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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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Apparently AirPods Still Work After Pooping Them Out
A Taiwanese man ate his AirPod, pooped it back out and used it again.
Here’s something we didn’t need to know until now: AirPods still work even after you swallow one and poop it out.
Last April, a Taiwanese navy recruiter named Ben Hsu accidentally proved this hypothesis… by actually doing it.
After dozing off with the pair of wireless headphones still in his ears, he woke up with one missing. He looked for it in his bed, before trying the iPhone tracking feature. He then heard a beep wherever he went. “I checked under my blanket and looked around but couldn’t find it. Then I realized the sound was coming from my stomach,” Hsu tells Daily Mail.
To poop (verb)
Cambridge Dictionary によると ” to pass solid waste from the body: “という風に記載されています。インフォーマルな表現です。
例文：
Your puppy’s just pooped right outside my front door.
recruiter (noun)
Macmillan Dictionary によると ” someone whose job is to get someone to work in a company or join an organization “という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
As an executive recruiter I read every word of every CV.
He worked as a military recruiter in Texas.
Recruiters target colleges and military bases in the region.
hypothesis (noun)
Cambridge Dictionary によると ” an idea or explanation for something that is based on known facts but has not yet been proved: “という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
Several hypotheses for global warming have been suggested.
Our findings support the hypothesis that these patients are at increased risk of heart disease.
doze off (phrasal verb)
Macmillan Dictionary によると ” to start to sleep, especially during the day and without intending to “という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
I dozed off in front of the television.
The office was so hot I nearly dozed off at my desk.
While he didn’t feel any pain, he went to the hospital where medics gave him laxatives after confirming he had swallowed the AirPod. Two days later, the earbuds reunited after Hsu went to the toilet.
laxativesは、下剤、便秘薬のことです。
The best/worst thing was that he filmed the whole thing. Taiwanese media have a censored copy of the video, which shows him using his fingers to look for the airpod buried within the fecal treasure.
The AirPods’ survival is a miracle in itself since Apple has not officially made claims that they are waterproof. But then again,I guess this is further proof that AirPods are literally not going anywhere and are here to stay. Forever. The way its battery is encased means it can’t be safely recycled or composed in any way. They can’t be thrown out, or else the lithium-ion battery may start a fire in the garbage compactor. They can’t be easily recycled, because there’s no safe way to separate the lithium-ion battery from the plastic shell. Instead, the AirPods sit in your drawer forever. And as Hsu demonstrated, you can’t just eat it either.
lithium-ion battery は、リチウムイオン二次電池です。
compactor は、圧縮機です。
medic (noun)
Cambridge Dictionary によると ” a medical student or doctor “という風にも記載されていますね。インフォーマルな表現です。
earbuds (noun)
Cambridge Dictionary によると ” very small headphones that you wear in your ears “という風に記載されていますね。
To reunite (verb)
Cambridge Dictionary によると ” to bring together again: “という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
The band has reunited for one last concert.
The child was finally reunited with his parents.
Sarah was finally reunited with her children at the airport.
To censor (verb)
Macmillan Dictionary によると ” to remove parts of a book, film, letter etc for moral, religious, or political reasons “という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
The book had been heavily censored.
The book was heavily censored when first published.
faecal (adjective)
Cambridge Dictionary によると ” consisting of, contained in, or relating to the solid waste passed out of the body of a human or animal through the bowels: “という風に記載されていますね。
To encase (verb)
Macmillan Dictionary によると ” to completely cover or enclose something “という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
The nuclear waste is encased in concrete before being sent for storage in disused mines.
The medal was encased in clear plastic.
To compose (verb)
Macmillan Dictionary によると ” to form something “という風に記載されていますね。フォーマルな表現になります。
例文：
Muscle is composed of two different types of protein.
Air is composed mainly of nitrogen and oxygen.
At that time, women composed only 1.6 percent of the US forces.
drawer (noun)
Cambridge Dictionary によると ” a box-shaped container, without a top, that is part of a piece of furniture. It slides in and out to open and close and is used for keeping things in: “という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
The photos are in the top drawer of my desk.
I keep my socks in the bottom drawer.
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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