執筆者 Modern English | 2014年08月30日 | Phrases
“Pick up some olive oil at the store. We don’t want to run out!” “I was making cookies for the bake sale but I ran out of flour.” “I went to the store to get bananas, but they were all out.” When we use up (or sell) the entire supply of something, we say we run out of...
執筆者 Modern English | 2014年08月29日 | TOEIC
“Using this information, we can _______ the estimated cost.” Fill in the blank. A. calculate B. calcify C. concatenate D. circumambulate Dは「歩き回る」という意味なので関係ありません。Cは「鎖状につなぐ」なのでこれも違います。Bは「石灰化する」なので使えません。正解は残るAの「計算する」です。 Do more TOEIC practice here!...
執筆者 Modern English | 2014年08月28日 | Trivia
A dozen means twelve. So if I have a dozen cats, that means I have twelve cats. But if you go to a bakery and buy a dozen muffins, will you get twelve? Well, maybe, but a “baker’s dozen” is actually thirteen. One extra is added in case one of the items is burnt,...
執筆者 Modern English | 2014年08月27日 | Idioms
“I sold my first story!” “Wow, you’re really starting to go places!” “Going places” means succeeding and getting noticed. If you are an actor, you might go “places” such as Broadway or Hollywood. If you play classical music, the “place” you’ll most want to go might be...
執筆者 Modern English | 2014年08月26日 | Words
“I didn’t know the area very well yet, because I had just moved there the previous year.” “Previous” describes something that comes before the thing in question, in a sequence of things. It’s useful because we can’t say “last year” when talking about the past or...
