Vocabs-C

Question 1

a couch potato

Answer 1

NOUN

a person who spends long time on a sofa being lazy

● I was a couch potato yesterday.
● My dad can be a real couch potato on his day off.

Question 2

to go pear-shaped

Answer 2

ADJ.

to go really wrong

● We’d planned to go away for the weekend, but it all went pear-shaped because of rain.
● It’s all gone a bit pear-shaped!

Question 3

go really seriously bad
壊滅的になる

Answer 3

go catastrophically wrong

● The peace settlement went catastrophically wrong when the terrorists attacked the town.

/katus - TRO - ficly/

Question 4

a catastrophe

/ku - TAS - tru - fee/

Answer 4

NOUN

a really seriously bad event with destructions;

● What was before my eyes were a complete catastrophe.

Question 5

爽快感がある

Answer 5

ADJ.

exhilarating

making you feel very refreshing, happy and thrilled

● Windsurfing looks really exhilarating, so I want to try it sometime.

/ig - ZIL - uh - lay - ting/

Question 6

leprosy

Answer 6

NOUN

a name of a disease
らい病

Question 7

a leper

Answer 7

NOUN

a person who suffers from leprosy

● There once was a leper colony somewhere in Europe to isolate lepers.

Question 8

時を得た一針は九針の手間を省く

PROVERB

すぐに対処しておけば、あとで大掛かりな手間をかけずにすむということ。
その時に一針縫っておけば、あとで九針縫う手間を省くことができるとの意から。
「適時の一針は九針の手間を省く」「一針入魂は九針救う」ともいう。

Answer 8

A stitch in time saves nine.

if you sort out a problem immediately it may save a lot of extra work later.

Question 9

It adds another level to it!

Answer 9

PHRASE

for example:

● ‘Onion itself tastes sharp, but pickling it must make it even sharper!’ ‘Yeah, it adds another level to it!’

Question 10

It conjures up an amusing image.

Answer 10

PHRASE

for example:

● The idiom ‘a couch potato’ conjures up an amusing image!

Question 11

I’m in a bit of a pickle.

Answer 11

PHRASE

I’m in a bit of trouble. (followed by: ‘Can you help me?’)

(Used before asking a favour)

Question 12

世の中の腐敗を防ぐ善良な人、鏡となる人

NOUN/ADJ.

very good, honest, and reasonable, and not thinking you are special in any way

Answer 12

the salt of the earth

「実直に誠実に生きる、本当に良い人たち」農業や、何かのローカルなコミュニティなどの人について話すコンテクストで使われることが多いよう

● She is the salt of the earth. She is always helping people.
● He was the sort of person referred to as salt of the earth: very friendly and straightforward.
● It’s a community with a great sense of pride, full of salt of the earth people.
● He’s a salt-of-the-earth type with absolutely no pretentions.

Question 13

It was catastrophic!

Answer 13

PHRASE

It was really really bad like the hell on the earth!

Question 14

a wise move

Answer 14

PHRASE

a wise action; a wise decision

● It was a wise move switching to an online lesson today, as it was pouring down!

Question 15

to affect one’s mode

Answer 15

PHRASE

For example:

● The rain can affect our modes, doesn’t it?

Question 16

〜にレッスンの重点を置く

Answer 16

PHRASE

to base the lesson on (something)

to do something as the main focus of the lesson.

● We based the lesson on idioms today.

Question 17

彼女の言い方から、本当はやりたくないんだなということを察した。

Answer 17

VERB

I inferred from the way she said it that she really didn’t want to.

to guess (with the information you have)

● What do you infer from her refusal?
● [ + that ] I inferred from her expression that she wanted to leave.

Question 18

autonomous learning

Answer 18

NOUN

learning that is done on your own

Question 19

bureaucracy

Answer 19

NOUN

excessively complicated procedure/too much paperwork

● My visa application is full of bureaucracy.

Question 20

bureaucratic

/ byoo - ruh - CRAT - ic /

Answer 20

ADJ.

involving complicated process and rules that make something slow and difficult

● My visa application is very bureaucratic. They asked for my travel history of 9 years ago!

Question 21

intricate

Answer 21

ADJ.

very complicated and delicate, in a way that needs close attention to understand/do it.

● Drawing architecture is a really intricate process.

Question 22

a double-page spread

Answer 22

NOUN

When you open a book, and when the design/layout/picture is spread over both right and left pages, it is called ‘a double-page spread’.

● I like the double-page spread design of this magazine.

Question 23

to go right into it

Answer 23

PHRASE

to start complaining/muttering about something

● Argghh, he’s gone right into it again!

Question 24

extremely effective

Answer 24

PHRASE

very effective 
('effective' on its own sounds like it does the job but nothing above that. So it's better to add an adverb to make the word stronger)

Question 25

コントラストを際立たせる

PHRASE

to show the contrast very vivdly

Answer 25

to highlight the contrast

Question 26

each individual…

Answer 26

PHRASE

an emphasised version of ‘each…’

Question 27

I have of been/done

Answer 27

PHRASE

an alternative form of ‘I have done/been’

● I feel blessed to have of been involved with such wonderful people!
● We don’t know what we would have of done if it was not for them.

Question 28

condensed

Answer 28

ADJ.

compressed and concentrated

Question 29

cluttered

Answer 29

ADJ.

untidy, not organized, and covered with a lot of things:

● a cluttered desk/room

Question 30

こういうことって気づかないものなんです

PHRASE

Answer 30

You don’t always/necessarily notice these things.

● It might be necause I was a kind and you don’t necessarily notice these things, but I really think it wasn’t like it is today.（子供だったから気づかないだけなのかもしれないけど、確かに昔はこうじゃなかったと思う）
● You don’t necessarily notice these things, but looking back on it, I think it definitely helped build up my confidence again.（その時には気づかないものだけれど、振り返ってみると自信を取り戻すのにとても役だったと思う）
● It’s crazy you don’t always notice these things until someone mentions it!（言われるまで気づかないことってありますよねえ！😲）
● One good way to spot your pronunciation mistakes is to record yourself speaking. You don’t always notice these things when you speak.（発音のミスに気づく良い方法は、自分が話すのを録音することです。話している途中にはそういうことに気づけないものです）

Question 31

attention to detail

Answer 31

PHRASE

the ability to notice/keeps a close eye on the finer points of projects, questions, and problems.

● She has a high level of attention to detail.
● I love your attention to detail in your work.

Question 32

to reflect

Answer 32

VERB

反映する

● The monotone colour of the first few scenes of this picture book really reflects the boredom and loneliness of the girl.

Question 33

a heatwave

Answer 33

NOUN

a period of very hot weather;

●A heatwave is coming soon.

Question 34

a hosepipe ban

Answer 34

NOUN

an outdoor water-use restriction because of lack of water;

● I hope there won’t be a hosepipe ban this year.

Question 35

muggy

Answer 35

ADJ.

humid and unpleasantly warm

● It gets really hot and muggy in July in Japan.

Question 36

It’s very close today.

Answer 36

PHRASE

It’s very humid and hot today.

Question 37

sticky

Answer 37

ADJ.

humid and hot in a way that you sweat and your clothes get sticky;

●It’s far too hot and sticky to go outside.
外に行くにはあまりにも蒸し暑すぎる
●It was pretty sticky last night, wasn’t it?
昨日の夜は結構蒸し暑かったね

Question 38

いつも先延ばしにしちゃうんだよね

PHRASE

Answer 38

I keep putting it off.

● I really need to paint a new work, but I keep putting it off because I’m so busy with many other things to do!

Question 39

最初に感じたのは、色使いの面白さです。

PHRASE

Answer 39

The first thing that really struck me was the interesting use of colours.

Question 40

I was struck by the use of shapes and colours.

Answer 40

PHRASE

形や色の使い方がすごい印象的だなと思いました。

Question 41

grey and gloomy days

Answer 41

PHRASE

like rainy days.

Question 42

Is it beneficial to other people?

Answer 42

PHRASE

それは誰かの役につんでしょうか？