ANMI English Tips & Tools: Notes from the HN Class

2007-09-22

Notes from the HN Class

Vocabulary:

path: 小道

Many young families enjoyed walking along the path in the park.
(若い家族 young families; 散歩を楽しみ enjoy walking; 小道を歩み続ける along the path; 公園に in the park)

The little girl followed the path into the bushes where she found Totoro!
(little girl 少女; follow the path 小道を歩; into the bushes 茂みに入る; found 発見した)

seek: 捜し求める

Some people join a church because they are seeking the meaning of life.
(some people 人もいる; join a church 教会の信者になる; because なぜならば; meaning of life 人生の意味)

The children played hide and seek in the backyard.
(children 子供たち; played 遊んだ; hide and seek かくれんぼ; backyard 裏庭)

I looked up his telephone number in the yellow pages.
(looked up で調べる; telephone number 電話番号; yellow pages 職業別電話帳)

I searched everywhere in my apartment for my glasses.
(search everywhere くまなく捜す; apartment アパート、マンション、コンドミニアム; glasses メガネ)

mass media: シャーナリズム、マスメディア、マスコミ、報道機関
mass: A lump or aggregate of coherent material: a cancerous mass (tumor) ガン細胞の塊
benign tumor: nonmalignant tumor (良性)
malignant: cancerous tumor that can spread and kill 悪性

The tumor in his brain was benign.
(彼の脳の中の腫瘍は良性だった。)

The doctor discovered a malignant tumor on her right leg.
(医師は彼女の右足に悪性の腫瘍があるのを見つけた。)

pass: 合格する | 鉄道の通勤定期券[乗車券]

There are two kinds of commuter passes: student commuter passes and ordinary commuter passes.
(定期券は通学定期と通勤定期の２種類があります。)

I passed the 5th level examination.
(５級の検定試験に合格しました。)