On August 19, 2000, the New York Times reported that an icebreaker cruise ship had reached the North Pole only to discover this famous frozen site was now open water. For a generation that grew up reading the harrowing accounts of explorers such as American Richard Byrd trying to reach the North Pole as they battled bitter cold, ice, and snow, this new view taxed the imagination.
In its many earlier trips to the North Pole, the cruise ship had allowed passengers to disembark in order to be photographed standing on the ice. This time, the ship had to move several miles away to find ice thick enough for the photo session. If the explorers of a century or so ago had been trekking to the North Pole in the summer of 2000, they would have had to swim the last few miles.
Media reports of melting ice typically focus on individual glaciers or ice caps, but the ice is melting almost everywhere. Given that the 14 warmest years since recordkeeping began in 1866 have all occurred since 1980, this does not come as a surprise.
Water shortages are also in the news. Some of the world's major rivers are being drained dry, failing to reach the sea. Among them is the Colorado, the major river in the southwestern United States. In China, the Yellow River, the northernmost of the country's two major rivers, no longer reaches the sea for part of each year. In Central Asia, the Amu Darya sometimes fails to reach the Aral Sea because it has been drained dry by upstream irrigation.
Wells are going dry on every continent. As population expands and incomes rise, the demand for water is simply outrunning the supply in many countries. Those with money drill deeper wells, chasing the water table downward. Those unable to deepen their wells are left in a difficult position.
The situation promises to become far more precarious, since the 3.2 billion people being added to world population by 2050 will be born in countries already facing water scarcity. With 40 percent of the world food supply coming from irrigated land, water scarcity directly affects food security. If we are facing a future of water scarcity, we are also facing a future of food scarcity.
Since agriculture began, the earth's climate has been remarkably stable. Now the earth's temperature is rising, apparently due to the greenhouse effect—the warming that results from the rising concentration of heat-trapping gases, principally carbon dioxide (CO2), in the atmosphere.
This rise in CO2 concentration comes from two sources: the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. Each year, more than 6 billion tons of carbon are released into the atmosphere as fossil fuels are burned. Estimates of the net release of carbon from deforestation vary widely, but they center on 1.5 billion tons per year.
The release of CO2 from these two sources is simply overwhelming nature's capacity to fix carbon dioxide. When the Industrial Revolution began in 1760, carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels were negligible. But by 1950, they had reached 1.6 billion tons per year, a quantity that was already boosting the atmospheric CO2 level. In 2000, they totaled 6.3 billion tons. (See Figure 2-1.) This fourfold increase since 1950 is at the heart of the greenhouse effect that is warming the earth.
The carbon emissions of individual fossil fuels vary. Coal burning releases more carbon per unit of energy produced than oil does, and oil more than natural gas. The global fleet of 532 million gasoline-burning automobiles, combined with thousands of coal-fired power plants, are literally the engines driving climate change.
In addition, in recent years the world has been losing 9 million hectares of forest per year. Forests store easily 20 times as much carbon per hectare as does land in crops. If the net loss of forests can be eliminated, this source of carbon emissions will disappear. In the northern hemisphere, the forested area is actually increasing by 3.6 million hectares a year.
1.Some students performed the dance.
2.The woman asked me to open the door.
3.My mother told me to clean my room.
受動態にするやり方はなんとなく理解はしているんですが、文章的に変になってしまいます…。
是非、どうなるのか教えていただければ幸いです。
※ちなみにこの文章はテストからなどではないので大丈夫です!!
各文を英語に直して下さい。
お願い致します。
1 これは必修科目ですから、全員取らなければなりません。
2 昼休みには、級友達とおしゃべりするのが楽しみです。
3 明日は運動会です。天気予報では雨が降りそうなので心配しています。
4 今日の３時間目は先生がお休みだったので、私たちは自習をしました。
5 兄は大学の二年生で、土曜日曜は近くのコンビニでアルバイトをしていました。
6 卒業式の日には、女生徒の中には級友との別れを惜しんで涙ぐんでいる人
もいました。
hint
おしゃべりする chat；have a chat 心配して be anxious ～と別れを惜しむ hate to part from ～ 涙ぐむ have tears in one’s eyes
日本文に合うように、英文を完成して下さい。
1 私たちは先週沖縄へ修学旅行に行った。
We ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿to Okinawa last week.
2 君の宿題を手伝ってあげよう。
Let me ＿＿＿＿＿＿ your homework.
3 この問題は解くのに計算機を使ってもよろしい。
You can use your calculator ＿＿＿＿＿.
4 上野先生は私たちのクラスの担任です。
Ms. Ueno is ＿＿＿＿＿＿.
Suppose everything you bought was monitored.
Very closely.
So closely that the grocer knows that your dog prefers canned food to dry.
Or that you recently switched from roll-on deodorant to spray.
So closely that the hotel you stayed at last week knows what your favorite candy bar is and how many Kleenec boxes you want in your room---even though no one asked.
Or suppose that the last time you connected your computer to the Internet,someone could have watched what you did,what you said or what you bought,and then shared the information with a curious marketer who wanted to know.
This is not the future.
Such windows into your private life are already open to those who know where to look.
The invasion of privacy has gotten so out of hand,some experts say,that the right to privacy has all but disappeared,sacrificed on the altar of customer service and corporate profits.
Today,if consumers do not take extraordinary steps to shield their privacy,they end up with very little,or none at all.
With so much information circulating avout our personal habits,traits and desires,Mckinsey＆Co.
consultant Mike Sherman says he expects to see the grand opening of a new chain:Psychic Pizza.
"Your pizza is deliverd 15 minutes before you order it,or it's free."he jokes.
Unknowingly,through things people do every day-get the car washed,go to the grocery store,order a sewater from a catalog-they leave electronic fingerprints that give marketers crucial information.
問1So closely that the grocer knows that your dog prefers canned food to dry. を和訳せよ
問2The invasion of privacy has gotten so out of hand,some experts say,that the right to privacy has all but disappeared を和訳せよ
問3they end up with very little,or none at all.の内容をわかりやすく40字以内の日本語で説明せよ
問4"Your pizza is deliverd 15 minutes before you order it,or it's free." は1語を別の1語に置き換えると普通のピザ屋の宣伝文句になる。どの語を何に置き換えるか答えよ。
問5electronic fingerprintsをわかりやすく３０字程度の日本語で説明せよ。
1.とても親密なのでその食料雑貨店はあなた犬が湿っている食べ物を好まないことを知っている
2.プライバシーの侵害は手に負えなくなっている、幾人かの専門家達はプライバシーのための権利はほとんど消えてしまったと言っている
3.わかりませんでした
4.before→after
5.消費者の購入履歴などの電子的な形跡
wikipediaの訳がどうしてもわからないので教えてください。
You know what I'd like to be? I mean if I had my goddamn choice, I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.
(僕が何になりたいか知ってるよね？ 僕の馬鹿げた選択は、ただライ麦畑で[子供達を]捕まえる人になりたい、それだけなんだ)
ifの意味がこの訳には出てないんですよね？
あと、最後の「それだけなんだ」はand all.の訳でいいんでしょうか？
Among the invasive alien species brought into Japan , some were introduced for the purpose of helping with their work.iについて
(１) brought が修飾している語をかきなさい。
(２) someの後ろに補うことのできる語句を書きなさい。
(３) 次の語を日本語に直しなさい。
She traveled Hong Kong for the purpose of shopping.
(４) 次の文を日本語に直しなさい。
More and husband are helping their wives with the house work .
The problem was what it started eating there.について。
(１)この文の文型は何ですか?
(２)itが指しているものを本文中から抜き出しなさい。
(1)（It ）was thought that (2)（it ）would kill and eat habu, but (3)（ it ） ate other species instead. について。
(１) (1)～(3)のit 指しているものを書きなさい。
However, it is now known that European bumblebee easily invade other bee habits to make nests and collect honey, since they are much storonger than other bees.について。
(１) itが指している部分の最初と最後の語を１語ずつ書きなさい。
In Middle Eastern countries where European bumblebees have already become a part of the ecosystem, the number of native bees seriously decreased. について。
(１) この文の主語を１語で書きなさい。
Yet in the eyes of history, this error established his greatness, for in failing to reach Asia,
he and those who followed him opened to the European masses a means of escape from
poverty and hardship for ages to come.
上記の英文につきまして、以下の点がわからないのですが、
ご教示いただけないでしょうか。
（コロンブスに関する文章です。）
(1)"for in failin to～"について、挿入句だと思うのですが、このforは接続詞のforでしょうか。
それとも前置詞でしょうか。
(2)"opened to～"の部分で、調べたところopen to+人+モノという形が
見つからなかったのですが、openにはこのような形があるのでしょうか。
あるいは構文の解釈が誤っているのでしょうか。
