carnage weave through clutch distracted oversight fiddle with in someone's book peculiar to on the move
────────────────────────────── carnage, 殺りく、大虐殺 ────────────────────────────── Carnage is the violent killing of large numbers of people, especially in a war. [LITERARY]
ex) the carnage of motorway accidents
────────────────────────────── weave through, …の中を縫うように進む ────────────────────────────── If you weave your way somewhere, you move between and around things as you go there.
ex) He weaved around the tables to where she sat with Bob.
If you clutch at something or clutch something, you hold it tightly, usually because you are afraid or anxious.
ex) I staggered and had to clutch at a chair for support.
────────────────────────────── distracted, 注意をそらされた、気が散って ────────────────────────────── If you are distracted, you are not concentrating on something because you are worried or are thinking about something else.
ex) She had seemed curiously distracted. curiously 不思議なくらい、妙に
────────────────────────────── oversight, ミス、見落とし ────────────────────────────── If there has been an oversight, someone has forgotten to do something which they should have done.
ex) William was angered and embarrassed by his oversight.
「監督、管理」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 ────────────────────────────── ★fiddle with, …をいじる ★in someone's book, …の意見[考え]では peculiar to, …に特有の on the move, 移動中で
"NHKラジオ ビジネス英会話 Mobile Phone Distractions (2) 8/1-2 2007"
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