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ニュージーランド出身のアナと、アメリカ出身のマーティーンを迎えてのトークも最終回となりました。今回は、二人がニュージーランドとアメリカで最近人気の映画を紹介します。

「異文化ディスカッション」では、広島大学に学ぶ留学生をゲストに招き、東広島での学生生活や、身近な話題について、英語で話してもらいます。

聞き手：Joe Lauer（広島大学外国語教育研究センタ―）

（中級〜上級向け）

Image credit: (C) John Lamonica via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0.

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Wisconsin

= a state north of Chicago

to catch on to

= to be able to understand

particles

= 不変化詞　※ここでは日本語の助詞のこと。

radicals

= （漢字の）部首

reasonably

= relatively, fairly, moderately

of all-time

= ever

"The Terminator"

= a 1984 science fiction action movie, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger

a cyborg

= a person whose body is partly like a robot

a revolution

= 革命

"End of Watch"

= a 2012 crime drama

intense

= high pressure

like

= um

to make sacrifices

= to give up or lose something in order to get something else

relatively

= かなり、to some extent

a street cop

= a police officer usually dealing with various crimes daily

prior to

= before

"Drumline"

= a 2002 musical drama

to go off to

= to go away to (especially far away, for a long time)

on a scholarship

= receiving money for school, 奨学金

"Princes Mononoke"

= a 1997 epic historical fantasy anime, written by Hayao Miyazaki

feudal

= 封建

mining

= 鉱業、鉱山の

to mediate

= to help reach an agreement between two arguing groups, 調停する

"V for Vendetta"

= a 2006 political thriller

Guy Fawkes

= a man, living at the time of Ieyasu Tokugawa, who tried to kill the British king. Today, Guy Fawkes Night is a fun little holiday in early November, featuring a bonfire and/or fireworks.

to blow up

= to explode, 破裂する

Parliament

= the British part of government which makes laws

a rebel

= a revolutionary guy, a radical

to overthrow (a government) = （政府を）倒す

"Cool Runnings"

= a 1993 sports film

Jamaican

= related to Jamaica, a Caribbean island

bobsledding

= The Winter Olympics sport

the Calgary Olympics

= the event which was in central Canada in 1988

"Freedom Writers"

= a 2007 drama

poverty-bound Los Angeles

= the constantly poor area of LA

to be fresh out of

= to have just graduated from

to go to court

= to get taken to court, 裁判沙汰になる

to skip (school or classes)

= サボる

a diary

= a journal, 日記

a gang

= a group of people (usually involved in crime or bad behavior)

to be portrayed

= to be described in a certain way

a motivational speaker

= a person who tries to motivate others, such as a famous athlete, or a successful businessman, or (in this case) a person who had a terrible life but became a winner

"Interstellar"

= a 2014 science fiction movie

crops

= 作物

an expedition

= a group of explorers

a wormhole

= a (perhaps) possible shortcut to faraway places in the universe

to check out

= to investigate

to be inhabitable

= people can live there

a drum roll

= continuous beating of the drum when something exciting is going to happen

"The School of Rock"

= a 2003 comedy starring Jack Black

to kick (someone) out

= to get rid of (someone)

a substitute teacher

= （米）臨時教師, 代行教師

a Battle of the Bands competition

= a contest between music bands, with the winner usually decided by the audience reaction

"The Dark Night"

= a 2008 Batman action film

Heath Ledger

= a young Australian actor who suddenly died a few months after making the movie

Christian Bale

= a British actor who also starred in the 2012 movie "The Dark Knight Rises"

"I haven't gotten around to it"

= I haven't had a chance/ opportunity"

"Batman Begins"

= a 2005 film

the Joker

= the bad guy in the movie

to wreak havoc

= to cause a huge number of problems