Reading（２２８７）

＜２０１４年４月３０日までの目標＞
Reading：CNN・BBC・TIME・VOAなどのニューススクリプトを通算２３００本以上。

Washington Post：

on death row　：《be ～》死刑囚監房に入っている
incarceration　：投獄、監禁、幽閉
set ablaze　：燃え立たせる、炎上させる
hunchbacked　：せむし［猫背］の、脊柱後湾（症）の
waddle　：〔人や動物が体を揺らしながら〕よたよたと歩く
gaggle of tourists　：うるさい旅行客、やかましい旅行客

Reading（２２８６）

＜２０１４年４月３０日までの目標＞
Reading：CNN・BBC・TIME・VOAなどのニューススクリプトを通算２３００本以上。

VOA：

middle way　：中庸
serf　：奴隷（のような人）
semi-independence　：準独立
clique　：〔排他的な〕小集団、小さな友人グループ、徒党、派閥
backwardness　：遅れ、後進性、知的発達の遅れ、知恵遅れ〔差別語〕
colonizer　：〔植民地への〕入植者、開拓者

Daily Routine

Push-ups：１７ times
Walking: a total of １５０ minutes
Standing with one leg　：１０ minutes each
Cigarettes：０
jogging on the spot　：０ minutes

Three years and 113 days in a row have passed since I stopped smoking.
I was able to continue over one set of fourteen-time push-ups for the
eighty-seventh straight day including the last thirty-five days of
seventeen-time push-ups.
I went to the Yamazaki River and enjoyed cherry blossoms although it's
quite cloudy and windy after a little hard rain.
They were at only 50% bloom, I think, but the night viewing of illuminated
the cherry trees was so beautiful.