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english_word_power_20150104192522 Flashcards

1
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We were determined not to waver from our goals

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to become weaker or less certain

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in the cracks of your frenetic schedule

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cracks =　ちょっとした隙間時間。frenetic = fast/energtic but rather uncontrolled

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I find solace in their discordance

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solace = a feeling of emotional comfort at a time of great sadness or disappointment

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People are winging it.

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wing it = to do something without planning or preparing it

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the pressure to perform is palable.

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palable = obvious

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discord

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disagreement or aruging between people

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tinker at the margins

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重要度の低い部分をいじる

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entices them to dig deeper into the content.

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entice = 誘う

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slandering capitalism

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to say unpleasant things about something that are untrue

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they would land in hot water

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in a difficult situation in which you are likely to be punished

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It incite and emotioanl reaction

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扇動する、煽る

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I lived apart from the hub-bob of the city’s commerce.

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hub-bob = a mixture of loud noise esp, the noise of a lot of people, 喧騒

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She immediately zeroed in on the weak pointin his argument.

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zero in on somthing/somebody = to direct all your attention towards a particular person or thing

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resolve these environmental incongruities

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incongruities = the fact that something is strange, unusual, or unsuitable in a particular situation.

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15
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vetting your ideas one by one

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to check a report or speech etc. carefully to make sure it is acceptable

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cringe

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feel embarrased or disgusted

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17
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spigot

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a type of valve that controls the flow = 蛇口

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18
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A purported priority for the company

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評判の、うわさの、Supposed

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a futile effort

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無駄な努力

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that said,

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そうはいっても、something is true in spite of what you have just said

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21
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commiserate with

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to express your sympathy who is unhappy about something

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slog through

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work hard and steadily through it

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23
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wither

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しおれる。they become drier and smaller and start to die

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with a terrible sense of impending doom, he opened the door and went in.

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impeding doom = likely to happen soon

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You will be poised to get moving on things that previously seeemd unattainable

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be poised to = 構えがとれた

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A long slog

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slog = a piece of work that takes a lot of time and effort and usually boring/ a long period of tiring walking

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glamorous

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attractive, exciting and related to wealth and success

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fickle

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it often changes and in unreliable

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stock markts shuddered on the news

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shake with fear/horror/disgust/cold

30
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a downturn is at hand

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a duwnturn in the auto industry

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have an outsized effect

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outsized = larger than normal

32
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seer

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someone who can see into the future and say what will happen

33
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adrenaline shot of lower interest rates

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カンフル剤

34
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housing malaize

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a general problem that is difficult to describe in an exact way

35
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linger

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長引く

36
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maliciously

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very unkind and cruel and deliberately behaving in a way that is likely to upset or hurt someone

37
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tallied

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to calculate total number

38
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buoyed

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to make someone feel happier or more confident

39
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a long period of sub-par growth

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標準以下の

40
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the grim arithmetic

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恐ろしい計算

41
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quintuple

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5倍の double/triple/quadruple/quintuple

42
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spare the fate

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運命を逃れる: to prevent someone from having do something difficult and upsetting

43
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in tatters

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ruined/badly damaged 破たんして、ぼろぼろになって

44
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swollen

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swell-swelled-swollen= to gradually increase in amount/number, larger and rounder than normal

45
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defuncted sructured investment vehicle

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not exisisting any more or not useful any more. the now defunct nuclear reactor

46
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eerily

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strange and frightning

47
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parrallels

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similarity between two things

48
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The lunar new year

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旧正月

49
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the biggest and best known chaebol

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Samsung, 20% of SK’s GDP

50
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slush fund

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不正資金・わいろ

51
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bring somebody to heel

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屈服させる

52
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barge

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a large low boat with a flat bottom

53
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go bust

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破たんする

54
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contrition

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Feeling guilty and sorry for something bad that you have done

55
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drag one’s feet

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故意に長引かせる

56
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indict ～ on charge

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～を起訴する

57
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stave off recession

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～を免れる・～に歯止めをかける

58
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anemic

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貧血症 seeming weak and uninteresting

59
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flagging growth

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低迷する、減少する

60
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Take heart in

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に安心する

61
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edge up

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じわじわと上昇する

62
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tally

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累計

63
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flurry

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あわただしさ、a short intense period of it

64
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skirt recession

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～を回避する

65
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flocked to its stores

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店に殺到する

66
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sap consumer spending power

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購買力を削ぐ

67
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big pockets of weakness

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かなりの

68
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plummeted

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急に下がる

69
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a touch stronger

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少し

70
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bolster growth

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強化する

71
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fortnightly

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2週間ごとに forteen nightsから来ている

72
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last week と the last weekの違い

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“Last week, last month etc is the week or month just before this one. If I am speaking in July, last month was June.”“The last week, the last month etc is the period of seven days, thirty days etc up to the moment of speaking.”

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