One campus watcher has noted that going into debt to get a diploma is grinding youngsters down at the starting point of grown-up life.
They feel hapless and handicapped.
When grim reality kicks in, they scramble for jobs because their student-loan debts loom.
Other plans such as master's or doctorate degrees are scuttled.
■今日注目する表現はこれ！ 答えは以下で
grind someone down hapless kick in loom be scuttled grim reality piggy bank creep up grapple conversely give a hoot
────────────────────────────── grind someone down, (人)を苦しめる ────────────────────────────── If someone grinds you down, they persistently attack you, annoy you, or treat you cruelly until you can no longer fight back or defend yourself.
ex) See how the working people of Britain are ground down.
NOTE: Wear down means almost the same as grind down.
────────────────────────────── hapless, 不幸な、不運な = unlucky ────────────────────────────── A hapless person is unlucky. [FORMAL]
ex) his hapless victim
────────────────────────────── kick in, 始まる、効力を生じる ────────────────────────────── If something kicks in, it begins to take effect.
ex) When you're confronted with the problem, emotions kick in, fear kicks in, and you don't always do the rational and thought-out approach.
────────────────────────────── loom, 重くのしかかる、（不気味に）迫る ────────────────────────────── If a worrying or threatening situation or event is looming, it seems likely to happen soon. [JOURNALISM]
ex) the looming threat of recession
────────────────────────────── be scuttled, ぶちこわされる ────────────────────────────── To scuttle a plan or a proposal means to make it fail or cause it to stop.
ex) Such threats could scuttle the peace conference.
scuttleは「急いで走る」という意味もあり。
────────────────────────────── 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 ────────────────────────────── grim reality, 厳しい現実 piggy bank, 貯金箱 creep up, じわじわと上昇[増加、増大]する grapple, [Daily Quizより] = deal with conversely, [Daily Quizより] = on the other hand give a hoot, [Daily Quizより] 気にする （not give a hootで使われる）
"NHKラジオ ビジネス英会話 Rising Cost of Education (2) 2/20-21 2008"
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