The consensus of frequent travelers is that gadgetry has swept away the old-fashioned practice of personal service.
It's a recorded message that sounds more like a digital drone.
It's not hospitable, but it does shake you awake if you have an early-bird breakfast appointment or a crack-of-dawn plane to catch on the next leg of your business itinerary.
Others just forgot to turn them in.
■意味を考えてみよう。答えは以下で
gadgetry drone crack-of-dawn plane leg turn in rise-and-shine time drill sergeant bark an order hospitable grating serene stout keepsake
────────────────────────────── gadgetry, 小型機器[小道具]類、電子装置 ────────────────────────────── Gadgetry is small machines or devices which do something useful.
ex) s passion for the latest electronic gadgetry
────────────────────────────── drone, 単調な音、もの憂げな話し声 ────────────────────────────── If something drones, it makes a low continuous, dull noise.
ex) Above him an invisible plane droned through the night sky.
Drone is also a noun.
ex) the constant drone of the motorways.
droneはハチがブンブンいう音でもあります。
────────────────────────────── crack-of-dawn plane, 早朝の飛行機便 ────────────────────────────── If you wake up at the crack of dawn, you wake up very early.
ex) He was scheduled to get up at the crack of dawn for an interview on 'Good Morning America'.
────────────────────────────── leg, 行程、（飛行機の旅の）１区切り ────────────────────────────── A leg of a long journey is one part of it, usually between two points where you stop.
ex) The first leg of the journey was by boat to Lake Navivasha in Kenya.
────────────────────────────── turn in, 返却する = return ────────────────────────────── If you turn something in, you return it to the place or person you borrowed it from. [AMERICAN]
ex) The official showed up to tell her to turn in her library books.
"NHKラジオ ビジネス英会話 Digital Age Casualties (3) 1/25-26 2008"
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