(公開) 2015年２月20日（金曜日）This week in the News

(公開) 2015年２月20日（金曜日）This week in the News

1. Revenge porn became illegal in Japan.
to make illegal = to criminalize

to criminalize <—> to legalize

2. 恨みを持つ = to hold a grudge

3. to distribute = to circulate

4. controversial topic = 議論を呼ぶ話題

5. comfort women = 慰安婦

2,100 people sue Asahi Shimbun over 'comfort women' stories

5a) A sued B for ~.  
Apple sued Samsung for copyright infringement.

copyright infringement 版権侵害、著作権侵害

5b) A sued B over ~.
Apple sued Samsung over copyright.

6. Asahi has stained Japan’s reputation.
to stain! = to make dirty, to make bad.

7. unreasonable <—> reasonable

8. ~ is a pipe dream. = ~ it’s never going to happen.

9. It's plausible.
plausible (adjective): (of an argument or statement) seeming reasonable or probable.

10. Stranger things have happened.

A: Do you think she can become a professional singer?
B: Stranger things have happened.
(It probably will not happen, but it is not impossible.)

a stranger = someone I do not know.

strange / stranger / strangest

11. They are claiming mental distress.

精神的苦痛 = mental distress

You caused me mental distress.

12. Don’t take it personally.  = あてつけだと思わないで。／悪く思うなよ。／個人攻撃をしてるわけじゃないよ。

13. It’s a very touchy subject.
touchy subject

14. tiptoe around this subject/issue = 問題を避けて通る
I am tired of tiptoeing around this subject.

a)  to avoid dealing directly with a problem
b)  to be very careful about how you behave towards someone because you are afraid of offending or annoying them

offend = insult