(会員) 05月14日 NEWS ENGLISH - 中級-上級 (45 minutes!)

Nico Lesson - May 14, 2012

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How do you say the following in Japanese?

1	死んでいる
2	殺された
3	掃く
4	地元の
5	消防署
6	危機状態
7	の詳細
8	正体、身元
9	まだ
10	確認する
11	火事
12	勤務時間中で
13	緩んだ
14	予防対策

BTW did you know that the name of  Ghost Ride's alter ego is Johnny Blaze?

And blaze is another word for fire!

7 dead after hotel fire in Hiroshima Prefecture

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HIROSHIMA — Seven people were killed when a fire swept through their hotel in Hiroshima Prefecture on Sunday, the local police and fire department said.

“Seven people, three men and four women, are dead. Three other guests remain in a critical condition,” said a local police officer.

Officers gave no further details with the identities of the dead yet to be confirmed.

The blaze broke out at about 7 a.m. at the Hotel Prince in Fukuyama, the officials said. At the time of the fire, there were 13 guests staying in the hotel and one employee on duty.

The cause of the fire, which gutted the 2nd and 3rd floors, was not immediately known, police said.

The 4-story hotel had no sprinkler system and been warned about lax anti-fire prevention measures in at least eight areas last year, fire department officials said.

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1	熱心な	avid, enthusiastic
2	気をつけて	beware
3	罰金を科する	issue a fine
4	交通規則を無視して道路を横断する歩行者				jaywalker
5	歩行者	a pedestrian
6	気を散らすこと	distraction
7	命にかかわる、致命的な、命取りになる			fatal
8	区, 自治区	a borough
9	取り締まり	a crackdown
10	賛成する	agree, on board
11	研究［検討］を行う、検討［研究］する		to conduct a study
12	それる	to veer off
13	〔人の〕自覚を促す［鼓舞する］、認識［関心］を高める					raise awareness
14	途絶、分裂	disruption

Avid texters beware: Fort Lee, N.J. police said they will begin issuing $85 jaywalking tickets to pedestrians who are caught texting while walking.

"It's a big distraction. Pedestrians aren't watching where they are going and they are not aware," said Thomas Ripoli, chief of the Fort Lee Police Department.

Ripoli said the borough, which is home to approximately 35,000 residents, has suffered three fatal pedestrian-involved accidents this year. He hopes his crackdown on people who display dangerous behavior while walking will make his town safer, but not everyone is on board with the idea of issuing $85 tickets.

"When I walk I still look around. I'm not like constantly looking down the whole time," said resident Sue Choe.

Another woman complained about the tickets were "a lot of money."

Officers handed out pamphlets during a short grace period in March before they began aggressively going after "dangerous walkers."

More than 117 tickets have been issued, according to the New Jersey Record.

Two professors at Stony Brook University in New York conducted a study on walking and texting. They found texters are 60 percent more likely to veer off line than non-texters.

"We want to raise awareness that a real disruption occurs because of texting," Eric Lamberg, co-author of the study, told Long Island Business News. "Texting disrupts your ability much more than does talking."