2016年4月30日土曜日

Impressive Words Today in a Dictionary

"It's no use thinking about it. Let's deal with things as they come."

☆Yes, let's play it by ear. Somehow it will come out all right.

2016年4月29日金曜日

英語で書く季節のエントリー
My Haiku Poem Today


リハビリの人ら若葉の道を行く


People in rehab walk down the road 

surrounded by the trees 

putting forth fresh young leaves


2016年4月28日木曜日

My Memory through a Dictionary

"Would you mind changing night duty with me?"

☆When I worked at an organization in my youth, my colleagues and I would always say such words to each other. Yes, all of us were busy going pleasure-seeking at night every day. Good old days.

2016年4月27日水曜日

My Memory through a Dictionary

"The idea of getting transferred was a bolt from the blue and I was momentarily speechless."

☆When reading the sentence cited above in a dictionary, I said, "Oh, I understand your pain!" because I had the same experience.

2016年4月26日火曜日

Impressive Words Today in a Dictionary

"Monetary policy is ineffective against deflation with psychological or structural causes."

☆Yes, at this point in time, I have no choice but to say so just on the economic situation in Japan.

2016年4月25日月曜日

Impressive Music Today

Today I happened to come across Yo-Yo Ma's newest performance of The Swan on the Net.

In the film, he plays the music with his artistry, which is sincere and profound. Amazing!

2016年4月24日日曜日

From the Latest News 

The earthquake with a seismic intensity of 4 has occurred in Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu region.

2016年4月23日土曜日

Impressive Words Today in a Dictionary

"Of all exercises in composition, writing verse may provide the best training in the rhythms of a language."

☆I've got it. I appreciate the valuable advice you gave me.

2016年4月22日金曜日

Impressive Words Today in a Dictionary

"Simplicity is a cardinal virtue in writing."

☆Good! I think so too, but I sometimes find it unexpectedly difficult.

2016年4月21日木曜日

Impressive Words Today in a Dictionary

"This novel loses a great deal in translation."

☆Yes, it's difficult problem in translation.

2016年4月20日水曜日

On the Latest News

The news says that Intel Corporation will lay off 11% of its entire workforce.

I feel that times are changing.

2016年4月19日火曜日

On the Latest News

I am surprised once again at how many active faults that should be closely watched there are in Japan.

2016年4月18日月曜日

On the Latest News

The news says that people living at evacuation sites in the Earthquake area are suffering from a shortage of water and food.

There has been a constant succession of big aftershocks.

I think that psychological care for the victims is also important. 

Their physical and mental health is more important than anything else.

2016年4月17日日曜日

今日、印象に残った言葉を英語で
Impressive Words Today


「皆さんは決して一人ではありません。」


   (ACミラン・本田圭佑選手・オフィシャルブログ「熊本での震災被害に対して」より)


"All of you are never alone."

                                -Keisuke Honda
     

Keisuke Honda, an AC Milan player wearing No. 10, expressed Saturday his sympathy with the victims of Kumamoto Earthquake as above on his official Web site.



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2016年4月16日土曜日

印象に残っている言葉を英語で
Impressive Words

「現代の大都会の一隅に、こうした生命を喚び起こす空間が存在し、夢と現実が一つになって生きているという事実には、やはり驚かざるを得ない。」 

(辻邦生『美しい夏の行方』所収「スペイン広場の歌」より)

Japanese novelist Kunio Tsuji wrote about the Piazza di Spagna in Rome in his essay as follows:

"After all, I cannot help being surprised at the fact that there is a space which makes us feel the energy of life in the corner of the modern large city and is living in harmony of dream and reality like this."



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2016年4月15日金曜日

Daily Entry 

According to the news, volunteers began to help the earthquake victims.

I also began the procedure to take part in a voluntary network.

2016年4月14日木曜日

From the Latest News

The earthquake with a seismic intensity of 7 hit Kumamoto and its neighboring areas.

The aftershocks continue.

2016年4月13日水曜日

Impressive Words Today in a Dictionary

"They' re not the shop-till-you-drop consumers of the 80s."

☆ Yes, times have changed. I cannot deny that I was one of the consumers of those days. Japanese investors also went on a worldwide buying spree. The days of continuously growing economy are history. 

2016年4月12日火曜日

Impressive Words Today in a Dictionary

"The young leaves sprout early in spring."

☆Great! I also like to watch Nature's awakening in this season.

2016年4月11日月曜日

Impressive Moment Today

Today I went to the park near my workplace at lunch time. 

When eating my lunch, I was able to hear a cuckoo. 

Yes, this brought to mind the verse, "The merry cuckoo, messenger of spring." (Edmund Spenser)

2016年4月10日日曜日

On the Latest News

介護離職者、毎年、10万人超

In Japan, more than a hundred thousand of workers have no choice but to leave their jobs to take care of their family members every year.

We are facing with the serious problem of nursing care for our aged parents and other members.

I posted the same entry two years ago. Since then, the situation in this country has not changed.

Again. 100,000 workers, every year. Yes, every year. I think this problem is no longer at a personal level only.

2016年4月9日土曜日

On the Latest News

小中学生だけで12万人が不登校

There are more than 120,000 nonattending students of the elementary and junior high school age group in this county.



Free schools (Alternative schools) are important. 

I believe that there are different ways to carve out your future.

2016年4月8日金曜日

Impressive Words Today in a Dictionary

"A mixture of dream and reality"

☆Good! Only dream? Cannot be. Only reality? Cannot be either. Probably We live in the mixture of them everyday.

2016年4月7日木曜日

Impressive Words Today in a Dictionary

"A gust of wind scattered the cherry blossoms."

☆Today we had strong wind and rain, so many cherry blossoms were scattered. It was too bad. But the flower petals fallen on water were beautiful. 

2016年4月6日水曜日

Impressive Words Today in a Dictionary

"A new factor that drives up costs during a time of deflation could hurt an earnings recovery."

☆Yes, this really is a timely topic in this country.

2016年4月5日火曜日

Impressive Words Today in a Dictionary

"I have a favorite cherry tree in the park near my home."

☆Fortunately, I can also see a cherry tree in the small park near my home through the upstairs windows of my house. It is now in full bloom. Beautiful! I feel like having a drink.

2016年4月4日月曜日

Impressive Words Today in a Dictionary

"Not doing but being."

☆Today I thought that it was difficult to get the sense of distance, but was important.


2016年4月3日日曜日

Thinking through an Essay

Today I read the essay The tyranny of time written by Ken Mogi on the qualia journal, which you can read on the Net.

Inspired by the essay, I thought as follows:

Time washes away all things such as houses, buildings, and humans. No exception.

I recently think that I may be in the dreams when I was a child.

Of course, I'm a different person physically from those days, and cannot go back to that time.

From now on, I will keep on dealing with daily trivialities everyday. 

And one day, I will find myself in a hospital bed as an old man. Even so, I'd like to have the dreams and hopes of my childhood.

But after a while, Time will come to wash away even such little dreams and hopes. How fleeting!

What is Time? And what is Life?


2016年4月2日土曜日

From the Latest News

The cooling of corporate sentiment was apparent in the March Tankan survey by the BOJ. The market continues in the depressed state.

2016年4月1日金曜日

From the April Fool Prank Video

I was very surprised at your good joint work!

Thank you very much, Nissan Motor Corporation, NISSIN FOOD GROUP, and Nissen Co., Ltd. Excellent!