502 :名無しさん@英語勉強中:2012/01/17(火) 20:49:05.14 His conclusion was that financial globalisation―and, in particular, the running up of big cross-border liabilities― may require a corresponding globalisation of governance, including international deposit insurance. Yet few things seem less likely.
His conclusion was that financial globalisation―and, in particular, the running up of big cross-border liabilities― may require a corresponding globalisation of governance, including international deposit insurance. Yet few things seem less likely.
だって、 ART is for weeds and sissies whose mater hav said Take care of my dear little Cedric, he is delicate you kno and cannot stand a foopball to the head.
IN THIS issue we launch a weekly section devoted to China. It is the first time since we began our detailed coverage of the United States in 1942 that we have singled out a country in this way.
George’s dragons Britain’s economy contracted by 0.2% in the final quarter of 2011, another headache for the government after official figures showed total net public-sector debt (excluding bank bail-outs) rising above £1 trillion ($1.6 trillion) for the first time.
竜退治で有名なイギリスの英雄St George。不況をdragonにたとえているのだろうか。
イギリスの今回の不況は、1930年代のものよりも深刻だそうだ。 > the ongoing slump in Britain is now longer and deeper than the slump in the 1930s
They argue firstly that affirmative action starts with an act of racism: the division of a rainbow nation into arbitrary colour categories.
rainbow nation 多民族国家
That transition depends on a fairer division of the spoils of growth. At present, China’s banks shovel workers’ savings into state-owned enterprises, depriving workers of spending power and private companies of capital.
A sticky wicket The trial of Allen Stanford got under way in Houston. Mr Stanford is accused of operating a $7 billion Ponzi scheme.The former banker and cricket promoter・・・
sticky wicket 困った立場(on a sticky wicket) クリケットの用語
In all these ways, Mr Obama’s speech can be defended as a workmanlike attempt to sum up his achievements and set out his stall for November.
ああそう言えば一つ解説して欲しい話があった。 先号のロシアに関する論説 Putin’s people: The Kremlin is unlikely to offer the protesters many concessions で、プーチンが"Russia is collecting itself"という内容の論文を書いたって話なんだけど、 この文章の意味がよくわかんなかったから解説してよ。
LYING between Colombia’s coca bushes and Mexico’s cocaine traffickers, Central America is a choke point on the drugs trail.
choke point 要衝、隘路
Nicaragua’s distaste for its neighbours’ mano dura (“iron fist”) policies grew out of the 1979 revolt against the Somoza dictatorship. “We didn’t know how to be police. We only knew we didn’t want to be like the Somozan Guard,”
how to be police. policeには治安、整然、という意味もあるが?
The country’s low wages may attract kingpins just as they have wooed legitimate investment: smugglers charge under $500 to drive a car of cocaine from Managua to Mexico. The gangs may only have been kept out by the country’s ropy ports.
Perhaps the group China needs most as it tries to stimulate its domestic consumer economy is the yue guang zu, or moonlight tribe, so named because the Chinese characters for “moonlight” sound the same as the phrase “spend all your monthly salary”. Their parents saved every yuan, but life for these youngsters is just spend, spend, spend. Now, that’s patriotic consumption.
Its private health clinics are well-regarded and cheap: a doctor’s visit runs to $30 and insurance costs $100 a month. Its public spaces, like the El Vado walk on a bluff overlooking the Tomebamba river, are being renovated,
A private case demands that 21 big online firms in India pre-censor all published content. The case appears, suspiciously, to do the bidding of Mr Sibal, who denies any involvement.
ロンドンがベビーブーム Births in the capital each year have soared by 25% since 2002, as British women who delayed childbearing finally got down to it and London’s many immigrants produced in Stakhanovite quantities.
Stakhanovite ソ連の生産性向上運動
“We were a typical industrialised country, with fertility dropping and economic prosperity. Then these crazy fertility numbers came, and the economic downturn.”
>>76 But since then a succession of catastrophes―most notably the implosion of Enron in 2001 and the financial crisis in 2007-08―have empowered the critics of over-mighty bosses.
LONDONERS like to think they live in one of the world’s great cities. London may be great, but, formally, it is no city. Lacking a royal charter, it is merely an administrative division composed of 33 local authorities and controlled by the Greater London Authority.
ロンドンは正式にはcityではない。
One new city will be created in Britain this year to mark the queen’s diamond jubilee. Among the 25 places that have submitted bids are two London boroughs, Croydon and Tower Hamlets.
The equanimity is not shared by all. Many normally garrulous Bangladeshi commentators this week shunned requests to talk.
equanimity 平静 garrulous 饒舌な
Now he and other nationalists are merely trying to oppose what they see as a coup-by-stealth by Sheikh Hasina, who is letting Bangladesh be “turned into a Bantustan” run by India.
A man in Utah was taken for $50,000 by his next-door neighbour, who offered a chance to invest in a new type of ice machine. Nothing remarkable there, except that the victim was a retired federal agent who had worked on white-collar fraud cases.
be taken for 〜 金品を騙し取られる
Most victims see a few pennies on the dollar returned, if that.
和訳コンクール He fought against excessive spending, to the point of being prepared to see the federal government shut down. Recovering from the backlash that this caused, he managed to work with Bill Clinton to balance the budget and enact welfare reform. When it comes to wrestling Leviathan, Mr Gingrich has a good record.
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Nortel, which declared bankruptcy in 2009, once had a market capitalisation of $250 billion and employed 95,000 people. Like RIM, it was a global brand and proof, to many, that Canada was no longer a mere drawer of water and hewer of wood.
drawer of water and hewer of wood 出典は聖書のようだが、hewers of wood and drawers of water と順序逆。
LAWYERS have long considered themselves a breed apart: highly educated professionals, not dim-witted businessmen who think a “whereas” is a man who turns into a small member of the horse family when the moon is full.
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HONEYBEES are sensitive creatures. From time to time a hive simply gives up the ghost and vanishes. Colony collapse disorder, as this phenomenon is known, has been getting worse since 2006.
gives up the ghost 死ぬ、機能しなくなる
Yet for the 85-year-old monarch, pictured above with Prince Charles shortly before her coronation, belief requires distance, too. Younger generations of royals have kissed and told.
kiss and tell 秘密をしゃべる
It is reported that the queen likes a travel rug round her knees and used to wear a hard hat when watching stallions cover her mares (now she stands on a viewing platform, after health and safety advice).
Moreover, both Turkey (which Mr Laqueur mostly traduces) and the Arab spring (which he barely mentions) suggest that reform and liberal democracy can, albeit with difficulties and arguments along the way, be made compatible with Islam.
Mr Gingrich’s attacks on the attempt to build the “Ground-Zero mosque” in Manhattan (in fact, an Islamic study centre some distance from Ground Zero) were calculated to stir up the worst passions. He has said that, as president, he might send police to arrest judges he thought guilty of overreaching.
Mr Gingrich’s performance stands out. He harried Bill Clinton for having sex with an intern 27 years his junior when he was having sex with a staffer 23 years younger than himself.
(先週号のSpecial Report) Yet Mr Yakunin is a dynamo of a man who has changed recruitment policies to attract high-flyers, introduced total quality management and brought in Ernst & Young, an international firm of accountants, to audit the books.
a dynamo of a man
Yakunin, the company’s boss, started his career with the KGB. He concedes that his company is a giant of an organisation: it has 1.2m employees, 20,000 stations, 86,000km of track, a network of schools and health clinics and even an equestrian school.
a giant of an organisation
昔の受験参考書の定番表現、「名詞+ of a 〜」。 珍しい表現が同じページに2回現れるのは、これまた珍しいのでは。
His nickname came either from an early stint as a “squeegee boy” (ie, a darkroom assistant) or from his Ouija-like ability to get to a crime scene faster than the authorities―though this clairvoyance owed much to his police radio.
Ouija 心霊術で使う占い用の道具 clairvoyance 千里眼
Weegee’s fascination with the voyeurs who crowd murder scenes is given pride of place in a 1941 clipping from PM Daily, “Brooklyn School Children See Gambler Murdered in Street”.
voyeur 覗き趣味の人、野次馬 pride of place 最高の地位
Viewing Weegee’s shots with the accompanying text grants a sense of the social and economic ferment of the time.
For years he laboured to find the most authentic replica harpsichord; his favourite, by Martin Skowroneck of Bremen, which had pride of place in his huge drawing room, was made of 18th-century woods.
The prospect of having to motivate VIP employees―Silicon Valley shorthand for workers “vesting in peace”―may explain why Mr Zuckerberg delayed a flotation so long.
大金を手に主要な従業員が辞めてしまうのを懸念して、これまで先延ばししてきた、 という意味かな?
vest in peace
>Slang for when a person sells his or her start-up to a big company and quietly waits for their stock options to vest so they can quit (in peace).
Politicians, who have feebly warned in the past that the press is “drinking in the last-chance saloon”, have lost much of their fear. Newspapers will almost certainly be forced to abandon the long tradition of self-regulation (see article). But can the press be made less poisonous without making it toothless?
drinking in the last-chance saloon 成功(改革、生き残り)への最後のチャンスである
At their best, they expose corruption and hold politicians’ feet to the fire. They can be world-beaters: the Daily Mail runs America’s fifth most-popular newspaper website.
hold 〜's feet to the fire 圧力をかける world-beater 第一人者、やり手
I take issue with your conclusion that “a country that has long sought redress for the past abduction of a few dozen citizens by the North Korean state tacitly supports vast numbers of abductions each year at home” (“Child-snatchers”, January 21st).
・・・which infringes upon Japan’s sovereignty as well as the lives and safety of Japanese people. Linking these two issues constitutes a blatant disregard for the facts and undermines efforts by the international community to rescue victims of abduction.
The government puts the welfare of children first; it intends to conclude the Hague Convention as early as possible and is sparing no effort to ensure that this happens.
Are we talking about the British meaning of tabling (to put on the table to discuss, to submit for consideration) or the American definition (to put on the table for later, to postpone)? I assume the sentence carried the British connotation, but how would Iranians read it?
In China taxing property is a touchy subject. The government had tried imposing a variety of levies on the sale, size and historical cost of property, but none on the market value of homes. That changed a year ago, when Chongqing and Shanghai, two giant cities, introduced a pilot tax on some upmarket homes.
historical cost 取得原価 ←→ market value
This new elite is not just a breed apart. It lives apart, in bubbles such as Manhattan south of 96th Street (where the proportion of adults with college degrees rose from 16% in 1960 to 60% in 2000) and a small number of “SuperZips”, neighbourhoods where wealth and educational attainment are highly concentrated. These neighbourhoods are whiter and more Asian than the rest of America.
Your own columnist, a jaundiced Brit residing temporarily in a SuperZip, wonders how the lower class will respond to hearing that the main help it needs is an infusion of its betters’ morals.
respond to hearing 動名詞がrespond to の目的語になることもあるのか。 現在分詞で解釈するのは無理そう。
IN FEW corners of the world would a car park squeezed between two arms of an elevated highway be seen as prime real estate.
このarmsは何だろう? 長く伸びた道路のことかな。
The island’s renowned winter baseball league cancelled its season in 2007. A typical game now draws fewer spectators than nearby women’s volleyball matches. Its four teams are on the block for around $750,000 each. No one is buying.
Thein Sein, the president, came this week with a big delegation, for the signing of and agreement on co-operation in areas from tourism to the law and to thank Singapore for its loyal support over the years. But he came mainly to take a bow.
Mr Panetta knows, too, that his suggestion will hardly be resisted by America’s NATO allies, most of whom will be only too happy to head for an early bath if they think they can do so with America’s blessing.
an early bath 途中退場(早期撤退)
Gorakhpur made headlines late last year for an outbreak of encephalitis that killed over 640 people, mostly children.
encephalitis 脳炎
It accounts for as much as one-tenth of the fishing catch landed globally; around half the tonnage of intercontinental trade in commercial goods passes through; and, in a phrase that haunts the academic literature like the ghost of Christmas future, it is the “new Persian Gulf”―a claimed treasure chest of hydrocarbons that China, anxious about the vulnerability of its own supplies, sees as its own.
the ghost of Christmas future 将来を見通すもの、という意味だろう。 (the ghost of Christmas Past をもじったもの) treasure chest 宝庫
The much-ballyhooed experiment netted just 90m yuan in its first ten months, less than 0.2% of Chongqing’s tax revenue.
ballyhoo 喧伝する
The leadership of the powerful Mouride Sufi Muslim brotherhood, of which Mr Wade and Mr N’Dour are both members, has refused to back the incumbent as in the past. In an apparent shot across his bows it cautioned that “those who reign by terror will perish by terror.”
It took just a little more than 40 days and 40 nights for Angela Merkel to bring down the tablets of fiscal law. At a summit in Brussels this week, 25 European leaders pledged to observe this covenant and made burnt offerings of their economic sovereignty.But the children of Europe are crying into the wilderness: “How long, Lord, must we be tormented by austerity?”
bring down the tablets of fiscal law モーゼの十戒に関係する表現のようだが、よくわからない。
burnt offering いけにえ crying into the wilderness 聖書の一節からとったものだろう a voice crying in the wilderness 世に入れられない人の叫び
The traditional view of how Israel received the Ten Commandments goes something like this. この辺の話かな。
God verbally announced Ten Commandments to the people of Israel and they were later reduced to writing on stone tablets. Moses received the tablets on Mount Sinai and brought them down to the people.
If stripping one failed banker of his knighthood and hounding another who is making a decent fist of a difficult job looks like a witch-hunt, that’s because it is.
make a decent fist of うまくやる
True, Mr Goodwin had a cocksure management style that made him the dominant figure at RBS when it fatally decided to lead a consortium bidding to acquire ABN AMRO, a Dutch bank. But if he was really that out of control then why not go the whole hog and strip Sir Tom McKillop, the RBS chairman and Mr Goodwin’s boss at the time, of his knighthood, too?
And radical changes to the way police are paid, to reflect skills and qualifications and anti-social hours actually worked, have been proposed by a commission under Tom Winsor, a former rail regulator.
“We want to draw a line under the uncertainty,” says Paul McKeever, head of the Police Federation. Fat chance of that: another lot of proposals, dubbed “Winsor 2”, is expected soon.
But the earliest victory may be against an ailment with no vaccine or treatment. Guinea worm wreaks its havoc after larvae are swallowed in water. The female worm grows up to a metre long and breaks painfully through the skin, releasing eggs into water once more. Vigilant education and sanitation efforts from the Carter Centre, founded by a former American president, have nearly eradicated it. Nine to go.
Nine to go よくわからないが、ワクチンも治療もなしでほとんど根絶し、あとはもう少し、という状況で、 あとは残り9ホール(ゴルフ)という意味か?
On January 31st Sino-Forest released the final report of independent investigators into the charge. Insiders crow that the gumshoes found no smoking gun. The gumshoes grumbled that, lacking access to all the evidence, they were “not able to reach definitive conclusions”.
Its rate-setting decisions surprise analysts 26% of the time. That is not because it is erratic or antsy. Far from it. In the past seven years it has changed its policy rate only ten times, never cutting it below 2% or raising it above 3.5%. On January 31st it sat on its hands again.(マレーシア中央銀行)
antsy 落ち着きのない、いらいらした sit on its hands じっとしている
That deal came just a day after Sumitomo Mitsui announced an agreement with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to pay $7.3 billion―the seventh-largest amount ever paid by a Japanese company―for RBS’s aircraft-leasing division. The leasing business ticks a number of boxes: it has a low public profile and is dependent on access to cheap money rather than adroit management of personalities
THE problem with understanding human uniqueness is precisely that it is unique. Though the proper study of mankind may be man, that study will yield little if there is no reference point to compare man with.
the proper study of mankind may be man 人間の真の研究対象は人間である。 (出典は、イギリスの詩人Pope)
To summarise, human beings have suites of genes that probably cause their brains to be “plastic” and thus receptive to change far longer (to the age of about five) than is true for chimps or monkeys (whose brains are plastic for less than a year after birth).
More than 2,700 researchers from around the world have so far signed an online pledge ・・・, promising not to submit their work to Elsevier’s journals, or to referee or edit papers appearing in them. That number seems, to borrow a mathematical term, to be growing exponentially. If it really takes off, established academic publishers might find they have a revolution on their hands.
exponentially 指数級数的に have 〜 on their hands 厄介なものを抱え込んで(売れ残りを抱える、という意味もある)
さて、Elsevier社ボイコットの理由は3つ First, that Elsevier charges too much for its products. Second, that its practice of “bundling” journals forces libraries which wish to subscribe to a particular publication to buy it as part of a set that includes several others they may not want. And third, that it supports legislation such as the Research Works Act, a bill now before America’s Congress that would forbid the government requiring that free access be given to taxpayer-funded research.
学会(大学、学者)にも研究発表の場についての独自の動きはあったが、 Elsevier社のジャーナルのような高い信用度を勝ち取るまでには至っていない。 ひとつは、 nd the definition of “reputable” changes slowly, since journals with the best reputation get the pick of new papers.
get the pick of 最上のものを選びとる
But if the boycott continues to grow, things could become more urgent. After all, publishers need academics more than academics need publishers. Beware, then, the Academic spring.
Called “Body Paint Festivals” or “Self-Obliteration Happenings”, these events consisted of naked dancing hippies (who were often covered in polka dots) burning flags or simulating sex, or both. Somehow Ms Kusama, a celibate, became a proponent of the sexual-liberation movement.
celibate 独身
As artists grow old, they often make lifeless pastiches of their early work, but Ms Kusama has embarked on something fresh and audacious.
Stein gallery featured a rowing boat filled with phallic sculptures installed in a room papered with 999 black-and-white photographic reproductions of the work.
But of course Rin Tin Tin never really died. The original pup gave up his doggy ghost, but this legendary hound lived on for decades in the body of sons, grandpups and distant relations, populating dreams and animating screens, big and small. Many staked their livelihoods on the pooch; some made a fortune and others lost everything.
give up the ghost 死ぬ pooch 犬
Lee Duncan, a young American soldier stationed in France, could not believe his luck when he stumbled on a whimpering litter in an abandoned enemy kennel.
IT ALL began as a lark. Mark Zuckerberg posted pictures of his fellow Harvard students online to let viewers comment on who was hot and who was not. Eight years later, Facebook is one of the hottest companies in the world. On February 1st the social network announced plans for an initial public offering (IPO) that could value it at between $75 billion and $100 billion (see article). This is extraordinary.
The new york timesのreview It used to be customary, in a book of this magnitude, to explain unanswered questions and tie up loose ends. Mr. Murakami clearly rejects such petty obligations, and he leaves many of the parallels in “1Q84” cryptic and dead-ended. He perceives, and we receive, and the reception isn’t all that clear. But 925 pages go by. And somehow, to quote Mr. Murakami as he quotes Sonny and Cher, for reasons that perhaps only he understands, the beat goes on.
But writing legislation which protects ordinary people yet does not constrain the press’s freedom is hard—witness the experience of France, which has a privacy law and a tradition of excessively tactful newspapers.
But writing legislation (which protects ordinary people yet does not constrain the press’s freedom )is hard—witness the experience of France, which has a privacy law and a tradition of excessively tactful newspapers. ( )の部分を省略して考えろということ。あんまり長いので気になった。
今後 But writing legislation (which protects ordinary people yet does not constrain the press’s freedom )is hard—witness the experience of France, which has a privacy law and a tradition of excessively tactful newspapers. の和訳が出来ない人の書き込みを禁止します。 和訳してから書き込んでください。
not likely to upset or embarrass other people(Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English)
careful not to say or do anything that could upset someone(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
careful not to say or do anything that will annoy or upset other people(Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
If you describe a person or what they say as tactful you approve of them because they are careful not to offend or upset another person.(COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
tactful |ˈtak(t)fəl| adjective having or showing tact
tact |takt| noun adroitness and sensitivity in dealing with others or with difficult issues : the inspector broke the news to me with tact and consideration.
tabloids like the Daily Mirror and the Sun are vital forces in British life なんて見てププッとしちまうんだ。 もうね、ゴシップ記事満載。だけどあれが売れてるってことは 需要があるわけで、つまり"vital forces in British life"と。
But writing legislation (which protects ordinary people yet does not constrain the press’s freedom )is hard—witness the experience of France, which has a privacy law and a tradition of excessively tactful newspapers. しかし一般人を保護しつつ出版の自由を制限しない法文の起草は難しい --- フランスの経験がこれを証言する。 同国には個人情報保護法があり、過剰ともいえるほどそつのない新聞報道の伝統がある。 (同国の個人情報保護法の下では新聞報道は過剰ともいえるほどそつのないのが伝統となっている)
I personally don't give a rat ass about what others do on 2ch unless they are making 100 posts at once or something. And to be honest, I kind of like the posts this guy is making. I'm fairly good at English :P and have the vocabulary as big as the ones of collage kids in the states. Still, I didn't know half of the stuff he/she's pointed out. In any case, he/she interests me enough to stay here.
Let's get back on the topic and stop slandering. It's not that much fun anyway. Is it?
In a last-ditch defence, British hacks point to French counterparts who concealed what le tout Paris knew about Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Socialist politician and former head of the International Monetary Fund, and his creepy ways with women. That’s the effect of French-style privacy laws, British journalists say, and they are half-right: French law chills investigative journalism and gives politicians the whip hand. But the worst French censorship is self-imposed, as journalists preserve access to the gilded, incestuous circles of the Paris elite. http://www.economist.com/node/18743887
What has emerged is a portrait of a political culture in which seduction bordering on harassment is rife. “Sexual harassment is not accepted in the workplace in France—except in politics,” says a former colleague of Mr Strauss-Kahn. “Powerful male politicians put the women they work with under immense pressure.” Cosy ties between politicians and journalists, who—like Mr Strauss-Kahn and Anne Sinclair, an ex-television presenter—often marry each other, contribute to an attitude among the elite that their sophisticated mores can police themselves. Privacy laws, and implicit threats of retribution, prop up the culture of self-censorship. Few harassment claims against politicians reach court. http://www.economist.com/node/18745425
In addition, the market rally is a natural reaction to the fact that central bankers have doubled down on their commitment to cheap money. The Federal Reserve recently made clear that it does not expect to raise interest rates until the end of 2014, much later than expected. The Bank of England, which was due to meet on February 9th after The Economist went to press, is likely to launch another round of bond-buying. The ECB, which meets the same day, may cut rates again soon.
But the move by the judiciary against the army could at least start to make Pakistan’s army accountable, if not to the political process, than at least to the law.
このthanは何だろう? thanにmoreの意味も含む、なんてことあったかな?
In countries as distant as Ghana and South Africa populist politicians have declared open season on foreign miners’ profits. In some cases the companies have more or less graciously accepted higher taxes. Elsewhere they are infuriated by the threat of expropriation
open season on〜 〜への攻撃
They also seemed seized by the work ethic of Mormon missionaries, placing their calls relentlessly and with imperturbable good humour. This was the prodigious organisation of the Romney campaign on display.
good humour ここは「ユーモア」という意味ではなく、a mood or stete of mind
There is an old joke that I doubt has ever been applied to an economist: “What do you say to an architect who has a job? I’ll have a burger and fries, please.”
A NEW self-assurance has spread through financial markets. The MSCI index of global stocks is up by more than 7% since the start of the year and by almost 20% since early October. Bond yields in Spain and Italy, the two biggest of Europe’s embattled peripheral economies, have fallen to their lowest levels in three months. Greece’s fraught negotiations with its creditors have dulled the rally this week―but only a bit. Given that a huge sovereign default could occur in scarcely more than a month, there is strangely little nervousness.
In recent days temperatures in one of the plant’s reactors may have hovered too close for comfort to the level where a chain-reaction might reoccur from melted fuel. Since February 7th TEPCO has been pouring in 14 tonnes of water an hour in the hopes of keeping things cool.
too close for comfor 差し迫って、あわやのところで
There, says an MP who has visited him, he wears short trousers and passes his days in a cell known as the “Scouting Room”, complete with a portrait of Baden-Powell.
IN AN earlier era, it would have been the sort of scurrilous rumour picked up by scandal sheets in Hong Kong but only whispered in Beijing: the high-profile right-hand man of a prominent Politburo member gets wind that he is about to be cashiered by the authorities and flees to an American consulate seeking protection (fate unknown).
get wind 勘づく,噂を聞く cashier 排除する
Today such rumours, scurrilous or not, are not so much whispered as bruited by megaphone by Chinese citizens themselves, via websites and microblogs.
bruit 喧伝する
More than 300m Chinese internet users have at least one microblog account, and some use virtual private networks (VPNs) to get around the infamous “great firewall” of China. The Chinese government is being dragged, click by click, out of its cone of silence.
cone of silence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_of_Silence >Invented by "Professor Cone", the device is designed to protect the most secret of conversations >(aka "C.O.S. security risks") by enshrouding its users within a transparent sound-proof shield.
IS IT all part of a carefully calibrated campaign of bluff and rumour intended to support tightening sanctions and bring Iran to the negotiating table, or is the ground really being prepared for an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities in the next few months? Perhaps it is neither and the people who count, yet to make up their minds, are frantically hedging and debating.
hedge 態度を曖昧にする debate あれこれ考える
The consequences might not be as catastrophic as some fear. On the other hand they fall into the disturbing category that Donald Rumsfeld, a former American defence secretary, once called “known unknowns”.
There is an old joke that I doubt has ever been applied to an economist: “What do you say to an architect who has a job? I’ll have a burger and fries, please.”
Difference engine: Music to their ears http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/02/audio-compression Jonathan Berger, a professor of music at Stanford University in California, gets his incoming students every year to listen to a variety of recordings compressed with different algorithms. Each year, their preference for music in MP3 format increases.
This first indictment of a Swiss bank has rocked the country’s financial industry. Konrad Hummler, Wegelin’s boss, had bluntly defended the right of banks to shield clients from their governments’ tax regimes; he once dismissed critics as “tax cartels” and “illegitimate states”. Now even humble pie may not save his bank from a criminal conviction in America.
Indeed, the extent to which an election that is officially more than three years away already intrudes upon the thoughts of senior Conservatives is something to behold. Few policy decisions are taken without the electoral implications being gamed out.
If early retirement really improves living standards, why stop at 60? Why not 55? If governments moved the retirement age down to 40 every young person would have a job and everyone would be living in the lap of luxury. Alas, the land of the lotus-eaters remains a myth. Get back to the office.
in the lap of luxury 何不自由なく lotus-eater 安逸を貪る人
SHORT-SELLERS perform a valuable function in financial markets, exposing managerial incompetence, corporate fraud or plain overvaluation. Their reward, all too often, is calumny. Witness regulators’ rush to ban shorting in 2008 in response to sustained political attacks on the practice.
calumny 中傷
Mr Chey has had previous scrapes, having been convicted of a billion-dollar accounting fraud in 2003. He eventually received a full pardon from the president and was also chosen to represent the nation during the 2010 G20 summit, leading a meeting of international chief executives.
IN HOMS they are burying their dead under cover of darkness, for fear that the mourners themselves will become the next victims. Syrian government forces are setting out to strike the city’s makeshift clinics, where the floor is already slick with blood. The rebels in Homs have guns, but they are no match for the army’s tanks. And yet the butchery seems only to fire the conviction among the city’s inhabitants that state violence must not prevail against the popular will. シリア政府軍の反政府勢力に対する攻撃は凄惨だ。病院を血の海にしているという。 政府軍の戦車への対抗手段はないが反政府軍の士気はあがる一方である。
As on Facebook, users create a profile page with biographical information, list their interests and research skills, and join groups.
interdisciplinary 学際的な connective tissue 結合組織
In England between the 13th and 16th centuries, extramarital sex was policed with such energy that up to 90% of the litigation handled by church courts was about combating fornication, adultery, sodomy and prostitution.
fornication 姦淫
Harsh new national laws were passed, such as a statute in 1534 that made buggery a capital offence. In 1552 a revision of canon law meant that adulterers could face life imprisonment or exile.
buggery 男色 canon law 教会法
The wealthy and powerful proudly and openly displayed their mistresses. A public agog for salacious gossip followed the lives of courtesans and high-society prostitutes (such as the oft-painted Kitty Fisher), and pornography was widely available.
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There were practical considerations, too. For affluent families the sudden arrival of a bastard child could wreak havoc with rules of inheritance. The illegitimate children of the poor were resented as burdens on the community, and there was a constant fear of venereal diseases spread by whores.
venereal disease 性病
When and why did things start to change? The latter half of the 17th century saw the start of a backlash against extreme Puritanism, particularly among the upper classes who observed the louche goings on at court, led by the libidinous Charles II.
louche いかがわしい goings 行為 libidinous 好色の
The migration of people to big cities had made the bonds of traditional morality much harder to enforce, while the explosion of mass-printed media both spread ideas and exploited prurient interest in sexual shenanigans.
LAST year every new jolt in the euro crisis sent financial markets into a spin. This year they have become blasé. They barely even registered the torching of buildings in Athens, nor the last-minute cancellation of a meeting of ministers that was supposed to agree on a new aid package for Greece.
blasé 感じない、無感覚で、 register 気づく
For all the bile that some are now hurling, especially at Germany, the odds are that Greece’s politicians will buckle. Few in Athens want a disorderly default next month that might lead to a messy exit from the euro. Nor, despite sharp words from some German politicians, do most in the rest of Europe.
Spain’s new government won a big mandate for radical change last November. It has announced reforms of its rigid labour laws that may eventually go a long way towards cutting the country’s chronically high unemployment.
go a long way towards〜 役に立つ
Diplomatic torpor usually reigns in the region: last week, when the elected president of one member country, the Maldives, was toppled in a coup, there was a resounding silence from the neighbours.
AFTER the 2008 financial crisis many governments did a sort of “automotive easing”, subsidising motorists to trade their old bangers for new motors, to stop the car industry from seizing up. But as these scrappage schemes have expired, car sales have whiplashed.
banger オンボロ車 seize up 動かなくなる whiplash 急に動く(名詞で、むち打ち症という意味もある)
As luck had it, Mr Xi met Mr Obama in the Oval Office on Valentine’s Day. He was lunched and dined by Mr Biden and Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, and called on the Pentagon, the Chamber of Commerce and Capitol Hill, before flying off to Iowa and Los Angeles, where he was planning to take in a Lakers game.
As luck had it 辞書では、as luck would have it という形で出ている。 take in 見学、見物する
More recently, Guatemalans have come seeking land. Of Belize’s 300,000 people, 15% are foreign-born. Thanks to higher birth rates, mestizos have overtaken creoles (of mixed African ancestry) to become the biggest group, making up half the population. Belize now has more native speakers of Spanish than of English or its lilting cousin, Belizean Creole.
Inevitably, the goals of the document, which included ending poverty by 2000, were missed by a country mile as India slipped towards a crisis that prompted it to open up its economy in 1991.
country mile 長い距離 miss 〜 by a mile 的をはずす
By rights, India’s Planning Commission should be toast. Since 1991 the private sector has boomed, taking more responsibility for things such things as telecoms and infrastructure.
by rights 本来は、正しくは be toast だめになる、終わる
That the Planning Commission endures reflects several things. The desk-breakers it publishes, ruminating on everything from the number of power stations to water quality five years hence, are exercises in wish fulfilment as much as anything.
ruminate on 熟考する wish fulfilment 願望充足(精神分析の用語)
Finally, its boss since 2004 has been Montek Singh Ahluwalia, perhaps the most name-dropped man in India. Economists and bureaucrats have a collective crush on “Montek”, who is undoubtedly brainy, and also “brilliant” at running committees and getting people to agree, one former colleague gushes. Investors often say he is the only man in the government who speaks their language.
Memories in Sri Lanka of India’s troubled role in the long and bitter civil war appear to be fading. Meanwhile, India, officially, does not worry about signs of its neighbour’s dalliance with China.
dalliance いちゃつき
Bangladesh, where the Awami League government has close relations with India, recently got a cheap $1 billion loan for river dredgers and railway stock from India.
Mr Badeea’s gesture also underlined the Brothers’ lack of puritanical priggishness regarding women.
priggishness 独善的に道徳を説くようなこと
During a huge demonstration in Tahrir Square commemorating the revolution’s first anniversary last month, hecklers continually surrounded a marquee featuring Brotherhood speakers. “Beea beea ya Badeea,” they chanted, taunting Mr Badeea to “sell, sell out,” the revolution.
It is also designed to reassure Russia which, along with China, has twice wielded its veto at the UN Security Council to fend of censure of Syria.
fend of . of は off の間違いだろう。
Yet the politicians have set aside their populist instincts to follow their creditors’ instructions. Parliament approved the austerity measures by a two-thirds majority (though 22 socialist and 21 conservative lawmakers voted against, and lost their party whips).
party whip 院内幹事 lost their party whips ここのlose は、途方に暮れさせる、面目を失わせる、という意味か?
In private, the droll Mr Hollande, who has been trying to transform himself from improbable outsider into solemn would-be president, has gained the necessary confidence to let the stiff mask drop a bit.
droll ひょうきんな
Last month he caused a frisson by declaring that his “real opponent” was “the world of finance”. Yet this week, ahead of a trip to London, he tried to calm fears by insisting that he would not impose “unreasonable” regulation on banks, and stressing that there are almost no communists left in France.
These reserves represent about 17% of Britain’s remaining hydrocarbons, according to DECC, yet this frontier is only now being broached: Total, a French energy company, started building a pipeline to it in 2010.
broach 穴を開ける、広げる
Since then, the bill has been paused, amended, opposed by professional bodies and fiercely scrapped over. An online petition calling for a rethink has garnered more than 125,000 signatures.
scrap 喧嘩をする、という意味があるが、自動詞しかないようであり、その解釈は無理かな?
Ps are private contractors, and independently run treatment centres, introduced by Labour, provide around 5% of elective surgery requiring short hospital stays.
elective 緊急を要しない
Alan Garber, a health-policy professor and provost of Harvard university, also concludes that the NHS would benefit from competition to “allow experimentation and variation”.
Increasing class sizes and offering teachers more opportunities for professional development is unlikely to transform Britain’s sullen youth instantly into South Korean’s swotty teenagers. But there is certainly pressure for reform. After years of plenty, funds are being choked off in Britain
swotty ガリ勉の
Michael Gove, the education secretary, likes learning from countries with outstanding school systems. If he manages to persuade parents that big classes can help their offspring, he may be able to use the present fiscal crisis to trigger reforms that could help Britain’s youngsters regain their international standing of yore.
yore 昔の、かつての
When the likes of education and policing are having to cut back, orchestra conductors must expect some sacrifices too. The arts account for more than 5% of all jobs and over 10% of all exports of services. But most of their value is ineffable: they are a source of national pride, or perhaps a reason to move to Sheffield.
AMERICAN telecoms firms are clamouring for more wireless spectrum. Hence the interest in LightSquared, a firm which had hoovered up a chunk of airwaves formerly used by satellite operators. It planned to build a high-speed terrestrial network and rent it out to others.
hoover up がつがつ食べる、吸い込む
Its efforts are likely to prove futile because the FCC isn’t in a position to conduct its own tests. “I think the writing has been on the wall for LightSquared for a few months,” says John Fletcher of SNL Kagan, a market-research firm.
the writing on the wall 不吉な予兆
But because FRAND is in the eye of the beholder, an owner of an SEP may still demand more than others think is fair for a licence, and spark hostilities.
FRAND is in the eye of the beholder FRANDは見る人次第(Beauty is in the eye of the beholder)
(FRAND = fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory )
That risks distorting the original point of hedge funds―that they are small, limber operations which come and go often (see chart).
limber 機敏な
Managers who have not earned a performance fee in years could take bolder bets to get back into the black. Leverage levels have been creeping up. Some may prefer to go out with a bang, not a whimper.
go out with a bang 派手な終わりをとげる whimper めそめそした泣き声
nstead, almost all the benefits came from concomitant reductions in a pollutant that was not the principal target of the rule: namely, fine particles.
When in 1998 two independent studies reached the opposite conclusion, cosmology was knocked head over heels. Since then, 5,000 papers have been written to try to explain (or explain away) this result.
explain away うまく言い逃れる、取り繕う
Many of those 5,000 papers deal with something that has come to be known as dark energy. One reason for its popularity is that, at one fell swoop, it explains another big cosmological find of recent years.
at one fell swoop 一挙に、
The rub is that no amount of observations can ever pin down the figure for w with perfect accuracy.
rub 厄介なこと
JOURNALISTS delight in metaphors that sum up an entire story with one striking image. In Mumbai, itself a neat nutshell of India’s extremes, this image is served on a platter: the shiny towers that rise from a sprawl of squalid slums, the two inevitably “jostling for space” in globalising India.
GIVEN Greece’s economic woes and role as yet another Mediterranean holiday destination, it is hard to appreciate the freedom, sunlight and sense of space that it provided 50 or more years ago. Intrepid travellers would come to explore ruins and ancient villages in solitary peace, and sleep under the stars on empty sandy beaches.
intrepid 恐れを知らぬ
Many years later Durrell said: “I shall really never, never ever forget a youth spent there, discovered by accident. It was pure gold.” They swam and sailed and he, finding his voice as a writer, completed his first major novel, “The Black Book”.
find his voice 独自の表現スタイルを見出す
Despite some misprints, incorrect dates and verbal infelicities, her account is of interest. Many will agree that Durrell’s best work is infused with his love of Greece, and that his poetry deserves to be better known.
infelicity 不適切、間違い
But Mr Elmore did not die in jail. After the Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that states could not execute the mentally disabled, his sentence was commuted to life in prison, where he still sits.
commute 減刑する
The constant marginalisation of rural peasants from politics led to an endless series of rebellions and coups. The only president to break this mutinous pattern was François Duvalier, a murderous megalomaniac whose 1957-71 reign of terror exceeded even the Americans’ ruthlessness.
Mr Dubois upbraids rival accounts of Haitian history for their lack of “complex interpretations”. Yet his own version paints ordinary Haitians as the passive victims of foreign and domestic malefactors, with no “inherent shortcomings” or responsibility for their society’s underdevelopment.
upbraid 非難する
For months rumours about this work had been as much about its logistics as its content. Many worried that Mr Murakami would miss his deadline, as he did with a 16-metre painting for the entrance of François Pinault’s Palazzo Grassi at the 2007 Venice Biennale.
logistics 詳細の計画
THE year was 1985, the scene Whitney Houston’s second sellout concert in Carnegie Hall in New York.
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In any case the innovation balance-sheet for the past 25 years does not just include instruments implicated in the crisis. It also contains exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which have slashed costs for retail investors; catastrophe bonds, which help insurers spread the costs of natural disasters; microfinance products aimed at the very poor; and all manner of whizzy payment technologies.
whizzy 進んだ、最新の
One reason why the pillage continues is that knowledge of fish stocks is poor, especially in developing countries. A new statistical attempt at estimating the remaining shoals (see article), from the University of California, Santa Barbara, is therefore welcome―even if that is not true of its findings, that stocks are even more ravaged than previously thought.
shoal 群れ、魚群 findingsの直後のカンマは不要? あるいは、findings , those being that・・ のような文言の省略か?
And it is invariably compounded by a commons-despoiling feeling that if they don’t plunder, others will.
In most fisheries, the fishermen would make more money by husbanding their resource, and it should be possible to incentivise them to do so. The best way is to give them a defined, long-term right to a share of the fish.
husband 大事に使う、節約する
But, barnacled by caveats though it may be, the rights-based approach is the best available.
But deciding whose tax breaks will go is what makes tax reform hard. Mr Obama has called again, as his budgets repeatedly have, for eradicating a dog’s dinner of loopholes covering inventory accounting, oil and gas production, corporate life-insurance policies, hedge-fund profits and corporate jets.
a dog’s dinner 混乱、めちゃくちゃ
It is no longer the same district which for three decades voted by mostly wide margins for Barney Frank, recently the irascible head of the House Financial Services Committee. Redistricting has reconfigured the historically blue district to include conservative strongholds, while losing New Bedford, a Democratic bastion.
irascible 短気な
A new report, by Dick Simpson and his colleagues at the University of Chicago, documents the extent to which the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago have been hotbeds of corruption. Chicago, they conclude, has the dubious distinction of being the federal district with the most convictions since 1976.
dubious distinction 不名誉
“There are crazy awesome start-ups happening in every nook and cranny in this country,” says Scott Case, the man in question.
Change cannot begin locally, many Republicans believe, because teachers’ unions have packed so many boards of school districts. Nor should reform originate in the federal government, they believe.
pack 自分の都合の良いよいメンバーで固める
But late January was an age ago in what America’s discombobulated pundits are now calling the topsiest-turviest primary season they can remember.
discombobulated 混乱した topsy-turvy 混乱した
Nothing daunted, Mr Santorum soldiered on to Florida, only to finish well behind Messrs Romney and Gingrich again. And in Nevada at the beginning of this month Ron Paul pushed him down to fourth place.
Nothing daunted 少しも怯まず
He is in fact a more rounded candidate, with some impressive skills. These include not only the perseverance that kept him tramping through the slough of despond when others might have given up, but also a nimble and well-stocked mind, an approachable manner on the stump and―the big prize that eludes Mr Romney―a palpable sincerity.
slough 泥沼状態 despond 失望、落胆 palpable はっきりわかる、明白な
Lately he has bashed Barack Obama’s “phony theology”, criticised the prenatal amniocentesis test for women (it leads too often to abortion, he says), and wondered aloud why the federal government or even the states should be in control of schools (he and his wife taught their own large brood mostly at home).
INDEC seems to arrive at its figures by a pick-and-mix process of tweaking, sophistry and sheer invention. Graciela Bevacqua, the professional statistician responsible for the consumer-price index (CPI) until Mr Moreno forced her out, says that he tried to get her to omit decimal points, not round them.
sophistry 詭弁、こじつけ
Were Mr Chávez to die, or be incapacitated, the resulting turmoil might derail the election altogether. The constitution calls for the vice-president to take over, but that post is in the president’s gift. The incumbent, Elías Jaua, has been told he is to be replaced, but no successor has been named.
It showed Mr Rudd trying to record a message in Mandarin, losing his temper, effing and blinding, banging a desk and abusing Australian officials and a Chinese interpreter.
eff and blind 罵る
In a speech at the Labor party conference in Sydney in December, she mentioned every Labor prime minister over the past 71 years―except Mr Rudd. Air-brushing him from party history left pundits and parliamentarians agog.
Air-brush 修正する、消す agog 興奮して(先週号にもあった語)
Simon Crean, a minister and former Labor leader, accused Mr Rudd of disloyalty by canvassing leadership support among colleagues. Mr Rudd, he said, had to “put up or shut up”.
put up or shut up やるのならやれ、さもなくば黙ってろ
The overriding question facing his parliamentary colleagues, he said, was “who is best placed” to defeat Tony Abbott, leader of the conservative Liberal-National opposition, at the next election.
BURY the past. Those killed nearly three years ago in the last, savage days of Sri Lanka’s civil war will never return. Foreign and local critics who harp on about horrors are doing down a fragile country.
harp on 繰り返ししゃべる do down 陰口を言う
Sri Lanka’s stance is that the rights council in Geneva has no business poking its nose into this. Along with a motley club of Cuba, Pakistan, Russia, Algeria and China it is backing a counter-resolution criticising Western funding of the council.
If Indonesia is to continue to grow at its current lick of 6% or so a year, it must do more than export coal and buy smart-phones. It needs better roads and ports, less corruption, a better bureaucracy, and much else besides.
lick 速さ
Jintang county, to which Fuxing belongs, once enjoyed the dubious honour of being the biggest labour-exporting county in Sichuan province. Poor, deep inland and badly connected with overseas markets, Sichuan had little choice but to encourage its huge, underemployed rural population to find work elsewhere.
dubious honour 不名誉(上の、dubious distinction と同じ)
But for many of those at the bus-stop, Chengdu is their final destination. They crowd around your correspondent, regaling him with stories of how wages in Chengdu are now not much lower than on the coast, and how jobs nearby are getting easier to find.
regale him with 〜 〜で喜ばす、もてなす
Chinese basketball had seen no heir to Yao Ming as international standard-bearer. Then along came Jeremy Lin, a Taiwanese-American phenomenon who has been the story of the season in the National Basketball Association (NBA). American basketball is hugely popular in China, as are successful foreigners of Chinese origin. Mr Lin ticked both boxes, as he set about amassing an awful lot of points on the court.
Rather than put their faith in the feeble internationally recognised government, whose writ extends barely beyond Mogadishu, in the vain belief that it can bludgeon the rest of the country into submission, the leaders of the country’s various fiefs have pledged to develop a more or less federal system.
bludgeon 強制する
The plan’s timing is propitious, as the Shabab militia, which has for the past few years controlled the biggest swathe of Somalia, mainly in the country’s south and centre, has recently lost ground and popularity. Ethiopian and Kenyan forces, with logistical backing from the Americans, French and British, have squeezed it in a pincer movement from the west and south.
propitious 幸先の良い pincer movement 挟撃作戦
America operates a spy network there and recently launched a special-forces commando raid from its base in nearby Djibouti to free an American citizen from Somali brigands.
brigand 山賊、強盗
The number of hijackings has declined dramatically, thanks to international maritime patrols and the arming of guards on ships. But worryingly for shippers, ransom demands may have risen as the number of captured ships falls. One recent demand was for a princely $11m.
princely 金額が相当の
Lack of co-operation between regional power-brokers has long been a problem. At the same time, an eventual break-up of the country becomes more likely with cantonisation.
Not only do they resent provisions that grant judicial immunity to Mr Saleh and his family, despite his men’s frequent and well-documented use of lethal force against unarmed opponents, but they also mistrust the opposition parties that are now set to share power. In the past many of their leaders co-operated with Mr Saleh.
well-documented 文書で十分立証された
Not surprisingly, voter turnout across the south was poor―albeit this was partly due to armed assaults on polling stations, such as one in the port city of Aden that killed several soldiers and sent foreign election-observers scampering for cover.
scamper あわてて走る
And then there are worries over the economy. By the standards of its Greek neighbour, Turkey looks scintillating
scintillating 明るく輝いて
THEY barely dare say it, but the doctors are strangely confident: after a long illness, the euro may be recovering. This week’s all-night surgery by finance ministers to excise a festering lump of Greek debt went better than expected.
excise 切除する
It is striking that, even after this, the “tough” IMF wants to ease up on budget cuts whereas the “soft” EU remains mulish about sticking to austerity. Conversely, it has taken the EU too long to accept standard IMF practice: when a country is bust its debt must be restructured.
It was thought, early on, that high-profile non-political worthies would be best suited to the job and likely to rise to the occasion. That hasn’t happened so far. Most of the declared candidates are standing for political parties with the resources to run campaigns that many think could cost £50,000 ($78,000) or more.
rise to the occasion 難局にうまく対処する
“Upstairs Downstairs” hosts the Kennedys and Wallis Simpson (these days, in British culture, the archetypal louche American).
louche いかがわしい、
Perhaps, instead of resenting them, British audiences find in these stories a refracted version of what is still a stratified society―with nicer frocks.
refracted (光の屈折で)異なったように見える stratified society 階層社会
“Downton Abbey” is more populist (as is ITV) and breezier with history, not just in its minor sartorial and linguistic anachronisms.
sartorial 服装の
Here the post-war flu pandemic is less a national calamity than an opportunity to bump off awkward characters.
OF ALL the British businesses that once ruled the world, cement-making is hardly the most glamorous. But, mixed with sand and other aggregates to make concrete, it provided the foundations for Victorian-era industrial expansion and empire-building.
aggregate セメントに混ぜる砂や砂利など
SOME time ago four teenage boys and a ten-year-old stole a keg of beer. Once stewed in drink, they set about tormenting livestock, stoning cows and pushing terrified sheep over a hedge.
stewed 酔っ払った
Small groups of artisanal fishermen, registered as co-operatives, had exclusive rights to harvest loco and other benthic creatures in a defined area of seabed.
benthic 海底に棲む
Still, Ipsos has been doing its survey regularly for five years and the figures have proved fairly stable during that time, not wildly volatile which they would have been if they had been flaky.
volatile which they would have been 先行詞が形容詞の例(ときどき見かける) flaky 信頼できない
So levels of income are, if anything, inversely related to felicity. Perceived happiness depends on a lot more than material welfare.
Pharmaceutical and medical-device companies are quite good at treating the conditions that come with obesity. However, they are dismal at helping consumers lose weight. This is not for lack of trying. Take the curious case of the gastric band. Bariatric surgery can lead to weight loss in the long term.
On top of actual disruptions, fears abound over supplies from Nigeria, Iraq and Bahrain (not to mention what may yet happen in Iran). Estimates of OPEC’s spare capacity, the oil market’s security blanket, vary.
security blanket 心のよりどころ
A study of French and Spanish labour markets found that the recent rise in Spain’s unemployment rate might have been cut by a third had Spain followed the French example of a shallower gradient between labour-market tiers.
gradient 勾配、傾斜
Dyspeptic bond markets are now pushing Spain and others towards reforms that make it easier and cheaper to lay off workers again. Not before time.
Anton Barty, of the Centre for Free-Electron Laser Science in Hamburg, Germany, meanwhile, has helped solve a problem that has long stumped biologists: how to work out the structure of a protein that cannot be crystallised.
stump 困らせる
Dr Post, who works at Eindhoven University in the Netherlands, belongs to a group of people who hope to disrupt one of mankind’s oldest industries―animal husbandry. In fact, they wish not so much to disrupt it as to destroy it.
husbandry 畜産
The fatty cells of adipose tissue, needed for juiciness, are grown separately and then combined with the muscle cells before the whole thing is cooked. In theory, one cow could thus supply as many hamburgers as a million slaughtered animals can today.
adipose 脂肪の
A tongue that is not spoken will shrivel into extinction. If it is lucky, it may be preserved in a specialist lexicographer’s dictionary in the way that a dried specimen of a vanished butterfly lingers in a museum cabinet. If it is unlucky, it will disappear for ever into the memory hole that is unwritten history.
His book, “The Struggle For Egypt”, is a timely, well-researched and lucid political history that sweeps back to the origins of the praetorian dynasty that has ruled Egypt since the 1952 military coup.
lucid 明快な praetorian 近衛軍
The best-known was Israel’s triumph in the six-day war of 1967. But casualties from Nasser’s brash military intervention in Yemen, which sapped Egypt’s strength just before that fatal clash, may have equalled Egypt’s losses from all its four wars against the Jewish state.
brash 軽率な
Judt was a master of the waspish put-down (though thin-skinned when people criticised him).
In this slim volume Mr Ackroyd skips along at a lively pace, tracing the arc of Collins’s life, from his happy childhood to his success as a novelist and playwright and his laudanum-laced decline.
laudanum-laced アヘンの混じった
He resided with Caroline Graves and her daughter, Carrie, who became his amanuensis, while he housed Martha Rudd and their three children nearby.
amanuensis 筆記者、秘書
Collins suffered from rheumatism, gout and the peculiarly Victorian affliction of “nerves”, which led to his over-reliance on laudanum.
Loquacious and mischievous, with a military air and a carefully combed, spear-tipped moustache on his fleshy face, he would tell tales of scallywaggery, of “miscreants” and “dashing chaps”, like a character out of Flashman.
scallywaggery ならず者
Mr Kamal was the epitome of the swashbuckling Frontier rogue. He was comfortable both in the halls of parliament in Islamabad, where he served on the power and rural-development committees, and at home in Lakki Marwat, a dusty backwater of Khyber-Pakhtunkwa province.
swashbuckling 空威張りの
In 2007 came a glorious foray to sack a police station on the Punjabi border and steal its guns.
sack 略奪する
Sheer popularity got him elected to the provincial assembly in 1988, 1993 and 2002, while he was also a senator in Islamabad; but his supporters deserted him at the 2008 elections, when he was pipped by an old rival who, he later grumbled, had more money to buy votes than he did.
For Russia’s rulers, corruption is not a happy side-effect of power, but the core of the system. A small group of people wholly above the law has, in the past decade, become rich beyond the wildest dreams of the tsars. Mr Putin’s return to power would protect these ill-gotten gains. Reform would put them at risk.
beyond the wildest dreams of 想像を超えた ill-gotten gains 不当利得
Russia is suffering both capital flight and a brain drain. The working-age population is shrinking.A new fiscal incontinence is aggravating these problems. At 40% of GDP, public spending is already high for a middle-income country.
incontinence 自制不能
The famine that struck in the 1990s has never fully gone away. The ruling elite is scandalously indifferent to the suffering of ordinary North Koreans―generations at a time pass through the country’s miserable gulags―but it is punctiliously conscious of its own dignity.
gulag 強制収容所 punctiliously 細かく注意を払って
The North probably has other enrichment plants apart from Yongbyon. It might string the world along, extort as much food and diplomatic capital as it can only to throw out the inspectors and test a bomb.
Pundits and satirists have been eager to link Virginia’s bill to the rows over contraception now convulsing the Republican Party as Mitt Romney dukes it out with Rick Santorum.
duke it out とことん戦う
In it, Mr McDonnell argued that feminists are “detrimental” to the family and that public policy should favour married couples over “cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators”. When it comes to Republican politics in 2012, he was clearly ahead of his time.
fornicator 姦淫者
“An atmosphere of polarisation and ‘my way or the highway’ ideologies has become pervasive in campaigns and in our governing institutions,” she noted, prompting her to question “how productive an additional term would be”.
my way or the highway 従うかそれとも出ていくか
THE reanimation of America’s housing market has been a long time coming. Residential building last contributed positively to growth in 2005.
MANAGERS of zoos across North America are facing a mammoth problem: the gene pool among captive African elephants has grown woefully small. A single bull named Jackson (pictured above) has sired many of the calves born in the United States in the past decade, and scientists say new bloodlines are needed to avoid future inbreeding among his many progeny.
sire 雄親となる。 progeny 子孫
Behind all the self-interested tergiversations of the politicians, however, is a genuine enigma. In America more than two centuries ago, believers in God elected to live under the laws of man.
The vote has been delayed until March 25th to give him time to set out his stall. Though many party activists are furious at the casual treatment they have received, he is likely to win.
set out his stall 実力を発揮する
For some, the controversy illustrates an American-influenced coarsening of Canadian politics. But on this no party has a monopoly. Mr Harper this week reminded the Liberals that one of their research assistants was behind Vikileaks, an anonymous Twitter account used to post tawdry details of the private life of Vic Toews, the minister of public safety.
coarsen 下品になる tawdry 下品な
AN UNTESTED youngster, keen to assert his leadership ahead of the April 15th centenary of the birth of his revered grandfather, Kim Il Sung, founder of North Korea, might easily have opted for a more belligerent first gesture to the outside world. Something snazzy like an attack on a South Korean ship, for instance, or a missile launch.
snazzy かっこいい、颯爽とした
On February 29th it announced at the same time as the American government that it had agreed to freeze nuclear tests, long-range missile launches and uranium enrichment at its Yongbyon plant, as well as to invite back international nuclear inspectors kicked out in pique in 2009. Few thought that so soon after the death of Mr Kim’s father, Kim Jong Il, in December, a young man still in his 20s would have the gumption to go so far.
Officials often complain about the vitriolic attacks they face from bloggers and websites retailing independent news and gossip.
retail 言いふらす、詳細に話す
But the discovery of a dead family of three―an elderly man crippled by a bad back, his wife, and their 39-year-old son―has again drawn attention to its existence. Their emaciated bodies had lain in their home for weeks.With only single-yen coins left, they had been unable to pay for heating, and may have died of hypothermia.
emaciated やせ細った hypothermia 低体温症
For those at ease with the unbroken convention of male, family-minded prime ministers, the advent of a single, childless woman leader grated. Others have never forgiven her for the coup in which she defenestrated Kevin Rudd as Labor Party leader and prime minister.
The vote has been delayed until March 25th to give him time to set out his stall. Though many party activists are furious at the casual treatment they have received, he is likely to win.
set out his stall 実力を発揮する
For some, the controversy illustrates an American-influenced coarsening of Canadian politics. But on this no party has a monopoly. Mr Harper this week reminded the Liberals that one of their research assistants was behind Vikileaks, an anonymous Twitter account used to post tawdry details of the private life of Vic Toews, the minister of public safety.
coarsen 下品になる tawdry 下品な
AN UNTESTED youngster, keen to assert his leadership ahead of the April 15th centenary of the birth of his revered grandfather, Kim Il Sung, founder of North Korea, might easily have opted for a more belligerent first gesture to the outside world. Something snazzy like an attack on a South Korean ship, for instance, or a missile launch.
snazzy かっこいい、颯爽とした
On February 29th it announced at the same time as the American government that it had agreed to freeze nuclear tests, long-range missile launches and uranium enrichment at its Yongbyon plant, as well as to invite back international nuclear inspectors kicked out in pique in 2009. Few thought that so soon after the death of Mr Kim’s father, Kim Jong Il, in December, a young man still in his 20s would have the gumption to go so far.
Officials often complain about the vitriolic attacks they face from bloggers and websites retailing independent news and gossip.
retail 言いふらす、詳細に話す
But the discovery of a dead family of three―an elderly man crippled by a bad back, his wife, and their 39-year-old son―has again drawn attention to its existence. Their emaciated bodies had lain in their home for weeks.With only single-yen coins left, they had been unable to pay for heating, and may have died of hypothermia.
emaciated やせ細った hypothermia 低体温症
For those at ease with the unbroken convention of male, family-minded prime ministers, the advent of a single, childless woman leader grated. Others have never forgiven her for the coup in which she defenestrated Kevin Rudd as Labor Party leader and prime minister.
Such laundry lists are not usually very helpful to policymakers, who need clearer guidance on what to tackle first. But the report may sprawl because many of China’s problems do: one distortion or skewed incentive invites another.
laundry list 長いリスト
Nowhere is the politics of reform more ticklish than in the case of state-owned enterprises. The report envisages a more arm’s-length relationship between the state and the powerful conglomerates it still owns.
ticklish 厄介で扱いにくい
or most shoebox-dwelling Hong Kongers, philandering can be overlooked but property law is sacrosanct. Mr Leung has also been plagued by undisclosed conflicts of interest―a charge he denies―but that mud has not stuck.
philander 女性といちゃつく mud sticks 悪評が取り付く
Some rail against corruption, echoing the complaints of demonstrators in Egypt and Tunisia, whereas others strain at social rules imposed half a century ago when the country was rural and poor.
The royals mainly see discontent as an economic problem. Their subjects would like a larger share of the oil wealth, they believe. They are partly right, but rare opinion polls show that unemployment and inflation are the deepest public concerns.
subject 国民、臣下
But employers complained bitterly about the lack of skills among young locals; years of rote-learning and religious instruction fail to prepare them for the job market.
rote-learning 暗記学習
Yet such victories have proved pyrrhic. In virtually every part of Syria dominated by Sunni Muslims, who make up three-quarters of the population, support for the regime has collapsed permanently.
As countries move from extreme poverty to middle-income status, this move from starvation rations to calorie-rich, nutrition-poor diets has become more common. In Egypt, 12% of children are stunted and have obese mothers.
rations 食糧
They see all politicians, including her, as freeloaders and doubt her motivation for seeking a top job in government.
freeloader (酒食に)たかる人
At public events she asks to be introduced as the “co-ordinating minister for the economy and the minister of finance”, much to the chagrin of some of her cabinet colleagues.
chagrin 悔しさ
The next battle is already looming. Soon the government will unveil a plan to revamp Nigeria’s electricity. Consumer prices must go up to make it workable. No prizes for guessing who will be blamed.
Officials often complain about the vitriolic attacks they face from bloggers and websites retailing independent news and gossip.
retail 言いふらす、詳細に話す
But the discovery of a dead family of three―an elderly man crippled by a bad back, his wife, and their 39-year-old son―has again drawn attention to its existence. Their emaciated bodies had lain in their home for weeks.With only single-yen coins left, they had been unable to pay for heating, and may have died of hypothermia.
emaciated やせ細った hypothermia 低体温症
For those at ease with the unbroken convention of male, family-minded prime ministers, the advent of a single, childless woman leader grated. Others have never forgiven her for the coup in which she defenestrated Kevin Rudd as Labor Party leader and prime minister.
HONEYBEES are sensitive creatures. From time to time a hive simply gives up the ghost and vanishes. Colony collapse disorder, as this phenomenon is known, has been getting worse since 2006.
gives up the ghost 死ぬ、機能しなくなる
Yet for the 85-year-old monarch, pictured above with Prince Charles shortly before her coronation, belief requires distance, too. Younger generations of royals have kissed and told.
kiss and tell 秘密をしゃべる
It is reported that the queen likes a travel rug round her knees and used to wear a hard hat when watching stallions cover her mares (now she stands on a viewing platform, after health and safety advice).
But the move by the judiciary against the army could at least start to make Pakistan’s army accountable, if not to the political process, than at least to the law.
このthanは何だろう? thanにmoreの意味も含む、なんてことあったかな?
In countries as distant as Ghana and South Africa populist politicians have declared open season on foreign miners’ profits. In some cases the companies have more or less graciously accepted higher taxes. Elsewhere they are infuriated by the threat of expropriation
open season on〜 〜への攻撃
They also seemed seized by the work ethic of Mormon missionaries, placing their calls relentlessly and with imperturbable good humour. This was the prodigious organisation of the Romney campaign on display.
good humour ここは「ユーモア」という意味ではなく、a mood or stete of mind
If early retirement really improves living standards, why stop at 60? Why not 55? If governments moved the retirement age down to 40 every young person would have a job and everyone would be living in the lap of luxury. Alas, the land of the lotus-eaters remains a myth. Get back to the office.
in the lap of luxury 何不自由なく lotus-eater 安逸を貪る人
SHORT-SELLERS perform a valuable function in financial markets, exposing managerial incompetence, corporate fraud or plain overvaluation. Their reward, all too often, is calumny. Witness regulators’ rush to ban shorting in 2008 in response to sustained political attacks on the practice.
calumny 中傷
Mr Chey has had previous scrapes, having been convicted of a billion-dollar accounting fraud in 2003. He eventually received a full pardon from the president and was also chosen to represent the nation during the 2010 G20 summit, leading a meeting of international chief executives.
Spain’s new government won a big mandate for radical change last November. It has announced reforms of its rigid labour laws that may eventually go a long way towards cutting the country’s chronically high unemployment.
go a long way towards〜 役に立つ
Diplomatic torpor usually reigns in the region: last week, when the elected president of one member country, the Maldives, was toppled in a coup, there was a resounding silence from the neighbours.
AFTER the 2008 financial crisis many governments did a sort of “automotive easing”, subsidising motorists to trade their old bangers for new motors, to stop the car industry from seizing up. But as these scrappage schemes have expired, car sales have whiplashed.
banger オンボロ車 seize up 動かなくなる whiplash 急に動く(名詞で、むち打ち症という意味もある)
Indeed, the extent to which an election that is officially more than three years away already intrudes upon the thoughts of senior Conservatives is something to behold. Few policy decisions are taken without the electoral implications being gamed out.
There were practical considerations, too. For affluent families the sudden arrival of a bastard child could wreak havoc with rules of inheritance. The illegitimate children of the poor were resented as burdens on the community, and there was a constant fear of venereal diseases spread by whores.
venereal disease 性病
When and why did things start to change? The latter half of the 17th century saw the start of a backlash against extreme Puritanism, particularly among the upper classes who observed the louche goings on at court, led by the libidinous Charles II.
louche いかがわしい goings 行為 libidinous 好色の
The migration of people to big cities had made the bonds of traditional morality much harder to enforce, while the explosion of mass-printed media both spread ideas and exploited prurient interest in sexual shenanigans.
In this slim volume Mr Ackroyd skips along at a lively pace, tracing the arc of Collins’s life, from his happy childhood to his success as a novelist and playwright and his laudanum-laced decline.
laudanum-laced アヘンの混じった
He resided with Caroline Graves and her daughter, Carrie, who became his amanuensis, while he housed Martha Rudd and their three children nearby.
amanuensis 筆記者、秘書
Collins suffered from rheumatism, gout and the peculiarly Victorian affliction of “nerves”, which led to his over-reliance on laudanum.
The vote has been delayed until March 25th to give him time to set out his stall. Though many party activists are furious at the casual treatment they have received, he is likely to win.
set out his stall 実力を発揮する
For some, the controversy illustrates an American-influenced coarsening of Canadian politics. But on this no party has a monopoly. Mr Harper this week reminded the Liberals that one of their research assistants was behind Vikileaks, an anonymous Twitter account used to post tawdry details of the private life of Vic Toews, the minister of public safety.
coarsen 下品になる tawdry 下品な
AN UNTESTED youngster, keen to assert his leadership ahead of the April 15th centenary of the birth of his revered grandfather, Kim Il Sung, founder of North Korea, might easily have opted for a more belligerent first gesture to the outside world. Something snazzy like an attack on a South Korean ship, for instance, or a missile launch.
snazzy かっこいい、颯爽とした
On February 29th it announced at the same time as the American government that it had agreed to freeze nuclear tests, long-range missile launches and uranium enrichment at its Yongbyon plant, as well as to invite back international nuclear inspectors kicked out in pique in 2009. Few thought that so soon after the death of Mr Kim’s father, Kim Jong Il, in December, a young man still in his 20s would have the gumption to go so far.
For Russia’s rulers, corruption is not a happy side-effect of power, but the core of the system. A small group of people wholly above the law has, in the past decade, become rich beyond the wildest dreams of the tsars. Mr Putin’s return to power would protect these ill-gotten gains. Reform would put them at risk.
beyond the wildest dreams of 想像を超えた ill-gotten gains 不当利得
Russia is suffering both capital flight and a brain drain. The working-age population is shrinking.A new fiscal incontinence is aggravating these problems. At 40% of GDP, public spending is already high for a middle-income country.
incontinence 自制不能
The famine that struck in the 1990s has never fully gone away. The ruling elite is scandalously indifferent to the suffering of ordinary North Koreans―generations at a time pass through the country’s miserable gulags―but it is punctiliously conscious of its own dignity.
gulag 強制収容所 punctiliously 細かく注意を払って
The North probably has other enrichment plants apart from Yongbyon. It might string the world along, extort as much food and diplomatic capital as it can only to throw out the inspectors and test a bomb.
Mr Dubois upbraids rival accounts of Haitian history for their lack of “complex interpretations”. Yet his own version paints ordinary Haitians as the passive victims of foreign and domestic malefactors, with no “inherent shortcomings” or responsibility for their society’s underdevelopment.
upbraid 非難する
For months rumours about this work had been as much about its logistics as its content. Many worried that Mr Murakami would miss his deadline, as he did with a 16-metre painting for the entrance of François Pinault’s Palazzo Grassi at the 2007 Venice Biennale.
logistics 詳細の計画
THE year was 1985, the scene Whitney Houston’s second sellout concert in Carnegie Hall in New York.
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The Purpose of Lecture The aim of this course is to expose students with various academic backgrounds and language proficiencies to a brief history of the macroeconomic performance of Japan, to understand the nature of challenges she currently faces, and to develop a sense of direction to which Japan is headed.
HONEYBEES are sensitive creatures. From time to time a hive simply gives up the ghost and vanishes. Colony collapse disorder, as this phenomenon is known, has been getting worse since 2006.
gives up the ghost 死ぬ、機能しなくなる
Yet for the 85-year-old monarch, pictured above with Prince Charles shortly before her coronation, belief requires distance, too. Younger generations of royals have kissed and told.
kiss and tell 秘密をしゃべる
It is reported that the queen likes a travel rug round her knees and used to wear a hard hat when watching stallions cover her mares (now she stands on a viewing platform, after health and safety advice).
Officials often complain about the vitriolic attacks they face from bloggers and websites retailing independent news and gossip.
retail 言いふらす、詳細に話す
But the discovery of a dead family of three―an elderly man crippled by a bad back, his wife, and their 39-year-old son―has again drawn attention to its existence. Their emaciated bodies had lain in their home for weeks.With only single-yen coins left, they had been unable to pay for heating, and may have died of hypothermia.
emaciated やせ細った hypothermia 低体温症
For those at ease with the unbroken convention of male, family-minded prime ministers, the advent of a single, childless woman leader grated. Others have never forgiven her for the coup in which she defenestrated Kevin Rudd as Labor Party leader and prime minister.
Not only do they resent provisions that grant judicial immunity to Mr Saleh and his family, despite his men’s frequent and well-documented use of lethal force against unarmed opponents, but they also mistrust the opposition parties that are now set to share power. In the past many of their leaders co-operated with Mr Saleh.
well-documented 文書で十分立証された
Not surprisingly, voter turnout across the south was poor―albeit this was partly due to armed assaults on polling stations, such as one in the port city of Aden that killed several soldiers and sent foreign election-observers scampering for cover.
scamper あわてて走る
And then there are worries over the economy. By the standards of its Greek neighbour, Turkey looks scintillating
scintillating 明るく輝いて
THEY barely dare say it, but the doctors are strangely confident: after a long illness, the euro may be recovering. This week’s all-night surgery by finance ministers to excise a festering lump of Greek debt went better than expected.
excise 切除する
It is striking that, even after this, the “tough” IMF wants to ease up on budget cuts whereas the “soft” EU remains mulish about sticking to austerity. Conversely, it has taken the EU too long to accept standard IMF practice: when a country is bust its debt must be restructured.
This first indictment of a Swiss bank has rocked the country’s financial industry. Konrad Hummler, Wegelin’s boss, had bluntly defended the right of banks to shield clients from their governments’ tax regimes; he once dismissed critics as “tax cartels” and “illegitimate states”. Now even humble pie may not save his bank from a criminal conviction in America.
Politicians, who have feebly warned in the past that the press is “drinking in the last-chance saloon”, have lost much of their fear. Newspapers will almost certainly be forced to abandon the long tradition of self-regulation (see article). But can the press be made less poisonous without making it toothless?
drinking in the last-chance saloon 成功(改革、生き残り)への最後のチャンスである
At their best, they expose corruption and hold politicians’ feet to the fire. They can be world-beaters: the Daily Mail runs America’s fifth most-popular newspaper website.
hold 〜's feet to the fire 圧力をかける world-beater 第一人者、やり手
Such laundry lists are not usually very helpful to policymakers, who need clearer guidance on what to tackle first. But the report may sprawl because many of China’s problems do: one distortion or skewed incentive invites another.
laundry list 長いリスト
Nowhere is the politics of reform more ticklish than in the case of state-owned enterprises. The report envisages a more arm’s-length relationship between the state and the powerful conglomerates it still owns.
ticklish 厄介で扱いにくい
or most shoebox-dwelling Hong Kongers, philandering can be overlooked but property law is sacrosanct. Mr Leung has also been plagued by undisclosed conflicts of interest―a charge he denies―but that mud has not stuck.
philander 女性といちゃつく mud sticks 悪評が取り付く
Some rail against corruption, echoing the complaints of demonstrators in Egypt and Tunisia, whereas others strain at social rules imposed half a century ago when the country was rural and poor.
AMERICAN telecoms firms are clamouring for more wireless spectrum. Hence the interest in LightSquared, a firm which had hoovered up a chunk of airwaves formerly used by satellite operators. It planned to build a high-speed terrestrial network and rent it out to others.
hoover up がつがつ食べる、吸い込む
Its efforts are likely to prove futile because the FCC isn’t in a position to conduct its own tests. “I think the writing has been on the wall for LightSquared for a few months,” says John Fletcher of SNL Kagan, a market-research firm.
the writing on the wall 不吉な予兆
But because FRAND is in the eye of the beholder, an owner of an SEP may still demand more than others think is fair for a licence, and spark hostilities.
FRAND is in the eye of the beholder FRANDは見る人次第(Beauty is in the eye of the beholder)
(FRAND = fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory )
In private, the droll Mr Hollande, who has been trying to transform himself from improbable outsider into solemn would-be president, has gained the necessary confidence to let the stiff mask drop a bit.
droll ひょうきんな
Last month he caused a frisson by declaring that his “real opponent” was “the world of finance”. Yet this week, ahead of a trip to London, he tried to calm fears by insisting that he would not impose “unreasonable” regulation on banks, and stressing that there are almost no communists left in France.
These reserves represent about 17% of Britain’s remaining hydrocarbons, according to DECC, yet this frontier is only now being broached: Total, a French energy company, started building a pipeline to it in 2010.
broach 穴を開ける、広げる
Since then, the bill has been paused, amended, opposed by professional bodies and fiercely scrapped over. An online petition calling for a rethink has garnered more than 125,000 signatures.
scrap 喧嘩をする、という意味があるが、自動詞しかないようであり、その解釈は無理かな?
Ps are private contractors, and independently run treatment centres, introduced by Labour, provide around 5% of elective surgery requiring short hospital stays.
elective 緊急を要しない
Alan Garber, a health-policy professor and provost of Harvard university, also concludes that the NHS would benefit from competition to “allow experimentation and variation”.
More recently, Guatemalans have come seeking land. Of Belize’s 300,000 people, 15% are foreign-born. Thanks to higher birth rates, mestizos have overtaken creoles (of mixed African ancestry) to become the biggest group, making up half the population. Belize now has more native speakers of Spanish than of English or its lilting cousin, Belizean Creole.
If early retirement really improves living standards, why stop at 60? Why not 55? If governments moved the retirement age down to 40 every young person would have a job and everyone would be living in the lap of luxury. Alas, the land of the lotus-eaters remains a myth. Get back to the office.
in the lap of luxury 何不自由なく lotus-eater 安逸を貪る人
SHORT-SELLERS perform a valuable function in financial markets, exposing managerial incompetence, corporate fraud or plain overvaluation. Their reward, all too often, is calumny. Witness regulators’ rush to ban shorting in 2008 in response to sustained political attacks on the practice.
calumny 中傷
Mr Chey has had previous scrapes, having been convicted of a billion-dollar accounting fraud in 2003. He eventually received a full pardon from the president and was also chosen to represent the nation during the 2010 G20 summit, leading a meeting of international chief executives.
Coming from a man whose professed aim in politics is to cut the federal government down to a size small enough to drown “in a bathtub”, these conclusions are as surprising as rain in April.
このas surprising as rain in April
それと、 The main thing the words Democrat and Republican told you was which side of the Mason-Dixon line a politician came from.
HONEYBEES are sensitive creatures. From time to time a hive simply gives up the ghost and vanishes. Colony collapse disorder, as this phenomenon is known, has been getting worse since 2006.
gives up the ghost 死ぬ、機能しなくなる
Yet for the 85-year-old monarch, pictured above with Prince Charles shortly before her coronation, belief requires distance, too. Younger generations of royals have kissed and told.
kiss and tell 秘密をしゃべる
It is reported that the queen likes a travel rug round her knees and used to wear a hard hat when watching stallions cover her mares (now she stands on a viewing platform, after health and safety advice).
Mr Dubois upbraids rival accounts of Haitian history for their lack of “complex interpretations”. Yet his own version paints ordinary Haitians as the passive victims of foreign and domestic malefactors, with no “inherent shortcomings” or responsibility for their society’s underdevelopment.
upbraid 非難する
For months rumours about this work had been as much about its logistics as its content. Many worried that Mr Murakami would miss his deadline, as he did with a 16-metre painting for the entrance of François Pinault’s Palazzo Grassi at the 2007 Venice Biennale.
logistics 詳細の計画
THE year was 1985, the scene Whitney Houston’s second sellout concert in Carnegie Hall in New York.
The vote has been delayed until March 25th to give him time to set out his stall. Though many party activists are furious at the casual treatment they have received, he is likely to win.
set out his stall 実力を発揮する
For some, the controversy illustrates an American-influenced coarsening of Canadian politics. But on this no party has a monopoly. Mr Harper this week reminded the Liberals that one of their research assistants was behind Vikileaks, an anonymous Twitter account used to post tawdry details of the private life of Vic Toews, the minister of public safety.
coarsen 下品になる tawdry 下品な
AN UNTESTED youngster, keen to assert his leadership ahead of the April 15th centenary of the birth of his revered grandfather, Kim Il Sung, founder of North Korea, might easily have opted for a more belligerent first gesture to the outside world. Something snazzy like an attack on a South Korean ship, for instance, or a missile launch.
snazzy かっこいい、颯爽とした
On February 29th it announced at the same time as the American government that it had agreed to freeze nuclear tests, long-range missile launches and uranium enrichment at its Yongbyon plant, as well as to invite back international nuclear inspectors kicked out in pique in 2009. Few thought that so soon after the death of Mr Kim’s father, Kim Jong Il, in December, a young man still in his 20s would have the gumption to go so far.
Such laundry lists are not usually very helpful to policymakers, who need clearer guidance on what to tackle first. But the report may sprawl because many of China’s problems do: one distortion or skewed incentive invites another.
laundry list 長いリスト
Nowhere is the politics of reform more ticklish than in the case of state-owned enterprises. The report envisages a more arm’s-length relationship between the state and the powerful conglomerates it still owns.
ticklish 厄介で扱いにくい
or most shoebox-dwelling Hong Kongers, philandering can be overlooked but property law is sacrosanct. Mr Leung has also been plagued by undisclosed conflicts of interest―a charge he denies―but that mud has not stuck.
philander 女性といちゃつく mud sticks 悪評が取り付く
Some rail against corruption, echoing the complaints of demonstrators in Egypt and Tunisia, whereas others strain at social rules imposed half a century ago when the country was rural and poor.
It showed Mr Rudd trying to record a message in Mandarin, losing his temper, effing and blinding, banging a desk and abusing Australian officials and a Chinese interpreter.
eff and blind 罵る
In a speech at the Labor party conference in Sydney in December, she mentioned every Labor prime minister over the past 71 years―except Mr Rudd. Air-brushing him from party history left pundits and parliamentarians agog.
Air-brush 修正する、消す agog 興奮して(先週号にもあった語)
Simon Crean, a minister and former Labor leader, accused Mr Rudd of disloyalty by canvassing leadership support among colleagues. Mr Rudd, he said, had to “put up or shut up”.
put up or shut up やるのならやれ、さもなくば黙ってろ
The overriding question facing his parliamentary colleagues, he said, was “who is best placed” to defeat Tony Abbott, leader of the conservative Liberal-National opposition, at the next election.
The Japanese "militarism" from 1930s to 1945 was the socialization with the Imperial Army system and was "the communism revolution from the top". The then Japanese politics and media were taken over secretly by communism. At first we must criticize socialism (communism) that became the basis of the Greater East Asia War. The true purpose of the Greater East Asia War was a revolution to the communist states in Japan and East Asia countries. Asia became independent from European and American colonial rule as a by-product of the Greater East Asia War.
World War II and Triple Alliance among Japan, Germany and Italy - from a viewpoint of the navy and the Comintern (Youichi Hirama) http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4764603209
Founder Vladimir Lenin [The Russian Communist Party(Bol'sheviki)] Founded March 2, 1919
The Comintern aimed at the world revolution by the violence and started the Communist Party in each country. They justified terrorism, a riot, murder, the crime for revolutions. The Comintern was "General Staff Office of the world revolution".
Lenin and Stalin led the Comintern and aimed at the world rule by the Russian communism. In Japan, GRU spy Sorge, Comintern member Hotsumi Ozaki acted seretly. -Mantetsu Chousa Bu (Iron research department of Manchurian railroad) -Kikakuin (a plan House) -Showa Kenkyuu Kai (meeting for the study of the Showa era) In U.S.A., the Comintern penetrated around F.D.R. (President Roosevelt). The United States and Japan were forced war on by plots of the Icebreaker theory, the World Revolution, revolution by violence of Lenin. And Japan faced the crisis of the defeat revolution.
Japan and the American Democratic Party are the left wing, and there is the common risk.
The current political situation is similar to before World War II. Japan before World War II was ruled over by a left-winger, and they were dressed in a nationalist under the pretense of "reformists = Kakushin-Ha".
"Anti-communism" is the most important for the current crisis. An enemy is Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, left-wingers.
HONEYBEES are sensitive creatures. From time to time a hive simply gives up the ghost and vanishes. Colony collapse disorder, as this phenomenon is known, has been getting worse since 2006.
gives up the ghost 死ぬ、機能しなくなる
Yet for the 85-year-old monarch, pictured above with Prince Charles shortly before her coronation, belief requires distance, too. Younger generations of royals have kissed and told.
kiss and tell 秘密をしゃべる
It is reported that the queen likes a travel rug round her knees and used to wear a hard hat when watching stallions cover her mares (now she stands on a viewing platform, after health and safety advice).
Politicians, who have feebly warned in the past that the press is “drinking in the last-chance saloon”, have lost much of their fear. Newspapers will almost certainly be forced to abandon the long tradition of self-regulation (see article). But can the press be made less poisonous without making it toothless?
drinking in the last-chance saloon 成功(改革、生き残り)への最後のチャンスである
At their best, they expose corruption and hold politicians’ feet to the fire. They can be world-beaters: the Daily Mail runs America’s fifth most-popular newspaper website.
hold 〜's feet to the fire 圧力をかける world-beater 第一人者、やり手
In private, the droll Mr Hollande, who has been trying to transform himself from improbable outsider into solemn would-be president, has gained the necessary confidence to let the stiff mask drop a bit.
droll ひょうきんな
Last month he caused a frisson by declaring that his “real opponent” was “the world of finance”. Yet this week, ahead of a trip to London, he tried to calm fears by insisting that he would not impose “unreasonable” regulation on banks, and stressing that there are almost no communists left in France.
Loquacious and mischievous, with a military air and a carefully combed, spear-tipped moustache on his fleshy face, he would tell tales of scallywaggery, of “miscreants” and “dashing chaps”, like a character out of Flashman.
scallywaggery ならず者
Mr Kamal was the epitome of the swashbuckling Frontier rogue. He was comfortable both in the halls of parliament in Islamabad, where he served on the power and rural-development committees, and at home in Lakki Marwat, a dusty backwater of Khyber-Pakhtunkwa province.
It showed Mr Rudd trying to record a message in Mandarin, losing his temper, effing and blinding, banging a desk and abusing Australian officials and a Chinese interpreter.
eff and blind 罵る
In a speech at the Labor party conference in Sydney in December, she mentioned every Labor prime minister over the past 71 years―except Mr Rudd. Air-brushing him from party history left pundits and parliamentarians agog.
Air-brush 修正する、消す agog 興奮して(先週号にもあった語)
Simon Crean, a minister and former Labor leader, accused Mr Rudd of disloyalty by canvassing leadership support among colleagues. Mr Rudd, he said, had to “put up or shut up”.
put up or shut up やるのならやれ、さもなくば黙ってろ
The overriding question facing his parliamentary colleagues, he said, was “who is best placed” to defeat Tony Abbott, leader of the conservative Liberal-National opposition, at the next election.
It showed Mr Rudd trying to record a message in Mandarin, losing his temper, effing and blinding, banging a desk and abusing Australian officials and a Chinese interpreter.
eff and blind 罵る
In a speech at the Labor party conference in Sydney in December, she mentioned every Labor prime minister over the past 71 years―except Mr Rudd. Air-brushing him from party history left pundits and parliamentarians agog.
Air-brush 修正する、消す agog 興奮して(先週号にもあった語)
Simon Crean, a minister and former Labor leader, accused Mr Rudd of disloyalty by canvassing leadership support among colleagues. Mr Rudd, he said, had to “put up or shut up”.
put up or shut up やるのならやれ、さもなくば黙ってろ
The overriding question facing his parliamentary colleagues, he said, was “who is best placed” to defeat Tony Abbott, leader of the conservative Liberal-National opposition, at the next election.
Such laundry lists are not usually very helpful to policymakers, who need clearer guidance on what to tackle first. But the report may sprawl because many of China’s problems do: one distortion or skewed incentive invites another.
laundry list 長いリスト
Nowhere is the politics of reform more ticklish than in the case of state-owned enterprises. The report envisages a more arm’s-length relationship between the state and the powerful conglomerates it still owns.
ticklish 厄介で扱いにくい
or most shoebox-dwelling Hong Kongers, philandering can be overlooked but property law is sacrosanct. Mr Leung has also been plagued by undisclosed conflicts of interest―a charge he denies―but that mud has not stuck.
philander 女性といちゃつく mud sticks 悪評が取り付く
Some rail against corruption, echoing the complaints of demonstrators in Egypt and Tunisia, whereas others strain at social rules imposed half a century ago when the country was rural and poor.
It showed Mr Rudd trying to record a message in Mandarin, losing his temper, effing and blinding, banging a desk and abusing Australian officials and a Chinese interpreter.
eff and blind 罵る
In a speech at the Labor party conference in Sydney in December, she mentioned every Labor prime minister over the past 71 years―except Mr Rudd. Air-brushing him from party history left pundits and parliamentarians agog.
Air-brush 修正する、消す agog 興奮して(先週号にもあった語)
Simon Crean, a minister and former Labor leader, accused Mr Rudd of disloyalty by canvassing leadership support among colleagues. Mr Rudd, he said, had to “put up or shut up”.
put up or shut up やるのならやれ、さもなくば黙ってろ
The overriding question facing his parliamentary colleagues, he said, was “who is best placed” to defeat Tony Abbott, leader of the conservative Liberal-National opposition, at the next election.
HONEYBEES are sensitive creatures. From time to time a hive simply gives up the ghost and vanishes. Colony collapse disorder, as this phenomenon is known, has been getting worse since 2006.
gives up the ghost 死ぬ、機能しなくなる
Yet for the 85-year-old monarch, pictured above with Prince Charles shortly before her coronation, belief requires distance, too. Younger generations of royals have kissed and told.
kiss and tell 秘密をしゃべる
It is reported that the queen likes a travel rug round her knees and used to wear a hard hat when watching stallions cover her mares (now she stands on a viewing platform, after health and safety advice).
Such laundry lists are not usually very helpful to policymakers, who need clearer guidance on what to tackle first. But the report may sprawl because many of China’s problems do: one distortion or skewed incentive invites another.
laundry list 長いリスト
Nowhere is the politics of reform more ticklish than in the case of state-owned enterprises. The report envisages a more arm’s-length relationship between the state and the powerful conglomerates it still owns.
ticklish 厄介で扱いにくい
or most shoebox-dwelling Hong Kongers, philandering can be overlooked but property law is sacrosanct. Mr Leung has also been plagued by undisclosed conflicts of interest―a charge he denies―but that mud has not stuck.
philander 女性といちゃつく mud sticks 悪評が取り付く
Some rail against corruption, echoing the complaints of demonstrators in Egypt and Tunisia, whereas others strain at social rules imposed half a century ago when the country was rural and poor.
Don't you think those bothering to look for the meanings of words then to write it into this thread, I think, have not been able to read Economist really? It comprises of huge numbers of articles so that you shouldn't be able to have done that, slow with doing such things.
Though Cambodia and Laos have lined up with China, and Myanmar may yet go the same way, Thailand and the Philippines are treaty allies of America, which is also revving up its military engagement with Singapore.
military engagement って、交戦という意味で覚えていたけど、正反対の意味にもなるんだ。
HONEYBEES are sensitive creatures. From time to time a hive simply gives up the ghost and vanishes. Colony collapse disorder, as this phenomenon is known, has been getting worse since 2006.
gives up the ghost 死ぬ、機能しなくなる
Yet for the 85-year-old monarch, pictured above with Prince Charles shortly before her coronation, belief requires distance, too. Younger generations of royals have kissed and told.
kiss and tell 秘密をしゃべる
It is reported that the queen likes a travel rug round her knees and used to wear a hard hat when watching stallions cover her mares (now she stands on a viewing platform, after health and safety advice).
The vote has been delayed until March 25th to give him time to set out his stall. Though many party activists are furious at the casual treatment they have received, he is likely to win.
set out his stall 実力を発揮する
For some, the controversy illustrates an American-influenced coarsening of Canadian politics. But on this no party has a monopoly. Mr Harper this week reminded the Liberals that one of their research assistants was behind Vikileaks, an anonymous Twitter account used to post tawdry details of the private life of Vic Toews, the minister of public safety.
coarsen 下品になる tawdry 下品な
AN UNTESTED youngster, keen to assert his leadership ahead of the April 15th centenary of the birth of his revered grandfather, Kim Il Sung, founder of North Korea, might easily have opted for a more belligerent first gesture to the outside world. Something snazzy like an attack on a South Korean ship, for instance, or a missile launch.
snazzy かっこいい、颯爽とした
On February 29th it announced at the same time as the American government that it had agreed to freeze nuclear tests, long-range missile launches and uranium enrichment at its Yongbyon plant, as well as to invite back international nuclear inspectors kicked out in pique in 2009. Few thought that so soon after the death of Mr Kim’s father, Kim Jong Il, in December, a young man still in his 20s would have the gumption to go so far.
Parliament became somewhat more democratic after by-elections in April to fill the seats of MPs appointed to government. They brought in 43 NLD MPs, after the party abandoned its boycott, including Miss Suu Kyi, now free. What has happened since seems to vindicate those who have always claimed that the process of democracy would develop a momentum of its own, despite the limitations of Myanmar’s constitution, which guarantees the army its 25% of parliamentary seats and a veto over constitutional change.
Emptiness, in the Madhyamika system, is generally understood to be an apophatic concept. The delineation of Emptiness involves a process of negation using reductionist analyses and a philosophical procedure that is a via negativa. Madhyamika masters, from Nagarjuna and Aryadeva through Candrakirti and Santideva to Tsongkhapa and Mipham, widely employed in their writings sharp reasonings and arguments, which are highly analytical, reductionist and negational in their mode of investigation, to establish Emptiness. These reasonings are known as the Madhyamika reasoning (dbu ma’i rigs pa/gtan tshigs) or the reasoning scrutinizing the ultimate (don dam dpyod byed kyi rigs pa). For brevity, I shall call them ‘the ultimate analysis’ here. 空は中観派教義体系中に存するが、一般的に否定的概念であると理解されて いる。空の範囲設定には還元主義者の分析と否定論法の哲学の手順を使用する 否定の過程を伴う。 竜樹、堤婆、チャンドラキール、寂天を経てツォンカパ、ミパムにいたる 中観派の高僧たちは彼らの著作に広範囲にわたり鋭い論法と議論を用いたが、 それらは空を確立する探求の方式において高度に哲学的、還元的そして否定的 である。 これらの論法は中観派の論法すなわち根本原理を精査する論法として知られて いる。 手短にするため、ここではそれらを根本原理の分析と呼ぶつもりだ。
I'm happy to have been able to help you. By the way, be carefull of a develpomentally disabled man called"Yojiseiheki" , who always diturbs this thread. He reads English books in Japanese translation, then pretends to be able to read the originals and posts irresponsible remarks. When someone posts English sentences, he always disturbs this thread due to his inferiority compelex about his lack of ability to read English texts. He is an elementary school dropout with mental retardation. All posts about books for children in this thread were written by him. He has a lolita complex and looks ghastly.
>>777 In less than two months’ time, unless a deal is struck, America will fall off a “fiscal cliff” that will, through a combination of automatic tax rises and spending cuts, subtract as much as 5% from GDP in a year. That would be a disaster for an economy growing at an annual rate of barely 2%. But behind this immediate crisis is the deeper one: America taxes itself like a small-state economy, and spends like a big-state one. Add in an ageing population, and it is going broke. Mr Obama will be pilloried by history if he does nothing to fix that, though the bond markets would probably punish him well before he left office. Mr Obama ought to tackle the two problems at once, so that the deal to stop the economy going off the cliff is tied into longer-term reform.
Mr. Obama should hang tough, declaring himself willing, if necessary, to hold his ground even at the cost of letting his opponents inflict damage on a still-shaky economy.
>>778 But, in the end, as the Congress is ruled by more than a half by Republican, I think the President has to start the taxes increase and spending cuts, or the budget he makes would not pass through the Congress, which will bring the crisis where no money are left to the government. It has no use of discussing whether his government compromise with the opposite party or not.
>>780 微妙にその意見は外してんじゃないかと思う。 In the current congress, striking a deal with the GOP is almost impossible because most members of the GOP have signed the petition not to increase at all before they ran for the congressional election. The reason why they did such a stupid thing is because without signing it, they could not have won the primary in which voters were far more conservative than national average. (Romney made some promises at primary stage in order to please core GOP supporters, and these promises created much trouble in presidential campaign.) For this reason GOP members cannot vote for any proposal which can possibly increase the tax even a tiny bit, and this leaves almost no room for negotiation between two parties.
President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner signaled Friday a willingness to compromise on tax positions that have led to a budget stalemate, in a bid to defuse partisan tensions before talks next week to avert a year-end fiscal crisis.
In need of helpも読んだ。図2をつかって、貧困比率(poverty ratio)が, メキシコ、アメリカ、チリ、日本が高い事を図2を使って示そうとしているけど、 貧困比率というのをメジアンの所得の40%以下の人の全人口に占める比率をとっているから こうなる。メジアンの所得自体が高いのだろう。国が裕福であるほど、図2のグラフは高く なる。
今日読んだのは Picking up the pieces エントウィッスルさん@BBCジェネラルマネージャーさんが辞めなければならなかったワケ Time to Choose 中国の新しい総書記ジ・ジンピンさんの直面する課題 America's Oil Bonanza シェールガスでエネルギー安保、アメリカのほくそ笑み More and More and Not Enough EUの北と南、分断する大陸とユーロ問題
まだバケットが表紙の載った号を読んでるのに、ガザかなにか知らないがアラブ人の顔の写真が 表紙に載った号が来てしまった。もうちょっと熱心に読みたい。バケットの方、フランス特集なので これは読んでおきたい。so much to do, so little time. オランドさんについては second Socialist Party candidate since the start of France'sFifth Republic. と書いてある。firstはMitterrandだろうな。1997-2002までが最近の社会党政権だったらしい。 Mitterrandは、高額所得者に高い税率を掛けて、公共事業を増やして、社会主義みたいな 政策運営をしたらしい。Hollandは最高税率75%. 高いけど、現実主義者だな。公共事業も減らし 、政府の赤字を減らす事が必要。あと2年間でどれだけできるだろうか? フランスの国債がS&PのAAAを落としたらしいけど、そんなの気にしたら負けだな
economistは知らない単語は、パソコンの辞書で調べればすぐだよね。全然難しくない。 Bail-out tapasを読んだ。The delightful plates of tapas that often accompany an evening drink in Spain can, if eaten with gust, end up replacing the meal they were meant to precede.
のreplacing the meal they were meant to precedeの意味がわからなかった。 誰かわかる人いればおしえて。
theyは前菜。precede BはBの先にくる。Bがthe meal、メインディッシュ。 メインディッシュを前菜が置き換える、つまり前菜だけでメインディッシュが でないということを示している。 前菜がその前に来る予定だったメインディッシュを置き換えることに終わる というのがend up replacing the meal they were meant to precede と自己レス
The delightful plates of tapas ( that often accompany an evening drink in Spain) can, if eaten with gust, end up replacing the meal( they were meant to precede.) で、end up -ingで-におわるでしょ、以上が文法構造
今日はLesington The Obama doctrineを読んだ。よくわからなかったがこういう内容 オバマ二期目政府は内政の立て直しに重点を置き、世界はアメリカの関与を強く要求するものの 外政には深く関わろうとはしていない。政府内では、アメリカは世界の警官を自負してきたので オバマは荒れ狂う世界とコンタクトを持ち続けるのかについて議論はある。1990年代とにた 雰囲気だが、EUは1990年代にアメリカが期待していたような第二の世界の警官の役割を果たそう とせず、警官のトレーナーになろうとし、中国やロシアも当てにならずアメリカは結局今は 孤独だ。
内容が難しかった。表現で難しいところはいくつかあった Republican senators led by John McCain, a former presidential rival in 2008,have zeroed in on briefing given Obama aids after the September murder of Americas' Ambassador to Libya, in which the involvement of terrorists with al-Quaeda ties was played down. という文章のzeroed in onという意味はわかりますか?
大人買いしたドラゴンボールさえピッコロ出てきたあたりから飽きて投げ出しす俺には 死ぬほど退屈なeconomistの記事をわざわざ読むなんて気には全くなれないけど zero in on〜は、〜にターゲットをしぼるとか、〜を目標を定めるという意味だぜー つかなぜにeconomistなんてわざわざ読む人が辞書を引かないんだぜ?
Alone at the topという記事を読んだ。プーチンのロシアは、今、韓国でよくあるような、 政治家の汚職暴きが流行らしい。この記事もわかりにくい。大衆の人気をとるための自分の 周りの人たちの情報を流しているらしい。プーチン自身は健康にすぐれないらしい。 そして孤独らしい。プーチン自身は予算、年金などの変化にたいしてゆっくりとしか変化が ないようにしているらしいが、汚職暴きがプーチン政権の安定性に一番役に立っているそうだ。
>>833 Nothing manages to be so sacred and so profane at once. これがメインの部分。「ちんこよりも、神聖と、冒涜を同時に表現できるものは存在しない」 save the vagina, which is neither as easy nor as childishly satisfying to scrawl on a wall, この分はおまけ。 「まんこを除いては、そしてそのまんこもちんこほど簡単に子供が喜ぶようなやり方で壁に書いたりできない。」
今日読んだのはGoodbye Europe Whatever happened to Thaksin? Life and death struggle, Cremating the chairman, Mutton dressed as lamb だった。最後の記事は日本についてだったけど小泉純一郎の子供の衆議院議員が 出て来ると黄色い声が飛んで来ると、ちゃんと日本のアホぶりを書いていた。
質問です。Over the cliff? について Run, Mario, runの run for elective officeというのは? letting il Cavaliere inというのは? Space cadetの re-entryというのは? Fat chanceの ever the world leaderのeverは?形容詞? Embracing the alternativeの refashioning the banks carries a cost のrefashioningの意味は? よろしくお願いします。
>>844 letting il Cavaliere inの具体的に意味することはなんなのでしょう? The risk is that a Monti candidacy could split the anti-Berlusconi ticket, letting il Cavaliere in by the back door.
質問があります。 1. Collateralised loan obligation transactions, a way of bundling up the debt of mid-market firms, have been rare as hen's teeth in Europe since August 2007. のhen's teethというのはなにですか?
2. Mark Hutchison of M&G, a British fund manager which has for years invested directly in everything from leveraged loans to social housing to the debt of mid-sized British companies, finds it "extraordinary" that others have not followed M&G's example and put money into these sorts of less liquid assets.
という文章の from leveraged loans to social housing to the debt of mid-sized British companiesという部分は”from A to B to C”で”AからB, Cにいたるまで”、という 意味なのですか?
3. For all its promise, though, the industry is still tiny by banking standards, and untested enough that a high-profile blow-up could wreck its reputation. And despite concerns about how mean banks are being to small business, this is an area where the banks are still formidable competitors. の文章のuntested enough that a high-profile blow-up could wreck its reputation. なのですが、高名な銀行が、その産業はまだ十分には試されていないので高名な銀行が その評判を吹き飛ばすことだってありうる という意味ですか?
4. Such concerns are warranted for some types of finance, but a greater role for less leveraged investors with longer-term liabilities-be they insures, pension funds or credit funds-is only to be welcomed. のis only to be welcomedはどう訳すのですか? ひたすら歓迎されるべきだ、でしょうか?
>>863 ぜんぜん違う For all its promise, though, the industry is still tiny by banking standards, and untested enough that a high-profile blow-up could wreck its reputation. これらの分野は、銀行業としては小さいものだし、 大規模な問題起きても評判がガタ落ちする可能性がないというのに十分なほど検証されていない。
>>875 I thought that those who can read Economist can write English and even read my poor English. So, I wrote it in English. I wish teacher Doolittle not minding it.
Special Holiday Double Issueという今週号は少し厚い。 A rough guide to Hellと表紙に書いてある。賑やかな絵だなあ Th gift that goes on givingを読んだ。1843年に創刊された新聞かあ。 すごいな。TPPについて書いてあった。TPPはだめだな。 Newtown's horrorとGo on Mr Abe, surprise usも読んだ。 わからないところがあっても今日は読み飛ばしてしまったので、質問は 今日はありません。
Sending a satellite into orbit requires much of the same technology as firing an intercontinental ballistic missile with an equivalent payload at, say, America—once re-entry expertise and accuracy have been mastered. 軌道へ衛星を送るには、たとえばアメリカへ至る同じ有効積載量の大陸間弾道弾の発射と大部分同じ技術を要する。再突入の技術と正確さが習得されさえすればの話だが。
Summary: The article is about the joint announcement by the current government and BOJ. The agreement is a clear progress in term of pushing the BOJ to ease the monetary policy, but if you look carefully the content of it, the concession the BOJ made is not as large as Abe claimed in the press conference. Seeing the limitation, the market reacted accordingly, yen price was hiked, and the stock price dropped.
The hope for the Abe government might be the new governor of BOJ, replacing Mr. Shirakawa whose term is expiring this spring.
The Economist argues that Abe should not only implement the fiscal and monetary policies but also promote the economic reforms. However, that might not be happening before the Upper House election.
単語 squabble -- a noisy quarrel about something petty or trivial nativist -- the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants
早くそれらの記事のどこがトンデモなのか言ってみなよ ってか、ネトウヨさん、実は英語読めないんでしょ? "Time for a rethink"なんて日本に関する記事と読んだら勘違いしようないもん 今週号の日本関連の記事"revolution in the air"と"opening the floodgates"さっき読んだけど、 これらもやっぱ”トンデモ”なんですかねw
symbol of optimism と書いてあるが、 渡部こうぞう(元民主の「ご意見番」)が地元名産の起き上がり小法師を 会津武士になぞらえていたのをTV(日曜朝の時事放談)で見たが、 精神の不屈さ、を連想するのが一般的じゃないか? それは究極的には楽観を意味する、というのは強弁だし、それならそれで そのように記事に書けばいい。
But Japan’s youth joblessness, which surged after its financial crisis in the early 1990s, has stayed high despite a fast fall in the overall workforce. A large class of hikikomori live with their parents, rarely leaving home and withdrawn from the workforce.
Economist is good in the point that it gives convenience of downloading sounds of articles through its website, or through tablets as ipad, android or kindle.
The first 200-odd pages are hard-going. As a person rather than a politician she is of limited interest. She had no intellectual hinterland and was quite content to repeat the clichés of the stockbroker belt. If she had a sense of humour, nobody has ever found it. Mrs Thatcher’s early career—from the scholarship to Oxford, an early love affair, a job as an industrial chemist and her first forays into Conservative politics—is hardly the stuff of high drama. 最初の妙な200Pは読むのがつらい。 彼女は政治家でなく個人としては面白みにかける。 彼女には知的な奥深さがなく高級住宅地で話されるような決まり文句 に全く満足していた。 たとえ彼女にユーモアのセンスがあったにせよ、それを見た者はいない。 サッチャー女史のキャリアは、それはオクスフォードへの奨学金による 進学、初期の恋愛、産業化学者としての仕事、保守政治への最初の 進出等によるが、ドラマの見せ場の中身にはほとんどなっていない。
The first 200-odd pages are hard-going. As a person rather than a politician she is of limited interest. She had no intellectual hinterland and was quite content to repeat the clichés of the stockbroker belt. If she had a sense of humour, nobody has ever found it. Mrs Thatcher’s early career—from the scholarship to Oxford, an early love affair, a job as an industrial chemist and her first forays into Conservative politics—is hardly the stuff of high drama. 最初の妙な200Pは読むのがつらい。 彼女は政治家でなく個人としては面白みにかける。 彼女には知的な奥深さがなく高級住宅地で話されるような決まり文句 に全く満足していた。 たとえ彼女にユーモアのセンスがあったにせよ、それを見た者はいない。 サッチャー女史のキャリアは、それはオクスフォードへの奨学金による 進学、初期の恋愛、産業化学者としての仕事、保守政治への最初の 進出等からなるが、ドラマの見せ場の中身にはほとんどなっていない。
The first 200-odd pages are hard-going. As a person rather than a politician she is of limited interest. She had no intellectual hinterland and was quite content to repeat the clichés of the stockbroker belt. If she had a sense of humour, nobody has ever found it. Mrs Thatcher’s early career—from the scholarship to Oxford, an early love affair, a job as an industrial chemist and her first forays into Conservative politics—is hardly the stuff of high drama. 最初の200P余りは読むのがつらい。 彼女は政治家でなく個人としては面白みにかける。 彼女には知的な奥深さがなく高級住宅地で話されるような決まり文句 に全く満足していた。 たとえ彼女にユーモアのセンスがあったにせよ、それを見た者はいない。 サッチャー女史のキャリアは、それはオクスフォードへの奨学金による 進学、初期の恋愛、産業化学者としての仕事、保守政治への最初の 進出等からなるが、ドラマの見せ場の中身にはほとんどなっていない。
The first 200-odd pages are hard-going. As a person rather than a politician she is of limited interest. She had no intellectual hinterland and was quite content to repeat the clichés of the stockbroker belt. If she had a sense of humour, nobody has ever found it. Mrs Thatcher’s early career—from the scholarship to Oxford, an early love affair, a job as an industrial chemist and her first forays into Conservative politics—is hardly the stuff of high drama. 最初の200P余りは読むのがつらい。 彼女は政治家でなく個人としては面白みにかける。 彼女には知的な奥深さがなく高級住宅地で話されるような決まり文句 に全く満足していた。 たとえ彼女にユーモアのセンスがあったにせよ、それを見た者はいない。 サッチャー女史の初期のキャリアは、オクスフォードへの奨学金による 進学、初期の恋愛、産業化学者としての仕事、保守政治への最初の 進出等からなるが、ドラマの見せ場の中身にはほとんどなっていない。
Almost all landlords are amateurs who own just one or two homes, typically bought as a way to save for retirement. James Lloyd of the Strategic Society Centre, a think-tank, calculates that 77% have jobs besides renting property. Most rent through small lettings agents, who are notorious for charging hefty fees of tenants, often on spurious grounds. http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21582009-market-finally-adapting-surge-private-renting-rented-castles/
charging hefty fees of tenants ここは、rob A of B と同じ構造で、入居人に高い手数料を請求する、ということでいいですか?
辞書を見る限り(研究社大英和やジーニアス大英和)、charge of という文型は見当たらないので。