日本昔ばなしシリーズ 草葉の陰から

When a bored man who had much hair and moustouch and doesn’t help his wife, had a nap under a tree, and another man who was going to go back from shopping tried a knife he bought so the sleeping man became bald which means dead man.

The man was amazed at his appearance and misunderstood he was dead so he left to west part where the pure land is thought to be there.

He traveld for a few days and he was determined to go back because he saw strip of papaer of the star festival which means the bon festival when the dead people are supposed to be back on their house.

When he was back, his wife who thought her husband has been gone already because he hasn’t been back for a long time, was stupefied at the male because he looked completely different so when she and her daoughter prayed and asked does her husdand look at us?,her husband looked at them from the yard.

1,単語 bore 〜を退屈させる

感情の動詞の1つなので慣れるまでは気を使いながら使いましょう。I am doreing.は私は退屈な人です。I am bored.は私は退屈しています。

例文)The enlglish class is often boreing.

英語の授業は大抵退屈だ。

2,単語 misunderstand 勘違いする

misという間違った、というイメージのある接頭語にunderstand理解する、という動詞がくっついて1つの動詞になりました。なので 間違って理解する が転じて 勘違いするとなります。

例文)Because I misunderstood  the assignment  we shoud do, I couldn’t hand in .

私たちがするべき宿題を勘違いしたので、提出できなかった。

3,熟語 be determined to do 〜するのを決心する

decide to doと同じ意味の熟語です。ですが少しだけ大げさですね。

例文)My friend was determined to refrain from sugar.

私の友達は砂糖を控えることを決心した。

4,単語 stupefy 〜を仰天させる

ハリーポッターの映画に出てくる呪文の1つです。この単語同様、相手は仰天します。

例文)I was stupefied that stupefy is a real word.

stupefyが実在する単語と知った時はとても驚いた。

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