dizzyingly 目まぐるしく、目まいがするほどToday it is possible to have information about any part of the world, at any moment and concurrently. But money also has the power of ubiquity now. It comes and goes dizzyingly, as if it were everyw…

Smother me with kisses, for your love is better than wine.You shall love your neighbor as yourself.It is easier for a camael to go thorough the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.Whatever your hand finds t…

appratus 装置、器具 特定の目的のため、仕組みが複雑で技術水準の高い装置をいう。breathing apparatus（呼吸装置、酸素マスク）、diving apparatus（潜水具）、laboratory apparatus（実験器具）などがその例。また、political apparatus（政治機構）のよ…

saliva 唾液 [sэla'ivэ]AIDS can not be transmitted by touch or by saliva, so the chances of Eve infecting another child were very low.shunned 寄り付かない、敬遠される、仲間はずれにされる、孤立する、all year round 一年中Now we use artificial…

If someone strikes you on your left cheek, turn the other to him as well.The training of the body brings limited benefit, but the benefits of religion are without limit.Long hair disgraces a man, but givea a woman glory.Generations come an…

cash in on 〜から利益｛りえき｝を得る、〜につけこんむ、利用する、The company is cashing in on the craze for computer network. その会社はパソコン通信ブームに乗って収益を上げつつある。overblown 大げさな、誇張しすぎた、度をこした、 His reputa…

buzz with life 活気にあふれるAPPEARANCES often deceive, but, in one respect at least, the visitor's first impression of Chicago is likely to be correct: this is a city buzzing with life, humming with prosperity, sparkling with new building…

stifle ~ on one run 一点に押さえ込むBut the Cubans could not solve Daisuke Matsuzaka, who stifled them on one run over four innings, and they could not overcome Japan.crawl to one run down 一点差までこぎつける retire （バッターを）アウトに…

voter participation 有権者参加 voter participation rate 有権者投票率Unlike Medicare's clients—the feared senior group—Medicaid recipients aren't a potent political constituency: they are, on average, poor and poorly educated, with low vote…

stone fence 石垣

a quirk of fate 運命のいたずら、思いがけない偶然、come in handy 思いがけず役に立つYou never know when something is going to come in handy. いつ何が役に立つか分からない。 to apporopriate a current colloquialism, 現代の話し言葉を借りるならば…

pervert 曲解する、誤解する、誤って使用する、不適切に用いる、 Some think terrorists pervert the meaning of Islam. テロリストはイスラム教の意味を曲解していると考える人もいるopen contempt あからさまな蔑視display open contempt for 〜に対するあ…

relegate 〜 to the back barner 後回しにする、二の次にするIn the 1980s the concept of “truth and reconciliation” began to be the rage, and justice was relegated to the back burner.on the back burner 後回し、棚上げ、保留にしてfree-trade acco…

teeter ぐらつく、シーソーにのる The company is teetering on the brink of being delisted from the NASDAQ. その企業はナスダック店頭株式市場の銘柄表から外されるか外されないかの瀬戸際でぐらついている。prop up 下支えするThe policy was adopted i…

young at heart 気が若い、気持ちが若いThere are toys for employees' children and for the young-at-heart Googlers like this one. throw out （法案などを）破棄する、取り消す、却下・否決する、Company A asked the U. S. Supreme Court to throw out…

crisp 歯切れのいい brashness がむしゃら、生意気、(Edo brasshness べらんめえ)spark a boom 人気に火を付けるHis familiarity with Chinese classical literature sparked his thought of becoming a writer. at pains to 骨を折る、〜しようと苦心するIt…

credit crunch 資金不足The government pressure on banks to clean up bad debt has caused a severe credit crunch sending some companies scrambling for funds. 政府が銀行に不良債権処理をするよう圧力をかけたことにより、深刻な資金不足が発生し、資…

The focus tended to be on average people in typical day to day struggles.What's happened is that while the place is still the same, I'm not the person I used to be.On a fashion scale of 1 to 10, I would say that, generally speaking, Texans…

less traveled pass ⇔ well-worn passTo chose the one less traveled by has made all the difference. race through someone's mind （考えなどが）（人）の頭の中を駆け巡る Evil thoughts raced through my mind. よこしまな考えが頭の中を駆け巡った。 …

financialy strapped 厳しい財政状態の、prevent cash-strapped health insurance funds from going bankrupt 厳しい財政運営の健保基金が破たんしないようにする Mr Koizumi said that he understands athletes, aspiring to make it into the winter Olymp…