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英語の意味メモ

• And even outside these nations, English is perhaps more widely used as a medium of international communication than any other language.

英語の意味メモ

• In present day Japan, "alchemy" is only used metaphorically; to refer to improper means of making money by politicians or religious hucksters with no morals or shame.

英語の意味メモ

• The methods used to overcome stress are different for men and women: drinking is the major method used by men, while women deal with stress by chatting.

英語の意味メモ

• "Do you usually buy snacks and eat them?" "Well, I don't buy them myself a lot, but there's always all these snacks lying around in the office, so I eat them once in a while."

英語の意味メモ

• "I don't know Mr. Miyake very well, but he's got to be rich. He owns not only his own home, but a separate apartment too, both in quite the expensive areas."

英語の意味メモ

• Normally, Tom is a shy and indecisive guy, but when he puts on his fursuit, he comes out of his shell and becomes this outgoing, energetic, fascinating character.

英語の意味メモ

• As in England, it was quite possible to buy a house, provided one gave up on the idea of buying a home one liked at a reasonable price.

英語の意味メモ

• "I've never seen that word before. Are you sure it's French?" "Oh, that's just Tom's idiolect. He likes to come up with his own way of saying things, usually based on his experience with other languages."

英語の意味メモ

• In this democratic age of ours men clamour for what is popularly considered the best, regardless of their feelings. They want the costly, not the refined; the fashionable, not the beautiful.

英語の意味メモ

• The interdependence of thought and speech makes it clear that languages are not so much a means of expressing truth that has already been established, but a means of discovering truth that was previously unknown. Their diversity is a diversity not of sounds and signs but of ways of looking at the world.

英語の意味メモ

• When I was in middle school, I had a friend in the track club who normally studied 3 hours a day. He didn't speed up the pace before tests. On the contrary, he didn't have any club activities and so had lot of free time, so before the test we would go to his house and play video games every day. If we hadn't done that, I would have gotten better grades too.

英語の意味メモ

• The concept of "Tatemae" tends to be misunderstood as lying. But I think it's not lying in the sense of deceiving others, but rather as a way of respecting others' differences in opinion without making them uncomfortable. It's a cultural aspect stemming from how Japanese people tend to avoid arguments in favor of keeping the peace.