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jaunt
意味 [C] (やや古/おどけて) （短い） 旅行, 行楽.
You don’t ever crave a Double Whopper so badly that you wouldn’t take a quick jaunt to the Burger King dumpster and check if there was one delicately placed at the top of the bin?
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fantasize
意味 ＜…するのを/…について＞ 想像する, 空想する ＜about doing/about＞
You’re trying to tell me I’m the only one who’s fantasized about that? Your loss.
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desert island
意味 無人島
What if you were trapped on a desert island—one with no plants—and the only thing you could eat was a wild animal?
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知りませんでしたこの単語。ふー。
head
意味 (主に米)[be ～ed＋[副]]向かう, 進む （[副]は方向· 場所などの表現） ; [be ～ed for [toward] A]A〈好ましくない事態〉へと向かう
What if the trolley were headed straight for them?
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civilization
意味 文明
A trillion dollars that you could use to create and sustain a cruelty-free world for the rest of human—and animal—civilization?
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dummy
意味 (主に米/くだけて) ばか, まぬけ (numbskull).
What would you do then, dummy?!
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