kontaさんの おぼえた日記 - 2012年10月25日(木)

本日の学習　　ABCニュースシャワー111日目 ほか
「米大統領選 最終盤の舌戦」 （10月24日放送）
「ニュースで英会話（2012年10月15日から10月21日放送）」
復習＆ウィークリー実力テスト

昨日の復習　　ABCニュースシャワー
「家庭内暴力から銃乱射事件」 （10月23日放送）

Just four days ago, the court issued the restraining order.
「裁判所は4日前に（接触などの）禁止命令を出していた」
キーワード：restraining order 「（接触などの）禁止命令」
restrain 「制止する、規制する」

★　restraining order 「（接触などの）禁止命令」
「Wisconsin Shooting Brings Call For New Law On Guns」
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=163448882
Radcliffe Haughton, 45, bought a handgun just two days after his beleaguered wife obtained a restraining order against him. He used that weapon to kill her and two other women Sunday at the spa where she worked, before fatally shooting himself.

★　restrain
「Who's Next In Line For A Kidney Transplant? The Answer Is Changing」
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/09/20/161475405/whos-next-in-line-for-a-transplant-the-answer-is-changing
Whoever's right, many experts say the debate over kidney transplants is a harbinger for other similar debates that are coming as the population ages and the pressure to restrain costs intensifies.
※　harbinger 「先駆者、先発者、前触れ、前兆」

「Corporal Punishment In Schools: Does It Work?」
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/11/160952356/corporal-punishment-in-schools-does-it-work
GONZALEZ: I know that special needs students are often dealt with in a different way. They use seclusion and restraint, so they have a different protocol. Sometimes they'll - when they're disciplining them, sometimes they'll discipline students with disabilities by restraining them or putting them in a room off to the side. And other times they seclude students and restrain them just as a way to protect them from either harming themselves or harming other students.

★　be supposed to 「…することになっている」
I was supposed to pick up her key here.　/english/phrase/26949
「ここで鍵を受け取るはずだったんですが。」