おはようございます。KANOです。今回はこちらの記事から。
ベネたまの名前がちらっと出てたので。こういう「世界史の授業で確かに見たことあるけど名前出てこない」王様多いよね。
descendant
意味 [通例～s]（人· 生物の） 子孫, 後裔 （こうえい）
Prof King addressed a press conference in 2013 to show the DNA samples taken from a skeleton of Richard III and other descendants
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pelvis
意味 [C]骨盤.
“She did the head, the arms and she was working her way from the pelvis up, then she realised the skeleton had a curved spine,” said Prof King.
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statistical analysis
意味 統計分析
It was Prof King’s job to do the genetic and statistical analysis that would determine this was, in fact, Richard.
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overwhelming
意味 〈数· 量などが〉（ほかと比べて） 圧倒的な, 膨大な, 大多数の
Her work, published in December 2014, showed the evidence was overwhelming – to a probability of 99.999-99.99999%.
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そろそろ定着させたい単語。そして総じて「-ing」が苦手なので慣れたい。
subside
意味 〈声· 音· 激情· 悪天候などが〉徐々に静まる ((よりくだけて)die down); 〈話していた人が〉静かになる
Prof King says interest in the story has never subsided
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“I sit on the fence wondering whether he is a nice great uncle to have or not.”
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はぁ…なんてかわいいコメントなんでしょ…。
