時空の旅わくわく日記

　皆さんはどのようにして英単語を覚えるようにしていますか？

　私は、「知らない英単語はない！」と豪語しています。
　豪語していると、不思議なことに、どんな英単語も簡単に覚えてしまうのです。

　今日は、私が出会った単語の中から、英米の知識人に一目置かれるような「知的な英単語」を選んで紹介します。

　【今日の単語】
　７月２２日の英単語は、「pander」。

　（例）It's not good the way she panders to his every whim（気まぐれな考え）.

　Political leaders almost inevitably pander to big business.という使い方もあります。

　【前回の単語】
　７月１８日の「trilogy」（During the next fifteen years he was partly occupied with a huge poetic trilogy in blank verse（無韻詩）on Mary Queen of Scots.）

　いかがでしたか？

　trilogyの意味は、(劇･小説･オペラなどの)三部作、
　a series of three books or plays written about the same situation or characters, forming a continuous story、
という意味です。

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　ディズニーランド（その２）

　The event did not go smoothly.
　The park was overcrowded as the by-invitation-only affair was plagued with counterfeit tickets.
　All major roads nearby were congested.
　The summer temperature was over 110 degrees Fahrenheit, and a plumbers' strike left many of the park's drinking fountains dry.
　The asphalt that had been poured just the night before was so soft that ladies' high-heeled shoes sank in.
　Vendors ran out of food.
　A gas leak in Fantasyland caused Adventureland, Frontierland, and Fantasyland to close for the afternoon.
　Parents were throwing their children over the shoulders of crowds to get them onto rides such as the Dumbo Flying Elephants. （その3に続きます）