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118 ' A Little, Every Day' 134 JFK assassination 137 Sense of guilt needed 137 Mentality should be changed 138 Living with Bush's gamble 139 So much is expected 140 Life full of ups and downs 141 Thomas Hardy's Tragic Elements 143 Translator's Preface 148 Koharu, or Indian Summer 149 How I Came to Like the English Language 166 A Few Casual Thoughts on the Difficulty of 'Hearing' 171 What Fun It Is to Write English 180 MY THOUGHTS ON LEARNING AND TEACHING ENGLISH 182 THE MAN NEAREST TO GOD 185 190 198 203 213 11
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When a Kierkegaard or a Kutter, measuring the Church by an absolute standard, proceeds to utter his complaint against it (Oxford University Press p.395) The administration is expected to voice its loudest complaints against provisions in the Bentsen bill (AP-Feb.9.1987) Guideposts Mother's complaints about being lonely mushroomed into complaints about her health. '87 1 p.31 the Grecian Jews among them complained against those of the Aramaic-speaking c o m m u n i t y ' 8 4 p. 3 3 5 ' 7 8 against lovely love lovely UED l o v e l y 2 morally elevated, noble, pure 60 John Mung's Story I ate about a fourth of the bland and coarse mea1.(p.15) bland 10 17
Mikio, to tell you the truth, most Americans say, Japanese food is bland bland and coarse tasteless (POD, 7th edit.) OED bland O E D. not only but also Love Japan "not only ( b u t ) also..." not only, but (also)... Not only is the liquid element alien to them; it is also their enemy.(m. Ende, Never-ending Story. P. 159 ) p. 359 p.361 Puffin Books 6 0 American Educator Encyclopedia Kyoto Hemmed in by mountains, it (Kyoto) lies on a small fertile plain. (p.2006) hem in John Hersey Hiroshima In a paroxysm of terrified strength, he freed himself and ran down the alleys of Nobori-cho, hemmed in by fire he had said would never come.(p.44) Viglielmo Light and Darkness He also felt that the ricefields on both sides were hemmed in closely by mountains.(p.336) 18
The Samurai But please tell them the journey from here to the eastern coast is b e s e t w i t h danger.(p.103) beset COD (4th edit.) hem in hem in POD (7th edit.) confine restrict movement of 1 5 0 1 5 Henry James The Golden Bowl 1 9 8 3 5 2 2 and the question now a1most grotesquely rose of whether she mightn't by some art, just where she was and before she could go further be hemmed in a n d secured.(penguin.p.146) D.H.Lawrence Sons and Lovers... hear occasionally the g u r g l e of the river. ( P e n g u i n p. 375 ) gargle H.James Daisy Miller parapet, dyspepsia, sheen, pathological, cursory, hilarity, deprecate, desultory, cypress, protuberance COD H.James The Portrait of A Lady Modern Library College edit. 866 desultory gleams (Vol., p.108) Daisy Miller desultory patches of the antique pavement; it (=the light) made a sheen on the polished floor of the gallery p.61 Daisy There was a vague sheen upon its = starlit lake surface,... sheen S Musashi the floor polished to a sheen he could 19
see his reflection in. ( p. 857 ) polish collocation Musashi sheen 3 i v o r y - l i k e sheen sheen shimmer (ing of the sea) sheen 1 9 7 5 1 0 2 3 The New York Times News Service Toynbee's Obituary A Study of History He had spent the day watching the awesome Thracian countryside slip by pondering the region's glorious and gory past. glorious and gory alliteration M a c b e t h gore gory : Let us go find the body where it lies Soaked in his enemies' blood, and from the stream With lavers pure, and cleansing herbs, The clotted gore. wash off (Samson Agonistes,.1725-8) Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised 20
not a stone. But we left him alone with his glory. (Golden Treasury ccxviii). cradle. cradle '63 11 23 NHK Early this morning Japan time American President Kennedy was shot to death in Dallas, Texas... Mrs.Kennedy, crying Oh, no cradled her husband. cradle (= to support protectively or intimately, Webster's 9th NCD) John Lennon While Yoko cradled her husband's head in her arms, Chapman dropped his gun, and the doorman kicked it away.(newsweek, December 22, 1980, p.31) Reagan He (Brady) tried to rise. Rick Ahearn, a White House advanceman, c r a d l e d Brady's face and shouted: A handkerchief, a handkerchief (T i m e, April 13,1981, p.14) Sonia cradled Mrs. Gandhi's head in her lap as the auto sped off to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences hospital. (Time, November l2, 1984). huddle John Nordheimer They came here by railroad and steamboat in the waning days of winter and h u d d l e d in muddy encampments on the gray bluffs above the Missouri River, waiting with mounting excitement for the Kansas plain. (Asahi Evening News, The New York News Service, February 21, 1973) huddle 21
During the nightly interviews that followed we were like conspirators indeed, huddled in that cave over the red-covered table, with sputtering candles between us I wrote until I was ready to fall asleep.(red Star Over China, Penguin p.152) the brackish pond with a lone swan h u d d l e d in the sedges (Reader's Digest Condensed Books Vol.4 1975 p.108) The bridge sailors were huddled against the bulwark, like cattle seeking warmth from each other's bodies.(the Caine Mutiny, by H. Wouk Doubleday, p.454) I caught a glimpse of a group of old people huddled at the end of an alley.(the Signore, Kodansha International, p.30) 55 The Senior Swan Readers, p.27 I'll have to do s o m e s t u d yi n g this term. do studying study some some some ing 1 0 do some shopping Perhaps the Iranians will wish to do some thinking too.(time, February 2, 1981, p.31) As a result, two or three students may dominate the conversation or the teacher may find himself doing all the talking with none of the students participating. (ELEC Bulletin, No.20, p.53) I would like, for example, to do some translating again. 1980 No.11, p.11 Donald Keene 22
I can go up and down that ladder backwards with my eyes closed and near the top, the very top of the arm where the wrist begins, it gets very tight and you've got to do a little m a n e u v e ri n g to get into that opening.(the English J o u r n a l, March, 1981, p.61) On the grassy plateau of Rhodesia a great deal of cattle-ranching is done.(the Children's Picture Atlas in colour, Hamlyn, p.314) His work took him a large part of the day, but as the visting was done on foot,... Conan Doyle, The Croxley Master Musashi d o.... ing and I do a bit t r a v e li n g m y s e l f. ( p. 1 5 4 some, all the, a lot of, the In the 10 years that I've been doing personal shopping for people, I've never had...(daily Yomiuri, May 20, 1987, Donna Larcen) go over feast one's eyes on R o o t s they f e a s ted their eyes o n the boy waddling around... (p.469, Dell) The Japanese p.330 1 9 5 9 p. 409 1 969 1 9 60 1 9 70 chronological errors p. 213 o b s e r - v a t i o n of proper social ritual and etiquette 23
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