おはようございます。KANOです。本日はこちらの記事から。
コロナ後の外食の素晴らしさについて。
plexiglass
意味 [U] (米商標) プレキシグラス ((英商標)Perspex) (透明なアクリル樹脂).
In reality, we will probably keep seeing six-foot spaces between tables and plexiglass partitions for as long as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention keeps recommending them.
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商標かよーと思ったけど、この使われ方は一般名詞っぽい普及感を感じる。vaseline 的な。
momentum
意味 [U] （物· 活動の） 勢い, はずみ
Turn off the lights at the bar and it’s hard to get any momentum going in the rest of the space.
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attired
意味 (かたく)[通例 be ～] 装って, 着用して (dressed)
Eating outdoors gives us more than opportunities to look at interestingly attired strangers.
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plaid
意味 格子縞の
He was wearing a dark plaid blazer over a canary-yellow polo shirt, a combination I’d never seen on him or anybody before.
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調べたことあるなー…この単語。
relief
意味 [U] （心配· 恐怖などが去った） 安堵 （あんど） (感), 安心
My second thought: relief that he’d survived the pandemic and was eating out at what’s been one of his favorite restaurants for years.
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Chance meetings like this are one of the reasons we get up off the couch and leave the house.
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リアル知人とあまりばったり会いたくないタイプなので、これは全く共感できませんw
dutifully
意味 忠実に, 律義に.
It lasted less than five minutes, but it meant more to me than all the online cocktail hangouts I’ve dutifully shown up for (and all the others I forgot about).
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このdutifullyで「義務的に（イヤイヤ）参加した」感が出るんですね。面白い。
predictable
意味 予測可能な
The boom in online retail was predictable, but most of us were surprised by how smoothly office life continued without the office.
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