東芝株主総会、永山議長の再任否決 In a rare move and a victory for activist investors, Toshiba Corp. shareholders voted down the reappointment of the board chairman at the annual shareholders meeting on June 25, after corporate governance i…
香港・政治運動家の周庭氏が出所 日本では周庭（しゅう てい）氏と報道されるけど、英語圏ではAgnes Chowというのがややこしいですね。 Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow was released from prison June 12 after serving more than six months …
spectators: 観客 国際的な観客、日本への入国禁止 Olympic rings International spectators will not be allowed to enter Japan for this summer's Olympic and Paralympic Games amid public concerns over the coronavirus, organizers said March 20, c…
モスクワのCOVID-19患者、祝祭（クリスマス）の雰囲気を目にする In Mscow's COVID-19 hospital wards, medics and helpers are covered in masks, medical glasses and protective suits. So, it's some-times hard to convey festive cheer to recovering …
An international research them including a japanese scientist won the Ig Nobel's Acoustics (音響学) prize on Sept. 18 after showing that an alligator's pitch rises after it inhales helium-enriched air. inhale [ɪnhéɪl]: ～を吸い込む Takeshi…
ある日、同じ病院、同じ医者：三姉妹と3人の子供の物語 Three Ohio sisters have defied odds by giving birth on the same day in the same hospital, and with the same obstetrician overseeing their deliveries. defied odds: （低い）確率を覆した obs…
アマゾン、自動運転のズークス買収へ協議 Amazon is in talks to buy robo-taxi startup Zoox, accelerating its efforts when it comes to self-driving vehicles, The Wall Street Journal reported on May 26. Amazon and Zoox are in advanced negotiati…
古代の縄がネアンデルタール人の生活に光をあてる。 Neanderthal Neanderthals used plant fibers to create string more than 40,000 years ago at a site in France where they hunted reindeer - further evidence, according to scientists, of the inge…
「野生動物がロックダウン中の町に進出」 boar いきなりタイトルから訳しづらかった… ventureは投機的企業という意味は良く知られていますが、動詞だと（…を）思い切ってやる、敢行する、といった意味なようです。venture intoで思い切って出る、踏み切ると…
便のにおいで健康把握する機器開発へ toilet Kyocera Corp. has started developing a device to check your health and level of immunity from the smell of stools, aiming to put it into practical use within three years. stools: 便 In collaboratio…
（紙面はコロナウィルス関連がたくさんですが、今日は卒業式ネタを。） This March, most schools across Japan scaled down graduation ceremonies due to the coronavirus outbreak. Commencement events in Japan are elaborate shows that involve a lot…
2nd-largest US newspaper group in bankruptcy McClatchy, the second-largest U.S. newspaper group, announced Feb. 13 it was filing for bankruptcy protection in the latest sign of turmoil for the struggling media sector. マクラッチー、アメリ…
人名がたくさんでてくると読みにくくなるのは私だけ？本日は速読風に翻訳していきます。 Harvey Weinstein was convicted Feb. 25 of rape and sexual assault against two women and was led off to jail in handcuffs, sealing his fall from powerful Hol…
2月4日の中国保健当局による新しい数値―全国での感染者数20,438人を含む―の発表は、政府が低迷する金融市場に現金を注入し、急速に拡大するウイルスと加速するその影響を食い止めることを期待して、人々の動きをさらに制限した後に出された。 日本語でもやや…
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen 完璧な人を見つけることに躍起になるより、完璧だと思えるようになることが大事。「人は間違った理由で結婚し、正しい理由で離婚する。」な…
あの焚火はなんですか？ bonfire: 焚火 Now that you've finished another fantastic New Year's holiday of boozing, gorging and binge-watching TV shows - all while the dishes and empty beer cans piled up - you need to set yourself up for a pain…
Linguists: 言語学者 言語学者たちが2020年の言葉として'they'を選んだ。 U.S. linguists on Jan. 3 chose "they" as their word of the decade. The word is the third-person plural pronoun.plural: 複数形pronoun: 代名詞 People who see themselves as …
BSEの原因、初めて解明か BSE: 牛海綿状脳症。狂牛病。神経変性疾患の一種で、1980年第に英国で初めて発症した。 研究者は12月18日、BSEの原因を見つけたとした。一方でこの病気の再出現を避けるため、予防手段を講じていく必要性を強調した。 Several hypot…
sue: ～を相手取って（賠償）訴訟を起こす。 例）sue ~ over patents: 特許をめぐって～を訴える A 31-year-old unmarried Chinese woman filed a suit against a hospital in Beijing on Dec. 23 for rejecting her request to undergo a medical procedure…
poultry: 家禽（かきん）、飼っている鳥類 good cause: 善行、善因 Nakata Chiken in Wakayama Prefecture has started selling boxes of mikan with catsized cardboard kotatsu for ￥4,236. A percentage of each sale goes to "Neco Republic" cat shelt…
testです。 2020/01/11
