北門地区教室のBさんは、お菓子作りの名人。これまで何度も我々にご馳走してくれました。今回挑戦したのはケーク・サレ（La Cake Salé）、フランス生まれの塩味ケーキなんだとか。
同じ教室のみんな（総勢１０人）のために、ひとつひとつラップにくるんで渡してくれるBさん、心尽くしが伝わります。さっそくこの私もいただきました。とってもまろやかで美味しかったです。 Bさんありがとう、君はケーキ屋さんになれるよ！
アンディウィリアムズさん逝く
大物歌手がまたひとり去りました。アンディウィリアムズさん、とても素敵な声の持ち主でした。
このレコードジャケット、見覚えがあります。近所のレコード屋で何週間も第一位に居座っていましたから・・・
味の素のCMに出ていました、それから紅白歌合戦にも出場。きっと日本びいきだったのですね。
晩年は膀胱がんに見舞われ闘病生活の日々。つらかったでしょうね。
アンディさんお疲れ様でした。あなたの歌声は永遠に人々の心に残ります。
野村ジジイの時事い英作文 次世代に向けたエネルギー戦略
状況が変化すると、いままで見えなかったものが見えてくることがある。
There are times when , with situations changing, we can see things better than before.
それは我が国のエネルギー政策にもあてはまる。
And it applies to Japan’s energy policy.
東日本大震災と福島原発事故は我が国を苦境においこんだ。
The great east Japan earthquake and tsunami and the subsequent meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant put Japan into crisis.
ところがこうした苦境を”転機”ととらえる専門家がいる。
But there are some experts who see this crisis as a chance for a new beginning.
ノンフィクション作家山根一眞氏はその一人だ。
One of them is a non-fiction writer KAZUMA YAMANE.
彼は震災で今までの２０世紀型の文明はNOを突き付けられ、リセットされた。そして新しい技術やシステムが世の中に出るものすごくいいチャンスになっている、と語る。
He says “The twentieth-century type of civilization is now denied and reset owing to those disasters, creating a good chance for new technologies and systems to be put in the world.
原発などの発電設備があるから、新しい発電技術はコストや将来性の見地から実用性に薄く、開発するだけの価値がないとみなされてきた。 New power generation technologies were considered too short in practical use to be developed because sufficient energy supply was guaranteed by exhisting nuclear plants.
いまそういう技術が動き出した。これは素晴らしいことだ。
Now those technologies have made their way. It is wonderful.
レンズ風車、大気中の電波を集めて発電する技術、潮流発電。実用化への道のりは長いが、子、孫、次の世代の時代のことを考えるといまからじっくり取り組んでおく必要がある。
Lens windmill, power generation by collecting microwaves in the air, and ocean current power generation. Although there is a long way to go, but we need to take each step along the way for our kids, grandkids, and great grandkids.
猛暑もなんのその。８０代全員出席！
私のところに通ってくださっている生徒さんのなかに、８０代の方が４人もいらっしゃいます。
８０歳、８２歳、８８歳、８９歳。 みなさんほんとうに元気いっぱい。
先週は３０度を超す猛暑が続きましたが、そんなことはへっちゃら、とばかりに全員しっかり登校なさいました。
彼女らに共通しているのは好奇心の強さ。新聞や雑誌は欠かさず読んで頭をリフレッシュさせているのが若さの秘訣のようです。
さあ、９月。今日も３０度を超すとの予報。私も暑さに負けず頑張らなくては・・・
それでは行ってきまーす。
屋根裏に100年前のウイスキー13本
いやー、酒好きの私にはたまらないニュースです。
１．ミズーリ州セントジョセフ市のブライアンン・ファイトさんが市内の古い家を購入。
２．その家は１８５０年代に建築されたもの。（日本では江戸時代。ペリー来航のころ）
３．移り住んでから奥さんと相談し、冷暖房機取付のため屋根裏改装をきめる。
４. 屋根裏の床板をひっぺがすと、中から古めかしいウイスキー瓶がゴロゴロ。
５．よく見ると醸造１９１２年、瓶詰め１９１７年と書いてある。禁酒法が制定されたのは１９１９年なのでそれより前のものだ。
６．だが、ウイスキーはワインと違い、時が経てば美味しくなるものではない。
７．それどころかアルコール分が飛んでしまっている可能性もある。
８．５年後の２０１７年に、１００周年を記念して飲むか？
９．それともこのままにしておくか？ 迷うブライアンさん。
１０．オークションに出せば高価な値段がつくことも考えられる。
１１．みなさんならどうしますか？ 僕ならきっと・・・・飲まず売らず、ずっと部屋に置いて眺めていると思います。
Whisky windfall: Man finds rare 100-year-old bottles hidden in the attic
When a Missouri man decided to install central air-conditioning and central heat in the attic of his historic house, he found much more than he bargained for.
Bryan Fite, of St. Joseph, Mo., discovered 13 bottles of century-old whisky under the floorboards in the attic of his 1850 house.
He didn’t recognize his good fortune right away, thinking the bottles were tubes or oddly shaped installation pipes. But Fite soon discovered he was sitting on a goldmine of antique whisky – the bottles are likely worth several hundred dollars each, and possibly more.
Interest in investing in whisky has grown in the last five years since the U.S. made it legal for auction houses to sell spirits, the Huffington Post reported.
The bottles of Hellman’s Celebrated Old Crow whisky that Fite found were distilled in 1912 and 1913 and bottled in 1917, two years before Prohibition made the consumption and sale of alcohol illegal throughout the U.S.
Fite guesses the bottles were a secret stash hidden by the previous owner of the house.
“The original owner lost the house and was put in a sanitarium for alcoholism,” he told St. Joe Channel. “So perhaps that might be a story behind it too, that that was his secret stash up in the attic!”
Fite and his wife, Emily, bought their home in 2011 and planned to fix it up. He decided to install the heating and cooling unit himself to save some money.
“I think it’s amazing to be able to feel a little bit energetically what’s been going on in this house for its history,” Emily told St. Joe’s Channel.
Fite said he has no plans to open the pre-Prohibition bottles yet, and might wait until year 2017 when they turn 100.
“Part of the allure for me is having them in their original state,” he told ABC. “I have high expectations of what they’ll taste like, and I’m afraid if I open them I’ll be disappointed.”
Chances are that even though Fite is a Bourbon man himself, it will be a night to remember.
英作文教室 ・・・ 「オズの魔法使い」は経済問題から生まれた。
２０１２年６月２４日北海道新聞朝刊より。
映画でも知られる児童文学「オズの魔法使い」はデフレをめぐる論争をもとにした寓話との説がある。舞台となった１９世紀後半の米国は物価下落が続き、農民は借金返済に苦しんでいた。There is a theory that “Wonderful Wizard of OZ”, a children’s novel which is also known for its film, is an allegory based on the disputes over deflationary trends in the late nineteenth century, when, in the United States, commodity prices were continuously dropping and farmers were at a loss how to pay back their debts.
金本位制を維持すべきか、金と銀との両方を硬貨に用いる金銀複本位制にし通貨の量を増やしてインフレを起こすべきか、これが大統領選の争点にもなった。The dispute was whether the gold standard system should be maintained or to increase currency volume and stimulate inflation by adopting the gold – silver standard . It also became one of the main issues in the presidential election.
物語は 故郷から遠く離れた不思議な土地に迷い込んだ少女ドロシーが主人公だ。The main character of the story is Dorothy, who finds herself lost in the wonderland far away from home.
ドロシーは家に帰れるようにしてくれる魔法使いを探し、危険な黄色いレンガの道を銀色の靴（映画ではルビー）を履いて進む。 She makes her way through following the dangerous yellow brick road with silver shoes on (ruby in the movie).
黄色は金本位、銀色は銀本位を表している。 Yellow brick road stands for the gold standard, whereas her shoes silver standard.
旭川医大で出前授業
なーんてエラそうに書きましたが、相手は医学生ではなく電話交換手の皆様。
話はおよそひと月前にさかのぼります。「最近、英語で問い合わせしてくる人が出始めて、対応に苦労しています。なんとかいい方法はないでしょうか？」という電話が携帯にかかってきたのでした。こんな弱小個人英語塾が国立の医大から相談を受けるなんて名誉なことです。
交換手たちの話では、問い合わせ内容は
①医学部教授への取り次ぎ依頼だったり
②入院患者への見舞い関連だったり
③交換留学生プログラムへの問い合わせだったり
いつどんな内容の 電話が来るか分からず、かかってくるたび右往左往しているとの由。これは死んでも引き受けなければ！とおもいました。
まず手がけたのは大学内講座名や病院診療各科の名称を英語で表し、発音できるようにすることでした。
| 解剖学講座 | Anatomy | 機能形態額分野 | Functional anatomy and neuroscience | ﾌｱﾝｸｼｮﾉｳ ｱﾅｰﾄﾐｰ ｱﾝﾄﾞ ﾇﾛｳｻｲｴﾝｽ |
| （ｱﾅ-ﾄﾐｰ） | 顕微解剖学分野 | Microscopic anatomy and cell biology | ﾏｲｸﾛｽｺｳﾋﾟｯｸ ｱﾅｰﾄﾐｰ ｱﾝﾄﾞ ｾｳ ﾊﾞｲｵﾛｼﾞｰ | |
| 生理学講座 | Physiology | 自律機能分野 | Autonomous Function | ｵｰﾄﾉﾏｽ ﾌﾝｸｼｮﾝ |
| ﾌｨｼﾞｵﾛｼﾞｰ | 神経機能分野 | Sensory Physiology | ｾﾝｻﾘｰ ﾌｨｼﾞｵﾛｼﾞｰ | |
| 生化学講座 | Biochemistry | 細胞制御科学分野 | Cellular Signal Transduction | ｾﾘｭﾗｰ ｽｲｸﾞﾉｳ ﾄｳﾗﾝｽﾀﾞｸｼｮﾝ |
| ﾊﾞｲｵｹﾐｽﾄｳﾘｰ | 機能分子科学分野 | Function Molecular Bioscience | ﾌｧﾝｸｼｮﾝ ﾓﾗｷｭﾗｰ ﾊﾞｲｵｻｲｴﾝｽ | |
| 薬理学講座 | Pharmacology | |||
| ﾌｧｰﾏｺｰﾛｼﾞｰ | ||||
| 病理学講座 | Pathology | 腫瘍病理分野 | Tumor Pathology | ﾄｳｰﾏｰ ﾊﾟｿｰﾛｼﾞｰ |
| ﾊﾟｿｰﾛｼﾞｰ | 免疫病理分野 | Immuno Pathology | ｲﾐｭﾉｳ ﾊﾟｿｰﾛｼﾞｰ | |
| 微生物学講座 | Microbiology and immunochemistry | |||
| ﾏｲｸﾛﾊﾞｲｵﾛｼﾞｰ ｱﾝﾄﾞ ｲﾐｭﾉｳｹﾐｽﾄｳﾘｰ | ||||
| 健康科学講座 | Health Science | |||
| ﾍｳｽ ｻｲｴﾝｽ | ||||
| 寄生虫学講座 | Parasitology | |||
| ﾊﾟﾗｽｲﾄﾛｼﾞｰ | ||||
| 法医学講座 | Legal Medicine | |||
| ﾘｰｺﾞｳ ﾒﾃﾞｨｽﾝ | ||||
| 内科学講座 | internal medicine | |||
| ｲﾝﾀｰﾉｳ ﾒﾃﾞｨｽｲﾝ | ||||
| 循環・呼吸・神経病態内科学分野 | Division of cardiology,nephrology,pulmonology,and neurology | |||
| ﾃﾞｨヴｨｼﾞｮﾝ ﾉﾌﾞ ｶｰﾃﾞｨｵﾛｼﾞｰ、ﾈﾌﾛﾛｼﾞｰ、ﾎﾟﾙﾓﾉﾛｼﾞｰ ｱﾝﾄﾞ ﾆｭﾛﾛｼﾞｰ | ||||
| 病態代謝内科学分野 | Division of metabolism and biosystemic science | |||
| ﾃﾞｨヴｨｼﾞｮﾝ ﾉﾌﾞ ﾒﾀﾎﾞﾘｽﾞﾑ ｱﾝド ﾊﾞｲｵｽｲｽﾃﾐｯｸ ｻｲｴﾝｽ | ||||
| 消化器血液腫瘍制御内科学分野 | Division of gastroenterology and hematology oncology | |||
| ﾃﾞｨヴｨｼﾞｮﾝ ﾉﾌﾞ ｶﾞｽﾄﾛｴﾝﾃﾛﾛｼﾞｰ ｱﾝﾄﾞ ﾍﾏﾄﾛｼﾞｰ ｵﾝｺﾛｼﾞｰ | ||||
| 精神医学講座 | Psychiatry | |||
| ｻｲｶｲｱﾄﾘｰ | ||||
| 小児科学講座 | pediatrics | |||
| ﾋﾟﾃﾞｨｱﾄﾘｸｽ | ||||
| 外科学講座 | surgery | 循環・呼吸・腫瘍病態外科学分野 | Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery and surgical oncology | |
| ｻｰｼﾞｪﾘｰ | ｿｳﾗｽｲｯｸ ｱﾝﾄﾞ ｶﾃﾞｨｵヴｧｽｷｭﾗｰ ｻｰｼﾞｪﾘｰ ｱﾝﾄﾞ ｻｰｼﾞｺｳ ｵﾝｺﾛｼﾞｰ | |||
| 消化器病態外科学分野 | Division of gastroenterological and general surgery | |||
| ﾃﾞｨヴｨｼﾞｮﾝ ﾉﾌﾞ ｶﾞｽﾄﾛｴﾝﾃﾛﾛｼﾞｺｳ ｱﾝﾄﾞ ｼﾞｪﾈﾛｳ ｻｰｼﾞｪﾘｰ | ||||
| 整形外科学 | orthopaedic surgery | |||
| ｵｳｿﾋﾟﾃﾞｨｯｸ ｻｰｼﾞｪﾘｰ | ||||
| 皮膚科学講座 | Dermatology | |||
| ﾀﾞﾏﾄﾛｼﾞｰ | ||||
| 腎泌尿器外科学講座 | Renal and urologic surgery | |||
| ﾘｰﾉｳ ｱﾝﾄﾞ ﾕﾛﾛｼﾞｯｸ ｻｰｼﾞｪﾘｰ | ||||
| 眼科学講座 | ophthalmology | |||
| ｵﾌｿﾓﾛｼﾞｰ | ||||
| 耳鼻咽喉科頭頚部外科学講座 | otorhinolaryngology、head and neck surgery | |||
| ｵｳﾄｳﾗｲﾉｳﾗﾘｰﾝｺﾞﾛｼﾞｰ ﾍｯﾄﾞｱﾝﾄﾞｳﾈｯｸ ｻｰｼﾞｪﾘｰ | ||||
| 産婦人科額講座 | Obstetrics and Gynecology | |||
| ｵﾌﾞｽﾃﾄﾘｸｽ ｴﾝﾄﾞ ｶﾞｲﾅｺﾛｼﾞｰ | ||||
| 放射線医学講座 | Radiology | |||
| ﾚｲﾃﾞｨｵﾛｼﾞｰ | ||||
| 麻酔・蘇生学講座 | Anesthesiology and Crinical care medicine | |||
| ｱﾈｽﾃｨｰｼﾞｵﾛｼﾞｰ ｴﾝﾄﾞ ｸﾘﾆｺｳ ｹｱ ﾒﾃﾞｨｽｲﾝ | ||||
| 脳神経外科学講座 | Neurosurgery | |||
| ﾆｭｰﾛｳｻｰｼﾞｪﾘｰ | ||||
| 臨床検査医学講座 | Laboratory medicine | |||
| ﾗﾎﾞﾗﾄﾘｰﾒﾃﾞｨｽｲﾝ | ||||
| 歯科口腔外科学講座 | Oral and Maxillo-facial surgery | |||
| ｵｰﾛｳ ｴﾝﾄﾞ ﾏｸｼｰﾛｳﾌｪｲｼｮｳ ｻｰｼﾞｪﾘｰ | ||||
| 救急医学講座 | ｲﾏｰｼﾞｪﾝｽｲ ﾒﾃﾞｨｽｲﾝ | |||
| 地域医療教育学講座 | ﾘｰｼﾞｮﾉｳ ﾒﾃﾞｨｽｲﾝ ｴﾝﾄﾞ ｴｼﾞｭｹｲｼｮﾝ | |||
| 第一内科 | 循環器内科 | Cardiovascular Medicine | ｶﾃﾞｨｵヴｧｽｷｭﾗｰ ﾒﾃﾞｨｽｲﾝ | ||||||
| （Internal medicine 1) | 呼吸器内科 | Respiratory Medicine | ﾚｽﾋﾟﾗﾄﾘｰ ﾒﾃﾞｨｽｲﾝ | ||||||
| 腎臓内科 | Renal Medicine | ﾘｰﾉｳ ﾒﾃﾞｨｽｲﾝ | |||||||
| 神経内科 | Neurology | ﾆｭｰﾛﾛｼﾞｰ | |||||||
| 第二内科 | 糖尿病内科 | Internal Medicine(Diabetes) | ｲﾝﾀｰﾉｳﾒﾃﾞｨｽｲﾝ（ﾀﾞｲｱﾋﾞｰﾂ） | ||||||
| （Internal medicine ２) | 膠原病内科 | Internal Medicine(Collagenosis) | ｲﾝﾀｰﾉｳﾒﾃﾞｨｽｲﾝ（ｶﾗｼﾞｪﾉｳｽｲｽ）） | ||||||
| 内分泌内科 | Endocrinology | ｴﾝﾄﾞｸﾘﾉﾛｼﾞｰ、 | |||||||
| 消化器内科 | Gastroenterology | ｶﾞｽﾄﾛｴﾝﾃﾛﾛｼﾞｰ | |||||||
| 第三内科 | |||||||||
| （Internal medicine ３) | 消化器内科 | Gastroenterology | ｶﾞｽﾄﾛｴﾝﾃﾛﾛｼﾞｰ | ||||||
| 血液・腫瘍内科 | Oncology/Hematology | ｵﾝｺﾛｼﾞｰ・ﾍﾏﾄﾛｼﾞｰ | |||||||
| 精神科神経科 | |||||||||
| Psychiatry and Neurology | |||||||||
| ｻｲｶｲｱﾄﾘｰ ｴﾝﾄﾞ ﾆｭｰﾛﾛｼﾞｰ | |||||||||
| 小児科 | 小児科・思春期科 | Pediatrics、Adolescent Medicine | ﾋﾟﾃﾞｨｱﾄﾘｸｽ ｱﾄﾞﾚｽﾝﾄ ﾒﾃﾞｨｽｲﾝ | ||||||
| pediatrics | 新生児科 | Neonatology | ﾆｵﾈﾄﾛｼﾞｰ | ||||||
| ﾋﾟﾃﾞｨｱﾄﾘｸｽ | |||||||||
| 第一外科 | 心臓外科 | Cardio Surgery | ｶｰﾃﾞｨｵ ｻｰｼﾞｪﾘｰ | ||||||
| Surgery １ | 血管外科 | Vascular Surgery | ヴｧｽｷｭﾗｰ ｻｰｼﾞｪﾘｰ | ||||||
| 呼吸器外科 | Respiratory Surgery | ﾚｽﾋﾟﾗﾄﾘｰ ｻｰｼﾞｪﾘｰ | |||||||
| 乳腺内分泌外科 | Breast clinic | ﾌﾞﾚｽﾄ ｸﾘﾆｯｸ | |||||||
| 小児外科 | Pediatric Surgery | ﾋﾟﾃﾞｨｱﾄﾘｸ ｻｰｼﾞｪﾘｰ | |||||||
| 第二外科 | 消化器外科・一般外科 | Gastroenterological and general surgery | ｶﾞｽﾄﾛｴﾝﾃﾛﾛｼﾞｺｳ ｱﾝﾄﾞ ｼﾞｪﾈﾛｳ ｻｰｼﾞｪﾘｰ | ||||||
| Surgery ２ | |||||||||
| 整形外科 | |||||||||
| orthopaedic surgery | |||||||||
| ｵｳｿﾋﾟﾃﾞｨｯｸ ｻｰｼﾞｪﾘｰ | |||||||||
| 皮膚科 | |||||||||
| Dermatology | |||||||||
| ﾀﾞﾏﾄﾛｼﾞｰ | |||||||||
| 泌尿器科 | |||||||||
| Urology | |||||||||
| ﾕﾛﾛｼﾞｰ | |||||||||
| 眼科 | |||||||||
| ophthalmology | |||||||||
| ｵﾌｿﾓﾛｼﾞｰ | |||||||||
| 耳鼻咽喉科頭頚部外科 | |||||||||
| otorhinolaryngology、head and neck surgery | |||||||||
| ｵｳﾄｳﾗｲﾉｳﾗﾘｰﾝｺﾞﾛｼﾞｰ ﾍｯﾄﾞｱﾝﾄﾞｳﾈｯｸ ｻｰｼﾞｪﾘｰ | |||||||||
| 産科・婦人科 | 女性医学科（婦人科・生殖医学科） | Reproductive Medicine | ﾘｰﾌﾟﾛﾀﾞｸﾃｨﾌﾞ ﾒﾃﾞｨｽｲﾝ | ||||||
| obstetrics and gynascology | 周産母子科（産科） | Obstetrics | ｵﾌﾞｽﾃﾄﾘｸｽ | ||||||
| ｵﾌﾞｽﾃﾄﾘｸｽ ｴﾝﾄﾞ ｶﾞｲﾅｺﾛｼﾞｰ | |||||||||
| 放射線科 | |||||||||
| Radiology | |||||||||
| ﾚｲﾃﾞｨｵｰﾛｼﾞｰ | |||||||||
| 麻酔科蘇生科 | 麻酔科蘇生科 | Anesthesiology and critical care medicine | ｱﾈｽﾃｨｰｼﾞｵﾛｼﾞｰ ｴﾝﾄﾞ ｸﾘﾆｺｳ ｹｱ ﾒﾃﾞｨｽｲﾝ | ||||||
| Anesthesiology and critical care medicine | ﾍﾟｲﾝｸﾘﾆｯｸ緩和ｹｱ科 | Pain clinic and palliative care | ﾍﾟｲﾝｸﾘﾆｯｸ ｴﾝﾄﾞ ﾊﾟﾘｱﾃｨヴ ｹｱ | ||||||
| ｱﾈｽﾃｨｰｼﾞｵﾛｼﾞｰ ｴﾝﾄﾞ ｸﾘﾆｺｳ ｹｱ ﾒﾃﾞｨｽｲﾝ | |||||||||
| 脳神経外科 | |||||||||
| Neurosurgery | |||||||||
| ﾆｭｰﾛｳｻｰｼﾞｪﾘｰ | |||||||||
| 歯科口腔外科 | |||||||||
| Oral and Maxillo-facial surgery | |||||||||
| ｵｰﾛｳ ｴﾝﾄﾞ ﾏｸｼｰﾛｳﾌｪｲｼｮｳ ｻｰｼﾞｪﾘｰ | |||||||||
| 救急科 | |||||||||
| Emergency | |||||||||
| ｲﾏｰｼﾞｪﾝｽｲｰ | |||||||||
| ﾘﾊﾋﾞﾘﾃｰｼｮﾝ科 | |||||||||
| Rehabilitation | |||||||||
| ﾘﾊﾋﾞﾘﾃｲｼｮﾝ | |||||||||
| 集中治療部 | |||||||||
| Intensive care unit department | |||||||||
| ｲﾝﾃﾝｽｲﾌﾞ ｹｱ ﾕﾆｯﾄ ﾃﾞﾊﾟｰﾄﾒﾝﾄ | |||||||||
| 総合診療部 | |||||||||
| General Medicine department | |||||||||
| ｼﾞｪﾈﾛｳ ﾒﾃﾞｨｽｲﾝ ﾃﾞｨﾊﾟｰﾄﾒﾝﾄ | |||||||||
| 周産母子センター | |||||||||
| Center for Maternity and Infant care | |||||||||
| ｾﾝﾀｰ ﾌｫ ﾏﾀｰﾆﾃｨ ｴﾝﾄﾞ ｲﾝﾌｧﾝﾄ ｹｱ | |||||||||
| 光学医療診療部 | |||||||||
| Department of Endoscopy | |||||||||
| ﾃﾞｨﾊﾟｰﾄﾒﾝﾄ ｵﾌﾞ ｴﾝﾄﾞｽｺﾋﾟｰ | |||||||||
| 腫瘍センター | |||||||||
| Oncology center | |||||||||
| ｵﾝｺﾛｼﾞｰ ｾﾝﾀｰ | |||||||||
| 呼吸器センター | |||||||||
| Respiratory center | |||||||||
| ﾚｽﾋﾟﾗﾄﾘｰ ｾﾝﾀｰ | |||||||||
| 緩和ケア診療部 | |||||||||
| Palliative care section | |||||||||
| ﾊﾟﾘｱﾃｨヴ ｹｱ ｾｸｼｮﾝ | |||||||||
つづいて簡単なパターン練習なども行いました。
大学、病院どちらにつなぎますか？ We are a medical college with hospital. Which do you want college or hospital? (ｳｲｱｰ ｱ ﾒﾃﾞｨｺｳ ｶﾚｯｼﾞ ｳｲｽﾞ ﾊｽﾋﾟﾄｳ ﾎｳｲｯﾁﾄﾞｳﾕｰｳｵﾝﾄ、ｶﾚｯｼﾞ ｵｱ ﾊｽﾋﾟﾄｳ？
受診したい？
Do you yourself feel sick and want to see a doctor?
(ﾄﾞｳ ﾕｰ ﾖｱｾﾙﾌ ﾌｨｰﾙ ｽｲｯｸ ｴﾝﾄﾞ ｳｵﾝﾄ ﾄｳ ｽｲ ｱ ﾀﾞｸﾀｰ)
・入院患者のお見舞い？
・何科か分かりますか？ 個人情報に関わる部分はお知らせできません。
Do you want to come and see one of the inpatients? Any idea what department he or she is in?
Unless you know this information, we are unable to give you from our side. Personal information is strictly confidential under the law.
あっというまに約束の時間（１時間）が過ぎてしまったので、すべてをレッスンすることが出来なかったのが悔やまれます。熱弁をふるいすぎて喉がガラガラ。頭はフラフラ。でも交換手の女性たちに囲まれてシアワセでした。（何言ってんだお前は）
野村ジジイの時事い英語教室 ー エイミーの日
１．エイミーコープランドさん（２４）は心理学専攻の健康な女子大生。
２. ５月１日、悲劇が彼女を襲う。友人と訪れた公園でジップラインにぶら下がっていた時、ロープが切れたのだ。
⇒ ジップライン
３．左足に大怪我を負い、病院へ担ぎ込まれ２２針縫われる。
４．さらなる悲劇が待っていた。 エロモナスハイドロフィアという細菌に感染していたのだ。
５．この菌は自然界どこにでも普通に存在する。口から吸い込めば下痢を起こす程度でしかない。
６．だが今回、大きく裂けた彼女の足の筋肉奥深くに入り込んでしまった。
７．そういう場合、この菌は筋肉の細胞を食い散らかす「人食いバクテリア」に豹変する。
８．命を失う危険性があった。しかし医師団は外科手術を敢行。左足と下腹の一部を切断。
９．そして手の指も切断すれば、助かる可能性が高まってきた。
１０．当初は人工呼吸器で１００％の酸素を吸入するほどの衰弱ぶりだったが、今では３３％まで回復。
１１．これが２１％まで落ちれば普通の人間が吸う空気中の酸素と同じになり、人工呼吸器が不要となって彼女は自分で呼吸ができるようになる。
１２．そうなれば声も回復。家族は彼女の話し声が聞こえることになる。その日を”AIMEE’S DAY” エイミーの日と名付け、これからずーっと毎年祝い続けることをきめた家族だった。
要約 野村英語維新塾
That is the holiday — date still to be determined — Andy Copeland hopes for as his daughter Aimee fights off virulent flesh-eating bacteria that turned her life upside down in less than two weeks.
Her fight won’t be over on Aimee Day. She will likely need dialysis for some time to help her kidneys function, and rehab to adjust to life without her left leg, part of her abdomen and perhaps other body parts that surgeons may still remove because of her disease.
Still, on that day, the 24-year-old University of West Georgia graduate student should be able to breathe on her own, after medical staff remove a tube now stuck down her throat that is being used to regulate her oxygen level. And her parents and her sister should, again, hear her voice.
“We’re going to celebrate that day forever for the rest of your life,” Andy Copeland told his daughter as she lay heavily medicated in an Augusta, Georgia, hospital bed. “It’s the day that my daughter was delivered from this horrible, horrible disease.”
Speaking Sunday on CNN, Andy Copeland didn’t go into detail about the latest on his daughter’s condition as she fights for her life beyond saying, “We’re holding up very well here.”
Yet, as he’s done in regular Facebook posts chronicling the ordeal, Andy Copeland was positive about the future.
“I have every confidence that Aimee will be able to overcome this,” he said.
Just last month, she had a full and active life. Aimee was pursuing her master’s degree in psychology, with a focus on eco-psychology — the idea that harmonizing with nature can be a powerful tool in ensuring one’s psychological health and vitality.
On May 1, she and some friends were out near the Little Tallapoosa River, about 50 miles west of Atlanta, when she grabbed onto a homemade zip line, her family has said.
It snapped.
That led to a gash in her left calf, and ultimately it took 22 staples to close the wound, according to CNN affiliate WSB.
Athough she didn’t know it at the time, it was because of that cut that Aimee Copeland contracted the flesh-devouring bacteria, Aeromonas hydrophila.
Dr. Buddy Creech, an assistant professor of pediatric infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University, said that Aeromonas hydrophila — which is “remarkably common in the water and in the environment” — is one of many bacteria that can cause a flesh-eating process.
“When it gets into those deeper tissues, it has a remarkable ability to destroy the tissues that surround it in sort of this hunt for nutrition,” Creech said. “When it does that, those tissues die, and you see the inflammation and the swelling and the destruction that can be very difficult to control.”
Most humans are affected by these bacteria by swallowing them, resulting in diarrhea. Aimee Copeland’s case was much more uncommon, in that her wound got “infected and the infection (ran) wild,” explained Creech.
The pain continued for Aimee after her accident and, on May 4, a friend took her to an emergency room where she was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis and flown to Augusta for surgery.
She went into cardiac arrest after being removed from the operating table, but was resuscitated, CNN affiliate WGCL reported.
It was then, Andy Copeland recalled on his Facebook page, that he was “told that Aimee might not survive the night.”
She did survive, though surgeries cost her the leg and part of her abdomen. A post Saturday on a blog set up by the University of West Georgia psychology department said more operations are coming: “Aimee will suffer the loss of her fingers, however physicians have hope of bringing life back to the palms of her hands, which could allow her the muscle control to use helpful prosthetics.”
At one point her lungs “required 100% pure oxygen to be fed to her through a respirator,” as the bacteria ravaged her body, her father wrote. By Sunday, she had improved significantly to 33% — just 12 percentage points shy of 21%, the level of oxygen in air around us.
If and when it gets to that point, she can be taken off the respirator. And her family can mark that moment, Aimee Day, on their collective calendar to celebrate this year and every year after.
For now, Andy Copeland is busy standing by, conversing with medical staff and expressing appreciation for his “amazingly resilient” daughter, as well as for the medical staff, friends and complete strangers who have shown their support.
And the entire family is staying hopeful, fueled in part by the remarkable progress they’ve seen so far.
“The words I hear from the medical professionals to describe Aimee’s continued recovery are ‘astonishing,’ ‘incredible,’ ‘confounding,’ ‘mind-boggling’ and ‘unbelievable,'” Andy Copeland wrote Saturday on Facebook.
“All those are fitting words. My favorite word is ‘miracle.'”
英作文・・・ある生徒さんのお話
出張や旅行の最中に起きたアクシデントをテーマに語ってもらったところ、ある生徒さんからこんなエピソードが出ましたので英訳しました。
何年も前に出張で紋別のホテルに宿泊したときに現金を盗まれました。そこは各部屋にバスタブが無く、宿泊客は共通の大浴場を利用しなければなりませんでした。私はそこへ行き、脱いだ衣服と部屋の鍵を一緒に木枠の箱に入れて、浴槽に入り身体を洗いました。
洗い終わって脱衣場に戻ると、鍵がありません。あわててすぐに部屋に戻ると現金が５万円、盗まれていました。泥棒はまだそう遠くないところにいると思いましたけれど、追いかけるのをやめました。なにせ裸同然でしたし。
Many years ago, I had some money stolen while I was staying at a hotel in Monbetsu. I was on a business trip then.
The hotel had no bathtubs in the rooms so visitors had to get themselves washed in the big common bathroom.
Well I went there, took off my clothes and put them in the wooden cabinet along with my room key.
Then I went into the bathroom to get cleaned up. When I finished and stepped back to the changing room, I noticed my room key was gone!
I soon dashed to my room but found my money – a total of 50 thousand yen – had been stolen.
Although the thief must be not far away, I gave up chasing him as I was almost naked.
モトカレの歯を全部抜いた女性歯科医
オーストリアンタイムズがつい先ほど報じた話です。
１．ポーランドの女性歯科医がもと付き合っていた男性の歯を全部抜いたことで懲役３年の刑を受ける予定。
２．二人は数日前に別れた。原因は男に新しい彼女が出来たことだった。
３．なのにその男性が歯の痛みを訴え、彼女のいる歯科医院にやってきた。
４．診察台にすわる彼を見て、最初はプロ医師として接するつもりだった。だが、彼の顔を見ているうちにだんだん憎しみがわいてくる。
５．とうとう感情を抑えきれなくなり、復讐を決意。
６．たっぷりと麻酔をかけて全ての歯を抜く。
７．男、麻酔から目覚め、異常に気づく。時すでに遅し。
８．歯のない顔に幻滅して新しい彼女も去る。
９．新しい歯を入れるのに金かかるなあ、とぼやいている。
私はこの男性にあって、一言いいたい。
「なんでほかの歯医者に行かなかったんだ」と。
A Polish woman is facing three years in prison after she removed all of her ex-boyfriend’s teeth during dental surgery just days after their breakup.
“I tried to be professional and detach myself from my emotions,” Anna Mackowiak, 34, told the Austrian Times. “But when I saw him lying there I just thought, ‘What a bastard’ and decided to take all his teeth out.”
Marek Olszewski, 45, reportedly showed up at Mackowiak’s dental office complaining of toothache just days after he broke up with her. She then allegedly gave him a “heavy dose” of anesthetic, locked the door and began removing all of his teeth one at a time.
“I knew something was wrong because when I woke up I couldn’t feel any teeth and my jaw was strapped up with bandages,” Olszewski said.
“She told me my mouth was numb and I wouldn’t be able to feel anything for a while and that the bandage was there to protect the gums, but that I would need to see a specialist,” he said.
“I didn’t have any reason to doubt her, I mean I thought she was a professional.”
Adding to his trauma, Olszewski said his new girlfriend has already left him over his now toothless appearance.
“And I’m going to have to pay a fortune on getting indents or something,” he said.