2010年5月18日火曜日

18th Assingment

Today's introducing sentences

  1. funeral
    means;葬儀、告別式

    context; She was telling him that she saw him at a funeral a year earlier.

    Definition; a religious ceremony for burying or burning someone who has died.


  2. well-dress
    means; 身なりをきちんと整えた、身なりのきちんとした

    context; Then she became the well-dressed Diana that we remember today.

    Definition; wearing attractive fashionable clothes


  3. unpleasant
    mean; 不愉快な、嫌な(adj.)

    context; (In the end, people realized that most of it was Diana's real story)
    But there was another surprise coming for her - and an unpleasant one.

    Definition :not pleasant or enjoyable:
    cf.1) an unpleasant experience
    cf.2) an extremely unpleasant smell
    cf.3) an unpleasant surprise


  4. land-mine
    mean; 地雷の(adj.)

    context; She specially wanted to stop the use of land-mines.

    Definition; a bomb hidden in the ground that explodes when someone walks or drives over it


(Comment)
These words and phrases including "Princess Diana" . It is in the liberally.
When I was looking up "Princess Diana" on Longman English Dictionary Online and "英辞郎",there was a definition that I cannot understand well.

Tittle Princess Diana"
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