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運命と前兆.

Luck, Fate & Omens

帰国子女・インターナショナルスクール生のための、デジタルSAT の無料単語教材。独学で進められます。

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使ってみる — 4問

おぼえたかどうかではなく、文に合う語を選べるかを試します。 選択肢はすべて、このテーマの語です。意味の遠い語は混ぜていません。 だから「よい意味か、わるい意味か」と「どのくらい強いか」で絞るのが、そのまま解き方になります。

  1. 01

    The timing of the 2011 transit was settled a decade in advance. Okonkwo's team computed the hour at which the planet would cross the star's disk, booked the mountaintop telescope for exactly that window, and left nothing about the schedule to chance or to the reading of signs. What remained was a question of weather: the night itself had to be       — dark, cloudless, and long enough to record the whole crossing — for the measurement they had already designed.

  2. 02

    Between 1590 and 1720 the Baltic grain trade boomed, collapsed, and boomed again, twice within a single decade in the worst years. Kirsanova's study of the Danzig ledgers argues that the houses that lasted were not the ones that foresaw each       — no one did — but the ones that kept enough idle capital to sit out whatever came next.

  3. 03

    Working from nothing but the shipping registers that any clerk in the port could consult, Hartnell argued in 1926 that the region's grain economy would collapse within five years. It collapsed in 1930. Later historians have called him      , though he always insisted that he had no gift beyond patience with columns of figures.

  4. 04

    The flood ledgers kept at the Deshi monastery record the level of the courtyard well for nearly four centuries. A sudden drop is noted again and again in the same terms — as       — and the monks were not being fanciful: in eleven of the thirteen recorded cases, the valley's springs failed within a single season. Hydrologists now read the ledgers as an unusually long record of groundwater behavior.

Luck, Fate & Omens — 12語12 words

このテーマの全語です。定義を隠して、 よい意味・わるい意味・中立の三つに分けてみるのが、いちばん効く使い方です。 分け間違えた語が、そのまま自分の弱点になります。

Every word in this theme. The best use of it is to cover the meanings and sort the list into positive, negative and neutral. Whichever ones you put in the wrong pile are exactly your weak spots.

内訳:よい意味 7語 / わるい意味 3語 / 中立 2語。 強さはこのテーマの中での相対です。テーマをまたいで比べる数字ではありません。

7 positive, 3 negative, 2 neutral. Strength is ranked within this theme only — the numbers are not comparable across themes.

語Word向き+/−強さStrength意味Meaning
auspicious adj+●●suggesting that things will go well — 幸先が良い
boon n+●an unexpected benefit — 思わぬ恩恵
clairvoyant adj+●●●able to perceive what others cannot — 千里眼のprescient は先を読む鋭さ、clairvoyant は常人に見えないものが見える超常的な力です。prescient is sharp foresight, reading correctly what is coming; clairvoyant is perceiving what ordinary people cannot perceive at all.
fortuitous adj+●happening by lucky chance — たまたま幸運な
hapless adj−●●chronically unlucky — いつも運が悪い
ominous adj−●●●hinting that something bad is coming — 不吉な
portent n0●a sign of what is coming — 前兆良い知らせの前兆にも使えますが、presage は悪い方に寄り、ominous は完全に不吉です。a portent can point to good news as well as bad, while a presage is specifically a warning of something bad and ominous is bad outright.
presage n−●●a warning sign of what is to come — 悪い予兆
prescient adj+●●knowing what will happen before it does — 先見の明がある
propitious adj+●●favorable for what you plan to do — 好都合なauspicious は兆しが良いこと、propitious は今がその行動に好都合だということです。auspicious says the signs look good; propitious says conditions right now favor the thing you plan to do.
serendipity n+●●●finding something good without looking for it — 嬉しい偶然fortuitous はただの偶然、serendipity は探していなかった幸運な発見です。fortuitous is plain good chance; serendipity is finding something good you were not even looking for.
vicissitude n0●●an unpredictable turn of events — 浮き沈み
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Words in Context 文脈から語を選ぶ・12問

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