今日見た英単語の忘備録英検準1以上限定

今日見た英単語の忘備 ..

223:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/16 18:31:30.49 Jl8DyVuE0.net
forthright:正直、遠慮しない
a woman of forthright views
He spoke in a forthright manner but without anger
forthright appraisal
forthright criticism.
〔トランプカードで作った家のように〕不安定な建物［構造・計画］、砂上の楼閣
The enormous national debt amassed in the last eight years makes all this prosperity nothing but a house of cards.
His plans are a house of cards, so if one thing does not work, the entire plan will fail
I was balanced on a house of cards.
bigger picture:もっと大きな視点、大事な話
We're missing the bigger picture here. Quite frankly I'm surprised nobody has commented on this yet
I don't see it going anywhere in the bigger picture.
The sales manager gave us all the bigger picture this morning, and I'm more confused than ever.

ruckus: mess
The kids were making an awful ruckus in the living room, so I told them to go play outside.
She went outside to see who was causing such a ruckus.

224:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/16 18:33:35.68 Jl8DyVuE0.net
like clockwork:(滞りなく)時計じかけのように正確に、簡単に
I want this office to run like clockwork with everything on time and everything done right.
we could depend on Alice to make sure that everything ran like clockwork.
I intend to run this festival like clockwork, so I'm trying to plan for any and all eventualities.
Everything is going like clockwork, so we should be ready to start construction by the end of the month.
The conference went like clockwork from beginning to end.
This is great, but all body cams should be uploaded and shared like clockwork from all law enforcement agencies.
train wreck:オワってる、ひどい出来
*describes something that is so bad that you don't want to keep watching or following but you just can't look away from it.
This project has become an absolute train wreck.
We've wasted so much time and money already, I don't know how we'll make up the losses.
I don't know about my relationship with Kevin. He's a bit of a train wreck, between you and me.
stellar: starの形容詞（スターの、花形）
Despite a stellar cast, the film turned out to be a real train wreck.

225:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/17 00:26:10.94 5F/rzJEU0.net
masquerade:仮装　偽装
He was tired of the masquerade and wanted the truth to come out.
commercial advertisers masquerading as private individuals
The local paper is full of gossip masquerading as news.
professional dealers masquerading as private buyers
He was an imposter, who masqueraded as a doctor.
pseudo:似非、疑似
a panel of pseudoexperts
pseudo cowboy boots.
pseudoscientific
pseudo-intellectual
pseudo-science

226:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/17 14:23:57.59 5F/rzJEU0.net
gloss:つや　光沢
paper with a high gloss on one side
The gel gives your hair a gloss.
You can have the photos with either a gloss or a matt finish.
Use over your favourite lipstick to add extra gloss.
to gloss over a problem / difficulty / situation :軽く流す　横に置く
He glossed over any splits in the party.
Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.
she completely glosses past

agonize:苦悶する　悩む
I spent days agonizing over whether to take the job or not.
Don't agonize about the details
admittedly:認めざるを得ないが
admittedly I am afraid
though the strain on the sternpost(船尾部) in turning at speeds over forty miles an hour is admittedly very severe
grasp of:掴みどころを掴むy
have a grasp of
get a grasp of
take a grasp of
fair grasp of
full grasp of
I hope everyone has a solid grasp of the material, as you'll be tested on it next week.
I thought I had a pretty good grasp on English idioms, but I don't understand this one at all!
Try to get a grasp of the basic rules. You don't have a good grasp of the principles yet. John was unable to get a solid grasp of the methods used in his work,

227:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/17 20:00:56.55 5F/rzJEU0.net
spillage:こぼれ落ちる　溢れ出る
...an oil spillage off the coast of Texas.
...an accident in the workplace involving blood spillage.
booba spillage

228:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/18 01:02:16.79 2RXG8SlE0.net
off putting;いやーな
I prefer movies that have been dubbed into English. Subtitles are so off-putting.
However, many customers found the smell of this product distinctly off-putting.
gruesome:おぞましい
There has been a series of gruesome murders in the capital.
He has spent periods in prison, where he was gruesomely tortured.
...a gruesomely compelling series of interviews.
smug：自己満足でニヤついて
he said with smug satisfaction
don't be so smug!
Thomas and his wife looked at each other in smug satisfaction
What are you looking so smug about?
He smiled smugly as the results were announced.
moot;一致をみない、わかりあえない、推測の域を出ない
He argued that the issue had become moot since the board had changed its policy.
It has already been mooted, but we will give it a little emphasis
a moot point / question： a matter about which there may be disagreement or uncertainty: 意見が分かれる点
Whether this should be enforced by law or not is a moot point.
How long he'll be able to do so is a moot point.
"It is a moot point whether Napoleon Bonaparte was born a subject of the King of France" (Norman Davies).
This, we may say, is the one moot question that this new-found document clears up

229:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/18 15:53:38.39 2RXG8SlE0.net
overt:公然と
Although there is no overt hostility, black and white students do not mix much
There was little overt support for the project
knee-jerk reaction：脊髄反射（のような対応）
The knee-jerk reaction to this is to call for proper security in all hospitals
They also have an knee-jerk habit, (dare I say, obligation) not to hide their overt hatred of anyone law-enforcement

self-proclaimed:自称
self-proclaimed navy veteran
a self-proclaimed expert
demented:キチガイ
I've been nearly demented with worry about you.
The children have driven me demented today.
He was crashing about the house like a demented animal.
few and far between: 稀である　そんないない
in the bag:手堅い
Looks like you have it in the bag.
Good luck I hope you get a judge that is honest. They are few and far between
her nomination was in the bag
And then, with the election all but in the bag, the report came out, and changed everything
let up:見過ごす　ゆるめる　やめる
Don't let up the suspect until you've put handcuffs on him.
Don't start to think we've got this game in the bag, I've seen teams make bigger comebacks than this, so we can't let up.
They are not going to let up on us in the second half, so we better be ready to battle with them
I know we've been hard on Erin, but I feel like she'll go back to her old ways if we let up now. Let up on the accelerator a little, you're going to burn out the engine.

230:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/18 22:21:08.96 2RXG8SlE0.net
first-line employee: 現場で働くじゅうぎょういん
from first-line employee to CEO

231:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/19 00:43:09.57 u/rDvSsr0.net
debunk:暴露して反証、看破する
you made a response video and debunked the information I gave
Australian Scientists Debunk Sixth Sense
Debunk the myth
Anthropologist uses 'doomsday dates' to debunk unscientific myths

232:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/19 10:47:33.01 u/rDvSsr0.net
cower:coward(verb)
A gun went off and people cowered behind walls and under tables.
The dog whimpered and cowered at his feet.
The hostages cowered in their seats.
Arbitrary:恣意的
Arbitrary arrests and detention without trial were common.
The victims were not chosen arbitrarily.
This is a country where arbitrary arrests are commonplace
Arbitrary arrests and detention without trial were common
threatning with a0rbitrary review process
commonplace：一般的
Foreign vacations have become commonplace...
It is a commonplace to say that Northern Ireland is a backwater in the modern Europe.

233:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/19 22:45:12.83 u/rDvSsr0.net
go too far: 度が過ぎる,やりすぎる
some youtubers go too far

234:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/20 14:48:41.12 iEmtBQiv0.net
exorcise:除霊、精神浄化
twisted:歪んだ　ビョーキ morbid
I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person
they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.
She would have been exorcised to cast out the evil spirit
I'm not this dark, twisted person.
Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in
think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted.
flinch:ビクっとするビビる
He flinched at the sight of the blood.
She flinched away from the dog.
He met my gaze without flinching.
He didn't even flinch (= wasn't surprised) when I told him the price.

235:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/20 17:34:23.18 iEmtBQiv0.net
be out of your mind: 正気じゃない
you are out of your mind.
everyday you do something stupider than you did the day before.

236:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/21 14:02:00.91 MoIxCDQq0.net
proficient:堪能
I became proficient in defining accent
She's proficient in several languages.
He's proficient at his job.
I'm a reasonably proficient driver.
With practice, you should become proficient within six months.
proficiency in doing sth): to develop proficiency
a high level of oral proficiency in English
a certificate of language proficiency

237:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/21 18:38:53.99 MoIxCDQq0.net
cold turkey:禁断症状
I removed twitter & discord browser bookmarks and app shortcuts from my phone & pc.
Now that it takes extra steps for me to open the app,
I don't check every other minute without really wanting to.
It feels like a pretty good way to manage time spent without going cold turkey.

238:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/21 23:27:35.92 MoIxCDQq0.net
swoop:raid, 急降下
The aircraft swooped down over the buildings.
A hawk swooped low over the field.
Officers swooped on the vehicles as they left the ferry.
FBI agents swooped in and arrested the drug dealers.
They swooped into the restaurant for a quick dinner
He was arrested in a police swoop
Large quantities of drugs were found during a police swoop on the star's New York home.

239:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/22 11:55:26.26 22FUjEfl0.net
perpetrator：犯人
hideous：ひどい
deliberation：審議
as few as：たった
dispose：廃棄

240:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/22 13:55:00.15 5PfUTxph0.net
homophobia(主に男性の) 同姓愛者嫌悪

241:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/22 14:08:31.99 17Dg5Ma+0.net
電磁波犯罪被害者の症状
体が異常に熱い
ノドが異常に乾く
異常に疲れる
スマホを所持していないときは被害が軽減する

242:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/22 21:00:24.86 iJmjzfCZ0.net
wholesome:健全（なもの　視聴、読む、閲覧）
This was suprisingly wholesome considering there was a lot of tension at the begginning
I dont expect it would be wholesome consequence it looks ominous from get go
wholesome home-cooked meals
wholesome family entertainment

pro se:自分で自分を弁護（法定）
represented himself pro se, meaning he represents himself without attorney
uncanny:よくわからん、なんでかよくわからんけど
I had an uncanny feeling I was being watched.
It was uncanny really, almost as if she knew what I was thinking.
He has an uncanny knack of being able to see immediately where the problem lies.
uncannily adverb: He looked uncannily like someone I knew.

243:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/23 20:34:43.13 0kFqlh/h0.net
street smart: street wise
They're very serene, low profile for certain, and street smart
We're not an academic family we're street smart.
inattention:
Even a moment's inattention can be fatal for a pilot
He would have to rely on the inattention of others.
Each of the four problems may seem particular, but they all stem from inattention.

head-on collision:正面衝突
He is responsible for the death of an innocent women in a head on collision. he was in the wrong lane
When Robert tries to pass a car they have a head-on collision with a truck.
Mr. Laurents brings these separate lives into head-on collision with dexterity.
dexterity:器用さ
You need manual dexterity to be good at video games.
Maybe, with insight and dexterity, it could have been avoided.
The trouble with anthropomorphic robots capable of such dexterity is that they are invariably complex and expensive costing $200,000 or more
Until the early 1990s, manual dexterity was often enough to secure a job.
now one in three of Santa Clara's adults has a degree (compared with one in five nationally).

244:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/24 02:58:34.49 Fy9txqQT0.net
have a knack of doing: have a flair of
I have a knack of providing examples in my answers.
He has an uncanny knack of being able to see immediately where the problem lies.
wind down:RELAX, UNWIND
I am 74, and this old body is winding down.

245:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/24 09:02:41.22 o6BMlqbn0.net
deviouse：巧妙な、詐欺的な、不正な

246:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/24 23:24:11.54 Fy9txqQT0.net
be done with it: ケリをつける
beneficiary:得するやつ、遺産相続人 heir
Who will be the main beneficiary of the cuts in income tax?
She was the sole beneficiary of her father's will.
The main beneficiaries of pension equality so far have been men
drop by the wayside:置いてかれる
If you don't do your homework now, it won't be long before you drop by the wayside in this class.
fall by the wayside:脱落
Only about half of this group will graduate. The rest will fall by the wayside.
go by the wayside:横に置かれる
With the war in the Middle East intensifying, the president's plan for environmental reform has increasingly gone by the wayside.

mastery:使いこなせること
He doesn't have mastery of the basic rules of grammar...
She has mastery of several languages.
The orchestra is unrivalled in terms of technical mastery and sheer vitality.
human mastery of the natural world
He struggled for mastery over his emotions.
catch the drift: 言いたいことよくわかってる
I lean forward to catch the drift of it.
Even legislators have caught the drift of public opinion
Those of us who just didn't catch the drift of education were made to feel like failures and dropped by the wayside.

247:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/26 00:47:27.14 aQkxiSQv0.net
bold: 大胆、勇敢、はっきり、くっきり
bold lettering
It was a bold move on their part to open a branch of the business in France.
The wine made him bold enough to approach her and introduce himself.
a bold and fearless warrior
the bold outline of a mountain against the sky
She paints with bold strokes of the brush.
boldly patterned / coloured
He stepped boldly forward to speak.

248:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/26 01:04:20.74 aQkxiSQv0.net
picky:fussy 選り好みする pickier pickiest
PANDAS are bad at sex and picky about food
Some people are very picky about who they choose to share their lives with...
a picky eater

249:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/27 16:19:22.73 Ywf62VQG0.net
gutter:雨樋（あまどい）　道路脇の排水溝　社会の底辺　ゆらゆら燃える、ほそぼそと減衰する
blocked / leaking gutter
She rose from the gutter to become a great star.
the language of the gutter (= used when swearing)
Her career in broadcasting had slowly guttered out
We all know that you aren't sorry dude. You're only sorry because you wanted to keep your reputation from going down the gutter.

250:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/27 17:35:00.75 Vj7dq0fc0.net
trough 雨どい

251:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/29 17:35:43.35 P8V/io740NIKU.net
deter：抑止する
calibrate：調節する

252:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/30 00:17:19.97 qrhFmujo0.net
chelonian 亀

253:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/01/31 10:52:33.19 TnOFIEef0.net
disseminate：広める

254:名無しさん＠英語勉強中
22/02/02 09:55:26.46 xnDRhUEV00202.net
urn つぼ　かめ
toad ヒキガエル
swine ブタ
bronchitis 気管支炎
friar 托鉢修道士
claustrophobia 閉所恐怖症