金曜日から長崎に帰省してきました。
長崎は坂本竜馬ブームでした。
長崎と竜馬が何の関係が？という方も多いでしょう。
実は、日本最初の商社と言われる亀山社中を長崎
で作ったのが竜馬とその仲間達らしいのです。
そこで、今回、坂本竜馬像、亀山社中記念館を見学しました。
竜馬のぶーつ像にも行きました。これら3つは近くにありますが
急な坂の途中にあるので、坂の街長崎も堪能できます。
坂本竜馬像からの長崎市の眺めは素晴らしいの一言です。
竜馬のぶーつ像では猫に出会い、ひととき和みました。
今年は竜馬ブームがきますので、長崎に行かれた際には
ぜひお立ち寄りください。
■NHKラジオ 実践ビジネス英語 Doctor Visits (5) 1/14 2010
■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。
Knowledge gleaned at first hand is more trustworthy than
that gained otherwise.
Quite a few banks are under tremendous pressure to write off
bad loans.
I really had to get my nerve up when I went to a
dermatologist's clinic for an examination a while back.
She looked daggers at me and then condescended to put her
hands under the faucet for a bit.
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glean, (事実、情報など)を少しずつ収集する
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If you glean something such as information or knowledge,
you learn or collect it slowly and patiently, and perhaps
indirectly.
ex) At present we're gleaning information from all source.
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write off, ＜投資、資金など＞を回収不能とみなす
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If someone writes off a debt or an amount of money that
has been spent on a project, they accept that they are
never going to get the money back.
ex) Should we not write off many of the debts that are
crippling Third World countries?
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get one's nerve up, 勇気を振り絞る
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Doctor Visits (3)より
Nerve is the courage that you need in order to do something
difficult or dangerous.
ex) He never got up enough nerve to meet me.
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look daggers at someone, （人）をにらみつける
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Doctor Visits (3)より
If someone looks daggers at you or shoots daggers at you,
they stare at you in a very angry way. [LITERARY]
ex) Dede shot daggers at her adversary until she was out of
sight.
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condescend to, 恩着せがましく...する
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Doctor Visits (3)より
If someone condescends to do something, they agree to do it,
but in a way which shows that they think they are better
than other people and should not have to do it.
ex) When he condescended to speak, he contradicted himself
three of four times in the space of half an hour.
