And a lack thereof can lead to cheating and plagiarizing.
The race to keep in step with new technology has its price in dollars and cents as well.
That's a pregnant question.
Meanwhile endowments to universities are spent on high-speed Internet connections.
The scramble to upgrade electronics is eroding the role of face-to-face classroom interaction.
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thereof keep in step with pregnant question endowment scramble to join the ranks of erode [動] no substitute for wrestle with common sight stay abreast of to boot incapacitate mingle with rat race diminish tried-and-true
────────────────────────────── thereof, それの ────────────────────────────── Thereof is used after a noun to relate that noun to a situation or thing that you have just mentioned. [FORMAL]
ex) his belief in God-or the lack thereof
────────────────────────────── keep in step with, …と足並みをそろえる、…と調子を合わせる ────────────────────────────── If people are in step with each other, their ideas or opinions are the same. If they are out of step with each other, their ideas or opinions are different.
ex) Moscow is anxious to stay in step with Washington.
───────────────────────────── pregnant question, 意味深長な質問 ────────────────────────────── A pregnant silence or moment has a special meaning which is not obvious but which people are aware of.
ex) a deceptive peace, pregnant with invisible threats deceptive = misleading
────────────────────────────── endowment, 寄付(金) ────────────────────────────── An endowment is a gift of money that is made to an institution or community in order to provide it with an annual income.
ex) The company revived the finances of the Oxford Union with a generous 1 million pounds endowment.
sがついてendowmentsでは、「(生まれつきの)才能」。
────────────────────────────── scramble to, …する競争、争って…すること ────────────────────────────── If a number of people scramble for something, they compete energetically with each other for it.
ex) More than three million fans are expected to scramble for tickets.
Scramble is also a noun.
ex) a scramble to get a seat on the early morning flight.
────────────────────────────── 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 ────────────────────────────── join the ranks of, …の仲間に入る erode [動], 失わせる、損なう ★no substitute for, …に代えられないもの wrestle with, …と格闘する、…に取り組む common sight, よく見かけること stay abreast of, [Daily Quizより] …に遅れないでついていく to boot, [Daily Quizより] = in addition, also incapacitate, [Daily Quizより] 能力を奪う mingle with, [Daily Quizより] (人)と交際する rat race, [Daily Quizより] 激しい生存競争 diminish,[Daily Quizより] 減らす tried-and-true, [Vocabulary Buildingの例文より] 立証済みの
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