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merciless【形】無慈悲な、容赦ない、無情な◆【反】merciful
・The heat in the desert was merciless.：砂漠の灼熱は容赦なかった。
・The southern Italian city has become fashionable for tourists, models and actors in a social media age. Yet it remains merciless for many of its youth.

fall to【句動】～の肩にかかっている、～の責任になる
・The final decision will fall to the Trump administration.

sustain**【他動】
１．～を持続的に支持する / 〔～の存在を〕持続［維持］する / 〔努力などを〕持続させる：to provide what is needed for something or someone to exist or continue；to nourish
・Hope sustained us during that difficult time.
２．〔構造物を下から〕支える、支持する：to hold up the weight of, to suffer or endure, or to confirm or prove
・The shed roof collapsed, unable to sustain the weight of all the snow.
３．《法律》〔申し立てや異議を〕認める：（in legal contexts）to decide or state that it is proper, legal, or fair
４．〔損害などを〕受ける、被る；undergo or suffer (something unpleasant, especially an injury)
・He died after sustaining severe head injuries.
・sustain minor and serious injuries：重軽傷を負う
・sustain minor injury：軽傷を負う
・The athlete sustained serious injuries during last week's game.
・The driver sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head before the Cybertruck’s explosion.

win over****【句動】
１．〔説得して人を〕納得させる、味方に引き入れる、口説き落とす、取り込む
・Cause-related marketing is winning over most customers.：慈善運動に関連したマーケティングは顧客の大部分の賛同を得ている。
・Bob was won over to his side.：ボブは彼の側に寝返りました。
・That means it's up to Lisa's human skills to win them over.**：ということは、彼らを説得できるかどうかは理沙の人間力次第ということね。
・Speaker Mike Johnson is still working to win over skeptics, raising the prospect of a contentious speakership vote Friday — and more political chaos to come.
２．〔演技などで人を〕魅了する
・He won over the audience with his performance.：彼は演技で観客をとりこにしました。

revere**（rivɪ́ər）【他動】｟かたく｠…を深く尊敬する, あがめる（しばしば受け身で）；to have great respect for (someone or something) : to show devotion and honor to （someone or something）
・The family reveres old traditions.
・The town reveres him as a hero.
・He is revered as a hero.
・Her poems are revered by other poets.
・be revered as the father of medicine：医学の父として敬愛される.
・The president’s allies in the chamber he so revered feared he would drag them down and spoil his own legacy, and played a more assertive role than was previously known in his stepping aside.
・The Chuckwalla and Sáttítla national monuments would safeguard landscapes that Native American tribes have revered for thousands of years.

addlepated【adjective】describing someone who is mixed-up or confused/ also a synonym of eccentric
・Some addlepated clerk confused our hotel reservation with that of another, similarly named, party.

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