empollonの英語とか学習帳

このブログは僕の英語学習の内容や進捗、特に翻訳練習を記録するために始めました。ついでに、面白い人たちとの新たな出会いがあったら、なお嬉しいです。This will be to keep a record of my English practice progress. If I can get to know new interesting people through any interactions here, that’s also nice

2021-01-01から1年間の記事一覧

英語日記 日本の家事事情

There have been several couples around me who divorced after long years of marriage. 僕の周りに、長年の結婚生活の後に離婚した夫婦が何組かいる。 It’s not hard to guess that the reasons they did so would differ according to each individual c…

英語日記 ゴールデンウィーク

Japan has entered Golden Week starting today. 日本は今日からゴールデンウィークです。 Golden Week is a long holiday series that happens from the end of April to the first week of May. ゴールデンウィークは4月末から5月の1週目にある連休です。 …

英語日記 英語のRとL

(今日から和訳も加えてみた) I’ve been practicing English R and L sounds while watching some YouTube videos for some time. しばらくの間、YouTubeのビデオを見ながら英語のRとLの音を練習してきた。 However, when I have a test for my recognition o…

英語日記 長男が中学へ

It’s been a while since I stopped writing journals in English as often as before. 以前ほど頻繁には英語で文章を書かなくなってからしばらく経った。 These days, I feel like it’s bothersome to come up with what to write about. この頃は、何を書…

英語日記 新しい中華鍋を買った

Today, I bought a new iron wok to make fried rice for dinner. Until today, I didn’t know that they would burn off anti-rust sealant coated on a new iron pan or wok before starting to use it. But that was what the instruction said and accor…

英語日記 Educatedを読み終わった

(I wrote about the book Educated. This could be a spoiler) Yesterday, I finished reading a book titled Educated. It’s a memoir of a woman who was born and raised in a religious family. In her upbringing, especially her father cast strong i…

英語日記 家族との休日

Yesterday, my family and I went to buy some school items for my eldest son entering junior high school. The main focus of the shopping was a pair of white sneakers. Most of junior high schools in my city have white sneakers designated for …

英語日記 学ぶこと

Learning something might be about observing yourself. In the process of learning, you are forced to see in yourself, what you are good at and what poor at. Improvement will mostly happen when you cope with weakness by trying to rectify it …

英語日記 喋り方をモノマネ

I’m trying not to think about work for tomorrow, but I don’t think I’m successful not doing so. I would like to change jobs in the future. I’ve been thinking so for a long time already. This is the prime reason why I had started learning E…

英語日記 人間

We are all conditioned to feel so big and important, but in reality just a flicker in the universe. (This is mostly plagiarism from someone)

英語>日本語 翻訳練習 変身 フランツ・カフカ 7

It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than before, if that was possible, he could think of …

英語日記 コロナ 濃厚接触者の検査を減らしたらしい

In Japan, the public health centers have been taking full control of authorized COVID testing from the very beginning of the pandemic, which is likely to be one reason why there aren’t as many tests done as in other countries: man power is…

英語>日本語 翻訳練習 変身 フランツ・カフカ 6

His father went back to his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I beg of you." 彼の父親は朝食に戻って行ったが、妹は留まり小さな声で言った。「グレゴール、ドアを開けて、お願い」 Gregor, however, had no thought of ope…

英語日記 今日も休み

I took a day off for today so I have a three-day weekend. Since the pandemic started, I’ve been taking days off more often than before just because I’m not extremely motivated to go to work every day amid this unprecedented disaster. I’m g…

英語>日本語 翻訳練習 変身 フランツ・カフカ 5

He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. 彼はこれら全てについてまだ考えており、時計が七時十五分前を打った時、ベッドから出ることを決めかねていた。 Ther…

英語>日本語 翻訳練習 変身 フランツ・カフカ 4

Had the alarm clock not rung? 目覚ましは鳴らなかったのか? He could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it should have been; it certainly must have rung. 目覚ましは然るべく四時にセットされているのがベッドから見えたの…

英語>日本語 翻訳練習 変身 フランツ・カフカ 3

He slid back into his former position. 彼は元の場所に後退した。 "Getting up early all the time", he thought,「いつも早起きばかりで」彼は思った。 "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of…

英語>日本語 翻訳練習 変身 フランツ・カフカ 2

Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. それからグレゴールは窓の外の鈍色の空を見ようと向きを変えた。 Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel quite sad.降り注ぐ雨が窓に当たるのを聞いて彼はす…

英語>日本語 翻訳練習 変身 フランツ・カフカ 1

Metamorphosis変身Franz Kafkaフランツ・カフカ Translated by David Wyllie翻訳:デビット・ウィリー I One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. ある朝、嫌な夢から目…

英語日記 英語の発音練習

At the turning of the year, I set a bunch of the goals that I want to achieve this year like new year resolutions. However, I already struggle to conjure up the motivation to work on them. I have a slight headache, some pain behind my eyes…

日本語>英語 翻訳練習 0059 非常事態宣言 wiki

非常事態宣言Declaration of emergency 非常事態宣言(ひじょうじたいせんげん)とは、自然災害、感染症(伝染病・疫病)のパンデミック、原子力事故などの災害や、戦争、テロ、内乱、騒乱など、健康・生命・財産・環境などに危険が差し迫っている有事(緊急…

英語日記 冬休み最終日

Today is the last day of my winter break. Tomorrow I’m going back to work. I don’t have specific plans what I’m going to do today. Most likely, I’ll go out to walk for a bit at some point during the day. I’ll try to read in English or watc…