おはようございます。KANOです。本日はこちらの記事から。
普段ジーンズしか履かないので読んでみた。
consumption
意味 （時間· エネルギーなどの） 消費, 消耗, 使い果たすこと; （財· サービスなどの） 消費, 購入
The book is the latest entry in a growing genre of nonfiction: the consumption horror story.
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It’s as scary as any adult tale Roald Dahl ever wrote.
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あら、この一文面白い。最近積読リストに「Charlie and the Chocolate Factory」追加したばかり。
contributor
意味 (かたく) ＜よくない状況などの＞ 原因となる物 [事, 人] ＜to＞
Yet at this point, it’s not really news to anyone that fashion is a major contributor to climate change.
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mill
意味 [しばしば複合語で]（原材料を加工· 製造する） 工場, 製作所
Stores were closed, ateliers darkened, fabric mills shuttered, orders for fall clothes canceled and spring shipments turned away at department store loading bays.
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文意で分かったけど一応調べた。偉い。
grapple
意味 ＜問題などに/…しようと＞ 取り組む ＜with/to do＞
Predictions were made that this was finally the moment the industry would grapple with the system it had created; that a reset was on the way.
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convene
意味 〈人が〉（会議などのために） 集まる; 〈会議などが〉開かれる
Designers and retailers and editors convened. Maybe, they said, this is our wake-up call.
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TOEICの選択肢で出そうな単語。自動詞他動詞ほんと苦手。
markdown
意味 [C]値下げ (額), 値引き額.
We couldn’t change our patterns of overproduction and overconsumption and markdowns and waste, so nature has changed them for us.
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upcycle
High-end designers began to discuss the joys of upcycling and using their own dead stock.
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