添削前 I went to dentist today to clean my teeth. The filling came off during the cleaning. Then we found cavity below the filling. Oh, no.
添削後 went to the dentist today to have my teeth cleaned. The filling came off during the cleaning. Then my doc found a cavity below the filling. Oh, no.
have my teeth cleanedが出てきませんでした。
■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。
The same fate awaits mail carriers.
The workforce has dwindled down to 700,000 across the entire country.
It's true that the Internet has decimated first-class mail, but online shoppers still need to have their purchases delivered.
Internet retailers are new boons to the postal industry.
Marconi must be rolling in his grave.
■意味を考えてみよう。答えは以下で
await dwindle down to decimate boon roll in one's grave telly outstrip breadwinner
────────────────────────────── await, (事、物が)(人)を待ち構えている ────────────────────────────── Something that awaits you is going to happen or come to you in the future. [FORMAL]
ex) A nasty surprise awaited them in Rosemary Lane.
wait forが会話では使われるようです。
────────────────────────────── dwindle down to, 徐々に減って…になる ────────────────────────────── If something dwindles, it becomes smaller, weaker, or less in number.
ex) The factory's workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred.
────────────────────────────── decimate, (…の)多くを滅ぼす、倒す ────────────────────────────── To decimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them.
ex) British forces in the Caribbean were being decimated by disease.
古代ローマの処罰として10人ごとに一人をくじで選んで殺すこと が原義です。
────────────────────────────── boon, ありがたいもの、恩恵 ────────────────────────────── You can describe something as a boon when it makes life better or easier for someone.
ex) It is for this reason that television proves such a boon to so many people.
────────────────────────────── roll in one's grave, 草葉の陰で嘆く ────────────────────────────── 英辞朗より。
"NHKラジオ ビジネス英会話 Digital Age Casualties (2) 1/23-24 2008"
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