メモ

  • Boston にあるうまいビール = Samuel Adams Beer
  • phrasal verb: ex) turn off it, turn it off
    • くっつけたら action を強調: それを消してください
    • 話したら object を強調: それを消してください
    • figured all the settings out
    • turn the ringers off
    • abandon: to give their own cell phone up
    • clogged: had tied the phone lines up
    • lower the volume: turn the volume down (courteous)
    • consume: use those free minutes up
    • telephone: call your boss up
    • p11: 2 call them up, 3 throw it away, 4 hang it up, 5 use them up, 6 tie the lines up, 7 head him off, 8 figure it out, 9 call it off
    • head off: stop, intercept (カウボーイが出てくる映画とかで使われたり) head them off on the path
    • call off = cancel
    • tie up: occupy, keep it busy
  • pushing the envelope: cutting edge, revolutioinary
  • exploitative < exploitation: to take an advantage of something (people)
  • ここから子供とメディアというお題のセクション:1999-2000年に起きた エリアン・ゴンザレス少年事件等が題材
  • scrutiny: careful examination of someone or something
  • scoop: beat, perform better than, get information first
  • ascertain: find out
  • couch: express something in a particular way in order not to offend someone
    • couched in polite language, soften, make it acceptable
  • ethical: relating to principles of what is right and wrong
  • vulnerability: state of being easily harmed or hurt emotionally, physically, or morally
  • trauma: a very bad and upsetting experience
  • grilling: asking someone a lot of difficult questions
  • beyond: too difficult for
  • perpetrators: criminals (コロンバインの銃撃犯人をさして)
    • perpetrate -> commit (negative) things
  • pinpoint: find the exact position of something or someone
  • bedrock rules: basic ideas and principles
  • parental consent: permission by parants for their child to do something