DMM英会話受講メモ:2018年6月
DMM英会話の受講メモ.12回/30日なので,4割程度の実施率.仕事の忙しさを考えると,このあたりが現実的な数字かもしれない.
20180609
- Gamers Push Limits of Scientific Research
- tweak:a slight change to something in order to improve it
- invaluable:extremely useful
- outreach:the practice of providing help and advice to people before they have to ask for it
- 二週間ぶりの英会話.口が全然動かない.リハビリが必要.
20180610
- Things Your Dog Might Know
- tilt: 傾き
- magnetism: 磁気
- breed: 品種
- deductive: using information about things that are generally true in order to understand something specific
- deception: the act of deliberately trying to trick someone
- manipulate: to intentionally control or influence someone or something
- domesticate: to purposefully breed wild animals so they can live with or be used by humans
- 口が回らないのはもちろん,単語も聞き取れなくなっている.前日の夜に予習,翌朝受講の習慣をつけよう.
20180611
- AI Farm Robot Designed to Reduce Herbicide Use
- weed: a wild plant that grows where it is not wanted
- herbicide: a chemical used to kill weeds
- 除草剤を自動で撒くAIの話.
20180613
- 忙しかったので10分だけフリートークをしてもらった.
20180615
- New Apple Software Helps Limit Smartphone Use
- cut back (on): to start doing less of something because it is bad for you
- 発音について,かなり丁寧に指導してもらった.
- r,l,oの発音.特に
because
を発音するときに/ow/
となってしまうくせがあるとのこと.気をつけないと. the
を/thee/
と読むときと/thuh/
と読むときの違いについて.知識としては知っているけど,実際の会話になるとつい忘れてしまう.
- r,l,oの発音.特に
- 会話中に思いつかなかったフレーズ:
- kill the time:時間を潰す.(It kills out time)
- pass the time:時間を潰す.(It helps pass our time)
20180619
- The Future of Drones is Flying Ahead
- parcel:小包
- long-haul:長距離
- bill:議案
- shortage in labor:人手不足
- 発音をかなり丁寧に指摘してくれる人だった.やはり,/r/と/l/の発音が難しい.継続的な練習が必要.
20180622
- Google Bans Use of AI Technology for Weapons
- 特に難しい単語はなかった.
- 先生めちゃくちゃいい人でとても楽しかった.
20180623
- The Healing Power of Pets
- unconditional: not having any conditions or limits
- incorporate: to include something as a part of something else
- schizophrenia: a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.
- bipolar disorder: (of psychiatric illness) characterized by both manic and depressive episodes, or manic ones only
- 好きな動物はなにかと聞かれて,柴犬と即答した.
20180624
- やる気が出なかったので,10分だけフリートークしてもらった.
20180625
- Sleeping In On Weekends Might Save Your Life
- sleep in: to sleep until later in the morning than you usually do
- deficit: the difference between the amount of something that someone has and the amount that they need
- replenish: to make something full again
- ritual: 儀式,習慣.
20180627
- Estonia Rolls out Free Public Transport
- roll out: to introduce something new
- 発音に関して結構コメントしてもらった:
- situation:sit-wey-syun
- introduce:/du/
20180630
- Pho, Ramen or Soba? Google’s ‘Noodle Report’
- buckwheat: そば粉
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