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4月20日に読了。シルベスター・スタローン主演の映画「ランボー」の原作本。この長さの洋書を最後まで読んだのは、おそらく初めて。集中的に読む時期と、手にも取らない時期を繰り返して、半年ぐらいかかって読んだ。大まかなストーリーの流れを映画で知っていたから、これほど時間がかかっても読み通せたのだと思う。 I finished reading this book on April 20. This is the original novel of the movie "First Blood" starring Sylvester Stallone (the movie is called "Rambo" in Japan). I think this is the first time for me to go through a book of this length. I had been alternating between reading it intensively and not even picking it up from my desk for about six months. I guess the reason why I was able to read through the book for that long period was because I knew the broad plot of the movie. Kindle版を購入

出典： News in Levels Coffee Cups and Rescue Pups -- people in California are being given the chance to brighten up their morning coffee run . The dog café in Los Angeles lets customers couple their cappuccinos with a bit of pooch playtime, all with animals who are looking for a new home. brighten up … 明るくする、活気づける coffee run … コーヒーを買いに行くこと pooch … 犬 "I love dogs and I feel like getting to interact with like potentially dogs that are available for adoption is a really good idea because people actually get to mingle with them while enjoying their coffee and it could be a casual thing that people can come out to do on a daily basis, if they want!" adoption … 養子縁組 mingle with … 交際する、交流する Every single one of the dogs has been rescued from shelters. Now they are being rehabilitated by café owner Sarah Wolfgang and her staff. "My hope is to obviously decrease the amount of dogs that are being euthanised at shelters all across LA ,initially, and then hopefully...

出典： CNN These sisters share a special bond , one that has received attention worldwide. special bond … 特別な絆 After almost 11 months of being attached to each other by their waists, Ximena and Scarlett Hernandez-Torres have been successfully separated, according to their mother, Silva Torres. They were expected to endure 12 to 18 hours of surgery on Tuesday at a hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas. At 7 p.m. ET, Torres said on her Facebook page they were still in surgery. endure … 耐える、耐え抜く "A dedicated team of specialists has been working for months to prepare for this complex surgery," said pediatric surgeon Haroon Patel, who heads up the team undertaking the marathon procedure. pediatric surgeon … 小児外科医 head up … （組織などを）率いる The occurrence of conjoined twins happens once every 200,000 births and about 70% of conjoined twins are female. The overall survival rate of conjoined twins is somewhere between 5% and 25%, according to the University of Maryland Medica...

出典： EngVid 相手に助言をする場合 （命令） Go to the doctor. ↓ ↓ You should go to the doctor. ↓ （丁寧） If I were you, I would go to the doctor.

出典： Newsy Early Netflix adopters will soon have to pay as much as everybody else for their streaming content. early adopter … 早期導入者、いち早く利用する人、新し物好き Starting in May, Netflix's standard streaming plan will cost $9.99 a month for everyone. As of now, people who subscribed earlier than May 2014 got to keep their old price of $7.99. subscribe … 申し込む、会員登録する Financial company UBS estimated around 17 million users will have to spend the extra $24 per year. That's a little over a third of Netflix's U.S. subscriber base. That is, if they decide to stay. Forty-one percent of customers surveyed said they wouldn't accept a hike , but only about 3 percent of users are expected to actually leave because of it. Presumably because they still haven't watched "Narcos" yet. hike … （突然の）値上げ presumably … おそらく But those opting to leave Netflix in favor of traditional TV outlets may be in for a rude awakening . Some of the largest cable and satellite compan...

出典： TED Ed Are you familiar with the word symbiosis ? symbiosis … 共生 It's a fancy term for a partnership between two different species, such as bees and flowers. fancy term … しゃれた用語、凝った用語 In a symbiosis, both species depend on each other. I want to tell you about a remarkable symbiosis between a little bird, the Clark's Nutcracker , and a big tree, the Whitebark Pine . Clark's Nutcracker … ハイイロホシガラス Whitebark Pine … アメリカシロゴヨウ（松の一種） Whitebark grow in the mountains of Wyoming, Montana and other western states. They have huge canopies and lots of needles, which provide cover and shelter for other plants and animals, and Whitebark feed the forest. canopy … 林冠（樹林の枝葉による屋根のような覆い） Their cones are packed with protein. cone … 球果（松かさのような実） Squirrels gnaw the cones from the upper branches so they fall to the ground, and then race down to bury them in piles, or middens . squirrel … リス gnaw [nɔ́ː ]  … かじる midden … （動物が集めた種子や葉などの）山 But they don't...