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• The father of a father is a grandfather, a grandfather's father is a great-grandfather, a great-grandfather's father is a great-great-grandfather, but no word has been decided upon for the generations before great-great-grandfather.

英語の意味メモ

• One professor says that even if Alex is using words, it's wrong to call it a language.

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• The claim of community involvement is just window dressing; City Hall will do what it wants to anyhow.

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• "Morning sickness" is often taken lightly, but when it becomes severe, it is called "hyperemesis gravidarum" and requires an IV and other forms of medical care.

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• Starting from the thumb, fingers are also referred to as "Daddy finger", "Mummy finger", "Brother finger", "Sister finger" and "Baby finger".

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• The Sea of Japan naming dispute revolves around efforts to remove 'Sea of Japan' from the world's maps and replace it with 'East Sea'.

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• At home, because of his reddish hair and freckles, his mother scornfully named him "carrot" and had everybody else call him that.

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• The separate names used for female nurses "kangofu" and male nurses "kangoshi", were unified in 2002 into "kangoshi".

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• In recent years, with a method called VLBI that uses quasar observations, and by GPS we have begun to understand the absolute movement of tectonic plates.

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• These smaller parts are called counties, and each county has a county council, like Westhamptonshire County Council.

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• These poles, called totem poles, are thought to have been worshipped or constructed for frightening enemies.

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• The word "house" evokes the mental image of a rectangular building with a roof and smoking chimney, which may be surrounded by grass and trees and inhabited by a happy family.

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• The Tanabata Festival is often called the Star Festival. July 7th, the day of the festival, is said to be the only time when a pair of lovers, stars separated by the Milky Way, can see each other.

英語の意味メモ

• Weakness brought on by a number of respiratory ailments had forced him just last week to announce that he was giving up his conducting career.

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• Food and drink were served in such profusion at the wedding that the bride and groom began to wonder if they should not have invited more guests.

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• The children of American soldiers staying in Japan and Japanese women were disparagingly called half-breeds.

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• For example, vervet monkeys learn to use a certain call in the presence of circling eagles, who prey on the monkeys.

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• My grandmother's mother is my "great grandmother," so my great grandmother's mother is my "great great grandmother"? Is that right?

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• Zen Buddhism is also called "Buddha's mind school" because of its basic tenet of transmitting the mind of Buddha directly from teacher to student without relying on writings or sutras.

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• There are trams, popularly known as "ding ding trains", that run in the town where I live. We refer to them as "city trams" or "trains".

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• The seals surface more frequently then, so a bear's chance of catching one at a breathing hole is greater after nightfall.

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• I like this job, but I'd prefer not to call my boss over in a loud voice whenever something bad happens. I'm partial to elegance.

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• So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other.

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• These special characteristics explain its preference for still-hunting (lying motionless beside a seal's breathing hole, waiting for one to surface).

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• "Now it's saying something like, 'You don't have permission to execute that command.' What should I do?" "Just grant it authorization." "I don't know how to do that, that's what am asking!"