文の中で説明される難語・抽象表現

An everyday example of the power of social influence is littering, dropping garbage in public.

People in the village often engage in what linguists call code-switching, mixing languages together or switching from one to another as they speak.

When I turned 17, I took a job as a valet, parking cars for people at some of the best restaurants and nightclubs in San Francisco.

As a teenager during the tough economic times of the 1930s, he had found a job as a ditchdigger, digging holes in the ground all day long every day.

Some members of the Amish community in the United States, for example, use a silent discourse, communicating through signs, symbols and action rather than words.

Doing this is often seen as a passive-aggressive move, telling the person without telling them that you no longer want to be friends.

Remote work, doing work from home by communicating online with the company, is one possibility to keep businesses active while staying home.

Indonesia's slash-and-burn policy, clearing forests to make space for palm plantations, is an unfortunate case in point.

…when people engage in seemingly trivial activities like "re-Tweeting," relaying on Twitter a short message from someone else, something nontrivial takes place on a grand scale within a global brain.

In reading, someone else has done all the work, writing the words down.

Retaining memory is highly dependent on the first step of the process, encoding the information.

And his neighbor will return the gesture, filling the first man's empty glass.

Creativity grows out of a certain type of hard work, combining curious exploring with playful experimenting.

Translating literature isn't a mere technical exercise, substituting one word for another.

For environmentalists, that will mean changing strategies, finding methods of conservation that are more people-friendly and that allow wildlife to coexist with human development.

That's no mean task, compiling the etymologies, definitions, pronunciations, and perhaps even usage examples for 40 new words.

One single act, flying nonstop from New York to Paris, made Charles Lindbergh the most celebrated man in the country, and indeed, the world.

The ultimate goal, describing how language is used, is helpful for any language teacher, but I knew many people who had a block against numbers and statistics.

The truth here is that hiding behind a computer, talking with people you often don't even know, is not ultimately very fulfilling.

Others find that planning a week ahead, sitting down every Sunday and thinking of the next seven days, is the best way.

Deep reading, immersing yourself in novels with complex characters, engaging with stories that explore the complexity of this character's motivations or that character's wounds, is a training ground for understanding human variety.

That is, people perform machine-like activity, copying and relaying information, while the Internet, as a whole, is claimed to perform the creative thinking, the problem solving, the connection making.