replenish: add more, replace, often refered to liquid
May I replenish my drink? : increase amount
: dangerous situation
bleach: 漂白剤
Bleach and vinegar produces poison gas.
replenish: add more, replace, often refered to liquid
May I replenish my drink? : increase amount
: dangerous situation
bleach: 漂白剤
Bleach and vinegar produces poison gas.
: a massively multiplayer online RPG
: PC card games with Tutorial Mode and In-Game Strategy and rule book
(book)
I have 5 topics, but they are just my ideas.
I have hay fever.
20 years ago there was not as much xx as (there is) now.
: (WAWL-eyed) ロンパリ
Manners.: Watch your manners.
Languages.
crab, chicken: food
crabs, chickens: animals (Crabs also mean 毛じらみ)
| food | beef, pork, vennicen, wild boar, capon |
|---|---|
| animal | cow, pig, deer, rooster |
I'm worried about tomorrow's test / his study habits / my car inspection.
I was overjoyed on my wedding day.
I cried when my sister got married.
I wish I had a car like that.
(I am envious of his car. I envy him his car.: not really used)
| red, hot, angry, (black) | pink, warm, happy |
| unhappy, blue, cold, (black) | jealous, green, envy, want, desire |
I'm sad to hear of your father's death.
I'm very sad by your loss.
I'm sorry about your loss.
I'm sorry to hear of your loss.
condolenses = sympathy
Where're the sympathy cards?
Please accept my condolenses.
I wish you all the happiness / great happiness.
(Never say congratulations to the bride.)
: cinnamon roll
: high-quality shirts & sheets
conversation topics
dopamine
| T- | drink, use drugs, crime (guns, cars & speed) |
|---|---|
| T+ | skydiving,
BASE jumping
, X-sports |
close in
The night is closing in. (get darker)
close out: shut out, prohibit, bar, restrict
penultimate: next to the end
pen: next to (peninsula), ultimate: end
tipsy = drunk = stoned = plowed [au] = plought [au]
This car plowed into this car.
(current/classic)
(magazine)
could
When I went to Kyoto I was able to eat Kyoto-style tofu for the first time.
When I went to XX, I could not eat YY. : had a chance but didn't.
You went to the movies last night, but you didn't invite me.
You should have called me. I could have gone with you!
Why didn't you invite me? I could have gone too!
I could have gone hang-gliding at Hakuba.
While I'm here I would really like to visit San Francisco. Do you think I will be able to go there Sunday? : Will I have a chance to XX?
would
I would go to California if I could.
I would help you if I could. : I would really like to help you but I cannot.
clog: つまる
Your nose is clogged (plugged up).
The station is clogged (jammed).
blood vessels
Bartlett's Quotations
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!
Chapter 10
Gryffindor and Slytherin have a Quidditch match. Harry manages to win the Snitch even though he's hit hard by the Bludger which he knows later in the hospital has been made to attack him by Dobby. Colin Creevey is petrified and Dumbledore is sure that the Chamber of Secrets is open again.
Chapter 9
Harry, Ron, and Hermione, seeing the writing on the wall, believe that there's a secret chamber in Hogwarts, and get to know a legend that Slytherin have built it in Prof. Binns's class. They find spiders going through a crack on the wall, and see Moaning Myrtle in a girl's bathroom. They suspect Malfoy and plan to change into his friends with Polyjuice Potion to get information from him.
Harry finds an envelope in Filch's room and knows he doesn't use magic well. In the Halloween time, Harry, Ron, and Hermione are welcomed to the deathday party of Nearly Headless Nick and they meet Peeves and Moaning Myrtle. Going back to the school, they hear strange voice and see Mrs. Norris immobilized.
When Oliver Wood and his Quidditch team begin practice, Slytherin team comes into the field insisting they booked there. Malfoy makes Ron so angry with the word 'Mudblood' that he tries to shoot Malfoy with his wand but it backfires. Ron's hurt and taken to Hagrid's house. When they go back to school, Prof. McGonagall gives Ron and Harry detention. Ron polishes trophies with Filch and Harry writes addresses of Lockhart's fans. Harry hears a scaring voice during that but Lockhart doesn't.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione go to greenhouses to attend a class of Prof. Sprout. Gilderoy Lockhart comes to Harry and keeps telling him not to be a snob without understanding the situation Harry had. When Colin Creevey asks Harry to let him take a picture, Draco Malfoy finds them and they begin an argument. Lockhart comes again and tells Colin to take a picture of him and Harry. He gives an exam about his books and lets pixies loose in his class. He can't get the pixies back and tells students to do it.
Harry and the Weasley's arrived at the King's Cross station where Harry and Ron could not get through the barrier at platform while the others successfully took a train for Hogwarts. The two drove Mr. Weasley's flying car to follow the train and crashed on a tree. The tree attacked the car and they got away from there to the school. Snape found and took them to Prof. McGonagall to judge them about flying with a car. Fortunately they were not expelled and saw their friends again.
Dobby, a house elf, warned and forced Harry not to go back to Hogwarts, making Dursleys angry, and letting them know that Harry can't use magic outside the school. As a result, Harry was locked in his room.
catch me off guard = catch me by surprise
Oh, you just caught me off guard!
His comment really caught me by surprise.
fall on stony ground (newspaper)
Northern Ireland peace plan fell on stony ground.
narrowly: かろうじて
House narrowly passes budget with $550 billion in tax cuts
substantial: 実際の, 内容のある, 大きな, 本質的な
-tial, not -cial
cum: と共に, 兼
bedroom-cum-study: 寝室兼書斎
Last week's theme: What I remember
e.g. When I was in X, the weather was fine.
This week's theme: What I do when I'm at home / at work / at the store / in a restaurant / in class / at my grandmother's
I did the laundry.
I painted the house.
I washed the car.
When I was in San Francisco, I went to - (I saw -)
If it's finished, its past. past-present-future
When I lived in -, I studied -.
past finished / past continuous
When I'm in America, I use English, go to the movies, watch television, and speak with strangers.
When I'm home, I clean the room, wash the dishes, wash the laundry, wash my hair.
When I'm in a reataurant, I sit at a table, I order from the menu, and I eat.
He was about to go, when it rained.
about to = going to
Harry had a sinking feeling. = Harry felt as though the bottom had dropped out of his stomach.: すごくがっかりして現実を理解したときの表現.
a flight of stairs
fly up the stairs / fly down -
He was going on about xx = talking about xx in detail
go on = talk endlessly
regale with xx = go on about xx
(keep on about xx = continue talking about xx)
What I remember is: how clean his room was. <- past tense!
what delicious food she cooked.
when the fire trucks came.
who commited the murder.
why she came to my office.
the warm days and cool nights.
going skiing in the mountains.
his frequent requests for help.
studying every night until 0230.
perspire: sweat - glow
per=through, spire=breathe
antiperspirant
further
long - time, far - distance
high - from sea level, tall
i before e except after c and in strange cases like neighbor & weigh
receive, wierd
- Hercule Poirot