英語論文を読んでいて、詰まった英単語・フレーズをピックアップ。英訳はWiktionaryから引用しました。適宜追加。
- ado... Doing; Trouble; difficulty; Troublesome business.
Ex) He made much ado about it.
- aliased ... Using more than one name, or being refered to in more than one way.
- convex...curved or bowed outward like the outside of a bowl or sphere or circle.
- crux... The basic, central or essential point or feature.
- envisage...To conceive or see something within one's mind. To imagine or envision.
- delineation... The act of delineating (to draw an outline), depiction.
- drawback... A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.
- ephemeral... something which lasts for a shor period of time.
- garner... To gather as if harvesting grain.
Ex) A related idea is that garnering attention is ...
- half-sib...The offspring of one's parent who shares only one parent.
- indulge... To yeild to a temptation or desire. To satisfy the wishes or whims of.
Ex) I indulged in drinking on the weekend.
- obviate... 1: To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise be necessary or required).
2: To avoid (a future problem or difficult situation).
- parsimonious...1: Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money.
2: Using a minimal number of assumptions, steps, or conjectures.
- progeny... Offspring or descendants.
- prosaic... overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of boring, humdrum.
- reiterate... To say or do (something) for a second time.
- senescene... Ceasing to divide by mitosis because of shortening of telomeres or excessive DNA damage.
こういう単語帳を作って反復しないと、自分で嫌になるくらい何回も何回も同じ語句を調べてしまいます…。
追加。やっぱりweblioの和訳を載せることにしました。
- spurious... 偽の, 偽造の, うわべだけの, もっともらしい
例) ..., producing spurious results without ecological meaning.
- back of the envelop ... 簡単な計算・簡単な問題
- panacea ... 万能薬
- uphold ... 支持する, 確認する
例) Scientific integrity should be upheld by scientists throughout the scientific process.
- procrastinate ... ぐずぐずする, 先延ばしする
- impetus ... 勢い, 弾み, 刺激
