New Berkshire Appointee Doesn't Fit Buffett's Buy-and-Hold Mold

http://jp.wsj.com/Life-Style/node_143222


I watched English news site for about ten minutes today.
The content of news is Got of investment Warren Buffett story.

NPR news

Today's class listened NPR news. It is very interesting for this Aerial Art.
because Aerial Art need cooperation from many people and take a lot of people.

Bertie and the Ghost

Bertie and the Ghost

annoying
少し怒っている
It was Halloween, and Bertie’s annoying little brother dared him to sleep in the North Tower of the Palace – which everyone knows is haunted.

fortunately
幸いなことに
But fortunately the ghost turned out to be not the scary sort, more the nuisance type of ghost.

tadpole
オタマジャクシ
Tim the tadpole was feeling just a bit frightened about the whole idea of Halloween.

frightened
怖い思いで
That would help him forget about how frightened he really was.

Except
除外する、省く
Except for my pesky brother Harry of course…. And the royal nanny.

Obama Raises Money For Senate Candidates

Obama Raises Money For Senate Candidates


resources
資源
the president said, "if we have the resources to be able to get our message out" Democrats could still be successful on Nov. 2.

lamented
惜しまれる
President Barack Obama lamented the stiff political headwinds confronting Democrats as he asked big donors to help pay for a final two-week push to Election Day.

fundraiser
資金調達者
People want to know, what are you going to do now?" the president said Monday night at a small, private fundraiser.

Democrats
民主党
The event was expected to raise $400,000 for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

immigrant
移民者
In introducing Obama, Rajeev Sharma talked about his family's immigrant background and praised the opportunities offered in America.

Will Electric Cars Work For The Everyday Driver?

Will Electric Cars Work For The Everyday Driver?



overwhelms
圧倒される
The dashboard overwhelms me with a confusing array of digital displays.

interactive
双方向の
There's some kind of interactive bar graph that I think is supposed to tell me when I'm about to run out of juice.


satellite
衛星
And there's a satellite map of charging stations I can use — not very many of them at this point.

attempt
試みる
After several attempts, I finally manage to start the car, and much like hybrids, I can't really hear anything.

notice
気づいた
I notice a blind spot because of the small back window.


tailpipe
後部排気管
It's a wild feeling driving without a tailpipe.

A Penny's Worth

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids/news/story/0,28277,2021923,00.html

copper
銅貨
The coin is one of a kind. It is the only penny that the Denver mint made out of copper, instead of steel, in 1943.

mint
貨幣製造所
The coin is one of a kind. It is the only penny that the Denver mint made out of copper, instead of steel, in 1943.

equipment
備え
World War II was going on, and copper was needed for equipment.

TFK

Nobody knows for sure why a copper penny was made at the Denver mint in 1943, coin-dealer Andy Skrabalak told TFK.

anonymous
不明の
The coin collector who bought the $1.7 million penny wants to remain anonymous, or unknown.

The Scariest Boring Phrase In Finance

The Scariest Boring Phrase In Finance

debt
~部
Lehman Brothers debt plunged

plunged
落ちる、沈む
The U.S. dollar plunged against the yen.

swear
ほぼ確か
I caught a fish that I swear was bigger than my sister.

opposite
反対の
Sadly, a lot of people in finance have the opposite instinct.

jargon
わけのわからない
They take dramatic things and use complex jargon to make them sound as boring as possible.

actually
本当は
But that actually means things may be worse now than they were in April.

http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/index.cfm

AIDS
acquired immunodeficiency syndromeの略　
エイズウイルスに感染して起こる疾患
Researchers, policy makers and activists are busy preparing for the International AIDS Conference.

administration
政権
On Tuesday, the Obama administration announced its National HIV/AIDS Strategy.

infected
感染
The government says sixty-five percent of Americans who discover they are infected get treatment within three months.

antibody
抗体
The director of its Vaccine Research Center, Gary Nabel, says each antibody blocks the virus from attaching to white blood cells.

otherwise
さもなければ
It reacts with that region, it inactivates the virus and the virus never has a chance to enter the cells that it would otherwise infect.

development
一方で
In another development, the United Nations reported Tuesday that the number of young people becoming infected with HIV in Africa is falling.

agency
媒介
The U.N. AIDS agency gives credit to better use of preventive measures. It says young people in Africa are waiting longer to have sex.

http://storynory.com

http://storynory.com/2010/06/07/the-desolate-island/

parable
寓話
This parable from the Middle East has a mysterious and spiritual tone, and is also rather intriguing.

slave
奴隷
It’s about a slave who asks his master for his freedom.

merchant
商人
In ancient times, in the city of Tyre, there lived a merchant, who had amassed a great fortune trading in silks, carpets, and dyes.

incentive
動機
f the master was not there, they would laze around or steal, for there is no great incentive for a slave to make an effort unless it is to avoid punishment.

unloaded
荷を降ろした
He was intelligent, and diligent, and above all honest. Over the years the merchant began to rely on Ziad to keep his accounts and to oversee the goods being loaded and unloaded onto his ships.

comfortable
快適な
He rewarded him with tasty food, comfortable quarters, and smart uniforms.

Desolate
荒れ果てた
And that’s the story of the Desolate island.

週刊 ST Essays

Part Fifteen — the noise factor


shake
振る
After an hour my entire body started to shake.

announcement
お知らせ
I tried to get away from the sale announcements that happen every five minutes, which are just people screaming into a microphone.

scream
悲鳴
kept thinking and remembered the sound trucks that drive around town and scream political propaganda.

curious
好奇心が強い
So now I'm curious. Does everyone else mind all this noise or is it just me? Isn't it tiring and grating on everyone's nerves to get yelled at all the time?

extreme
極端な例
Even when our senses become dulled by certain things such as extreme noise, it doesn't mean that the sound isn't registering somewhere in our brains and causing yet unknown stress or damage.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/shukan-st/english_news/essay/essay.htm

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/shukan-st/english_news/essay/current/ey20100702/ey20100702main.htm?print=noframe

found myself trapped in
〜に引っかかってしまった
I called my bank the other day, and found myself trapped in one of those voice recognition systems — the kind where I was greeted with a disembodied voice that said, "If you have an account with us, please say 'Yes.'

straightforward
明白な
It seemed straightforward enough, so I said "Yes." There was a pause before the voice came back to me: "I'm sorry, I didn't get that.

entire
全体
This entire exchange repeated itself at least twice, until I finally decided to visualize Hugh Grant in all his foppishness and put on an English accent — it worked.

abilities
能力
I've had teachers, and even people I considered my friends, think it's OK to make me feel bad about my language abilities.

Storynory

When the Sun Hid in Her Cave

legends
歴史
One of Japan’s oldest legends tells us how the gods invented fun and music.

Incidentally
ちなみに
Incidentally, the Japanese flag includes the symbol of the sun in the form of a red disk.

impetuous
せっかちな
Oh impetuous brother of mine. Before you go, let us exchange tokens of our love and affection for one another.

fragments
欠片
the fragments of the sword sprang up as three beautiful daughters. Then the sparkling Sun Goddess took jewels from her hair and gave them to her brother.

swept
一掃した
The stormy tempered Susano-o grew so angry that he swept through his sister’s rice fields and destroyed them.

goddess
女神
The dancing goddess of mirth wore a dress that was held together with vines. As she waved her arms and pranced about, the dress became looser and looser until it fell off altogether and she had not a stitch of clothing on her.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/shukan-st/english_news/essay/essay.htm

The little things


airplane
航空機
During the second leg, the airplane was an older model, which meant it was back to standard, palm-sized screens.

realize
悟ること
I didn't realize how much I missed the bus-riding culture in Wellington.

generally
大概は
Exchanges between driver and passenger in those big cities are generally silent, unless something goes wrong.

Even
五分五分
Even when gusts of wind were blowing rain horizontally into me at a bus shelter, I couldn't help but smile a little.

relationship
関係
One example of this is the relationship my dad has with our house.

http://librivox.org/robinson-crusoe-written-anew-for-children-by-james-baldwin/

Wikipedia – Robinson Crusoe

voyage

航海

Crusoe (the family name transcribed from the German name "Kreutznaer" or "Kreutznär") sets sail from the Queen's Dock in Hull on a sea voyage in September 1651, against the wishes of his parents, who want him to stay home and assume a career in law.

wrecked

ひどく酔っぱらった

After a tumultuous journey that sees his ship wrecked by a vicious storm, his lust for the sea remains so strong that he sets out to sea again.

occasionally

ごくたまに

Years later, he discovers native cannibals who occasionally visit the island to kill and eat prisoners.

avoid

避ける

In conclusion, he takes his wealth over land to England to avoid traveling at sea. Friday comes with him and along the way they endure one last adventure together as they fight off hundreds of famished wolves while crossing the Pyrenees.

desperate

やけくそ

His short book about his desperate escape from a Caribbean penal colony, followed by his shipwrecking and subsequent desert island misadventures, was published by J.

VOA Special English

http://www1.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/world/Scientists-Look-At-Plant-Products-With-An-Eye-To-New-Possibilities-for-Health--95280084.html
参照

Generally
一般に
Generally, herbs come from the green leaves of plants or vegetables.

Importance
重要性
Some herbs and spices may be gaining importance in modern medicine.


researchers
研究者
The researchers combined the two compounds, and placed the mixture on breast cancer cells in a laboratory.

spicy
薬味
It also is used to make the spicy food seasoning curry. In the study, researchers tested curcumin, a chemical compound taken from turmeric.

mixture
混合物
The researchers combined the two compounds, and placed the mixture on breast cancer cells in a laboratory.

週刊 ST Essays [For adult eyes only]

adult

大人

As my son grows up, I've been ruminating on what becoming an adult really means these days.

term

学術用語

Though I've legally been an adult for decades, it seems to me that only recently have I begun to give the term serious thought.

decades

10年間

Though I've legally been an adult for decades, it seems to me that only recently have I begun to give the term serious thought.

civilizations

文明

Ancient civilizations used to set up tasks to challenge bravery or skills before bestowing the status of adulthood.

separation

隔絶

Separation from family support, introduction to cultural or religious duties, and a change in dress or appearance were all part of a clearly delineated transition.

vote

票決

In the absence of even this minor celebration, adulthood in the West is also loosely associated with the right to vote, getting a driver's license, moving out of the parental home, or getting a job.

Author

作者

Author Ursula K.LeGuin writes, "The creative adult is the child that has survived.

How to Learn English

expression

１、表現、

２、言い回し、

１、His joy found expression in a song of love

２、I think the Japanese expression "narau yori narero" is good advice.

grammar

１、文法

Studying grammar may be helpful at times but, in Japan, grammar is often overemphasized while students do not have sufficient opportunities to get used to English.

probably

１、たぶん、おそらく

If you have to look up a word or two on every line, you are probably reading something that is too hard for you.

paragraph

１、パラグラフ

If you are fairly sure that you understand the meaning of the sentence or paragraph you are reading, you probably don't need to stop and look up the word unless you are very curious about its meaning.

Rather

１、ある程度まで

Rather, you should try to figure out which of these meanings fits the context in which you found the word.

Accordingly

１、したがって

The more often you meet a friend and the more time you spend together, the more you learn about him or her. Accordingly, there are some people that you "know" because you have met them once or twice, but do not know well.

Listen to English - learn English!

(The Great British Donkey Race)

1 government　（名詞）

支配、統治、政府

We have had a General Election and now we have a new government.

2,electoral　（形容詞）

選挙人の、選挙候の

Many countries have electoral systems that we call, in English, “proportional representation”. In these systems,

3,constituency　（名詞）

有権者、選挙民、選挙区、後援団体、顧客層

This is what happened in the constituency where I live.

4,noise （名詞）

音、雑音、騒音、喧噪、物音、音、叫び声、騒々しい声

who was the Member of Parliament in the old Parliament, a blue donkey, a yellow donkey and a green donkey, and a few other donkeys who knew they couldn’t win but thought it might be fun to take part. The yellow donkey was the one who made the most noise.

5,Unfortunately　（副詞）

不幸にも、残念ながら、あいにく

Unfortunately, it is also not at all democratic, because the “first past the post” system favours the big political parties.

6,majority 　（名詞）

大多数、過半数、多数派

This election was different, however. No party will have a majority in the new Parliament.

1.entrance

He was so entranced with his dream girl that he asked the court painter to create a portrait of her.

2.blood

Although the Emperor was pleased with the picture, his courtiers understood that he would be even more delighted by a living copy of the dream, made out of flesh and blood.

3.portrait　

He traveled through villages and cities, along rivers and over mountains, and where-ever he went, he showed the portrait of the dream–girl to those whom he met.

4.unfortunately　

Unfortunately, my daughter has a great aversion to all men.

5.relate　

He told the young man to return to the princess’s father, to beg an audience with the young woman, and to relate to her the following story:

6.closely　

The princess listened to the story and was impressed by how closely it resembled her own dream, although one could draw a very different conclusion from it.

expression

名詞

訳、「特定の」言い回し、言い方、語句

　　「感情の」表出

　　：Laughter is the outward expression of joy.笑いは喜びの外部への表出。

overemphasized

訳、 rectify the overemphasized egalitarianism

　　「過度な平等主義を修正する」

sufficient

「名詞」

訳、十分な、満足な、足りる、間に合う、差し支えない

:Incompatibility is sufficient grounds for divorce. : 性格不一致は十分な離婚の根拠になる

:Their finances are not sufficient to have another child. : もう一人子供ができたら家計がもたない

materials

訳、機械材料・材料加工部門

:materials and now in very short supply.

原材料は現在大変な供給不足となっております。

あいさつ

Nice to meet you Mr.Masden.

My name is Naoyuki.

Thank you for your continued help.