Japan has as many jobs on offer as there are applicants.有効求人倍率が一倍になる。Confidence is returning to the housing market, too.This could point to a skills mismatch in the economy, where people are insufficiently suited for the kind …

controlling interest 支配的利権、会社を支配するのに十分な持ち株、過半数株式、purchase a controlling interest in

wishful thinking 甘い考え、願望的思考、That's your wishful thinking. それは考えが甘い "You know what my least favorite John Lennon song is?" he says. "Imagine. At the root of it is some rigorous thinking about the way things could be, but …

in full view of 丸見えで、衆人環視の下で、In hospitals, modesty is often thrown to the wind as treatments are carried out in full view of milling crowds.

legal precedent 判例That's encouraging. And not only because non-Japanese are slowly realizing that with copious time, money and willpower, they might sue and get some semblance of justice. They might even positively affect legal precedent…

diverge 枝分かれする、分岐するThis road diverges in two directions at the next corner. この道は次の角で二股に分かれる。 （主流から形・パターンを変えて）分化する、それる The new government diverged from the old policies. 新政府はこれまでの…

testify against 〜に不利な証言をする Juries are seemingly wary of employees who testify against bosses in return for more lenient sentences.rectitude 正直さ、公正さ It was Enron more than any of the other big corporate fraud that ushered i…

disengagement 撤退The storming of Rafah is the latest in a series of violent incidents in Gaza since the Israeli “disengagement” three months ago, following almost four decades of occupation.old guard 保守派crippling 壊滅的な、致命的な、長…

one of 〜 〜規模のDelphi's bankruptcy, which is expected to result in plant closures and layoffs, is one of the largest in U.S. history. The company has 50,000 U.S. employees.デルファイの経営破たんは米国史上最大規模。工場閉鎖や一時解雇が見…

much foolishness has flowed from its denial.those advantages came at a huge price, for their brains were voracious consumers of energy—a mere 2% of the body's tissue absorbing 20% of its food intake. He forecasts that by 2014, they will ha…

An obvious example is AIBO, the robotic dog that Sony began selling in 1999. The bulk of its sales have been in Japan, and the company says there is a big difference between Japanese and American consumers. American AIBO buyers tend to be …

acuteIn some parts of the country, the shortage of workers has reached acute proportions: for instance, in Aichi prefecture in central Japan, 1.7 jobs are offered for every applicant.

zero-tolerance approach 断固とした措置（一切の例外を認めず情状を酌量せずに、規則を厳格に適用するという原則に基づいた方針 ）Mr Sarkozy favours a zero-tolerance approach to urban violence, and in the days before the unrest began he angered m…

get a lift 元気がでる、活気づくSo the commercial prospects for sellers of online books do not yet look very bright. But they may get a lift from some novel innovations.

empower 力を与える、権能を付与する、Empowerment of the United Nations 国連を強化するgo under 沈む、没する、没落する、負ける、屈する、失敗する、倒産する、破たんする、（経営が）行き詰まる、駄目になる、失敗するcontinue to go under 破産があい…

overhaul 事業を見直す、再構築するoverhauling their business models The facts and figures speak for themselves.trade secrets 企業秘密hitch a free ride フリーライドする、ただ乗りするThe standard justification for the patent system is that it…

punctuate 中断するThanks in part to Mr Greenspan's able management of the money supply, America has experienced some of the longest booms of its history, punctuated by only the mildest of recessions. have big shoes to fill (後継者として）…

publicly-traded companies 株式公開企業、株式会社As much as three-quarters of the value of publicly traded companies in America comes from intangible assets, up from around 40% in the early 1980s. “The economic product of the United States”…

bring down （コストを）抑える、抑制するGM has been negotiating with its main union for some time to bring down the costs of health-care provision to blue-collar workers. attrition rate 摩耗率、損耗率、減少率、離職率 natural wastage 人的資…

pointedly あからさまに、はっきりと、辛らつに、狙いを定めて、的を射て→「狙いをはっきりさせる」という意味の動詞 point から派生。非難や怒りといったニュアンスがあるHe pointedly disagreed with the constitutional philosophy often called "origina…

overdo 行き過ぎThe turnaround in perceptions of Japan has been so sudden that it risks being overdone.downbeat earning news 業績悪化のニュースUS stock markets were hammered last week by high oil prices and downbeat earnings news in the ret…

In addition, banks and other lenders maintain a spread between the rate they pay on deposits and the rate they charge on loans. This is, of course, how they make their money. But in poor countries, this spread widens to alarming proportion…

mainstay メインマストを支える綱、頼みの綱、大黒柱、中堅、要（かなめ）mainstay item 主力商品Manufacturing has been the mainstay of Japan's economy since the 1960s and today accounts for just over 20% of current-price GDP. dominate a market …

embellish 潤色する、尾ひれをつける ring of truth どこか真実味がある、真実味を帯びているLike other Feynman stories, it may have been embellished in the telling, but to anyone who knew both Mulaika and Feynman it has the ring of truth. undiv…

froty 泡だって、バブル気味でThough America’s stockmarkets are quiet compared with the go-go 1990s, its housing market looks decidedly frothy. distilThe listings, and the information that they distil, can help a student with that choice. co…

on hold 保留の状態で、延期されてPlans for the new wing of the building are on hold until we get more funding. そのビルの新しい棟の計画は、もっと資金を得るまで保留だ。Now that the DPJ has only 113 seats in the 480-seat lower house, those dr…

threatened speices 絶滅要注意種 endangered speices 絶滅危惧種knowledgeable 【形】 博識な、精通している、理解力のある◆知識の多さに重点を置いた形容詞Scientists knowledgeable about the benefits of plants are concerned that the loss of a speci…

disable （機能を）無効にする （⇔enable) This function is disabled during the print cycle. この機能は、印刷中無効になります。strike down a bill 法案を却下する A faithful reading of the framers’ Constitution, my colleague Yochai Benkler and …

reproach for/withShe reproached her son for coming home late. 彼女は帰宅が遅かったからといって息子をしかった. He reproached his pupils with laziness. 彼は生徒たちを不勉強だと言ってしかった.up for grabs 容易に手に入る、よりどりみどりのThe j…

take on 〜と対戦［対決］する、〜と争う、〜と戦う、〜に挑戦する、〜を相手に取り組む、〜を相手にするThey decided to take on the authorities. 彼らは当局と対決することを決めたHe stole the limelight from the DPJ by recruiting a team of high-pro…