タイトルをみてどうせまたRupert Wingfield-Hayesがいつものようなこといっているに違いない、と思って放置していましたが。
なんと。Rupertは日本を去っていたみたいでしたー。彼のTwitterを見るとマニラにいるみたいですね。
Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63830490
[quote]
America and Europe once feared the Japanese economic juggernaut much the same way they fear China's growing economic might today.
[unquote]
mightが名詞なら意味が通じる。
[quote]
[..] how exquisitely clean and orderly Tokyo was compared to any other Asian city. Hong Kong was an assault on the senses, noisy, smelly, a city of extremes - from gaudy mansions on Victoria Peak to the "dark satanic" sweatshops at the north end of Kowloon. In Taipei [..] the streets thronged to the sound of two-stroke scooters spewing acrid smoke that enveloped the city in a blanket of smog so thick you could often see barely two blocks. If Hong Kong and Taipei were Asia's raucous teenagers, Japan was the grown-up. Yes, Tokyo was a concrete jungle, but it was a beautifully manicured one.
[unquote]
ここの表現は参考になります。
[quote]
Japan had emerged from the destruction of World War Two and conquered global manufacturing.
[unquote]
丸暗記すべき一文。conquer something
[quote]
[..]you could be forgiven for thinking Japan is a poster child for efficiency.
[unquote]
[quote]
Inside I found a group of disconsolate-looking souls waiting for our punishment to begin.
[unquote]
[quote]
Will Japan gradually fade into irrelevance, or re-invent itself? My head tells me that to prosper anew Japan must embrace change.[..]
[unquote]
日本の記事なので、内容はほぼわかるけど、何度も登場するのにちゃんと覚えられていない&使いこなせていないB1/B2レベルの超基本単語が多数。これじゃあUse of English間違う。
bewilder, prosperous, life expectancy, sublime, sluggish, implore, offspring, plump for, sleek, dubious, a traffic infraction, drone, resentful, mock, endearing, in unison, superlative, enchanting, oddball, veneer, blunt, sceptical, lament, absurd, extinction, hostility, waver, pejorative, fertility, eminent, surrender, overthrow, Meiji restoration, putsch, convulsion, conviction, aggressor, junta, yearn, American-imposed pacifism, pork-barrel politics, blight, pump, stronghold, bout of exasperation, stall, rifle through, fuss over
問題集も３日坊主というか５日で止まってしまいましたが、日本語のTwitter、YouTube、Web記事は見ないというのは１週間継続できています。
新聞アプリも見てない。唯一ウェザーニュースのアプリだけ見てます。天気以外は日本のことは知らない。
Rupert一家の出国がダメ押しになって吹っ切れました。もう日本の時事は知らなくてもいい。
なんと。Rupertは日本を去っていたみたいでしたー。彼のTwitterを見るとマニラにいるみたいですね。
Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63830490
[quote]
America and Europe once feared the Japanese economic juggernaut much the same way they fear China's growing economic might today.
[unquote]
mightが名詞なら意味が通じる。
[quote]
[..] how exquisitely clean and orderly Tokyo was compared to any other Asian city. Hong Kong was an assault on the senses, noisy, smelly, a city of extremes - from gaudy mansions on Victoria Peak to the "dark satanic" sweatshops at the north end of Kowloon. In Taipei [..] the streets thronged to the sound of two-stroke scooters spewing acrid smoke that enveloped the city in a blanket of smog so thick you could often see barely two blocks. If Hong Kong and Taipei were Asia's raucous teenagers, Japan was the grown-up. Yes, Tokyo was a concrete jungle, but it was a beautifully manicured one.
[unquote]
ここの表現は参考になります。
[quote]
Japan had emerged from the destruction of World War Two and conquered global manufacturing.
[unquote]
丸暗記すべき一文。conquer something
[quote]
[..]you could be forgiven for thinking Japan is a poster child for efficiency.
[unquote]
[quote]
Inside I found a group of disconsolate-looking souls waiting for our punishment to begin.
[unquote]
[quote]
Will Japan gradually fade into irrelevance, or re-invent itself? My head tells me that to prosper anew Japan must embrace change.[..]
[unquote]
日本の記事なので、内容はほぼわかるけど、何度も登場するのにちゃんと覚えられていない&使いこなせていないB1/B2レベルの超基本単語が多数。これじゃあUse of English間違う。
bewilder, prosperous, life expectancy, sublime, sluggish, implore, offspring, plump for, sleek, dubious, a traffic infraction, drone, resentful, mock, endearing, in unison, superlative, enchanting, oddball, veneer, blunt, sceptical, lament, absurd, extinction, hostility, waver, pejorative, fertility, eminent, surrender, overthrow, Meiji restoration, putsch, convulsion, conviction, aggressor, junta, yearn, American-imposed pacifism, pork-barrel politics, blight, pump, stronghold, bout of exasperation, stall, rifle through, fuss over
問題集も３日坊主というか５日で止まってしまいましたが、日本語のTwitter、YouTube、Web記事は見ないというのは１週間継続できています。
新聞アプリも見てない。唯一ウェザーニュースのアプリだけ見てます。天気以外は日本のことは知らない。
Rupert一家の出国がダメ押しになって吹っ切れました。もう日本の時事は知らなくてもいい。
