有効にする)the collection of the money already received and place(~を投資する) it in a fund. 

There is a
precedent (前例)for such a move stemming fromcoming from a successful challenge to the tax treatment of beer after the introduction of the GST. 

Crossbench senators say they are still open to further negotiations on the
measure (法案=bill). 

But they told The Australian Online this morning they had been angered by the Government's attitude in the negotiations.
 

The
bad blood (悪感情) comes as the Government tries to reach a compromise with(~に歩み寄る)Family First Senator Steve Fielding and Independent Nick Xenophon on a far more significant piece of legislation(法律) - the workplace relations changes of the Fair Work Bill.    (322 words


From The Australian online  

Total articles :3

Total words :2065 words

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alcopop ってalcohol (アルコール)とpop(炭酸飲料)を合わせた造語なんだそう。

日本でいうチューハイ系のお酒って感じですかね!

ちなみに私はお酒は飲めません(^^;)

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2009/03/14

新聞記事で英語学習:知的で天才な子を授かる方法??

IF your IQ isn't up to brain surgery or a Nobel Prize, blame your ageing dad.

Intellectual whizzes(やり手、達人), on the other hand, can thank their older mums.

The surprising conclusions come from an Australian and US team led by neuroscientist John McGrath of the University of Queensland's Brisbane-based Queensland Brain Institute.

In their study of 17,148 boys born in the US between 1959 and 1965, they found that children conceived (受胎する)by older fathers performed less well on a range of thinking tests given at eight months, four years and seven years than those born to younger dads.

They took into account (~を考慮に入れる)other possible factors such as education, mental health and income, with the same result.

"While we didn't find a clean threshold(分かれ目) above or below which there is a risk (of lower IQ), the risk increased steadily the older the dads were," Professor McGrath said yesterday.

Writing in the US journal Public Library of Science Medicine, his team said their results contrasted sharply with earlier studies showing that the older the mother at conception, the smarter the child.

According to Professor McGrath and his colleagues, the difference may lie in the male and female reproductive(生殖の) systems. A woman is born with a fixed number of eggs that have undergone 22 cell divisions in the womb. But sperm cells divide every 16 days after a boy reaches puberty(思春期). By age 20, the original sperm cells have divided roughly 150 times; by age 50, 840 times. The more cell divisions, the more mutations(突然変異); the more mutations, the greater the chance a child will be born with physical or neurological abnormalities.

Until recently, studies of the risks of later conception focused on women. It's well known, for instance, that as women age, the likelihood increases of their having a child with the developmental and intellectual disorder Down syndrome.

In a review of the team's paper, also in PLOS Medicine, psychiatrist Mary Cannon of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland wrote that evidence was accumulating that advanced paternal age was a risk factor for neuropsychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia and autism, as well as physical problems such as cleft lip and palate, childhood cancers and congenital (生まれつきの)heart defects.

"The body of evidence implicating paternal age as a risk factor for a range of adversenot favorable offspring outcomes should not be ignored," she concluded.

To tease out ((情報)を得る)precisely why older dads sire(〈子〉を作る) youngsters with IQ scores up to three points lower than younger fathers, Professor McGrath's group has begun investigating a group of 7000 babies born in Brisbane in the 1980s.

They are also studying the phenomenon in mice to identify the mechanism or mechanisms involved.

"Age is something to factor in (~を含めて考慮する)when planning a family," Professor McGrath said.

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From The Australian online  

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知的な子供をもつのに越したことはないけれど

年取ってから子供を持つのは大変そう(^^;)

それにしてもこのolder mumって

何歳ぐらいのママを示唆してるんでしょうかね!?

30の私は

もうこのolder mumの範囲に入ってるのかしら(^^;)

(・・子供いないけど、ってか結婚すらまだだし。。。(^^;))


今流行のクーガーカップル(中年女性と若い男性のカップル)だと

スンバらしい子供が生まれる、、のかなぁ~。