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英語を勉強し始めたばかりの段階だと、教材と違って英字新聞を読むのはかなり難しいと思います。それぞれの新聞が独自の書き方をもっていたりもするので。なので、僕が補足をつけながら、英字新聞を読むのお手伝いしようと思います。教材の文法には慣れたけど英字新聞はまだ苦手という、初級ー中級あたりの人用の解説です。
何回も言いますが、新聞を読むためには各々の単語が名詞（noun）なのか、形容詞（adjective）なのか、副詞（adverb）なのかがめちゃくちゃ大事になってきます！文法はほんっっっっっっとうに大事です！！！一緒に一つずつやっていきましょう！僕の勉強がわりにもなっているので、僕が知っていることは飛ばしていたりします。なので、何かわからないことがあれば気軽にコメントください。できるだけ答えます！よろしくお願いします 😉
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読み終わったら、下の単語の解説と照らし合わせながら読んでいってみてください！よろしくです 😉
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Sweet act of charity! Kind-hearted donut shop customers help tireless owner, 62, visit his sick wife by buying out his shop in the mornings so he can close early
charity (noun)
Macmillan Dictionaryによると ” kindness that you show towards other people by not judging them or criticizing them too severely “というふうに記載されていますね。
例文：
Steele showed no charity to his former friend and partner.
・John Chhan has run Donut City in Seal Beach, California, for 28 years
・Patrons were used to seeing Mr Chhan’s wife, Stella, by his side at the shop
・But loyal customers noticed the 63-year-old woman wasn’t by his side after she suffered from a brain aneurysm and had to rest at home
brain aneurysm 脳動脈瘤（のうどうみゃくりゅう）です。
・They decided to buy out all the donuts in his shop in the morning so he could go home to his wife
・This decision came after Mr Chhan declined offers to start a GoFundMe
GoFundMe is a for-profit crowdfunding platform.
patron (noun)
Macmillan Dictionaryによると ” someone who uses a particular restaurant, hotel, or other business “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：
This car park is for the use of patrons only.
This car park is for patrons only.
Kind-hearted customers have been helping a doughnut shop owner visit his wife in care by buying lots of doughnuts.
John Chhan, 62, has run Donut City in Seal Beach, California, for 28 years with the help of his wife, Stella, after they came to the United States from Cambodia as refugees.
They open shop together every morning but last month Mr Chhan’s loyal customers noticed she wasn’t with him.
loyal (adjective)
Macmillan Dictionaryによると ” continuing to use the products or services of a particular business “というふうに記載されていますね。
例文：
a loyal customer/client/patient
Supermarkets should reward their most loyal customers.
Our customers remain loyal to the brand.
When they found out she was in care after a brain aneurysm, they decided to buy all his doughnuts every morning so he would sell out earlier and have more time to visit her each day.
Customer Dawn Caviola came up with the idea. She told the OCR: ‘Days went by and I just couldn’t get it out of my head. So I thought if enough people would buy a dozen doughnuts every morning, he could close early and go be with his wife.’
days go byで、日が経つにつれてです。
Ms. Caviola shared her plan with neighbors who thought it was a great idea.
They are buying so many boxes of his doughnuts that he sells out by noon, shuts up shop and heads to the rehab facility each afternoon.
The decision to buy out the shop came after patrons offered to start a GoFundMe page for Mr. Chhan and his wife, but he politely declined the offer.
shut up shop (phrase)
Macmillan Dictionaryによると ” to close a business, either permanently or at the end of the working day “というふうに記載されていますね。インフォーマルな表現です。
例文：
I was just about to shut up shop when Marie came in.
fluctuating (adjective)
Cambridge Dictionaryによると ” fluctuating prices, levels, or interest rates go up and down: “というふうに記載されていますね。
例文：
fluctuating prices/currencies/exchange rates
The price fluctuates between 50 pence and £1 per kilo.
Mr. Chhan said: ‘A lot of people, they come to buy a lot of doughnuts from us and gave me more time to go visit my wife.’
He added: ‘I so appreciate it. I just can’t say enough. Thank you and thank you.’
The Chhan’s arrive in the US in 1979 and bought Donut City 10 years later.
Mr. Chhan said of his wife’s progress: ‘She can talk, she can write. Right now she’s trying to start to eat again.’
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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