Tokyo and some other cities in Japan have been experiencing the biggest uptick in COVID cases due to the Delta variant. 日本では、デルタ種のせいで、東京と他のいくつかの都市でこれまでで最大規模のコロナウイルス陽性者数の増加に直面している。 …
この時期の天候は晴れる日が多く、且つ温暖であるため、アスリートが最高の状態でパフォーマンスを発揮できる理想的な気候である。 “The weather of this time of the year tends to be sunny and warm. It is the ideal weather in which athletes can perf…
Did you know where the Tokyo Olympic triathlon swimming venue is going to be? 東京オリンピックのトライアスロンの水泳会場は知ってましたか。 I didn’t know. 自分は知らなかった。 It's Tokyo bay. 東京湾だ。 It’s well known that its water is ver…
I decided to pretend that the Tokyo Olympics isn’t happening and so I won’t watch any games on TV. 自分は東京オリンピックはないことに決めたので、テレビで競技を見るつもりはない。 But I’m curious how everything turns out under the sloppily p…
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/c8fd22a01f57f8727a5ac369cc913d8ac6dd8e15 It’s extremely disgusting that such a person walks on the loose in broad light and wants to represent the country as one of those Olympic crusaders. こんな人間が公…
I’m not very motivated to write anything these days, so I’m not often around on Hellotalk either. この頃、何も書く気が起こらないので、ハロートークもあまり使っていない。 If I think of what I really want to write about, maybe something like …
Last weekend, I finished reading the fantasy adventure novel Dragons of Summer Flame from the Dragonlance series, in English. 先週末、ドラゴンランスシリーズのDragons of Summer Flame というファンタジーアドベンチャー小説を英語で読み終わった…
The Olympic Games seems to happen despite overwhelming cries of objections. 圧倒的な反対の声にも関わらず、オリンピックは開催されそうだ。 It’s outrageous that the government is pressing so hard on the sport event amid the unprecedented pand…
Out of what I’ve heard about IOC recently, I began to think that the Olympic is nothing different from the fighting of gladiators at the colosseum in the age of Ancient Rome. 最近IOCについて聞いたことから、オリンピックって古代ローマ時代に…
I realized that it’s been about a year since I created my blog page. 自分のブログページを作ってから1年が経ったことに気がついた。 The reason why I started it is because at first, I wanted to seek some way to monetize my English skills and t…
I kind of believe that there is some life cycle of humans involving after death like reincarnation. 僕は、生まれ変わりのような、死後を含めた人間の何らかの生のサイクルがあると何となく信じている。 At the same time, I simply accept the genera…
Last night, after everyone went to bed at home, my youngest son came to me and said he couldn’t sleep. 昨日の夜、家で皆寝床についた後、次男が僕のところに来て、眠れないと言った。 It was around 11PM. 夜の11時頃だった。 I tried to soothe him …
Today is the final day of my Golden Week, but since I took a day off on Friday; I’m going to have a three-day weekend, I don’t feel too disappointed. 今日は僕にとってゴールデンウィーク最終日だ。でも金曜日に休みをとったからー週末は3連休にな…
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…
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。 …
(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…
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…
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…
(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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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)
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
