4月10日英語表現のコレクション

referendum
 A referendum is a vote in which all the people in a country are asked whether they agree or disagree with a particular policy.
amend
 If you amend something that has been written or said, you change it.
 Law applying to referendums is step toward amending Constitution.

rectify
 If you rectify something that is wrong, you change it so that it becomes correct or satisfactory.
 The current referendum law was enacted in 2007 under Abe’s first government to rectify a situation where there is no detailed process to hold a national referendum.

ballot
 A ballot is a secret vote in which people select a candidate in an election, or express their opinion about something.
 It lacks details on how such a ballot will be held.

misconduct
 Misconduct is a bad or unacceptable behaviour, especially by a professional person or someone who is normally respected by people.
 Stem cell researcher denied misconduct.

filed an appeal with 〜
 〜に不服申し立てをする
 Haruko Obokata filed an appeal with the government-backed Riken institute Tuesday.

expel
 If someone is expelled from a school or organization, they officially told to leave because they have behaved badly.
 Japanese people are also working in that sector and it would not be appropriate if they got expelled from the industory.

4月9日英語表現のコレクション

tariff
 A tariff is a tax on goods coming info country.
 Tokyo has agreed to lower its tariffs on Australian beef.

accord
 An accord between countries or groups of people is a formal agreement, for example to end a war.
If everything goes smoothly,
 すべてのことが順調に進んだら
 If every thing goes smoothly, the accord is expected to take effect in 2015

step down
 If you step down or step aside, you resign from an important job or position.
midst
 If you are in the midst of doing something, you are doing it at present
tycoon
 A tycoon is a person who is successful in business and so has become rich and powerful
 Your Party leader Yoshimi Watanabe will step down as president of the minor opposition party he founded in the midst of a scandal involving ¥800 million in unregistered loans from a business tycoon.

robust
 Someone or something that is robust is very strong.
 Japan wants to make U.S. President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit an opportunity to show the robust Japan-U.S. alliance to the world.

deterrent
 A deterrent, or something that has a deterrent effect, is something that prevents people from doing something by making them afraid of what will happen to them if they do.

like elsewhere around the country,
 国内の他の土地と同じように、

albeit
 You use albeit to introduce a fact or comment which reduces the force or significance of what you have just said.

fled
 Fled is a past tense and past participle of flee.
flee
 If you flee from something or someone, or if you flee them, you escape from them by running away.
 Futaba’s entire population fled during the disaster and its municipal office has moved several times.

mussels
 A mussel is a kind of shellfish.
click
 If something clicks or if you click it, it makes a short sharp sound, called a click.
 When you suddenly understand something, you can say that it has clicked.
  Thi An Nguyen sold freshly cooked mussels and fruit to the German tourist, and they immediately clicked.

ordeal
 An ordeal is an extremely unpleasant and difficult experience.
 Marriage was supposed to bring them together. Instead, it was the beginning of a long ordeal apart.

flunk
 If you flunk an exam or a course, you fail to reach the required standard.
aspiring
 Aspiring describe someone who is trying to become successful in a particular career.
 Nguyen from entering the country after she flunked the language test that aspiring immigrants are required to pass.

working-level
 実務者レベル
 Japan and the United States resumed bilateral working-level talks on a Pacific free trade deal Monday in Tokyo.

intact
 Something that is intact is complete and has not been damaged or spoiled.
 Policymakers expected to keep intact ultraloose monetary easing to beat deflation.

4月4日英語表現のコレクション

collided head-on with a pickup truck
 ピックアップトラックと正面衝突した

reprimand
 If someone in authority reprimands you or if they give you a reprimand, they speak to you angrily or seriously for doing something wrong.
 Tsuruoka told reporters afterward that he had been “sternly reprimanded” by Abe over the outcome.

abide
 If you say that you can’t abide someone or something, you are emphasizing that you dislike them intensely.
 It is extremely regrettable and disappointing, but Japan will abide by the ruling.

allegation
 An allegation is a statement saying that someone has done something wrong.
 Riken began its investigation Feb. 20 after allegations of the articles’ impropriety first emerged on a Japanese website earlier in the month.

veracity
 Veracity is the quality of being true or the habit of telling the truth.
 It failed to clear up some allegations, including the veracity of so-called STAP cells.

fabricate
 If someone fabricates information, they invent it in order to deceive people.
falsify
 If someone falsifies a written record, they change it in a misleading way or add untrue details to it in order to deceive people
interim
 Interim describes things that are intended to be used until something permanent is arranged or established.
 The final report, released just over two weeks after an interim report, assigned blame to lead author Haruko Obokata for fabrication and falsification of data used in the articles that appeared in the British science journal Nature in late January

hasty
 Hasty means done or arranged in a furry, without planning or preparation.

extol
 If you extol something, you praise it enthusiastically.
 The soundtrack to this is a traditional folk-style song with lyrics extolling the virtues of the ninkyo spirit.

rudimentary
 Rudimentary means very basic or not developed to a satisfactory degree.
 Preliminary investigations found that the two sky-blue small aircraft were both rudimentary drones equipped with Japanese cameras.

artillery
 Artillery consists of large, powerful guns which are transported on wheels. The artillery is the section of the army which uses these guns.
animosity
 Animosity is a feeling of strong dislike and anger.
dispute
 A dispute is a disagreement or quarrel between people
 The two Koreans fired hundreds of artillery shells into each other’s waters in a flareup of animosity over a long-disputed sea boundary between the countries.

obstetrics
 Obstetrics is the branch of medicine that is concerned with pregnancy and giving birth.
gynecology
 Gynecology is the branch of medical science which deals with women’s diseases and medical conditions.
obstetrics and gynecology
 産婦人科

forge
 If you forge an alliance or relationship, you succeed in creating it.

foster parents
 Forster parents are people who officially take a child into their family for a period of time, without becoming the child’s legal parents.
 When they apply to become foster parents, people with GID are sometimes questioned about their capability of forging “healthy parent-child ties”.

GID:gender identity disorder
 性同一性障害
 The Osaka Family Court has approved the adoption of a 3-year-old boy by a woman in her 30s who changed her sex from male due to gender identity disorder.

4月3日英語表現のコレクション

 slug
 A slug is a bullet.

an expected surge in demand
 If there is a surge in the level or rate of something, or if the level or rate of something surges, there is a sudden large increase in it.
 Akao Aluminum Co. has produced its first batch in four years to meet an expected surge in demand for small change as the consumption tax jumps to 8 percent on Tuesday.

hiatus
 A hiatus is a pause in which nothing happens, or gap where something is missing.
 Supplier of ¥1 coins ends four-year hiatus for Abe’s sales tax hike.

tie the knot
 If you say that two people tie the knot, you mean that they get married.
 Pop icon Elton John says hi will tie the knot with partner.

resemble
 If one thing or person resembles another, they are similar to each other.
 A team from South Korea and the United States has used nano-materials to create a flexible and stretchable adhesive bandage.

epilepsy
 Epilepsy is a brain condition which causes a person to suddenly lose consciousness and sometimes to have fits.
 Methods for monitoring so-called movement disorders such as epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease have traditionally included video recordings or wearable devices.

asylum seeker
 難民
 Asylum seekers arriving in Australia on unauthorized boats will no longer be granted free advice on immigration matters.

arbitrate
 When someone arbitrates between two people who are in dispute, they consider all the facts and decide who is right.
 Filipino officials took their territorial disputes with China to international arbitration in January 2013.

tribunal
 A tribunal is a special court or committee that is appointed to deal with particular problems.
 The Philippines presented evidence to an international tribunal against China’s sweeping territorial claims in the South China Sea.

wrap up
 If you wrap up something such as a job or an agreement, you complete it in a satisfactory way.
 ’Waratte Iitomo!’ wraps up after 32 years on air.

plaintiff
 A plaintiff is a person who brings a legal case against someone in a court of law.

quadruple
 If someone quadruples an amount, or if it quadruples, it becomes four times bigger.

autopsy
 An autopsy is an examination of a dead body by a doctor to discover the cause of death.
 A autopsy will be carried out on both men.

cardiac massage
 心臓マッサージ

choked on his diner
 夕食で窒息する
 A man choked on his dinner and was taken to nearby hospital.

detainee
 A detainee is someone who is being held prisoner by a government or being held by the police.
 Two detainees at an immigration center in Ushiku died over the weekend.

whiff
 If there is a whiff of something, there is a faint smell of it.
 Is that a whiff of beer hops?

hoard
 If you hoard things such as food or money, you save or store them, often in secret, because they are valuable or important to you.
 Many people were buying products that they could hoard.

leap
 If you leap, or if you take a leap, you jump high in the air or jump a long distance
 Isetan Mitsukoshi Ltd. saw a huge leap in business on the consumption tax climbs to 8 percent from the current 5 percent.

revoke
 When someone in authority revokes something such as an order, they cancel it.
 Japan shall revoke any existent authorization

disguise
 If you disguise yourself, or if you are in disguise, you alter your appearance so that people will not recognize you.
 The program was a commercial activity disguised as science.

Antarctic
 Antarctic is area around the South Pole.
 The U.N.’s top court ordered Japan to end its anual Antarctic whale hunt.

4月1日英語表現のコレクション

bubonic plague
 Bubonic plague is a serious infectious disease spread by rats. it killed many people during the Middle Ages.
 The scientist were able to compare the strain of bubonic plague preserved there with that which was recently responsible for killing 60 people in Madagascar.

retrieve
 If you retrieve something, you get it back from the place where you left it.
 from the largest teeth in some of the skulls retrieved from the square

excavate
 To excavate a piece of land means to remove earth carefully from it and look for the remains of objects or buildings, in order to find out about the past.

flea
 A flea is a small jumping insect that sucks human or animal blood.
 The epidemic was caused by a highly contagious strain spread by the fleas on rats.

forensic
 When a forensic analysis is done, objects are examined scientifically in order to discover information about a crime.
 Archaeologist and forensic scientist who have examined 25 skeletons unearthed in the Clerkenwell area  of central London a year ago believe they have uncovered the truth about the nature of the Black Death that ravaged Britain and Europe in the mid-14th century.

airborne
 Airborne means flying in the air or coming from the air.
 U.K. outbreak in 14th century was airborne, scientist say.

sttifen
 If your muscles or joints stiffen, or if they stiffen up, they become difficult to bend or move.
 A bad aortic valve can stiffen and narrow with age.

artery
 Your arteries are the tubes that carry blood from your heart to the rest of your body.
 Survival rates were better one year later for people who had new valve placed through a tube into an artery instead.

aortic valve
 大動脈弁
 A new study gives a big boost to fixing a bad aortic valve, the heart’s main gate, without open-heart surgery.

voluptuous
 If you describe a woman as voluptuous, you mean that she has large breasts and hips and it¥s considered attractive in a sexual way.
 In Brazil, the land of minibikinis and voluptuous Carnival dancers, most people say a woman who shows off her body deserves to raped.

czar
 A particular king of tsar is a person who has been appointed by the government to deal with a particular problem that is affecting the country
 Uruguay’s drug czar says every legal marijuana plant in Uruguay will be registered and tracked using radio frequency tags.

falsify
 If someone falsifies a written record, they change it in a misleading way or add untrue details to it in order to deceive people.
 Italy’s financial police found falsified passports and other documents in their hotel rooms.

apprehend
 If the police apprehend someone, they catch them and arrest them.
 Vatican police on Saturday apprehended an American and a Dutchman trying to deposit billions of euros and dollars in fake bonds at the Vatican bank.

accomplishment
 Your accomplishments are the things you have achieved or the things that you do well
 The accomplishment is an advance toward linking the neurons that fire when people make specific movements.

larvae
 幼虫、幼生
 New research has identified the brain neurons responsible for every behaviour that fruit fly larvae exhibit.

atlas
 An atlas is a book of maps.
 First full atlas made of a fly brain

ferment
 If a food or drink ferments, or if it is fermented, a chemical change takes place in it so that alcohol is produced.
 Soy sauce usually contains a small amount of alcohol as it is made though the fermentation of soy beans via rice malt.

amphibious
 Am amphibious military operation, army and navy forces attack a place from the sea
 The new amphibious force being formed by the Self-Defense Forces will likely be based in Sasebo.

comprise
 If something comprises or is comprised of a number of things or people, it has them as its parts or members.
 The Aussie program’s tour in Japan will comprise 30 exhibits that let participants play and learn by using ropes and balls and educational shows in which staff reveal the fun of science though live performances.

lodge
 If you lodge a complaint, you formally make it.
 The government’s top spokesman on Sunday said the Foreign Ministry has lodged a protest with China over President Xi JinPing’s remarks on the number of Chinese killed by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Nanjing Massacre in 1937.

stem
 If a condition or problem stems from something, that is what originally caused it.
 Xi also said more than 35million Chinese were eventually killed or injured as Japa waged a war of aggression stemming from its militarism.

bankruptcy administrator
 破産管財人

impeding
 An impeding event is one that is going to happen very soon.

3月28日英語表現のコレクション

inflict
 To inflict something unpleasant on someone or something means to make them suffer it.
 More than 10 glass-plate negatives of photos taken by an amateur photographer showing damage inflicted on a town in Iwate Prefecture by devastating earthquake and tsunami 118 years ago were discovered.

deity
 A deity is a god or goddess
 To transfer shrine deity to a new building.

exempt
 If you are exempt from a rule or duty, you do not have to obey it or perform it.
 Other measures include a one-time cash handout of ¥10,000 to every membr of a household currently exempt from residential taxes.

retraction
 If you retract something that you have said or written, you say publicly that you did not mean it.
 Wakayama, who was the first co-author of the papers to call publicly for their retraction.

scrutiny
 If something is under scrutiny, it is being studied or observed very carefully.
litany
 If you describe what someone says as a litany of things, you mean that you have heard it many times before, and you think it is boring or insincere.
dissertation
 A dissertation is a long formal piece of writing, especially for a university degree.
 The paper, which appeared in the journal Nature in late January, have come under scrutiny due to a litany of problems, including images resembling those used in Obokata’s doctoral dissertation in 2011.

groundbreaking
 you use groundbreaking to describe things which you think are significant because they provide new and positive ideas, and influence the way people think about things.
 The Japanese researcher and lead author of two recent papers on groundbreaking stem cell research that have been called into question gave a co-author stem cell produced from mice of different genetic lines than originally asked for.

drench
 To drench something or someone means to make them completely wet.
 Tatsuta’s story brings to life everyday details – how gloves get drenched with sweat, or how annoyingly itchy a nose can get behind mask.

wreck
 To wreck something means to completely destroy or ruin it.
 No one who works at Tepco’s wrecked nuclear plant.

devastating
 You describe something as devastating when it is very damaging or upsetting.
 Fishery and tourism would suffer devastating damage.

the tip of iceberg
 If you say that a problem is the tip of the iceberg, you mean that it is one small part of a much larger problem

southern tip
 The tip of something long and narrow is the end of it
 Located at the southern tip of Hokkaido

assembly
 An assembly is a group of people gathered together for a particular purpose.
 Hakodate assembly OKs lawsuit against nuclear power plant

strained
 If someone’s appearance, voice, or behaviour is  strained, they seem worried and nervous.
 Japan and South Korea have yet to find a clear path to fully improve their strained ties.

semblance
 If there is a semblance of a particular condition or quality, it appears to exist, through in fact it may not.
 Japan and South Korea  successfully created the semblance of an alliance in a US-borokerd trilateral summit in The Hague.

3月27日英語表現のコレクション

sign with …
 …と契約を交わす
 Masahiro Tanaka, who signed with New York Yankees.

deregulation
 Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
 He said bold deregulation is needed to revive.

economic stimulus packages
 景気刺激策

soured relation
 気まずい関係、ぎくしゃくした関係
 Despite the soured relations between Tokyo and Beijing, wealthy Chinese customers flocked to Japan’s departments stores building.

exempt
 If you are exempt from a rule or duty, you do not have to obey it or perfom it

ultraloose monetary easing policy
 異次元金融緩和

envoy
 An envoy is a diplomat sent to a foreign country.
 The top U.N. envoy there said Monday.

cessation
 The cessation of something is the stopping of it.
 Regulations should prohibit advertising claiming or suggesting that e-cigarettes are effective smoking cessation devices until claims are supported by scientific evidence.

reinforcement
 If something reinforces something such as a feeling, process, or belief, it makes it stronger.

presume
 If yo presume that something is the case, you think that it is the case, although you are not certain.
 The missing person is presumed dead.

trove
 If you describe something or someone as a treasure trove of a particular thing, you mean that they are a very good or rich source of that thing.

reluctant
 If you are reluctant to do something, you do not really want to do it.

tempt
  Something that tempts you attracts you and makes you want it, even it may be wrong or harmful

 Ban’s comments suggested concern that events in Ukraine could make some countries more reluctant to give up any nuclear weapons capabilities, or tempt others to pursue them.

arsenal
 An arsenal is a large collection of weapons and military equipment.
 Ukraine gave up its Soviet-era nuclear arsenal under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum.

pact
 A pact is a formal agreement between tow or more people, organizations, or governments.
 U.N.’s Ban says Russia’s seizure of Crimea could affect 1970 pact.

jeopardize
 If someone or something jeopardize a situation or activity, they do something that may destroy it or cause it to fall.

petition
 A petition is a document signed by a lot of people which asks for some official action to be taken.

plague
 A plague is an infectious disease that spread quickly and kills large numbers of people.
 The plant has been plagued by various problems linked to management of the toxic water.

stringent
 Stringent laws, rules, or conditions are severe or are strictly controlled
 Tepco said in February that it will set stringent safety criteria.

the water meets certain decontamination standard
 その水は除染の一定の基準を満たしている

pledge
 When someone pledges to do something, or when they make a pledge to do it, they promise solemnly that they will do it or provide it.

deter
 To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it.

 Prime Minister Sinzo Abe pledged Monday to strengthen measures to ensure the safe management of nuclear materials and facilities to deter nuclear terrorism.

standard practice
 The use of feeding tubes at the end of life, which isn’t standard practice in the Western world, is common in Japan.

reimbursement
 If you reimburse someone for something, you pay them back the money that they have spent or lost because of it.
 The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry also plans to boost reimbursements to institutions that check swallowing ability and encourage rehabilitation to help the bedridden eat naturally.

curtail
 If you curtail something, you reduce or restrict it.
 The government is trying to curtail growth of a ¥38.5 trillion annual health bill by releasing patients from hospitals sooner.

insertion
 The government is planning to cut payouts on insertions in  new patients and encourage home care.

bedridden elderly people
 For the first time, Japan is trying to hold down the number of bedridden elderly people kept alive, sometimes for years, by feeding tubes.

wrangle
  If two people are wrangling over something, or if they are involved in a wrangle over it, they are arguing angrily for a long time about it.
 diplomatic wrangles over how to make the occasion.

inflammation
 An inflammation is a swelling in your body that results from a infection or injury.
 Scientists also suspect air pollution may be to blame for inflammation in the heart.

irritation
 Irritation is a feeling of annoyance. Irritation is that keeps annoying you.
 One of the main risks of pollution is that tiny particles can get deep into the lungs, causing irritation.

timber/lumber
  Timber is wood used for building houses and making furniture.
 A remarkable curved roof made of timber

card-board paper tube
 段ボール

extensive humanitarian efforts
 多大なる人道的努力

top government spokesman
 官房長官

get the boot …
 If you get the boot, you are forced to leave your job.
 Russia is booted from G-8 over Crimea grab.
 Group of Eight booted Russia off the membership list.

3月26日の英語表現のコレクション

denounce
 If you denounce someone or something, you criticize them severely and publicly.
 Its annexation was overwhelmingly approved by the dominant Russian-speaking population but denounced by the rest of the world.

annex,annexation
 If a country annexes another country or a area of land, it seizes it and take control of it.

wrest
 If you wrest something from someone, you take it from them, especially when this is difficult or illegal
 Crimea, wrested this month from Ukraine by Russia.

turmoil
 Turmoil is a state of confusion or great anxiety.
 The problem reflects lager economic turmoil.

greenback
 米ドル

form an alliance with…
 …と提携する

parcel
 A parcel is something wrapped in paper, usually so that it can be sent to someone by post.
 Parcel delivery firm Yamato Holdings.

street value
 末端価格(麻薬など)
 The drug would have had a street value of roughly 40,000 euro.

haul
 If you haul a heavy object somewhere, you pull it there with a great effort

screening
 To screen people for a disease means to examine them to make sure that they do not have it
 Many U.S. airlines also perform mental health screenings when pilots and crew apply for jobs.

mentally fit to …
 …に適した精神状態にある
 pilots are mentally fit to fly.

elaborate
 you use elaborate to describe something that consists of many different parts, making it very detailed or complex.

reinforce
 If something such as a feeling, process, or belief, it makes it stronger

barge
 A barge is a narrow boat with a flat bottom, used for carrying heavy loads.

deputy
 A deputy is the second most important person in an organization or department.

limelight
 If someone is in the limelight, they are getting a lot of attention, because they are famous or because they have done something unusual or exciting.

incumbent
 An incumbent is the person who is holding an official post at a particular time.

the only pill you can take is to tell
 If you go through something very bad or very hard, the only pill you can take is to tell, to take it out of your system.

crusade
 A crusade is a long and determined attempt to achieve something.

stigmatize
 If someone or something is stigmatized, they are unfairly regarded by many people as unacceptable or disgraceful.

the tears streaming down her cheeks

pave
 When an area of ground has been paved, it has been coverd with blocks of stone or concrete.
 If one thing paves the way for another, it creates a situation in which the other tings is able to happen.
 Instead of merely hiding behind public funds, we will empower women farmers so that we can pave the way ourselves.

mere
 You use mere to emphasize how unimportant, insufficient, or small something is.

fulfilling lifestyle
 I wanted a fulfilling lifestyle rather than a career.

thaw
 When something frozen thaws, or when you thaw it, it melts.
 Thaw is a period of warmer weather when the snow and ice melts.
 If something thaws relations between people, or if there is a thaw in relations, people become friendly again after a period of tension.

fragility, fragile
 If you describe a situation as fragile, you mean that it is weak or uncertain, and unlikely to be able to resist strong pressure or attack.
 the fragility of the environment
 Tokyo will user Pyongyang’s economic fragility as leverage when they meet for high-level talks next week.

curb
 If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
 The nationwide telephone survey conducted over the weekend showed that 65.7 percent plan to curb household expenses after the hike.

euphemistic
 Euphemistic language consists of polite words or expressions for unpleasant or embarrassing things.
 The euphemistic term comfort women is often described as sexual slavery by the media and by those supporting them.

reiterate
 If you reiterate something, you say it again or emphasize it.

if fresh factors are found
 新事実が発見されたら

opinion poll
 An opinion poll involves asking people for their opinion on a particular subject, especially one concerning politics.

uphold
 If you uphold a law, principle, or decision, you support and maintain it.
 We had repeatedly said we uphold the 1993 Kono statement.

specualtion, speculate
  If you speculate about something, you guess about its nature or identity, or about what might happen
 speculation over the future of the economy.

grenade
 A grenade is a small bomb that can be thrown by hand.

stun
 If you are stunned by something, you are shocked or astonished by it and are therefore unable to speak or do anything.

 Russian troops, using armed vehicles, automatic weapons and stun grenades

oust
 If someone is ousted from a position of power or from a job or place, they are forced to leave it.

mass trial
 よくわからない。

convict
 If someone is convicted of a crime, they are found guilty of it in a law court
 He was convicted of murder.

Japan’s wartime aggression
 戦争による侵略

The 20th century was characterized by war and by violation of basic human rights.
 20世紀は戦争と基本的人権の侵害の世紀だった。

drawing more than a million visitors each year.
 毎年100万人以上が訪れる

Nazi concentration camp
 ナチス強制収容所

contradiction
 A contradiction is an aspect of a situation which appears to conflict with other aspects, so that they cannot all exist or be successful.
 There was no contradiction with his recent controversial visit to war-linked Yasukuni Shrine. 

beats the drum for …
 If someone beats the drum or bangs the drum for something, they support it strongly.
 At Anne Frank House, PM beats the drum for peacemaking.

3月25日の英語表現のコレクション その2

condemn
 If you condemn something, you say that it is bad and unacceptable.

tenure
 Tenure is the legal right to live in a place or to use land or buildings for a period of time

plaque
 A plaque is a flat piece of metal or wood, which is fixed to a wall or monument in memory of person or event.
 Park won the right to install a plaque memorializing “comfort women,” many of them Korean, who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War 2.

volley
 A volley of gunfire is a lot of bullets that are fired at the same time.

concession
 If you make a concession to someone, you agree to let them do or have something, especially in order to end an argument or conflict.

rattle
 When something rattles, or when you rattle it, it makes short sharp knocking sounds because it is being shaken or it keeps hitting against something hard.

adept
 Someone who is adept at something does it skillfully.
 Heroines for young girls are rapidly changing, and the toy industry – long adept at capitalizing on gender stereotypes – is scrambling to catch up.

twirl
 If you twirl something, or if it twirls, it turns round and round with a smooth fairly fast movement.
 Once upon a time, Grace Maher twirled around the house in Disney princess costumes, a vision of Sequins, tiaras and pink.

contradict
 If you contradict someone, you say or suggest that what they have just said is wrong.

laconic
 If you describe someone as laconic, you mean that they use very few words to say something, so that they seem casual or unfriendly.

clerical
 Clerical jobs, skills, and workers are concerned with work that is done in an office.

coolant
 Coolant is a liquid used to keep a machine or engine cool while it is operating.

irrigation
 灌漑
 from cooling coal-fired power plants to irrigation for crops grown to produce biofuels.

Rising demand for …
 …に対する需要の増加
 Rising demand for energy, from biofuels to shale gas is threat to fresh water supplies.

right to veto
 If someone in authority vetoes something, or if they put a veto on it, they forbid it, or stop it being put into action.
 The proposed bill had initially given a wife the right to veto the husband’s choice.

amend
 If you amend something that has been written or said, you change it.
 The bill, which amended existing marriage legislation.

storm out
 If you storm into or out of a place, you enter or leave it quickly and noisily, because you are angry.

polygamy
 Polygamy is the custom in some societies in  which someone can be legally married to more than one person at the same time.
 Kenya eases polygamy laws for men

get hitched
 結婚する
 Same-sex couples rushed to Michigan county clerk’s offices Saturday to get hitched a day after a judge overturned the state’s constitutional ban on gay marriage.

… oriented themselves toward the place
 …の方向へ向かう
 All the snakes immediately oriented themselves toward the place where they were captured.

… among the world’s largest …
 世界で最も大きい…
 pythons are among the world’s largest snakes.

slither
 If an animal such as a snake slithers, it moves along in a curving way.

encircle
 To encircle something or someone means to surround them completely

crawl
 When you crawl, you move forward on your hands and knees.
 Justin Casquejo, 16, of Weehawken, New Jersey, was carrying his camera when he crawled through a small hole in the construction fence encircling the world Trade Center site in lower Manhattan to enter the building.

hygiene
 Hygiene is the practice of keeping yourself and your surroundings clean, especially in order to prevent the spread of disease.

feces
 faces

fall sick
 病気になる

a highly contagious epidemic
 伝染性の高い病気
 As the death toll rose to 59, Guinea identified the Ebola virus Saturday as the source of a highly contagious epidemic ranging through its southern forest.
contagious
 A contagious disease can be caught by touching people or things that are infected with it.

nabbed
 If people in authority such as the police nab someone who they think has done something wrong, they catch them or arrest them.

3月25日の英語表現のコレクション その1

Buddhalike
 仏のような。~likeで~のようなという形容詞になる。

officialdom
 Officialdom is used to refer to officials who work for the government or in other organizations, especially when you think that their rules are unhelpful.

when it comes to ~.
 when it comes to planning and promoting tourism campaigns.

bureaucracy
 Bureaucracy is all the rules and procedures followed by government departments and similar organizations; often used showing disapproval.

swindle
 If someone swindle a person or an organization, or if someone is involved in a swindle, they deceive the person or organization in order to get money from them.

deceive
 If you deceive someone, you make them believe something that is not true.

dodgy
 If you describe someone or something as dodgy, you disapprove of them because they seem rather dishonest and unreliable.
 Inose sites raided over dodgy loan

prosecutor
 In some countries, a prosecutor is a lawyer or official who brings charges against alleged criminals or tries to prove in a trial that they are guilty.

80 people each in its four-month programs.
 4ヶ月間のプログラムで各回80人

legislative
 Legislative means involving or relating to the process of making and passing laws.
 The legislative measures to be compiled by the end of the month.

vocational
 Vocational training and skills are the training and skills needed for a particular job or profession.
 A vocational training school run by a Japanese firm in nothern Vietnam will receive ¥100 million in official development assistance.

consulate
 A consulate is a place where a consul works.

consul
 A consul is a government official who lives in a foreign city and look after al the people there who are from is or her own country.

meanwhile
 Meanwhile means in the period of time between two events, or while an event is happening.

cripple
 To cripple a machine, organization, or system means to damage it severly or prevent it from working properly
 The crippled Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant

interrogate
 If someone, especially a police officer, interrogates someone, they question him or her for a long time, in order to get information from them.
 He is thought to have been interrogated on espionage charges.

espionage
 Espionage is the activity of finding out the political, military, or industrial secrets of your enemies or rivals by using spies.

restive
 If you restive, you are impatient, bored, or dissatisfied.
 Wang is known for his studies on the restive Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region of China.

autonomous
 An autonomous country, organization, or group governs or controls itself rather than being controlled by anyone else.

~ was learned.
  ~ということが判明した。
 Wang Ke went missing on a visit to China earlier this month, it was learned Saturday.

corece
 if you coerce someone into doing something, you make them do it  against their will

prostitute
 A prostitute is a person, usually a woman, who has sex with men in exchange for money.

brothel
 A brothel is a building where men pay to have sex with prostitutes.