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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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次の英文を和訳しなさい。
The poem, or the kind of poem we write nowadays, is a single emotional spear-point, a concentrated effect that is achieved by leaving everything out but the emotion itself.
(京都大学)

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即効英文解釈第3講【見抜け構文】

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Similarity is especially important when it comes to attitudes. We are particularly attracted to people who have attitudes similar to our own, who like what we like, and who dislike what we dislike. The more significant the attitude, the more important the similarity. For example, marriages between people with great dissimilarities are more likely to end in divorce than are marriages between people who are very much alike

It is psychologically uncomfortable to like people
who do not like what we like or to dislike people who like what we like. Our attraction to similarity enables us to achieve psychological balance or comfort. The person who likes what we like tells us that we are right to like what we like.

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as...asは知っている。thanも知っている。では……

Iyengar found that people who were shown a selection of six different jams in a store were about 10 times as likely to buy a jar than those exposed to a range of 24 flavors.(早稲田・政経 2010)

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(B)
Ask almost any painter or sculptor, famous or not, why they do what they do and they'll give you the same answer: it's a compulsion. Ask them what advice they might have for an aspiring artist and they'll probably caution you not to attempt a career as one unless you feel you have absolutely no other option.