Vocabs-B 5 Flashcards
facetious
/ fuh - SEE - shus /
ADJ.
not serious about a serious subject, in an attempt to be funny or to appear clever :
● facetious remarks
● He’s just being facetious. He could not really have meant it.
● I think he’s being a bit facitious here, but his argument really goes to the heart of the matter.
● It might sound a bit facitious but it’s ture.
割と重めの、政治、社会問題などを語るときに、重くならないようにちょっと冗談めかして言っている感じ
to brag
VERB
to speak too proudly about what you have done or what you own:
● She’s always bragging about how much money she earns.
● They bragged that their team had never been beaten.
special occasion
NOUN
特別な機会
● Nowadays, kimonos are worn for special occasions rather than as everyday clothes.
to cheat on a diet
PHRASE / VERB
to eat a lot during your diet because you want to eat
to pick me up
PHRASAL VERB
to cheer me up
● Singing picks me up
● My parents ouck me up when I’m down.
PHRASE / VERB
〜の要素を取り入れる（芸術作品など）
to borrow elements from / of
● Opera has always been able to borrow elements of popular music and dance without losing its character as opera.
● Do you “borrow” elements of artwork that you like and incorporate them into your style?
straight-laced
ADJ.
having old-fashioned and unchanging morals, especially relating to sexual matters:
●The joke shocked her strait-laced parents.
to defy
convention, law, teacher, etc
VERB
to refuse to obey a person, decision, law, situation, etc.:
defy…
gravity
convention
expectations
authorities
● It defies convention!（今までのやり方に反している、慣習をやぶる）
● There was a tremendous amount of risk to defy the authorities at that time
a compulsion
/ cun - PULL - shun /
NOUN
an irresistible persistent impulse to perform an act (such as excessive hand washing)
● her compulsion to repeatedly check and recheck the stove to be certain that it is turned off
● [ + to infinitive ] I seem to have a constant compulsion to eat.
disciplined
ADJ.
behaving in a very controlled way:
● The young gymnasts who won the competition were a talented and disciplined team.
● Those children are well disciplined.
ノータリンな
ADJ.
extremely ignorant or unknowledgeable
pig-ignorant
BrE, informal (insult)
夜明けと共に
PHRASE
very early in the morning, especially at the time when the sun first appears:
at the crack of dawn
● We’ll have to leave at the crack of dawn.
● I got up at the crack of dawn
It’s a work in progress at the moment, but it’ll be finished in 5 weeks
PHRASE
今は途中だけど、あと５週間で完成するよ。
to have one’s head in the clouds
PHRASE
to be absentminded or impractical
● She must have had her head in the clouds when she made the reservations because they never heard of us.
● He’ll never be able to run the business—he’s always got his head in the clouds.
to detract from
VERB
美、良いものを損なう
(formal)
1. to reduce the strength, value, or importance of (something) 名声、評判などを損なう
● They worried that the scandal would seriously detract from her chances for reelection.
- to make something seem less valuable or less deserving of admiration than it really is :
● All that make-up she wears actually detracts from her beauty, I think.
景観を損なう、などの文脈でも使える
I see a lot of ＿＿＿ in you.
PHRASE
I see many similarities between you and _____. / I see the influence of ____ in you.
● I see a lot of your Mother in you.
● I see a lot of the Ghibli movies in your drawings.
I didn’t make the logical connection
PHRASE
I didn’t realise what that meant.
それがどういうことなのかピンとこなかった、わからなかった
● It was right in front of my face but I didn’t make the logical connection.（ずっと目の前にあったのに、なかなかどういうことなのかわからなかったのです）
● I don’t know why I didn’t make the logical connection between those two things sooner.（なんでもっと早くこの二つのことがつながっていると気づかなかったんだろう）
discipline
NOUN
[U]
control
He was a bit addicted to his smartphone, but he had the discipline to break his own addiction; he put away his phone somewhere he couldn’t reach easily in the house.
a time frame
NOUN
a period of days, weeks, months, etc. within which an activity is intended to happen:
● Have you set a time frame for completing the job?
● The new law introduces these changes in/within a fairly long/short time frame.
余計なアドバイス
NOUN
advice that is not asked for
unsolicited advice
/ un - suh - LIS - uh - ted /
● ‘She said ‘do this and do this, but I have already tried all of those and they didn’t work! They were all unsolicited advice! Humph!’
良かれと思ってして・言っている
PHRASE
to do what you think will be helpful, although by doing it you might cause problems without intending to
to mean well
● I know he means well, but he just gets in the way.
● I know she can be annoying but she means well.
empty words
NOUN
空虚な言葉
not my cup of tea
PHRASE
not my thing, not to my taste
● Basquiat is not my cup of tea (not really my kind of thing)
I’m racing against the clock
PHRASE
時間との戦い、時計とにらめっこ、大急ぎ
