新Jay's時事英語研究

実際の翻訳案件ではよく見かけるものの、一般の辞書や規範文法書ではなかなか理解できない用法などを集めて解説します。 加えて、辞書では見出語だけで例文がないものも集めて用例解説します。

2022-11-01から1ヶ月間の記事一覧

◆gainfulの用法◆

本日は番外編でgainの関連語として形容詞のgainfulの用法を扱います。 ・As of this writing, the future of gainful employment regulations remains murky. (この記事を書いている時点では、有給休暇の規制の先行きは不透明なままです。) www.google.co.jp…

gain の用法_18_自動詞_2_身につける・増す_2

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・As he progressed up the school, and gained in confidence, he was excited by courses on Roman history and art which he pursued in the year after his School Certificate. (彼は、学校での勉強が進み自信がつくとロ…

gain の用法_17_自動詞_1_身につける・増す_1

本日からは自動詞の用法を扱います。 ・There are several types of yoghurts that gain in popularity like drinkable yoghurt, spoonable, Greek-style yoghurt (Newbold and Koppel 2018) (飲むヨーグルト、スプーン型、ギリシャ風ヨーグルトなど、人気を…

gain の用法_16_他動詞_16_<時計が>進む

本日は「<時計が>進む」の用法を扱います。 ・My watch loses six seconds a day, and my brother's watch gains two seconds a day. If the watches are together one morning, how much will they differ in time the next morning? (私の時計は1日に6秒遅…

gain の用法_15_他動詞_15_<時間を>稼ぐ

本日は「<時間を>稼ぐ」の用法を扱います。 ・You don't actually gain time. However, if you travel far enough west, you'll likely cross one or more time zones. This means the clock time will be a couple of hours earlier, so it seems like you …

gain の用法_14_他動詞_14_<手段・機会>を得る_2

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・Those who wanted to stay—and “to save, protect, and expand the landholdings of Black family farmers in the South”—gained a means to do so. (南部の黒人家族経営農家の土地を「守り、保護し、拡大する」ために、残留…

gain の用法_13_他動詞_13_<手段・機会>を得る_1

本日からは「<手段・機会>を得る」の用法を扱います。 ・The losers might be those who previously would have gained access to traditional medium-skill occupational training but are now potentially left behind as academization accelerates. (敗…

gain の用法_12_他動詞_12_<速度・体重>を増す_2

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・What would we do to gain speed if money and time were no object? For example, if the team thinks constructing a building would help this project, it should be proposed. (資金も時間もなければ、どうすることでス…

gain の用法_11_他動詞_11_<速度・体重>を増す_1

本日からは「<速度・体重>を増す」の用法を扱います。 ・They say you need to eat 2600 calories a day to gain weight at the right rate. How do they know? It is an arbitrary number they pluck out of the air, supposedly corresponding to some kin…

gain の用法_10_他動詞_10_gain [人][物]

本日は gain [人][物] の用法を扱います。 ・His earlier collections of poetry include Eremus (1894) and Christin Hades (1896); Poems (1898) gained him a considerable reputation and was reprinted fourteen times by 1904. (詩集にはEremus (1894…

gain の用法_9_他動詞_9_<利益を>得る_2

本日も前回の続きです。 ・There's nothing to be gained by working as hard as you do, George, unless you're doing it with a merciful heart. And there's nothing to be gained by putting ourselves above anybody else. The last shall be first and…

gain の用法_8_他動詞_8_<利益を>得る_1

本日からは「<利益を>得る」の用法を扱います。 ・Practitioners in the design and construction of rough terrain infrastructure developments (and their respective future assessments) might be expected to gain much from the development of such …

gain の用法_7_他動詞_7_獲得する_7

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・To gain your ends you did not scruple to take the life of your greatest friend, the greatest benefactor you ever had. You thought the thing out carefully. (自分の目的を達成するためなら、最大の友人、最大の恩人…

gain の用法_6_他動詞_6_獲得する_6

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・The Communist Party loses overall support and is not significant at the voter level in the 1990s, in some contrast to the 1970s and early 1980s, when it gained some support from the disengaged segment. (共産…

gain の用法_5_他動詞_5_獲得する_5

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・If I am unable to get into the required course of study is there an alternative position I could acquire to gain some experience in this field ? (もし必要なコースに入れなかった場合、この分野で多少経験を積むた…

gain の用法_4_他動詞_4_獲得する_4

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・I'm no expert and I will write about my experiences – Good & Bad, and through this understanding it is hoped that people going through this will gain strength from the fact you are not alone. (私は専門家では…

gain の用法_3_他動詞_3_獲得する_3

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・It's been widely assumed that as women gained power, they would be able to exert a pacifist influence. Yet violence among women seems to be on the increase. What's happening, and why? (女性が権力を持てば、平…

gain の用法_2_他動詞_2_獲得する_2

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・Take a few minutes to make a list of all the possible places you could go to gain information about possible holiday destinations. (休暇の候補地に関する情報を得るために、数分かけて、行きそうな場所をすべてリス…

gain の用法_1_他動詞_1_獲得する_1

本日からは gain の用法です。 ・His oldest son Arsaces/Artaxerxes II eventually gained control over Molossia (under the name Alcetes) even as he did Macedon (under the name Amyntas III). (長男のアルサケス (アルタクセルクセス2世) は、マケド…

forgive の用法_8_自動詞_1

本日からは自動詞の用法です。 ・'I feel so unhappy when I remember what happened that I want to forgive and forget.' But the Mind says, 'No! I won't let you forget.' Sometimes the Mind doesn't even listen to the Heart; it just keeps the Hea…

forgive の用法_7_他動詞_7_<借金・負債などを>免除する

本日は「<借金・負債などを>免除する」の用法を扱います。 ・We cannot forgive the loan, but we can defer payments. (ローンを放棄することはできませんが、支払いを延期することは可能です。) www.google.co.jp 【研究】forgive (A) a loan で「(A[人]の…

forgive の用法_6_他動詞_6_forgive AB

次回は forgive AB の用法を扱います。 ・I forgave you your affair all those years ago. I could do it again. (数年前、一度あなたの浮気を許したんだから、もう一度くらい許せるわよ。) www.google.co.jp 【研究】forgive [人][物]で「[人]を[物]のこと…

forgive の用法_5_他動詞_5_give A for B_2

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・"We both went together on the bus. Annie went home at eleven o'clock. Nothing else happened." "Paul, forgive me for asking this, but were you and Annie having a sexual relationship?" asked Fr. Mc. Keon bluntl…

forgive の用法_4_他動詞_4_give A for B_1

本日からは give A for B の用法を扱います。 ・She never forgave me for forgetting my declensions. Or for confusing Mongolia and Montgomery. I failed at least once a month. It was always a failure of devotion. (彼女は私が語法を忘れたことを決…

forgive の用法_3_他動詞_3_許す_3

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・Whatever your failings and your vices, if you are only amusing or interesting all is forgiven you. Accordingly, frankness and naturalness are quite rightly considered doubtful virtues. (どんな欠点や悪癖があろ…

forgive の用法_2_他動詞_2_許す_2

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・You'll forgive my interrupting, but who is that young man at your elbow, who seems to be so insistent upon whispering into your ear? (申し訳ございませんが、あなたの横にいる若い男性はどなたですか?あなたの耳元…

forgive の用法_1_他動詞_1_許す_1

本日からは forfive の用法を扱います。 ・A kid died because of something we did to him, and I've never forgiven myself for that. Miles studied him with sad eyes. (私たちのせいで、子どもが死んでしまった。そのことで私は決して自分を許さない。…

forgetの用法_22_連語_6_not forgetting A

本日は not forgetting A の用法を扱います。 ・The first thing is to support as many shows as one can, not forgetting the small local ones. (まずは、地元の小さなライブも含めて、できる限り多くのライブを応援することです。) www.collinsdictionar…