世界陸上ベルリン大会を朝方4時ごろまでみました。
100mの一次予選、二次予選のボルトは圧倒的な
強さでしたね。
今日は準決勝と決勝ですね。
目が離せません。
ボルトは150mの世界最高記録も持っているそうですが、
150mとは珍しい種目があるものだと思いました。
■NHKラジオ 実践ビジネス英語 Retirement Plans (3) 8/7,14 2009
■意味を考えてみよう。今日取り上げる単語が含まれています。
Such games have recently become very popular with oldsters
for whom physical activities such as lifting a heavy bowling
ball have become prohibitively difficult.
Today's retirees are taking to new technology like a duck
to water.
PCs, mobile phones and other devices and technologies can
really help people stay sharp mentally by encouraging them
to interact with other people.
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prohibitivery, 手に負えないほど、ひどく
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prohibitive
[ODE]
(of a law or rule) forbidding or restricting something
ex) prohibitive legislation
(of a price or change) so high as to prevent something
being done or bought.
ex) books made brower-proof with prohibitive cellophane
wrapping.
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take to something like a duck to water, ...をすんなりと覚える、
...にすぐなじむ
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If you take to something like a duck to water, you discover
that you are naturally good at it and find it very easy to do.
ex) Gilbey decided that farming wasn't for him, and moved
up to London, where he became a salesman for BMW. He took to
it like a duck to water, quickly becoming Car Salesman of
the year.
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stay sharp mentally, 精神的な活力を保つ、ぼけずにいる
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If you describe someone as sharp, you are praising them
because they are quick to notice, hear, understand, or
react to things.
ex) Gates is known to be a superb analyst with a sharp eye
and an excellent memory.
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その他にも、次も押さえておきたい。[誌面の都合上省略] ★は重要表現
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pull up stakes, 居住地を離れる、転居する、引き払う
eye the possibility of, ...の可能性を視野に入れる
go further, もっと価値が大きくなる、より長持ちする
spend one's golden years, 老年期 [老後] を過ごす
