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fall under their spell
To come under the influence or control of someone who one finds fascinating, enchanting, or seductive. Our son has never acted out like this before. I think he must have fallen under his new friend’s spell. I would normally never rush into a relationship this quickly before I fell under Janet’s spell. Such was the magnitude of her beauty that countless men have fallen under the duchess’s spell.
He left what little furniture he owned to his landlord in lieu of rent.
If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
…our abysmal record at producing a scientifically trained workforce.
The general standard of racing was abysmal.
If you describe a situation or the condition of something as abysmal, you think that it is very bad or poor in quality.
..low paid menial jobs, such as cleaning and domestic work.
Menial work is very boring, and the people who do it have a low status and are usually badly paid.
Seething with envy
1. boiling or foaming as if boiling 2. crowded and full of restless activity 3. in a state of extreme agitation, esp through anger 沸騰している、煮えくり返る、逆巻いている、激しい
The government has said it was an inadvertent error.
An inadvertent action is one that you do without realizing what you are doing.
The government has been trumpeting tourism as a growth industry. [VERB noun + as]
…Mark Morris, who is trumpeted as the dance talent of his generation. [VERB noun as noun]
Nobody should be trumpeting about chemical weapons. [VERB + about]
It was trumpeted that the nation’s health was improving. [be VERB-ed that]
…the much trumpeted ‘tax cuts’ in the 1980s. [VERB-ed]
If someone trumpets something that they are proud of or that they think is important, they speak about it publicly in a very forceful way.
he bank has to butter up investors because it is in a fiercely competitive market. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
I tried buttering her up. ‘I’ve always admired people with these sorts of talents.’
If someone butters you up, they try to please you because they want you to help or support them.
The old sense of deference and restraint in royal reporting has vanished.
Out of deference to him, I lowered my head as he prayed.
Deference is a polite and respectful attitude towards someone, especially because they have an important position.
The changes are insidious, and will not produce a noticeable effect for 15 to 20 years.
They focus on overt discrimination rather than insidious aspects of racism.
Something that is insidious is unpleasant or dangerous and develops gradually without being noticed.
The terror ended when armed police swooped on the car. [VERB + on]
If police or soldiers swoop on a place, they go there suddenly and quickly, usually in order to arrest someone or to attack the place.
Wash your face with lukewarm water.
The coffee was weak and lukewarm.
If you describe a person or their attitude as lukewarm, you mean that they are not showing much enthusiasm or interest.
..songs of genuine passion and ardour.
…my ardor for football.
Ardour is a strong, intense feeling of love or enthusiasm for someone or something.
…a veritable feast of pre-match entertainment.
…a veritable army of security guards.
You can use veritable to emphasize the size, amount, or nature of something. 正真正銘の、ホンモノの
Policemen, bankers and butchers are all lumped together in the service sector. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE]
Because she was lumped together with alcoholics and hard-drug users, Claire felt out of place.
If a number of different people or things are lumped together, they are considered as a group rather than separately.
The hero, Danny, bears an uncanny resemblance to Kirk Douglas.
I had this uncanny feeling that Alice was warning me.
If you describe something as uncanny, you mean that it is strange and difficult to explain.
the obstetrics department
産科
The shipping industry promulgated a voluntary code.
If people promulgate a new law or a new idea, they make it widely known.
…the reformer’s apocalyptic warnings that the nation was running out of natural resources.
Apocalyptic means relating to the total destruction of something, especially of the world.
I think there is an historic enmity between them. [+ between]
President Mitterrand arrived in Hanoi yesterday to bury old colonial and cold war enmities.
Enmity is a feeling of hatred towards someone that lasts for a long time.
Courtiers
Courtiers were noblemen and women who spent a lot of time at the court of a king or queen.
The media has made unfeeling voyeurs of all of us.
If you describe someone as a voyeur, you disapprove of them because you think they enjoy watching other people’s suffering or problems.
The group says it wants politicians to stop wasting public money on what it believes are frivolous projects.
If you describe an activity as frivolous, you disapprove of it because it is not useful and wastes time or money.
His paintings beguiled the Prince of Wales. [VERB noun]
I was beguiled by the romance and exotic atmosphere of the souks in Marrakech. [be VERB-ed]
If something beguiles you, you are charmed and attracted by it.
She had impeccable taste in clothes.
Her academic credentials are impeccable.
If you describe something such as someone’s behaviour or appearance as impeccable, you are emphasizing that it is perfect and has no faults.
His critics say he’s just being silly and petulant.
He picked the pen up with a petulant gesture.
Someone who is petulant is unreasonably angry and upset in a childish way.
have profound ramifications
予期しない結果［問題・影響］
a quirk in the system
A quirk is something unusual or interesting that happens by chance.
He began to practice night and day with such assiduity that his reeds would become red from blood.
assiduity = devoted attention
Hippos are unable to submerge in the few remaining water holes. [VERB]
The river burst its banks, submerging an entire village. [VERB noun]
If something submerges or if you submerge it, it goes below the surface of some water or another liquid.
To save his life, doctors amputated his legs. [VERB noun]
He had to have one leg amputated above the knee. [have noun VERB-ed]
To amputate someone’s arm or leg means to cut all or part of it off in an operation because it is diseased or badly damaged.
The tranquil atmosphere of The Connaught allows guests to feel totally at home.
The place was tranquil and appealing.
Something that is tranquil is calm and peaceful.
Three people died as wreckage blazed, and rescuers fought to release trapped drivers. [VERB]
The log fire was blazing merrily. [VERB]
…a blazing fire. [VERB-ing]
When a fire blazes, it burns strongly and brightly.
His fury was so great he could hardly speak. He growled some unintelligible words at Pete. [VERB noun]
‘I should have killed him,’ Sharpe growled. [VERB with quote]
If someone growls something, they say something in a low, rough, and angry voice.
..’Bob Roberts’, an eerily prescient comedy about a populist multimillionaire political candidate.
If you say that someone or something was prescient, you mean that they were able to know or predict what was going to happen in the future.
They loathed everything about Windows.
intense dislike
He dabbled in business. [V + in/with/at]
She dabbled with drugs. [V in/with/at n]
Magicians do not dabble, they work hard. [VERB]
If you dabble in something, you take part in it but not very seriously.
It is very unnerving to find out that someone you see every day is carrying a potentially deadly virus.
…her unnerving habit of continuously touching people she was speaking to.
If you describe something as unnerving, you mean that it makes you feel worried or uncomfortable.
The drug induces hallucinations at high doses.
A hallucination is the experience of seeing something that is not really there because you are ill or have taken a drug.
sfumato
an effect, as in oil painting, of the tones shading into one another so there are no sharp outlines
