If you fraternize with someone, you associate with them in a friendly way.
ex) At these conventions, executives fraternized with the key personnel of other banks.
────────────────────────────── short-lived, 一時的な、つかの間の、短気の ────────────────────────────── Something that is short-lived does not last very long.
ex) Chantal told Martine about her short-lived marriage.
────────────────────────────── averse to, …に反対して ────────────────────────────── If you say that you are not averse to something, you mean that you quite like it or quite want to do it. [FORMAL]
ex) He's not averse to publicity, of the right kind.
説明にもあるようにnot averse toと使われることが多いようです。
────────────────────────────── brave new world, 素晴らしき新世界 ────────────────────────────── If someone refers to a brave new world, they are talking about a situation or system that has recently been created and that people think will be successful and fair.
ex) He belonged to a generation that took it for granted that after the war a brave new world was to be ushered in.
────────────────────────────── 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 ────────────────────────────── know on a first-name basis, ごく親しい知り合いである zoom upward, 急増する、急上昇する hack away, （キーボードを）たたきまくる social dead end, 社会の行き詰まり
"NHKラジオ ビジネス英会話 Working Out of a Third Place (3) 8/31-9/1 2007"
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