Chapter 1 Maryは愛想の悪い少女。イギリス人の両親のもと、インドで生まれインドに暮らしている。両親にもかまわれず、召使いのKamalaが面倒を見ていた。街に恐ろしい病気が流行して、両親も召使いも死んでしまう。その後、Yorkshire, in the north of Englandの人里遠くに住む、これまた感じの悪い猫背の叔父(Mr. Archbald Craven)のところに住むことになった。 p.1 Nobody seemed … 誰も~のことを気にかけていないようだった。 official 役人 was paid to … 雇われて~していた a thin angry face やせこけて怒った顔つき giving orders to ~に命令していた who had to obey Kamalaは従わなければならなかった。 think of ~のことを考える selfish わがまま bad-tempered 機嫌が悪い instead of ~の代わりに servant 召使い by her bed ベッドの脇に p.2 crossly 怒って at once すぐに were missing いなかった looked frightened 怖がっているようだった by herself 一人で pretend ~ふりをする notice 気づく conversation 会話 seriously まじめに flies ハエ(fly) disease 病気 scream 叫ぶ p.3 terrible 恐ろしい p.4 think of ~のことを考える hid 隠れ...
The promise of speed reading 速読が約束してくれるもの ―to absorb text several times faster than normal, without any significant loss of comprehension ― 文章を吸収する/数倍速く/普通より、重要な損失なしに/理解の can indeed seem too good to be true. 本当に~に見える/あまりに良すぎて真実ではないように Nonetheless, it has long been an aspiration にもかかわらず、それは今まで長い間切望である for many readers, as well as the entrepreneurs 〔 seeking to serve them 〕 . 多くの読者にとって/また、起業家にとって〔彼ら( =readers )にサービスを提供しようとしている〕 And as the production rate 〔 for new reading matter 〕 has increased, そして/製造スピード〔新しい読書素材の〕が上がるにつれ and people read on a growing array of devices, そして人が読むにつれ/ますます増えつつある種類の装置で the lure of speed reading has only grown stronger. 速読の魅力は強くなるばかりである。 The first popular speed-reading course was based 最初の速読コースは基づいていた on the idea that reading was slow because it was ( A ). ~という考えに/読書が遅い/それが( A )だから。 The course "focused on teaching people コースは集中した/人に教えることに to make fewer back-and-forth eye movements across the page, より少ない...
Many of today's respected thinkers argue that our efforts to fight climate change and other environmental perils will all fail unless "we do something" about population growth. One recently declared that, "in the last 200 years, population growth has been exponential. The world population doubles every forty years," ( A ) For a start, there is no exponential growth. In fact, population growth is slowing. For more than three decades now, the average number of babies being born to women in most of the world has been in decline. Globally, women today have half as many babies as their mothers did, mostly out of choice. They are doing it largely for their own good and the good of their families, not because it helps the planet. Here are the numbers. Forty years ago, the average woman had between five and six kids. Now she has 2.6. This is getting close to the replacement level, which, allowing for girls who don't make it to adulthood, is around 2.3. Half ...
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