Hot Words No.41

Assiduous

発音：

[əsídƷuəs]

意味：

律儀で堅実な

Meticulous and conscientious

例文1：

I am assiduous in my daily exercise schedule.

例文2：

He has been assiduously keeping his diaries since his school days.

Bare

発音：

[bέər]

意味：

隠された状態から表に出す

To reveal or expose

例文1：

It was so hot that I took off my T-shirt and bared my chest to the sun.

例文2：

The political party bared its internal rifts as it debated the free trade proposal.

Career

発音：

[kəríər]

意味：

コントロールが危うい状態で疾走する

To move forward quickly, often out of control

例文1：

When I was driving home late last night, I momentarily dozed off and let the car career down the highway for a few seconds.

例文2：

When I visited New York for the first time, I felt overwhelmed as pedestrians careered past me in crowded streets.

Duck

発音：

[dʌ́k]

意味：

難しい又は不快な状況を免れる

To avoid something difficult or unpleasant

例文1：

Several people in the audience expressed their disagreement to what the speaker had said, but he ducked the issue and walked off the podium.

例文2：

A policy of secrecy lets the auditor duck scrutiny.

Garner

発音：

[ɡάːrnər]

意味：

収集する

To collect or gather

例文1：

I spent the whole morning online trying to garner information on our client company.

例文2：

The EU will instruct the banks to garner bigger reserves.

Lame

発音：

[léim]

意味：

弱く効果に欠ける

Weak and ineffective

例文1：

I was quite offended when the salesperson gave me a lame excuse for being late.

例文2：

He could find only lame words to console her.

Mitigate

発音：

[mítəɡèit]

意味：

悪い効果を弱める

To weaken the negative effect of something

例文1：

The government finally decided to take some action to mitigate the effects of car exhaust gases in the city.

例文2：

His financial decline was mitigated by the fact that some old friends still esteemed him.

Plaintive

発音：

[pléintiv]

意味：

音や声が物哀しげな

Sad in sound or voice

例文1：

She took slow steps on the beach, listening to the plaintive horns from the ships and freighters off shore.

例文2：

The singer’s voice was made plaintive by distance.