チキンスープで楽しむ英語
チキンスープの英語は心温まる。これは、かなり重要でぜひぜひ次の日も読もうという気になる。その、良いサイクルが回りだすと自然と英文を読むことが習慣になる。前回、2008年10月10日まで継続したときは423,450単語まで積み重ねることができた。さて、今回は、その数をまずは超えること、そして新たに加えたのは、毎晩、コウビルドで単語を調べること。今宵のチキンスープタイトル A Hero for the Books単語数 811累計単語数 1,999コウビルドで調べた英単語A patron is a person who supports and gives money to artists, writers, or musicians.The patron of a charity, group, or campaign is an important person who allows his or her name to be used for publicity.The patrons of a place such as a pub, bar, or hotel are its customers.If you say that something graces a place or a person, you mean that it makes them more attractive.The belly of a person or animal is their stomach or abdomen. In British English, this is an informal or literary use.A belly-laugh is a very loud, deep laugh.Deadpan humour is when you appear to be serious and are hiding the fact that you are joking or teasing someone.A quip is a remark that is intended be amusing or clever.To quip means to say something that is intended to be amusing or clever.To prompt someone to do something means to make them decide to do it.If you prompt someone when they stop speaking, you encourage or help them to continue. If you prompt an actor, you tell them what their next line is when they have forgotten what comes next.A prompt action is done without any delay.If you are prompt to do something, you do it without delay or you are not late.If someone blurts something, they say it suddenly, after trying hard to keep quiet or to keep it secret.If someone blurts something out, they blurt it.If something involves solely one thing, it involves only this thing and no others.A gut feeling is based on instinct or emotion rather than reason.Chit-chat is informal talk about things that are not very important.You use proverbial to show that you know the way you are describing something is one that is often used or is part of a popular saying.Something that is proverbial is very well-known by a lot of people.Bricks are rectangular blocks or baked clay used for building walls, which are usually red or brown. Brick is the material made up of these blocks.If you hit a brick wall or come up against a brick wall, you are unable to continue or make progress because something stops you.If something has wrought a change, it has made it happen.If something is wrought in a particular material or in a particular way, it has been created in that material or way.If someone gushes they express their admiration or pleasure in an exaggerated way.You can use gush in expressions such as a gush of enthusiasm to refer to a sudden intense feeling or an expression of a feeling.If someone cracks, they lose control of their emotions or actions because they are under a lot of pressure.If your voice cracks when you are speaking or singing, it changes in pitch because you are feeling a strong emotion.If you crack up or if someone or something cracks you up, you laugh a lot.A lump of something is a solid piece of it.A lump on or in someone's body is a small, hard swelling that has been caused by an injury or an illness.If you say that someone will have to lump it, you mean that they must accept a situation or decision whether they like or not.If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.To debilitate an organization, society, or government means to gradually make it weaker.If someone slurs their speech or if their speech slurs, they do not pronounce each word clearly, because they are drunk, ill, or sleepy.If you are sucked into a bad situation, you are unable to prevent yourself from becoming involved in it.Quicksand is deep, wet sand that you sink into if you try to walk on it.You can refer to a situation as quicksand when you want to suggest that it is dangerous or difficult to escape from, or does not provide a strong basis for what you are doing.Something that is poignant affects you deeply and makes you feel sadness or regret.You use subsequent to describe something that happened or existed after the time or event that has just been referred to.If something happened subsequent to something else, it happened after that thing.Suction is the process by which liquids, gases, or other substances are drawn out of somewhere.If a doctor or nurse suctions a liquid, they remove it by using a machine which sucks it away.