The reception requires a meticulous sort of orchestration.
What we have in mind is not yet a common trend, but we hope we can help set stage for more ecoweddings.
My parents already booked burial plots with a green undertaker.
Public opinion is rising against anything wrought from rare hardwood trees coming from endangered tropical forests.
They're now debating whether they should be laid to rest in their birthday suits or cased in a body bag or box.
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meticulous set the stage for burial plot hardwood be laid to rest
────────────────────────────── meticulous, 入念な、最新の = thorough ────────────────────────────── Green Wedding (3)より。
If you describe someone as meticulous, you mean that they do things very carefully and with great attention to detail.
ex) He was so meticulous about everything.
────────────────────────────── set the stage for, …のきっかけを作る、…のお膳立てをする ────────────────────────────── Green Wedding (3)より。
To set the stage for something means to make preparations so that the thing can happen. You can also say the stage is set.
ex) The agreement sets the stage for renewed nuclear arms reduction talks and paves the way for a superpower summit later this year.
────────────────────────────── burial plot, 墓所、墓地 ────────────────────────────── Green Wedding (4)より。
A plot of land is a small piece of land, especially one that has been measured or marked out for a special purpose, such as building houses or growing vegetables.
(建物、栽培などのための)小地所、小区画
ex) The bottom of the garden was given over to vegetable plot.
────────────────────────────── hardwood, 広葉樹 softwoodは針葉樹 ────────────────────────────── Green Wedding (4)より。
Hardwood is wood such as oak, teak, and mahogany, which is very strong and hard.
ex) imports of tropical hardwood.
────────────────────────────── be laid to rest, 埋葬される、安置される ────────────────────────────── Green Wedding (4)より。
If you say that someone who has died is laid to rest, you mean they are buried.
ex) His dying wish was to be laid to rest at the church near his Somerset home.
"NHKラジオ ビジネス英会話 Green Wedding (6) 1/18-19 2008"
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