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人や考えを表す洗練された形容詞
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erudite、astute、incisive、tenuous、spurious、intractable などの的確な形容詞で、頭脳、性格、議論、問題を描写します。
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- Only a truly ___ scholar, who had read widely in several languages and fields, could trace the origin of the phrase.
- The link between the two studies is ___: it rests on a single, unverified anecdote.
- The disease is ___: symptoms are mild at first and the damage builds up unnoticed.
- Despite the poor forecasts, Kofi remained ___ about the company's future.
- Her analysis was ___: in a few sharp sentences it went straight to the heart of the problem.
- Fame on social media can be ___: today's star is forgotten by next month.
- The winner was ___ in victory, praising her rival's skill and offering to share the prize.
- There was a ___ agreement among the staff that nobody would mention the incident again.
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このリストの語を1つずつ使って、各文を完成させましょう。各語は1回だけ使います：astute, spurious, intractable, inscrutable, erudite, magnanimous, insidious, tenuous。
- The ___ investor sold her shares weeks before the market turned.
- The claim that the herb cures every illness is ___; no study has ever confirmed it.
- The boundary dispute between the two neighbours proved ___: years of patient mediation failed to bring them any closer.
- The old judge's face was ___; no one could tell what he was thinking.
- Her ___ lectures, full of references to philosophy, history and mathematics, attract students from every faculty.
- It was ___ of him to forgive the debt in full.
- The ___ spread of misinformation is hard to notice until it has changed opinions.
- Because the connection between the two events was extremely slight and ___, the committee refused to draw a conclusion.
解答
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- b) erudite深い学識は erudite です。Astute は学識ではなく抜け目のなさを意味します。
- c) tenuous非常に弱いつながりは tenuous です。Incisive は鋭い分析を表し、つながりには使いません。
- b) insidious気づかれないままじわじわ広がる害は insidious です。
- d) sanguine困難な状況でも明るく楽観的なのは sanguine です。
- c) incisive問題の核心に届く鋭く明快な思考は incisive です。Tenuous は弱いという意味になります。
- c) ephemeral短い間しか続かないのは ephemeral です。
- b) magnanimousライバルに寛大なのは magnanimous です。
- d) tacit言葉にされなくても理解されている合意は tacit です。
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- astute / shrewd / canny / savvy抜け目なく、状況をすばやく読み取るのは astute です。
- spurious / false / baseless / unfounded / groundless / bogus / dubious本物に見えるが偽の主張は spurious です。
- intractable / insoluble / unsolvable / irresolvable / unresolvableどんな解決の試みも受けつけない問題は intractable です。
- inscrutable / unreadable / impassive / expressionless / blank読み取ることも解釈することもできないのは inscrutable です。
- erudite / learned / scholarly深い学識を示すのは erudite です。
- magnanimous / generous / gracious / noble / kind寛大で許す心があるのは magnanimous です。
- insidious / gradual / creeping / slow / subtle気づかれないまま徐々に広がる害は insidious です。
- tenuous / weak / flimsy / fragile / thinごくわずかで頼りないつながりは tenuous です。