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出典： CBC A sticky situation involving Quebec maple syrup producers and their own federation appears to be heading to a higher court . sticky situation … 厄介な状況 syrup [sí rəp] … シロップ federation … 同盟、連盟 higher court … 上級裁判所 The province has been the world's leading producer of maple syrup, with an 80 percent share of the global market. But that figure has dropped to 72 percent, with U.S. producers gaining at Quebec's expense . at (someone's) expense … （人）を犠牲にして、（人）の負担で Quebec maple syrup producers like Steve Côté blame the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers. Côté said he's not allowed to export the barrels of maple syrup he produced. barrel … （液体を入れる）たる "They say it's theirs, I say it's mine," said Côté, who has been locked in a three-year battle with the federation. Quebec producers are required to go through the federation to export their product. go through … ～を経由する The agency will even send security guards to v...

出典： Newsy A day after the attack on Kenya's Garissa University, rescuers were still removing bodies. In all, 147 people died Thursday. It was a new tactic for the terrorists of Al-Shabab, but one we've seen increasingly used by other groups. tactic … 戦法 In December, the Pakistani Taliban attacked an army-run school in Peshawar, killing 145 people, most of whom were children. Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram gained worldwide notoriety last year when it kidnapped over 200 girls from a school in Borno state. notoriety [nòutəráiəti ] … 悪名、悪評 Terrorist attacks on schools have increased considerably since 2004. This, according to researchers at the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database who've studied attacks between 1970 and 2013. considerably [kənsídərəbli] … かなり、大幅に 2004 was the year Chechen militants strapped with explosives took hostage a school in Beslan, Russia, for three days. 334 people died in the massacre, more th...