日本昔ばなし　人参とごぼうと大根

One day vegetable god had a walk and thought I wanna increase the kind of vegetable,so he created three vegetables, carrot and burdock and radish, and painted these vividly.

All vegetables are supposed to get together to the god annually in order to go to  a festival.

Three vivid vegetables which were envied by the other vegetables because they were vivid,had a bath to participate in the festival, but burdock fell down , radish brushed its body hard ,and carrot remained in the bath for a long time.

Although three were late for the festival,they said please colar us again(burdock became brown colar of soil and radish became white color because it brushed its vivid cloth and carrot became orangesh because it had the bath for a long time),the god said no.

1,単語　vividly 鮮やかに

心なしかキャリーが出てきました。日本でも数年前に流行っていた(?)ビビットカラーのビビットです。発音はビビッドです。

例文）When I go back to Japan next,I would like to have my hair colored vividly.

次日本に帰った時は髪を亜ざっやかに染めてもらいたい。

2,熟語　be supposed to do 〜することになっている

中高で一度は見ていると思います。口語でも文章でも見聞きするので大事な熟語です。

例文）We are supposed to get together that hall at one o’clock.

一時に私たちはあのホールに集まることになっている。

3,単語　annually 年一で

a yearに置き換え可能ですがこっちの方が文学的だと思います。

例文）This festival takes place annually.

この祭りは年一で開催されている。

4,単語　envy　ねたみ　ねたむ　羨ましがる

口語でも文書でもよくは見かけませんが感情動詞なので覚えておくべしだとお思います。またこの単語は名詞だけじゃなく動詞としても働きます。

例文）I envy one of my friedns because he has that watch.

彼はあの時計を持っているので羨ましい。