populace rusty go a long way with a vengeance wave a red flag undeclared war butter for the bread for the time to come
■意味を考えてみよう。今日取り上げる単語が含まれています。
The chief contender currently in the spotlight is Chinese.
In addition to China's size and burgeoning economy, the huge overseas Chinese network in Asia provides a basis for Chinese to be the Asian lingua franca.
The stumbling block is reading and writing Chinese.
Chinese has a huge number of ideographs.
■意味を考えてみよう。答えは以下で
contender burgeoning lingua franca stumbling block ideograph simmer flavor toss in
────────────────────────────── contender, 競争者 ────────────────────────────── A contender is someone who takes part in a competition. [JOURNALISM]
ex) Her trainer said yesterday that she would be a strong contender for a place in Britain's Olympic squad.
contend 競争する
────────────────────────────── burgeoning, [形] 急速に発展[成長]する ────────────────────────────── If something burgeons, it grows or develops rapidly. [LITERARY]
ex) Plants burgeon from every available space.
burgeon 新芽を出す、という意味もあり。
────────────────────────────── lingua franca, 共通語 ────────────────────────────── A lingua franca is a language or way of communicating which is used between people who do not speak one another's native language. [FORMAL]
ex) English is rapidly becoming the lingua franca of Asia.
────────────────────────────── stumbling block, 障害(物) ────────────────────────────── A stumbling block is a problem which stops you from achieving something.
ex) Perhaps the major stumbling block to reunification is the military presence in South Korea.
reunification 再統一
stumble つまづく
────────────────────────────── ideograph, 表意文字 =ideogram ────────────────────────────── An ideogram is a sign or symbol that represents a particular idea or thing rather than a word. The writing systems of Japan and China, for example, use ideograms.
"NHKラジオ ビジネス英会話 English-Language Craze (2) 10/31-11/1 2007"
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