kontaさんの おぼえた日記 - 2012年8月9日(木)

本日の学習　　復習のみ♪

復習 ABC ニュースシャワー「女性のIQ 初めて男性を上回る」7月19日（木曜日）

For the first time in a century women have outscored men on IQ tests.
「この100年で初めて、知能テストの得点で女性が男性を上回った」
キーワード：outscore 「得点で上回る」

out + 動詞　「～より勝って」の意味が加わる
outlast 「より長持ちする」
outrun 「追い越す、逃げおおせる」

estrogen 「エストロゲン」

そのほかの語句も含めて例文でチェック♪
★　outscore
「US, Other Education Officials Get Lesson in School Success」
http://www.voanews.com/content/a-13-2009-08-20-voa28-68820377/413431.html
Despite the number and the neighborhood, East View is up for a national excellence award. Singapore itself is well-known for turning out students who outscore those in most other countries on international science and math tests.
turn out ここでは「養成する、輩出する」

★　outlast
「US: No Combat Role for Troops in Uganda」
http://www.voanews.com/content/us-no-combat-role-for-troops-in-uganda-135251123/149273.html
But he said under-estimation of the LRA's capability has helped it survive over the years, and said he still fears Kony might be able to outlast President Obama as he did his four predecessors.

★　outrun
Our team will win if you can outrun Koji from the next class.
/english/phrase/24729
「もしあなたがとなりのクラスのコウジを追いこせれば、私たちのチームが勝つわよ！」

★　estrogen
「US Panel Recommends Ending Routine Blood Test for Prostate Cancer」
http://www.voanews.com/content/cancer-prostate/917488.html
The PSA test measures levels of a protein in the blood that are elevated in the presence of prostate cancer. If cancer is found, it is treated aggressively, in nearly 90 percent of patients, with radiation, surgery or estrogen therapy designed to shrink the tumor.

★　juggle work and family 「仕事と家庭を両立させる」
「Handheld Communication Gadgets Can Be Addictive」
http://www.voanews.com/content/a-13-2007-02-15-voa36/405790.html
He says these gadgets are useful. For Bansal, they help him in juggling his work and family time, but daughter Antara does not like sharing her dad with his gadgets. She tells him how it makes her feel, "Bad and left out."

★　risk-adverse 「リスク回避傾向の」
「Latin America Assessing Impact of da Silva Election in Brazil」
http://www.voanews.com/content/a-13-a-2002-10-29-21-latin/395309.html
I think Brazilian voters remain fairly conservative, they remain very risk adverse and I would say one of the main lessons of this election is not necessarily that the voters are moving more to the left, but that leftist parties, primarily the P.T., learned a lesson that in order to win elections you have to toe a very conservative campaign speech and discourse.


ごめんよ。このニュース、ちょびっとネガティブモードに入りそう。
私には、"an amazingly valuable present that women had been given" なるエストロゲンが足りないのかもしれない。
家事と仕事の両立どころか家事だけやらしても失敗だらけ。
"Estrogen makes us more risk adverse" ...
リスク回避ではなく、「リスクをしょって歩く」ような人生。
まあ、なるようにしかならないと開き直ってしまおう。