この英文を読んで2つ疑問点がありました。 ①2行目で、oppositeが文末に来ている理由がわからないです。 ②(2)の下線部分のmonthが単数形になっている理由がわからないです。 教えて頂けると有難いです。

12 The room was warm and clean, the curtains drawn, the two table lamps alight-hers and the one by the empty chair opposite. On the sideboard behind her, two tall glasses, soda water, whiskey. Fresh ice cubes in the Thermos bucket. Now and again she would glance up at the clock, but without anxiety, merely to please herself with the thought that each minute gone by made it nearer the time when he would come. There was a slow smiling air about her, noand about everything she did. The drop of the head as she bent over her sewing was curiously tranquil. Her skin. for this was her sixth month with child - (1) (2) had acquired a wonderful *translucent quality, the mouth was soft, and the eyes, with their new placid look, seemed larger, darker, than before. *translucent: allowing light to pass through but not transparent months? ¶1 -

when poor environmental health and reduced quality of life are actually good for the economy の理由が 低下した自然サービスと戦うために必要な活動や製品がGDPを増大させるから な... Read More

第3・4段落 1So how do we reconcile our economy with ecology? The Earth provides us with essential natural services like air and water purification and climate stability, but these aren't part of our economy because we've always assumed such things are free. 3But natural services are only free when the ecosystems that maintain them are healthy. 4Today, with our growing population and increasing demands on ecosystems, we're degrading them more and more. Unfortunately, remedial activities and products like air filters, bottled water, eye drops and other things we need to combat degraded services all add to the GDP, which economists call growth. Something is terribly wrong with our economic system when poor environmental health and reduced quality of life are actually good for the economy! 「それでは,私たちはどのようにして経済と環境の折り合いをつけるのだろうか。 地球は空 気や水の浄化、気候の安定性といった必要不可欠な自然のサービスを提供してくれるが,私た ちはこれまでずっとそういうものは無料だと思い込んでいたので,それらは経済の一部とはな っていない。 しかし、自然のサービスが無料なのは, それを維持する生態系が健全なときだけなのであ る。 4今日,人口が増加し生態系への負担が高まるにつれ,私たちは生態系をますます傷つけて いる。 5残念なことに, 環境改善のための活動や製品,たとえばエアフィルター, ボトル入りの 水,目薬や質が低下したサービスに対処するために私たちが必要とするその他のものはすべ て GDPを増加させるが, それを経済学者は成長と呼ぶ。 環境が不健全になり、生活の質が低 下していることが実は経済にとってよいことなら、私たちの経済システムは何かがひどく間違 っているのである。 □ecology 「環境,生態」 2□essential 「必要不可欠な」 □ stability 「安定性」 30ecosystem 「生態系｣ 4 demand on A 「A への要求, 負担」 □ purification 「浄化」 □ climate 「気候｣ □ free 「無料の」 | degrade 「を悪化させる, の質を低下させる」 99

マーカーの部分ってどのように訳すのが正しいんですか？💦

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to update rules that would reduce lead in drinking water. The agency says it will require utility companies to replace old lead water pipes. The current rules are decades old. They have failed to prevent crises in Washington, D.C.; Flint, Michigan; and other communities where many people have had lead in their drinking water.

「,well behind 」の部分の構造、意味を教えてください。

[Review] Back in the late sixties, thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic were troubled by problems which may seem strange to us today: they were worried that the leisure age which they believed was fast approaching would leave people with too much time on their hands. They were worried that the work ethic was losing its grip on a new rebellious generation and they pondered how they would motivate people to work. They needn't have worried. The much-predicted "leisure age" promised by technology has not materialized. In fact, quite the reverse: people are working harder than ever. There is less leisure time and, most surprising of all, the very workers with the greatest bargaining power are choosing to work the hardest. The problem is the burnout of white- collar Britain. For over a century, the average number of hours spent working over a lifetime slowly declined in Britain. The historian James Arrowsmith has calculated that in 1856 our ancestors put in 124,000 hours over a 40-year working life and, by 1981, it was 69,000. There it remained for a decade, but in the early nineties it began to increase again. On average full-time British workers now put in 80,224 hours over their working life, and that figure rises to 92,000 for those on a 50-hour week, which is common among the self- employed, the skilled, and professional and managerial workers. Many are working the kind of hours that would have been familiar to factory workers in the middle of the 19th century. The only difference is that now it's the bosses who are more likely to be putting in the hours than those on the shop floor. Britain has followed a US model of all work, no play, in contrast to continental Europe. Full-time workers in Britain now work the longest hours in Europe an average of 43.6 hours per week compared with an EU average of 40.3. Even more marked is the difference in holidays between Britain and continental Europe; the UK has, on average, 28 days a year, well behind France with 47, Italy with 44 and Germany with 41. Add the difference in weekly hours and holidays and it amounts to the British working almost eight weeks a year more than their European counterparts. -

汚くてすみません！ この問題の添削をお願いしたいです！！

I disagree that Big companies u have a positive effect on society. I have two reasons. I 4 the environment to producet Large-scale products. Big company mode a lot of products , so they use maturials such as water, electric and gos@ Also, they discharge carbou dioxide. By doing so, global warming will be increasing. Seally worker is difficult to protect @ Nork-life balance. Big companies ask them for many job iro home go they will go @ a at late night. Also some poode have to move their house for working. They will lose their free time, and tell.. tired. Therefore, big companien have a lot of pod points. I think people should work widdle or small companies than big companies, and goople will C C

（2）をどなたか教えてください！

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3行目で、ofのあとに副詞がきているのはどうしてですか？

2 形で具体例を示すパターンです (Rule 14 p.13)。 3¹ Exercise is not (quite) as effective as sleeping pills, admits Arizona State University sleep researcher Shawn Youngstedt, but (if you consider the potential problems [of pharmaceutically induced sleep]), one's thinking Changes. 2“Sleeping pills are (extremely) dangerous,” Youngstedt said C S '4 V š uThey are as bad as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. (Not to mention) C V 因果表現 S V they cause infections, falling and dementia [in the elderly], and they lose S S Bl V their effectiveness (after a few weeks). It 's less expensive, healthier and 5 仮S. OS C just as easy to exercise," he said,“and there 's an added bonus. Research 真 S S- V S suggests those [who are physically active] have a lower risk of developing データ表現 nsomnia (in the first place))." gniwoda te (and) T 2 訳アリゾナ州立大学で睡眠を研究しているショーン・ヤングシュタットは、運動に 睡眠薬ほどの効果がないことを認めているが, 薬によって誘発される睡眠によって起こり る問題について考えれば,考え方は変わるだろう。 ² 「睡眠薬はきわめて危険なのです」 ヤングシュタットは述べている。 3 「1日に煙草を1箱吸うのと同じくらい健康に悪いこ なのです。 さらに, 感染症, 高齢者における転倒や認知症を引き起こし, 2~3週間で 目がなくなるのです。 運動するほうが安上がりで、健康的で、 ちょうど同じくらいお ですよ」 と彼は述べた。 「それに, おまけ (のメリット) があります。 研究によって, 体を動かす人はそもそも不眠症になるリスクが低いことが示されているのです ande 2110251 5 の "(For 34 "(mos apnes parti Japne 訳 る1 可イ無行週 2

黄色線の部分の構造について教えてください。

℗ Almost 2,000 times more particle pollution is produced by *tyre wear than is pumped out of the exhausts of modern cars, tests have shown. The tyre particles pollute air, SJE water and soil and contain a wide range of toxic organic compounds, including known carcinogens, the analysts say, suggesting tyre pollution could rapidly become a major issue for regulators. 60 2 Air pollution causes millions of early deaths a year globally. The requirement for better filters has meant particle emissions from tailpipes in developed countries are now much lower in new cars, with those in Europe far below the legal limit. However, the increasing weight of cars means more particles are being thrown off by tyres as they wear on the road. The tests also revealed that tyres produce more than one trillion ultrafine particles for each *kilometre driven, meaning particles smaller than 23 *nanometres. These are also emitted from exhausts and are (2 ) special concern to health professionals, as their size means they can enter organs via the bloodstream. Particles below 23 nm are hard to measure and are not currently regulated in either the EU or US.

青印以降の構造が分からないです。どこがどこにかかっている(修飾されている)などを教えて頂きたいです。また、元の文に戻すとどうなりますか？？(カンマの挿入があるのでカンマを使わずに表した時にどうなるか知りたいです。)

Raks 1 Almost 2,000 times more particle pollution is produced by *tyre wear than is pumped out of the exhausts of modern cars, tests have shown. The tyre particles pollute air, water and soil and contain a wide range of toxic organic compounds, including known carcinogens, the analysts say, suggesting tyre pollution could rapidly become a major issue for regulators.

一文目の構造が分からないです。接続語が無いのに急に「,tests have shown.」と来てるのは何故ですか？

℗ Almost 2,000 times more particle pollution is produced by *tyre wear than is pumped out of the exhausts of modern cars, tests have shown. The tyre particles pollute air, UPNO MESSAGS water and soil and contain a wide range of toxic organic compounds, including known carcinogens, the analysts say, suggesting tyre pollution could rapidly become a major issue for regulators.