2025-07-31 ***** www.youtube.com ***** Japan marks highest-ever temperature of 41.2 C in Hyogo Japan's temperature soared to a record 41.2 degrees Celsius in Tanba, Hyogo Prefecture, on Wednesday, surpassing the previous high of 41.1 C. | …

July 31. Facing death. Without a single exception all those who are born have also to face death. But are they prepared to do so? The man who completely gives himself away to an ideal outgrows attachment to life. He has neither the time no…

2025-07-30 ***** 2017/3 長文の5問です。 Hannah Arendt and Adolf Eichmann, Napoleon Chagnon and the Yanomami, The Hidden Life of Plants, The Fermi Paradox, The Electoral College The Fermi Paradox フェルミのパラドックス、地球型惑星は宇宙に多…

July 30. Livelihood. The struggle for existence is common to all beings. The lower the order of existence, the keener is the struggle for subsistence. At the human level the search for food has its grades. The body-centered man lives to ea…

2025-07-29 ***** 2017/3 筆記問題の要約と作文以外です。 語彙問題と、長文の最後のアメリカの大統領選挙についての問題が難しかった。 語彙問題はチェック完了。 以下、検索した語彙リストです。 No. 1 -----> Google ドキュメントを読み込んでいます No. …

July 29. Pairs of opposites. Nature is constituted of forces and events which are opposed to one another, proving themselves favourable or unfavourable to man. Heat, cold, wind and rain are forces pertaining to nature. Gain, loss, success,…

2025-07-28 ***** 2018/1 の長文問題 5問。 Jury Nullification. The Greenland Colonies, A Matter of Taste, Biological Spandrel, The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya 以下にコピーしたThe Greenland Colonies が、特に面白かった。 セイウチの牙をヨーロッパ…

July 28. Lamp without flicker. The wind of desire blows. The lamp of mind flickers. Its wavering from one idea to another is its flicker. It should be arrested. The senses are the inlets for desire to steal in. They should all be shut out.…

2025-07-27 ***** 2018/1 要約と作文以外の復習です。 長文問題は、やたら難しく感じたと昨日書きましたが、落ち着いてチェックすると、それほどでもなかったです。 しかし、単語によって、プラスの意味とマイナスの意味が混じっていて、文脈により、どちら…

Ishiba rules out joint document on U.S. tariffs as deal's details trickle out Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a speech at an event in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Friday afternoon. Ishiba rules out joint document on U.S. tariffs…

July 27. The constructive missile. Nature is normally constructive. Occasionally she becomes destructive. Earthquake, flood, fire and storm are Her havocs. In spite of them man thrives. Man is both constructive and destructive. He is const…

2025-07-26 ***** 2018/1 要約と作文以外をやりました。 長文問題は、やたら難しく感じました。 リスニングの語彙チェックは済み、P1 語彙問題の語彙チェックは途中です。 以下、検索した語彙リストです。 今回は複数の主要な意味がある場合もちゃんと含まれ…

July 26. The blissful sheath. Among the five sheaths that the self puts on, the blissful sheath is the nearest one just as the underwear is in contact with the body. Man identifies himself with the clothing that he puts on. The quality of …

2025-07-25 ***** 2018/2、P2, P3 の復習。 The Bidun, Effective Altruism, The Gunpowder Plot, LA Golf Courses and Theseus's Paradox, The Rise and Fall of the Readjuster Party の5問。 The Bidun クウェート：無国籍住民「ビドゥン」 無権利状態の…

July 25. The Reformer. The man who gives thought to the evils in society and to their reformation is superior to the one quite callous to them. No society is completely free from evils. A reformer choosing to rectify them should not get fr…

2025-07-24 ***** 2018/2です。P2, P3 の復習は今日やる予定。 以下、検索した語彙リスト。 Google ドキュメントを読み込んでいます ***** 新聞記事から Japan and U.S. both claim win in surprise 11th-hour tariff deal Japan and U.S. both claim win in…

July 24. Concentration. Converging the faculties of the mind to one point is concentration. It is obtained by constant practice. Fibres are tender and powerless. But if they are twisted into a rope, they assume the power to tie an elephant…

2025-07-23 ***** 昨日で、過去6年分の筆記試験のP1, P2, P3 とリスニングが一通り終了。 秋の試験は10月5日です。 今後の勉強として、まずは更に過去4年分のP1, P2, P3 とリスニングを一通りやり、4年分を追加して、過去10年分をざっと眺める。 （リスニン…

July 23. The traitor. An open enemy does not do so much harm as a traitor does. An enemy compels one to practice self-defense. That is an indirect help. Whereas a traitor damns one treacherously. An external traitor can be detected or avoi…

2025-07-22 ***** 2018/3 長文問題をやりました。 Stockholm Syndrome, Hollywood and China, Enoch Powell and Immigration, Language and Emotions, Operation Gladio の5問です。 Stockholm Syndrome ストックホルム症候群 - Wikipedia Language and Emot…

July 22. The insignificant act. Nature executes all acts, great and small, with equal importance. May man learn to regard every little work as the worship of the Almighty. Doings such as eating, sleeping, resting and speaking are of no con…

2025-07-21 ***** 2019/1 長文問題をやりました。 Gentrification, FIlm Noir, Reductionaism versus System Thinking, Jordan Peterson and Bill C-16, The Silurian Hypothesis の5問で、以下、新聞も含め検索した語彙リスト。 20250720語彙リスト.docx - …

July 21. Money. A man without means is a non-entity in society. So he is bound to earn it by honest means. Very many people are slaves to money. Instead, they ought to make it their slave. No wealth should be acquired by foul means. There …

2025-07-20 ***** 2019/2 長文問題をやりました。 The Mouse Utopia, Gall Wasps, Vietnam Veterans and the 'Spitting Myth', The Rise of Dataism, Forensic Dollhouses の5問です。 最後が特に面白かった。 現実の殺人現場を恐ろしいほど克明に再現した「…

July 20. Prudence. A prudent man wants to get on smoothly with all. He avoids coming into conflict with anyone. This is worldly wisdom otherwise called prudence. Worldly views are many and apparently conflicting. To subscribe to all of the…

2025-07-19 ***** 2019/3 長文問題をやりました。 昨日と同じく、この回も時間に追われ、最後はエイヤーでした。 An Ancient Work Force, Language Diversity, Chile under Pinochet, The Positive side of Psychopath, CRISPR Gene Editing 今回は、皆、面…

July 19. The Axle. The Wheel turns having the axle as the basis. The axle is not only the basis it also keeps the movement of the wheel under control. Such is also the structure of Nature. Motion is relative. A moving object requires an im…

2025-07-18 ***** 2020/1 長文問題をやりました。 この回も時間に追われ、最後はエイヤーでした。 The Evolution of Awe, The New Atheism, Harold Pinter, Finding Memories, The Falkland War の5問です。 最後のフォークランドのお話は1982年、昭和57年の…

July 18. Pleasing the Providence. O Lord, extolling you to the skies is an empty praise. But doing Your will is the real worship that pleases you. Two gardeners were employed. One of them idled away the time. Whenever the master appeared b…

2025-07-17 ***** 2020/2 長文問題をやりました。 この回は手間取り、時間が足りなくなり、焦りました。 Reforming Prisons, The surveillance Economy, Psychology's Replication Crisis, The Treaty of Versailles, Peru's Guano Boom ですが、それぞれ、…