TOEFL 英英単熟語

「TOEFL 英英単熟語」の電子書籍を出版したので紹介させていただきます。

TOEFL対策において、英英辞典の使用は非常に効果的です。以下にその理由を示します。

 1. **英語で考える力の向上**

   - TOEFLは英語で出題されるため、英英辞典を使うことで、単語の意味を英語のまま理解する力が養われます。これにより、リーディングやリスニングでの理解が深まり、試験本番で役立ちます。

 2. **ニュアンスの理解**

   - 英英辞典では、単語の定義が詳しく説明されており、微妙なニュアンスや複数の意味を学ぶことができます。これはTOEFLのようなアカデミックな試験で特に重要です。

 3. **語彙力の強化**

   - TOEFLでは幅広い語彙が求められるため、英英辞典を使って新しい単語を学ぶことで、試験で必要な語彙力を効率的に強化できます。特に、TOEFLに頻出する単語やフレーズが多く載っている辞書を活用すると効果的です。

 4. **文脈での理解**

   - 英英辞典には例文が豊富に含まれているため、単語が実際にどのように使われるかを文脈で学ぶことができます。これにより、単語の使い方や適切な表現方法も身につけることができます。

TOEFL対策では、英和辞典と併用しつつも、できるだけ英英辞典を活用することで、総合的な英語力を向上させることができます。

以下は電子書籍の一部抜粋です。

・vaccine

　a substance which contains a weak form of the bacteria or virus that causes a disease and is used to protect people from that disease

・ingredient

　one of the foods that you use to make a particular food or dish

・molecule

　the smallest unit into which any substance can be divided without losing its own chemical nature, usually consisting of two or more atoms

・atom

　the smallest part of an element that can exist alone or can combine with other substances to form a molecule

・protein

　one of several natural substances that exist in food such as meat, eggs, and beans, and which your body needs in order to grow and remain strong and healthy

・diffuse

　to make heat, light, liquid etc spread through something, or to spread like this

・depressant

　a substance or drug that makes your body processes slower and makes you feel very relaxed or sleepy

・stimulant

　a drug or substance that makes you feel more active and full of energy

・velocity

　the speed of something that is moving in a particular direction

・momentum

　the force that makes a moving object keep moving

・friction

　disagreement, angry feelings, or unfriendliness between people

・inertia

　when no one wants to do anything to change a situation

・conductor

　something that allows electricity or heat to travel along it or through it

・reflection

　an image that you can see in a mirror, glass, or water

・refract

　if glass or water refracts light, the light changes direction when it passes through the glass or water

・vibrate

　if something vibrates, or if you vibrate it, it shakes quickly and continuously with very small movements

・frequency

　the number of radio waves, sound waves etc that pass any point per second

・resonance

　the resonance of a sound is its quality of being deep and loud and continuing for a long time

・mirage

　an effect caused by hot air in a desert, which makes you think that you can see objects when they are not actually there

・democracy

　a system of government in which every citizen in the country can vote to elect its government officials

・constitution

　a set of basic laws and principles that a country or organization is governed by

・legislate

　to make a law about something

・judicial

　relating to the law, judges, or their decisions

・veto

　if someone in authority vetoes something, they refuse to allow it to happen, especially something that other people or organizations have agreed

・amendment

　a small change, improvement, or addition that is made to a law or document, or the process of doing this

・suffrage

　the right to vote in national elections

・ratify

　to make a written agreement official by signing it

・financial

　relating to money or the management of money

・copyright

　the legal right to be the only producer or seller of a book, play, film, or record for a specific length of time

・capital

　money or property, especially when it is used to start a business or to produce more wealth

・monopoly

　if a company or government has a monopoly of a business or political activity, it has complete control of it so that other organizations cannot compete with it

・merger

　the joining together of two or more companies or organizations to form one larger one

・conglomerate

　a large business organization consisting of several different companies that have joined together

・dividend

　a part of a company’s profit that is divided among the people with shares in the company

・wholesale

　the business of selling goods in large quantities at low prices to other businesses, rather than to the general public 

・barter

　to exchange goods, work, or services for other goods or services rather than for money

・deposit

　to put money or something valuable in a bank or other place where it will be safe

・premium

　the cost of insurance, especially the amount that you pay each year

・recession

　a difficult time when there is less trade, business activity etc in a country than usual

・archaeology

　the study of ancient societies by examining what remains of their buildings, graves, tools etc

・norm

　the usual or normal situation, way of doing something etc

・masculine

　having qualities considered to be typical of men or of what men do 

・prescribe

　to say what medicine or treatment a sick person should have

・codify

　to arrange laws, principles, facts etc in a system

・conform

　to obey a law, rule etc

・deviant

　different, in a bad way, from what is considered normal

・colony

　a country or area that is under the political control of a more powerful country, usually one that is far away

・settlement

　when a lot of people move to a place in order to live there, especially in a place where not many people have lived before

・figure out

　to think about a problem or situation until you find the answer or understand what has happened

・come down with

　to get an illness

・bank on

　to depend on something happening or someone doing something

・bread and butter

　bread-and-butter work is work that is not very exciting but provides you with most of the money that you need in order to live

・get the better of

　to defeat someone or deal successfully with a problem

・on the tip of one's tongue

　if something is on the tip of your tongue, you really want to say it, but then you decide not to

・once in a blue moon

　very rarely

・feel like a million dollars

　to look very attractive or feel very happy and healthy

・a snow job

　an act of making someone believe something that is not true

・wet behind the ears

　very young and without much experience of life

・walk out

　to stop working as a protest

・wait on

　to serve food and drink to someone at their table, especially in a restaurant

・a feather in one's cap

　something you have done that you should be proud of

・call off

　to decide that a planned event will not take place 

・wrap up

　to finish a job, meeting etc

・take a shortcut

　a quicker and more direct way of getting somewhere than the usual one

・stand up for

　to support or defend a person or idea when they are being attacked

・sort out

　to arrange or organize something that is mixed up or untidy, so that it is ready to be used

・a fly in the ointment

　the only thing that spoils something and prevents it from being successful

・all thumbs

　to use your hands in an awkward or careless way, so that you drop or break things

・ring a bell

　if something rings a bell, it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is

・a whole new ballgame

　a situation that is very different from the one you are used to

・anybody's guess

　to be something that no one knows

・old habits die hard

　used to say that it is difficult to make people change their attitudes or behavior

・there are more fish in the sea

　used to tell someone whose relationship has ended that there are other people they can have a relationship with

・a slap in the face

　an action that seems to be deliberately intended to offend or upset someone, especially someone who has tried very hard to do something

・pull one's leg

　to tell someone something that is not true, as a joke

・knock it off

　used to tell someone to stop doing something, because it is annoying you

・go overboard

　to do or say something that is too extreme for a particular situation

・go Dutch

　to share the cost of a meal in a restaurant

・catch on

　to become popular and fashionable

・upset the applecart

　to completely spoil someone’s plans

・throw the book at

　to punish someone as severely as possible or charge them with as many offenses as possible

・take the words right out of my mouth

　if someone takes the words out of your mouth, they have just said what you were going to say

・sleep on it

　to not make a decision about something important until the next day

・sing another tune

　to say something different from what you said before

・smell a rat

　to guess that something wrong or dishonest is happening

・kick the habit

　to stop doing something that is a harmful habit, such as smoking, taking drugs etc

・on the cutting edge

　the newest and most exciting stage in the development of something

・pound the pavement

　to work very hard to get something, especially a job, by going to a lot of different places

・not get a wink of sleep

　not be able to sleep at all

・meddle in

　to deliberately try to influence or change a situation that does not concern you, or that you do not understand 

・make a clean breast of

　to admit that you have done something wrong so that you no longer feel guilty

・get cold feet

　to suddenly feel that you are not brave enough to do something you planned to do

・lag behind

　to move or develop more slowly than others

・keep to oneself

　to live a very quiet private life and not do many things that involve other people

・give in

　to finally agree to do or accept something that you had at first opposed, especially because someone has forced or persuaded you to

・get nowhere

　to have no success or make no progress

・get along

　if two or more people get along, they have a friendly relationship

・fall through

　if an agreement, plan, sale etc falls through, it is not completed successfully

・fall behind

　to make less progress than others in a competitive situation

・eat out

　to eat in a restaurant instead of at home

・cut corners

　to save time, money, or energy by doing things quickly and not as carefully as you should

・couldn't be better

　used to emphasize how good something is

・foot the bill

　to pay for something, especially something expensive that you do not want to pay for

・cut class

　to deliberately not go to a class that you should go to

・be head and shoulders above

　to be much better than other people

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TOEFL 英英単熟語集