星新一ショートショート『The Night We Lost Our Friend』英単語
A Well-Kept Life（星新一ショートショートコレクションVol.1 英語版） (English Edition)
- 作者:星 新一,Shinichi Hoshi
- 発売日: 2014/07/04
- メディア: Kindle版
1. Over the deep vally of buildings, a thin crescent moon was shining.
2. She sat down on a soft chair and invited her grandson to sit on her lap.
3. The two watched the world that the old movie portrayed, punctuated by the sounds of wild beast and hum of tropical leaves.
4. Doctors are doing everything they can, administering oxygen and cardio-tonic drugs.
5. Its heart beat is incosistent.
6. The course of the era turned out to be ill-fated for all animals.
7. I bet it's thinking of the time its ancestors roamed happily in the jungle, alongside humans, just like in this movie.
8. In the old movie, a good number of the ancestors of the last remaining elephant briskly bounded over a mountain and across a river under a strong, bright sun that seemed to glorify them.
9. The elephants swung thier trunks, ...
10. She pondered the idea that the human race, ...
11. Maybe I should sleep with the stuffed elephant tonight.
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1. crescent moon / N 🌙
（三日月）
2. lap / N the surface of upper part of legs that comes on top when you sit down
（座った時に現れる上ももの部分）
3. portray / V to describe someone or something by artistic things
（芸術的な方法で何かを描写する）
punctuate / V to add punctuation marks
（句読点をつける）
4. cardio-tonic / N a substance that has a favorable effect upon the action of the heart
（強心薬）
5. inconsistent / ADJ similar to contradictory
inconsistencyとcontradictionの違いはこちら
6. ill-fated / ADJ the same as unlucky
（不運な）
7. roam / V to travel or take a walk with no idea
（あてもなくぶらつくこと）
8. briskly / ADV in a enegetic way
（ハキハキと、活発に）
9. trunk / N elephant's nose
（象の鼻）
10. ponder / V to think carefully about something for a long time
（長い時間をかけて考える）
11. stuff / V to fill a container with something
（モノを詰め込む）
A Well-Kept Life（星新一ショートショートコレクションVol.1 英語版） (English Edition)
- 作者:星 新一,Shinichi Hoshi
- 発売日: 2014/07/04
- メディア: Kindle版
