be emphatic about comparable swear by brood about hit the hay psychosomatic disorder hot flash night sweat at length be off-limits lull someone to sleep lullaby rise and shine pump up sleep inducer
────────────────────────────── be emphatic about, …について断固たる態度を取る、…に関して語気を強める ────────────────────────────── If you are emphatic about something, you use forceful language which shows that you feel very strognly about what you are saying.
ex) He is especially emphatic about the value of a precise routine.
────────────────────────────── comparable, 匹敵する、相当する ────────────────────────────── Something that is comparable to something else is roughly similar, for example in amount or importance.
ex) paying the same wages to men and women for work of comparable value.
────────────────────────────── swear by, …を頼りにする、…に信頼を置いている ────────────────────────────── If you swear by something, you believe that it is especailly effective, reliable, or useful for a particular purpose.
ex) Gas is better than electricity for cooking, I always swear by it.
────────────────────────────── brood about, …について考え込む ────────────────────────────── If someone broods over something, they think about it a lot, seriously and often unhappy.
ex) I guess everyone broods over things once in a while.
────────────────────────────── hit the hay, 寝る ────────────────────────────── If someone hits the sack or hits the hay, they go to bed.
NOTE: In the past, people sometimes used sacks and hay as bedding.
───────────────────────────── 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 ────────────────────────────── psychosomatic disorder, 心身症 hot flash, ほてり night sweat, 寝汗 at length, 長々と be off-limits, 聖域である、立ち入り禁止である lull someone to sleep, (人)を寝かしつける lullaby, 子守歌 rise and shine, 起床する pump up, …を増大させる sleep inducer, 導眠剤[薬]
しかし、OALDのcostの項に、This is costing the taxpayer L10 billion a year. という例文もでていますし、
Rep. John P. Murtha: What the Iraq War is Costing Us- [ このページを訳す BETA ] What the Iraq War is Costing Us. By Rep. JOHN P. MURTHA. We are spending $8 billion a month in Iraq. that equates to 2 billion dollars a week, or 267 million dollars a day, or 11 million dollars an hour. ... www.counterpunch.org/murtha07132006.html - 52k - キャッシュ - 関連ページ
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