In which case, I'm sure there's a counterbalancing self-help provider titled "How to get a life."
Thus the "information smog," as some call it.
But are we better off today than we were 30 or 40 years ago?
────────────────────────────── counterbalancing, [形] 対抗する、埋め合わせをする、対処できる だけの ────────────────────────────── To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
ex) Add honey to counterbalance the acidity.
────────────────────────────── self-help, セルフヘルプの、自助努力の ────────────────────────────── Self-help consists of doing things yourself to try and solve your own problems without depending on other people.
ex) a society that encourages competitiveness and self-help among the very young.
────────────────────────────── get a life, 人生を生きる ────────────────────────────── 「人生を生きる」では味気ない訳ですねー
You tell someone to get a life to express scorn, criticism, or ridicule of them, for example because they never do anything interesting, or because they are being unrealistic and stupid, or because you want them to go away.
ex) It was six o'clock in the evening. I was still in my pajamas. Nicole looked at me, said she thought I was deteriorating, and suggested I get a life.
────────────────────────────── information smog, 情報による汚染 ────────────────────────────── Smog is a mixture of fog and smoke which occurs in some busy industrial cities.
ex) Cars cause pollution, both smog and acid rain.
────────────────────────────── be better off, （暮らし向きが）もっととい状態になる ────────────────────────────── [ODE] in a more desirable or advantageous position, especially in financial terms.
ex) the proposals would make her about L400 a year better off.
────────────────────────────── 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 ────────────────────────────── granted, …は確かだが、仮に…だとしても a wealth of, たくさんの…、豊かな…
"NHKラジオ 実践ビジネス英語 Information Glut (2) 5/29 2008"
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