She'll have to totter five blocks to mail a postcard.
Like the phone booths of yesteryear, mailboxes that are underused are being junked in dumps by the thousands.
The decrease in first-class mail has forced the postal authorities to cut costs down to the bone.
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be in a furor conniption fit totter yesteryear first class mail junk root cause cut costs down to the bone decline and fall cultural icon Americana mainstay part and parcel of be numbered
────────────────────────────── be in a furor, 大騒動の渦中にある furor = commotion ────────────────────────────── A furore is a very angry or excited reaction by people to something.
ex) an international furore over the plan
furore 英 furor 米
────────────────────────────── conniption fit, 激怒、かんしゃく ────────────────────────────── conniption ヒステリーの発作 [ODE] a fit of rage or hysterics
fit 発作（= seizure）、（感情の）激発(= outbreak) If someone has a fit they suddenly lose consciousness and their body makes uncontrollable movements.
────────────────────────────── totter, よろよろ[よちよち]歩く、よろめく ────────────────────────────── If someone totters somewhere, they walk there in an unsteady way, for example because they are ill or drunk.
ex) The baby began to crawl, then managed her first tottering steps.
────────────────────────────── yesteryear, 先年、昨年、往年 ────────────────────────────── You use yesteryear to refer to the past, often a period in the past with a set of values or a way of life that no longer exists. [LITERARY]
ex) The modern-day sex symbol has now taken the place of the old-fashioned hero of yesteryear.
────────────────────────────── first class mail, 第一種郵便 ────────────────────────────── In Britain, first-class postage is the quicker and more expensive type of postage. In the United States, first-class postage is the type of postage that is used for sending letters and postcards.
ex) Two first class stamps, please
────────────────────────────── 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 ────────────────────────────── junk, (がらくたとして)廃棄する、捨てる root cause, そもそもの[根本的な]原因 cut costs down to the bone, コストをぎりぎりまで切り詰める decline and fall, 衰亡 cultural icon, 文化的シンボル、文化の象徴、文化的遺産 Americana, アメリカの風物[誌],アメリカらしい事物 mainstay, 頼みの綱、支え part and parcel of, …の要(かなめ)、…に不可欠なこと be numbered, 数[期間]が定められている
"NHKラジオ ビジネス英会話 Digital Age Casualties (1) 1/21-22 2008"
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