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Tarantula tasting under threat: Fears for Cambodian delicacy of salt and garlic fried SPIDERS as stocks run low because of big forests being razed
delicacy (noun)
Macmillan Dictionaryによると” a rare or expensive type of food “というふうに記載されていますね。
例文：
Caviar is considered a delicacy in many countries.
In some parts of the world, sheep’s eyes are considered a great delicacy.
a dinner of Vietnamese delicacies
run low (verb)
Macmillan Dictionaryによると” used about supplies of things when a lot has been used “というふうに記載されていますね。
例文：
Stocks were so low that many of the shelves in the shop were empty.
We’re running low on milk – could you buy some more?
The radio batteries are running low.
Gas stations were running low on supplies due to the blockade.
This symbol means the printer ink is getting low.
To raze (verb)
Macmillan Dictionaryによると” to completely destroy a building or town “というふうに記載されていますね。
例文：
The troops attacked his village and razed it to the ground.
The town was razed to the ground in the bombing raid – not a building was left standing.
Developers razed the old buildings on the site to make way for new construction.
・Hairy, palm-sized tarantulas are a coveted treat in the Southeast Asian country
・But the traditional snack, called ‘aping’, is becoming scarce and more expensive
・Hunters used to dig spiders to cook out of burrows which dotted the jungle floor
・Rapid development is destroying their jungle habitats and they cost $1 a piece
coveted (adjective)
Cambridge Dictionaryによると” strongly desired by many: “というふうに記載されていますね。フォーマルな表現です。
例文：
The Caldecott Medal is a coveted children’s book award.
scarce (adjective)
Cambridge Dictionary によると” not easy to find or get: “というふうに記載されていますね。
例文：
Food and clean water were becoming scarce.
scarce resources
Jobs are scarce.
Fresh water and medicines were scarce in the disaster area.
scarce natural resources
burrow (noun)
Cambridge Dictionaryによると” a hole in the ground dug by an animal such as a rabbit, especially to live in “というふうに記載されています。
habitat (noun)
Macmillan Dictionaryによると” the type of place that a particular animal usually lives in or a particular plant usually grows in, for example a desert, forest, or lake “というふうに記載されています。
例文：
a rare bird that is in danger of losing its natural habitat
With so many areas of woodland being cut down, a lot of wildlife is losing its natural habitat.
Salt and garlic fried spiders may soon vanish from the menu in Cambodia due to deforestation and unchecked hunting.
Hairy, palm-sized tarantulas are a coveted treat in the Southeast Asian country.
And the delicacy provides the perfect photo opportunity for squealing tourists who pass through Skun, the central Cambodian town nicknamed ‘Spiderville’.
To squeal (verb)
Cambridge Dictionaryによると” to make a long, very high sound or cry: “というふうに記載されています。
例文：
Somewhere in the street tyres were squealing.
I could hear the girls squealing with delight.
We could hear the piglets squealing as we entered the farmyard.
The two children squealed with joy.
It earned its name because of its massive market of creepy crawlers.
creepy crawlers はクモやムカデなど、人々から嫌われる虫のことです。
But the traditional snack, known as ‘aping’, is becoming scarce and more expensive, according to vendors, as rapid development wipes out jungle habitats.
‘Aping are famous in Cambodia but now they are not abundant, they have become rare,’ said tarantula vendor Chea Voeun from her stall where she sells other fried insects including crickets and scorpions.
vendor (noun)
Macmillan Dictionaryによると ” someone who sells something, but not in a shop “ というふうに記載されていますね。
例文：
For the past few months she’s been working as a street vendor, selling fruit and vegetables.
a hot dog vendor
a street vendor
wipe out (phrasal verb)
Cambridge Dictionaryによると” to destroy something completely: “ と記載されていますね。
例文：
Whole villages were wiped out in the fighting.
One bad harvest could wipe out all of a grower’s profits for the previous two years.
abundant (adjective)
Cambridge Dictionaryによると ” more than enough: ” という風に記載されていますね。フォーマルな表現です。
例文：
an abundant supply of food
There is abundant evidence that cars have a harmful effect on the environment.
Cheap consumer goods are abundant (= exist in large amounts) in this part of the world.
It is a region with abundant natural resources.
The country has an abundant supply of fossil fuels.
Rainfall is abundant in the region.
stall (noun)
Cambridge Dictionaryによると ” a large table or a small shop with an open front from which goods are sold in a public place: ” という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
In the village market, the stalls are piled high with local vegetables.
He runs a fruit and vegetable stall in the market.
She runs a stall in the market.
The stall sells drinks and snacks.
He was cooking for the guests at the food stall.
Voeun, who has been selling the delicacy for 20 years, used to source the spiders from nearby forests, where hunters dug them out of burrows dotting the jungle floor.
But those trees have since been razed for cashew nut plantations, forcing Voeun and other vendors to rely on middlemen to procure the spiders, which are harvested from faraway forested provinces.
That has jacked up the price of the tarantulas to $1 a piece, a nearly tenfold spike over the past decade.
To source (verb)
Cambridge Dictionaryによると ” to get something from a particular place: “ という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
All our timber is sourced from sustainable forests.
To dot (verb)
Macmillan Dictionaryによると ” to be in many parts of a place “ というふうに記載されていますね。
例文：
We have offices dotted around/all over the region.
The area is dotted with beautiful churches.
Minnesota is dotted with lakes, especially in the north.
Small villages dot the sides of the mountain.
The company has more than thirty branches dotted around Spain.
middleman (noun)
Cambridge Dictionaryによると” a person who buys goods from the company that has produced them and makes a profit by selling them to a shop or a user: “ と記載されていますね。
例文：
You can lower the price by cutting out (= avoiding the use of) the middleman and buying directly from the factory.
To procure (verb)
Macmillan Dictionaryによると ” to obtain something, especially with effort or difficulty ” という風に記載されていますね。フォーマルな表現です。
例文：
She asked him to procure visas for her family.
She’s managed somehow to procure his phone number.
He’d procured us seats in the front row.
We procured maps and directions from the tourist office.
jack up (phrasal verb)
Cambridge Dictionaryによると ” to increase the price of something suddenly and by a large amount: ” という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
Once the tourists arrive, the restaurants jack up their prices.
tenfold (adjective/adverb)
Cambridge Dictionaryによると ” by ten times: “ という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
Membership grew more than tenfold this year.
The economy grew tenfold.
a tenfold expansion/increase
To spike (verb)
Cambridge Dictionaryによると ” to rise to a higher amount, price, or level, usually before going down again: “ というふうに記載されていますね。
例文：
The jobless rate in October spiked to a five-year high.
Their stock prices spiked on news of the merger.
For now the price surge is helping line the pockets of vendors who can unload several hundred spiders a day.
But they fear that stocks are running low and will kill their businesses in the long-term.
‘When the big forests disappear, these spiders will no longer exist,’ said seller Lou Srey Sros, as tourists snapped pictures of children playing with the eight-legged creatures.
Locals say the spiders, whose taste has been compared to crab, are best prepared simply: dipped in salt and garlic and then tossed into a pan of sizzling oil.
line your pockets (noun)
Macmillan Dictionaryによると” to obtain money, especially by acting dishonestly “ と記載されていますね。
例文：
He accused executives of trying to line their own pockets.
Some of these lawyers are only interested in lining their pockets.
Staff at the bank have apparently been lining their pockets with money from investors’ accounts.
To unload (verb)
Macmillan Dictionaryによると ” to get rid of something that you do not want to keep, especially by selling it ” という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
They were trying to unload 5,000 stolen packets of cigarettes.
sizzling (adjective)
Cambridge Dictionaryによると ” very hot: ” という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
It’s a sizzling hot day today!
a sizzling summer day
Tarantulas have been part of the Cambodian diet for generations, prized for their purported medicinal qualities.
But they are believed to have cemented their place on the Cambodian palate during the brutal years under the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s.
Khmer Rouge ー クメール・ルージュは、かつて存在したカンボジアの政治勢力、及び武装組織。
The Maoist regime forced millions of Cambodians out of the cities and was ultimately responsible for murdering, overworking and starving to death nearly a quarter of the population in its drive to create an agrarian utopia.
agrarian utopia は、農業のユートピアです。
Famine pushed many to forage for any sustenance they could find, eating everything from rats to lizards and tarantulas.
While the Khmer Rouge’s devastating rule came to an end in 1979, spiders stayed on the menu.
purported (adjective)
Macmillan Dictionaryによると” said by some people to be real or true, but not proved to be real or true “ と記載されていますね。フォーマルな表現です。
例文：
The judges will now study this purported new evidence.
A recent study into the purported health benefits of the drink was not conclusive.
medicinal (adjective)
Macmillan Dictionaryによると” capable of treating an illness “ と記載されていますね。
例文：
the use of herbs as medicinal remedies
I keep a bottle of brandy purely for medicinal purposes.
It is said that the spring water has medicinal properties.
palate (noun)
Cambridge Dictionaryによると ” a person’s ability to taste and judge good food and wine: ” という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
a discriminating palate
I let my palate dictate what I eat.
drive (noun)
Cambridge Dictionaryによると ” a big effort to achieve something, especially by a company or government ” という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
The company has embarked on a drive to improve its image.
famine (noun)
Macmillan Dictionaryによると” a serious lack of food that continues for a long time and causes many people in a country to become ill or die “ と記載されていますね。
例文：
Another crop failure could result in widespread famine.
There were reports of refugees dying of famine.
Widespread famine was reported in the region.
To forage (verb)
Macmillan Dictionaryによると ” to search in a wide area for something, especially food ” という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
They spend their days foraging for food around the city.
The children had been living on the streets, foraging for scraps.
Wild dogs roam the streets, foraging for food.
The chef offers special dishes of wild and foraged foods, including wood pigeon and snails.
sustenance (noun)
Cambridge Dictionaryによると ” food: ” という風に記載されていますね。フォーマルな表現です。
例文：
During this freezing weather, the food put out by householders is the only form of sustenance that the birds have.
The ranch animals get a lot of their sustenance from grazing.
But the jungles which are home to them are now rapidly disappearing.
Cambodia has one of the fastest deforestation rates in the world, with huge swaths of forest cleared for rubber plantations and timber.
The country has lost 20 percent of its forest cover since 1990, according to the conservation NGO Fauna and Flora International (FFI).
It is not just habitat loss but over-harvesting to meet a high demand that is driving the spiders out of existence, said Tom Gray, director of Science and Global Development for Wildlife Alliance.
‘Across Southeast Asia it is unsustainable hunting in our forests rather than direct habitat loss which is causing the biggest impacts on biodiversity,’ he told AFP.
swath/swathe (noun)
Macmillan Dictionaryによると” a large area of land “ と記載されていますね。
例文：
Huge swathes of rainforest are being cleared for farming and mining.
conservation (noun)
Macmillan Dictionaryによると ” the management of land and water in ways that prevent it from being damaged or destroyed ” という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
a wildlife conservation project
groups calling for the conservation of the countryside
a conservation area
The university is saving $300,000 per year by its energy conservation efforts.
biodiversity (noun)
Cambridge Dictionaryによると ” the variety of different types of plant and animal life in a particular region ” という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
a new National Biological Survey to protect species habitat and biodiversity
The tourist frenzy has helped fuel the tarantula trade, with busloads of travellers stopping in Skun to taste the unusual snack.
‘It just makes me a little bit swimmy because that was not what I would eat at home but I am here so it’s time to try them,’ Australian tourist Elisabeth Dark said after taking a bite of a spider leg.
But for many Cambodians, the only fear factor is that the treat will soon run out.
‘The next generations may not know about them because these beasts have become so rare, not like before,’ lamented vendor Lou Srey Sros.
‘As more people clear (forests) to plant cashew nut trees, they will be gone.’
frenzy (noun)
Macmillan Dictionaryによると” a serious lack of food that continues for a long time and causes many people in a country to become ill or die “ と記載されていますね。
例文：
The next speaker whipped the crowd up into a frenzy.
She was in a frenzy of rage.
The audience worked/whipped themselves into a frenzy as they waited for her to come on stage.
In a moment of jealous frenzy, she cut the sleeves off all his shirts.
Duncan’s game-winning shot sent the crowd into a frenzy.
busload (noun)
Macmillan Dictionaryによると ” a large number of people on a bus, usually all of the same type or all going to the same event ” という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
busloads of football supporters
To lament (verb)
Cambridge Dictionaryによると ” to show publicly that you feel sad or disappointed about something ” という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
Some older people lament the loss of close local communities.
My grandmother, as usual, lamented the decline in moral standards in today’s society.
He lamented his students’ lack of interest in the classics.
最後に、内容が理解でき、新しい単語も知ることができたら、必ずCambridge Dictionaryか、Macmillan Dictionaryで例文を読むようにしてください。そして一番シンプルで、自分が日常使いしときやすそうなもをノートやスマホに書き溜めておいてください。そしてこれを移動中の時などに声に出して覚えることが本当に大事です！（電車では難しいので、僕はよく歩きますw）
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