Phrases and Vocabulary from the IK Class

Overbook

• His flight was overbooked. 彼の便は予約超過でした。
• an overbooked airplane [flight] 定員以上の予約が入っている飛行機[便]
• overbook; overbooks; overbooked; overbooking
• to make more reservations for seats, tables, rooms, time slots, etc., than there are available
• 目的語無い場合：
• The hotel/restaurant overbooked.
• 目的語有る場合：
• The flight was overbooked, so I got bumped off.
• The airline overbooked my flight.

Visual aesthetics

• have no aesthetic sense 美的感覚を持ち合わせていない
• our aesthetic sense 我々の美的感覚[センス]
• your aesthetic sensibilities あなたの美的感覚
• Its practical value can only be measured in aesthetic terms. それの実用価値は, 美的観点からのみ評価することができる.
• be more aesthetically pleasing than... ～よりも美しい[美的にすぐれている, 美麗である]
• in an aesthetically pleasing manner 見た目に美しいように
• in addition to being aesthetically pleasing [pleasant] 美しいこと[センスのよさ, 趣味がいいこと]に加えて

She has run out of desire to keep trying.

• She just doesn't want to keep trying.
  
• She has run out of motivation to keep trying.
• She has given up trying.
  

Disappear 見えなくなる, 消滅する, 消えてなくなる, なくなる
Nonexistent 存在[実在]しない, 無い

• The glacier disappeared because of global warming.
• The glacier become nonexistent because of global warming.
• The glacier melted away because of global warming.
  

Valid 正当な, 妥当な, 根拠のある, 実証された, 適正な
Good for の間有効な, ～の間もつ[持ちこたえられる]

• His passport will be valid for another 8 years or so.
• His passport will be good for another 8 years or so.
• He bought a 10 years visa. → He bought a ten-year passport.
  

◎　I have to renew my driver's license within one month before or after my birthday.

• within one month: 誕生日から１ヵ月の前後｛ぜんご｝に間以内に
  

×　 I have to renew my driver's license at least one month before or after my birthday.

• at least one month before: 少なくとも１ヵ月間前に

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