Rino

TOEIC935(2024)/ 930(2025)思いついたら気づきとぼやきᝰ✍︎ 🫧Just a little log of notes and thoughts🫧（🏦🇯🇵🇨🇭🇺🇸→💻🤖🇺🇸）🇫🇷フラ語ずっとビギナー♡

[Rino @Rino950]

Komorebi on campus — a little sunshine between rainy days.
🍃🌞🌿🌫️🍃

#英語日記

[Rino @Rino950]

🎬It was the first time I’d seen a movie in a theater in a long time - the last one before “The Devil Wears Prada2” was “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

#英語日記

[Rino @Rino950]

MISIA Arena Tour Final @ K-Arena✨
The diva was just absolutely stunning. So revitalizing, invigorating and deeply healing.
#Grandhorizon #MISIA

[Rino @Rino950]

Japan’s cedar pollen is not a sign of spring; it is the legacy of the short-sighted government policy of mass afforestation in the 1950s.

#英語日記

[Rino @Rino950]

I ordered an oolong tea latte without syrup.
Since I didn’t get my usual decaf latte, now the caffeine is kicking in, and I’m wide awake now.

#英語日記

[Rino @Rino950]

Powder snow settles, blanketing everyday things in white silence.

🌫️❄️🌫️❄️🌫️ ❄️🌫️❄️🌫️ ❄️🌫️❄️🌫️

都心の積雪は2018年以来かぁ…

#英語日記

[Rino @Rino950]

Condensation forms on the window sill.

雪も結露もひっさびさ❄️

#英語日記

[Rino @Rino950]

Last night, I cleaned the exhaust fan and vent hood that had been unfinished since the end of the year🫧🫧🫧. Getting rid of the grease is always such a hassle.

#英語日記

[Rino @Rino950]

The government's countermeasures for the recent surge in bear attacks came too late. 🐻🏡

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Japan plans to hire hunters as bear attacks rise https://t.co/KT2l2K1KrE

[Rino @Rino950]

stand pat
1. 決意·方針·信念などを固守する，曲げない，（問題に）固執する，こだわる ｟on ...｠
The government must stand pat in its policy.
政府は政策を曲げてはならない.
2.〘ポーカー〙 初めに配られた手でやる，配られた札を変えない
(Random House)

[The Mainichi (Japan Daily News) @themainichi]

Yen weakens to 153 vs. US dollar after BOJ stands pat https://t.co/bd2z6Vcku3

[Rino @Rino950]

WOKE is DEAD
挑発的でキャッチーで戦略的。
印象操作がお上手。

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

WOKE = BROKE

[Rino @Rino950]

おぉ🤍

[ラテン語さん @latina_sama]

英単語を入力するだけで、それをヨーロッパの各言語に翻訳して地図上に表示してくれるサイトが便利すぎるのでみんなに知ってほしいです！ 試しにdog「犬」でやってみました。 https://t.co/Fbm04b1syc

[Rino @Rino950]

ミレーの「落穂拾い」 “The Gleaners”がやってくるって。

glean(vt) to obtain information, knowledge, etc., sometimes with difficulty and often from various different places

オルセー美術館展、来年11月開催　東京都内で　ゴッホやミレーなど
https://t.co/gpjOS9Sk3L

[Rino @Rino950]

The cool night yesterday allowed me to sleep for eight and a half hours for the first time in a while. I tend to have less sleep during summer.

#sleepdeprivation
#英語日記

[Rino @Rino950]

I did early voting today and got interviewed for an exit poll, too. The decent temperature of 27°C was just right for voting.

#期日前投票
#出口調査
#英語日記

[Rino @Rino950]

ちょうど1年ぶりのTOEIC。
ほんとに変わり映えのないスコア。
リスニングは難しかったので残念だけどこれはOK。リーディング、安定のプラトー♾️
寒くなったらまた受けよー。

[Rino @Rino950]

歴史は繰り返す。一度は悲劇として。一度は喜劇として。

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice.
He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

Karl Marx
https://t.co/bjc9EbuxIp

farce(n)茶番

[Rino @Rino950]

A townscape at sunset on the summer solstice.

#夏至
#solstice

Word origins: from Latin solstitium, from sol ‘sun’🌞+ stit- ‘stopped🤚🏻, stationary’

[Rino @Rino950]

☑︎都議会議員選挙投票Done

• Just voted in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election.
• I cast my vote in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election.

#英語日記

[Rino @Rino950]

🗣️Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated…

[でた単 英検1級 @detatan1q]

obliterate [ əblítərèit / oub- ] ～を消滅させる
でた単英検1級 他動詞A
2021年度第2回など、2001年度第2回以降、選択肢として6回登場していますが、正解にはなっていません。