“recently” も “these days” も日本語にすると「最近」や「近ごろ」と訳せるため、特に意識して使い分けをしている方はあまりいないかもしれませんが、実は使い分けが必要な表現です。 “lately” や “nowadays” といった関連表現と併せて、それぞれの持つニュアンスについて確認してみましょう！ recently：比較的近い「過去」のある時点に起きたこと、またはその時点から起きていること these days：過去と比較して、「今」を含む一定期間に起きていること 「最近」の指し示す内容はいつのこと？ “recently” の「最近」を言い換えるなら、「少し前に」や「少し前から」となり、少し前から現在までの間に起こった出来事や繰り返し行われていること、継続的な行為について話す場合に用います。よって動詞の時制は、過去形や現在完了形になるのが一般的です。 I went t

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, who is also the Liberal Democratic Party leader, and Yuriko Koike, the Tokyo governor who also heads the Party of Hope, shake hands before a debate on Oct. 8.Credit...Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters TOKYO — Last month, when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan dissolved Parliament and called a snap election for Oct. 22, he seemed to be making the decision from a position o

大学院受験や就活、転職など語学力証明のスタンダードであるTOEIC。 筆者のTOEICハイスコアは950ですが、大学入学時はTOEIC500点にも満たないスコアでした。 しかし、最適な勉強法とテキストによって、半年で300点以上のスコアアップに成功しています。 この記事では、英語がダメダメだった僕がTOEIC950を達成するまでに使用したテキストの中から『TOEICで確実にスコアアップできるテキスト、問題集』に絞ってレビューしていきます。 TOEICは解き方と正しい勉強法をマスターすれば確実にハイスコアを取れる試験です。 絶対にTOEICハイスコアを狙いたい人だけ、最後までお読みください。 【レベル別】TOEICに最適なテキストの組み合わせTOEICは継続して勉強すれば確実にスコアアップできる試験ですが、それは自分に合ったテキスト、問題集ありきの話。ここでは、TOEIC初心者から900超ま

越前敏弥 Toshiya Echizen @t_echizen たとえば blink が出てくるたびに、格好つけて「目をしばたたく」と訳す人がけっこういるけど、読む側からすると、１冊の小説で20回も30回も目をしばたたかれて、うんざりするわけです。「目を凝らす」や「ため息をつく」も同じで、適度に訳語を散らしていかないと、読者は耐えられない。 2015-02-04 12:04:22

You and I didn't like George W Bush. Remember his puerile declaration after 9/11 that "either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists"? Yet now, in the wake of another horrific terrorist attack, you appear to have updated Dubya's slogan: either you are with free speech... or you are against it. Either vous êtes Charlie Hebdo... or you're a freedom-hating fanatic. I'm writing to you to make

Former comfort women and their relatives have held demonstrations in Tokyo demanding justice Japan's biggest newspaper has issued a controversial apology for using the term "sex slaves" when referring to women who worked in brothels set up for Japanese soldiers in World War Two. Yomiuri Shimbun said its English version should not have used the phrase as it implied the women were coerced. Japan apo

This is an archived site and is no longer being updated. New 538 articles can be found at www.abcnews.com/538. Picture Mildred, Agnes, Ethel and Blanche. Perhaps you imagine the Golden Girls or your grandmother’s poker game. These are names for women of age, wisdom and distinction. The median living Mildred in the United States is now 78 years old. Now imagine Madison, Sydney, Alexa and Hailey. Th

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A Japanese academic journal has drawn criticism for putting a broom-wielding female robot on its cover, it seems. The illustration appears on the front of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence journal, and was submitted as part of a competition, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reports, external. It was created by a female artist to show how artificial intelligence could affect our daily liv

A Japanese pop star has shaved her head and offered a filmed apology after breaking her management firm's rules by spending a night with her boyfriend. A sobbing Minami Minegishi apologised to her fans and said she did not want to leave the band AKB48, in the video seen by millions on YouTube, external. The production company behind AKB48 said Minegishi, 20, had failed to abide by its cardinal rul

Japan's top female judo wrestlers were subjected to violence by their coach, officials have admitted. The acknowledgement followed a complaint by 15 athletes to the Japanese Olympic Committee in December. In the complaint, the group said that they had been slapped and hit with wooden swords by their head coach, local media said. The All Japan Judo Federation (AJJF) said head coach Ryuji Sonoda had

The US defence secretary has warned territorial disputes in East Asia have the potential to become wider conflicts if provocations are not reduced. "A misjudgement on one side or the other could result in violence, and could result in conflict," Leon Panetta said at the start of an Asian tour. His comments came as anti-Japanese protests continue to sweep China over a disputed island chain. Demonst

TOEIC で最後にそびえ立つPart 7（長文問題）。「長文の内容が理解できれば正解できる」と言われているPartですが、「これだ」と思って選んでも間違っている経験はありませんか？ ミスが起こる原因をまとめました。

Taken down: the illustration comparing a wife's scream to radiation. (2.bp.blogspot.com) The Japanese Atomic Energy Agency has dropped a page from its website which compared radioactive material to an angry wife. The agency says it was merely trying to explain nuclear power to women. According to Japan's Kyodo news, the Atomic Energy Agency site used an illustration of a woman raising her fist and

Kanae Kijima says she is innocent and asserts the men either committed suicide or died accidentally A Japanese woman who murdered her three former lovers in 2009 has been sentenced to death. Kanae Kijima, 37, murdered three men aged 41, 53 and 80 for financial gain, the court said. The judge added that there was no room for leniency. She met the men on internet dating sites and poisoned them with