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■NHKラジオ 実践ビジネス英語 Student Cheating (2) 12/3 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。
Don't you think you're overstating the case just a wee bit?
When I was in college, there was a big to-do about a group
of students who broke into the dean's office one night and
made copies of the physics final.
It's not that today's students are any more amoral than
those of your generation.
It's just that they have more oppotunity and ways of cheating
on exams because of mobile phones, digital music players and
Internet sites that sell term papers off the rack.
The greater emphasis on standardized tests has really
rampmed up the pressure on students.
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just a wee bit, ほんの少しだけ
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Wee means small in size or extent. [SCOTTISH] [INFORMAL]
[SCOTTISH]
放送でも解説のあったとおり、スコットランドを起源としています。
ex) He just needs to calm down a wee bit.
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to-do, 騒動、大騒ぎ
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When there is a to-do, people are very excited, confused,
or angry about something. [INFORMAL]
放送でも解説のあったように、普通はto-doリストですね。
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amoral, 道徳観念のない
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If you describe someone as amoral, you do not like the way
they behave because they do not seem to care whether what
they do is right or wrong.
ex) The film was violent and amoral.
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sell something off the rack, ...を既製品で売る、...を完成品で
販売する
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Off-the-rack clothes or goods are made in large numbers,
rather than being made specially for a particular person.
[AM]
ex) the same off-the-rack dress she's been wearing since
the night before.
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ramp up, ...を増やす、...を増大させる
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To ramp up something means to increase it.
ex) Producers were ramping up production to meet the tidal
wave of demand.
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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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physics final, 物理の期末試験
be up on, ...をよく知っている、...に詳しい
be in dire straits, 深刻な苦境にある
criterion for, ...の基準、...の尺度
