The Japan Times Alpha の記事を読んで楽しみながらボキャビルも増やしたいということで、印象に残ったことを記録していきます。
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■2021.10.29日号の記事から（完読度90％）
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面白い記事が多かった。その中でもノーベル賞特集の記事が良かった。
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ノーベル賞の創設者アルフレッド・ノーベルのバックグラウンドが興味深い。父親が武器商人だったんだよね、そして兄の死と伯爵夫人との出会いでマインドセットが変わっていく。
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He wanted to be remembered not as an arms dealer but as a patron of human progress.
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発明したものが核だろうが、軍用銃だろうがダイナマイトだろうがそれらはあくまでも手段で、どう使うかは人間の問題だと思うけどね。
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受賞スピーチの文章は初めて読んだが圧巻だった・・キング牧師のスピーチは難しかった。
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Hate destroys the hater as well as the hated.
(Martin Luther King Jr.)
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People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.
Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.
I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.
(The 14th Dalai Lama)
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We don't feel the pride of our tribe demonstrating superiority over other tribes.
Rather, it's the pride that comes from knowing that one of us has made a significant contribution to our common human endeavor.
The emotion aroused is a larger one, a unifying one.
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（Kazuo Ishiguro）
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But man is not made for defeat, he said. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
（The Old Man and the Sea --- Ernest Hemingway）
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The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country. The earth lay white under the night sky.
（Snow Country --- Yasunari Kawabata）
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sentient being 生きとし生けるもの
We may reduce the pain and suffering of all sentient beings.
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[n] sleeper ダークホース
John wasn't well-known prior to this race.
No one knew much about John, so they weren't sure John would win or not. It turns out that John did win. John is a sleeper.
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John was expected to be one of the losers. He expected not to win. However, John came out first. John is a dark horse.
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