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【即効英文解釈第6講】
「知らない単語を推測する方法」について解説しています。

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次の英文の下線部(a)と(ｂ)を日本語に訳しなさい。
Eating out is an ancient product of urbanism. (a)Its origins were not so much a desire for "fast food” as a means of providing cooked dishes for the poorer people who lacked the time and technologies to prepare food at the places where they slept.

Ancient Rome had a population of more than a million by 100 BC. Most of the city's people lived in tenements and had no access to the bulky ovens and hearths needed to bake bread or make porridges and gruels. The poor had little choice but to purchase their food on the street or at the market or bazaar, whereas for the wealthy the staging of a banquet in their own houses was a vehicle for displaying their good fortune and their pretensions.

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Dostum didn't search his prisoners.をどう訳しますか？
・・・ドスタムは彼の囚人を探さなかった？？

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Most human cultures have considered food preparation and consumption, especially consuming food together, as essential to family, tribal, religious, and other social bonds.(大阪大学2021年)

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中学2年生向けにafter,beforeの動画を作っていたら、ふとbeforeでも「後で」と訳す英文があったことを思い出してそのことについて話しました。

I drove through the morning, before taking a break at a boat-launch site where I brought out a piece of my cinnamon bread to feed a lone seagull I saw.
(京都大2020年前期の長文より)

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The question is - particularly in Japan, which is facing a severely aging population and shrinking of its workforce - whether AI will perform tasks that are beneficial to society as a whole.