Unit 8 ネオニコチノイド
Two new studies found that honeybees and bumblebees ( ) (t ) (s ) for food and (r ) with it to their hives after (e ) to the class of pesticides which is widely used to protect (g ), cotton, beans, vegetables, and many other (c ).
「新たな二つの研究は発見した、ミツバチとマルハナバチが食べ物を探すのに苦労していることを、そして、それをもって巣に帰ることに(苦労していることを)、その種の殺虫剤にさらされた後に、それは穀物、綿花、豆類、野菜、その他多くの作物を守るために広く使われている。」
Two new studies found that honeybees and bumblebees (had) (trouble) (searching) for food and (returning) with it to their hives after (exposure) to the class of pesticides which is widely used to protect (grains), cotton, beans, vegetables, and many other (crops).
Can you sketch a landscape? If not, (c ) ( ) ( ) your brain is getting ( ) ( ) (w ), says painting teacher and landscape artist David Dunlop.
「あなたは景色をスケッチできますか？もしできないなら、おそらくあなたの脳が邪魔をしている」と絵画教師であり風景画家のデイヴィッド・ダンロップ氏は言う。
Can you sketch a landscape? If not, (chances) (are) (that) your brain is getting (in) (the) (way), says painting teacher and landscape artist David Dunlop.
It will be difficult, ( ) ( ) impossible, to cross this river.
「この川を渡るのは不可能とまでは言わないが難しいだろう。」
It will be difficult, (if) (not) impossible, to cross this river.
(I ), the (r ) new pesticides have been welcomed as an environmental plus because they are, (b ) almost (a ) (a ), less harmful to other wildlife than previous generations of pesticides.
「皮肉なことに、その比較的新しい殺虫剤は歓迎されてきた、環境面でのプラスとして、なぜならそれらは、誰に聞いても、他の野生生物に対しては害が少ないからだ、従来の世代の殺虫剤よりも。」
(Ironically), the (relatively) new pesticides have been welcomed as an environmental plus because they are, (by) almost (all) (accounts), less harmful to other wildlife than previous generations of pesticides.
“People don’t see like a camera,” he says. “We ( ) (t ) ( ) (a ) what we are going to see and miss things.”
「人はカメラのようには見ないのだ」と彼は言う。「私たちは人生を過ごしている、見ることになるものを予期しながら、そして物事を見落とすのだ。」
“People don’t see like a camera,” he says. “We (go) (through) (life) (anticipating) what we are going to see and miss things.”
訳して。
Life as we know it would be impossible without water.
「我々が知っているような生命体は水なしではあり得ないだろう。」
“People have asked me to sign a (p ) to ban or limit the use of the neonicotinoids for some time, but I never did because I really didn’t know if they were having a major impact on the bees,” said David Goulson. “After seeing what we and the others found, I’m (m ) more (i ) to sign it.”
「人々は私に頼んできた、嘆願書に署名することを、ネオニコチノイドの使用をしばらくの間禁止または制限するための。しかし私は決してしなかった、なぜなら私はそれらが本当にハチに大きな影響を与えているかどうかを分からなかったからだ。」とゴールソン氏は語った。「私たちや他の研究者が見つけたことを理解した後では、私は(以前よりも)ずっとそれに署名したいと思っている。」
“People have asked me to sign a (petition) to ban or limit the use of the neonicotinoids for some time, but I never did because I really didn’t know if they were having a major impact on the bees,” said David Goulson. “After seeing what we and the others found, I’m (much) more (inclined) to sign it.”
(W ) it takes years of training to learn to see the world like an artist, a common visual disability may give some people a head start, says Bevil Conway, a professor of medicine. He analyzed 36 Rembrandt self-portraits, and found that the artist depicted himself ( ) one eye ( ) straight ahead and the other ( ) outward.
「芸術家のように世界を見れるようになるには何年もの訓練を要するが、一般的な視覚障害が人に有利なスタートを与えるかもしれないと医学教授ベヴィル・コンウェイ氏は言う。彼は36枚のレンブラントの自画像を分析し、そして発見したその芸術家(＝レンブラント)は自分自身を描いたということを片方の目はまっすぐ前を見てそしてもう片方の目は外側に向けてさまよっていた状態で。」
(While) it takes years of training to learn to see the world like an artist, a common visual disability may give some people a head start, says Bevil Conway, a professor of medicine. He analyzed 36 Rembrandt self-portraits, and found that the artist depicted himself (with) one eye (looking) straight ahead and the other (wandering) outward.
"Mr. Higashi went to see the Demon Slayer movie last month. At which scene did he cry?"
➀When Shinobu died.
➁The scene with Zenitsu and his master.
➂The scene where Akaza dies.
➃Mr Higashi didn’t cry at all.
➁・➂
most queen bumblebees are (p ) in the largest nests, and that the sharp decline in queens may ( ) have (b ) (c ) by the sluggish growth of the pesticide-exposed nests as a whole.
「マルハナバチの女王のほとんどは最も大きな巣で生まれる、そして女王バチの急激な減少は おそらく引き起こされたと、殺虫剤にさらされた巣が全体的に成長が遅くなったことによって。」
most queen bumblebees are (produced) in the largest nests, and that the sharp decline in queens may ( ) have (been) (caused) by the sluggish growth of the pesticide-exposed nests as a whole.
artists can paint pictures that (j ) regular people out of their well-worn ( ) of seeing. “As artists, our job is to ( ) people to enjoy their vision, instead of just using it to get around,” she says.
「芸術家は絵を描くことができる、普通の人々に衝撃を与えて彼らがよく使うものの見方の癖から抜け出させる(絵を) 芸術家として私たちの仕事は人々に視覚を楽しませることだただ(生活ために)動き回るために使うのではなく」と彼女は言う。
artists can paint pictures that (jolt) regular people out of their well-worn (habits) of seeing. “As artists, our job is to (get) people to enjoy their vision, instead of just using it to get around,” she says.
"Mr. Higashi went to Kyoto during the summer vacation. Besides the ramen shop, which place in Kyoto did he visit?"
➀Ginkaku-ji
➁Kiyomizu-dera Temple
➂Kitano Tenmangū Shrine
➃Kyoto University
➂Kitano Tenmangū Shrine