「Cambridge IELTS 14」Reading Test4-3『Assessing the threat of marine debris』の単語・フレーズ

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Reading Test 4 Passage 3：Assessing the threat of marine debris

• dismal
  adjective /ˈdɪz.məl/
  ・sad and without hope:
  ・informal very bad
  1 <部屋・天気などが> 陰鬱（いんうつ） な, 陰気な, （薄）暗い
  2 <状況などが> 見通しの暗い, 絶望的な
  3 <記録・業績・失敗などが> 惨憺（さんたん） たる, お粗末な, 惨めな
• marine-debris
  =ocean trash（漂流・漂着ごみ）
  sound
• verb /saʊnd/
  ・to seem good, interesting, strange, etc. from what is said or written:
  ・ to seem like something, from what is said or written:
  ・to seem angry, happy, rude, etc. when you speak:
  ・to make a noise:
  ・to cause a noise to be made or say or shout a message to warn people about something:
  ・to measure the depth of a mass of water, such as the sea, usually by sonar
  1 《連結動詞》 (聞いた［読んだ］感じでは) …に思える, …のようだ
  2 《連結動詞》 <音・声などが> …（のよう）に聞こえる
  3 《連結動詞》 <人が> …のような声［言い方］である, <声が> …のように聞こえる
  4 《他》 sound a warning
  5 a) 《自》 <ベル・警報などが> 鳴る
  b) 《他》 <ベル・警笛など> を鳴らす
  6 《他通例受け身形で》 〘専門〙 <ある文字> を発音する
  7 《他》 〘専門〙 <水深> を測る, <海底など> の水深を測る
• speculate
  verb /ˈspek.jə.leɪt/
  ・to guess possible answers to a question when you do not have enough information to be certain:
  ・to buy and sell in the hope that the value of what you buy will increase and that it can then be sold at a higher price in order to make a profit:
  1 a) 《自》 憶測する, （当て）推量する
  b) 《他》 …と憶測する
  2 《自》 投機する
• seabird
  noun /ˈsiː.bɜːd/
  a bird that lives near the sea and gets its food from it
  (カモメなどの) 海鳥
• at risk of
  ～の危機
• faulty
  adjective /ˈfɒl.ti/
  ​A faulty machine or device is not perfectly made or does not work correctly
  1 <装置・構造などが> 欠陥のある, 不完全な
  2 <推論などが> 間違った, 不完全な
• strikingly
  adverb /ˈstraɪ.kɪŋ.li/
  ​in a way that is very unusual or easily noticed, and therefore attracts a lot of attention
  1 著しく, 目立って
  2 (美しさ・魅力などについて) はっとするほど
• muscle
  noun /ˈmʌs.əl/
  ・one of many tissues in the body that can tighten and relax to produce movement:
  ・to injure a muscle by stretching it too far so that it is very painful:
  ・the power to do difficult things or to make people behave in a certain way:
  1 《C, U》 筋肉
  2 《U》 力, 影響力
  同意 clout
  3 《U》 腕力
  4 《U》 〘インフォーマル〙 用心棒
• ingest
  verb /ɪnˈdʒest/
  to eat or drink something
  <食物・薬など> を摂取する → digest
• bloodstream
  (体内を循環する) 血液, 血流
• shellfish
  noun /ˈʃel.fɪʃ/
  sea creatures that live in shells and are eaten as food, or one of these creatures
  甲殻類 ((エビ，カニなど)) → seafood
• bothersome
  adjective /ˈbɒð.ə.səm/
  annoying or causing trouble
  厄介な, 面倒な, こうるさい
• entangle
  verb /ɪnˈtæŋ.ɡəl/
  ・to cause something to become caught in something such as a net or ropes:
  ・involved with something or someone in a way that makes it difficult to escape
  1 (網などに) …を引っかける, 絡ませる
  2 (面倒な状況に) <人> を巻き込む
• shed
  verb /ʃed/ ​
  ・(often used in newspapers) to get rid of something you do not need or want:
  ・to lose a covering, such as leaves, hair, or skin, because it falls off naturally, or to drop something in a natural way or by accident:
  ・to produce tears, light, blood, etc.:
  1 <不要な物など> を取り除く, <従業員など> を解雇する, <体重など> を落とす
  2 <植物が> <葉> を落とす, <動物が> <毛・皮など> を脱ぎ替える
  3 <物> を落とす, <服> を脱ぎ捨てる
  4 〘文〙 <光・熱など> を発する, 注ぐ
  5 <水> をはじく
• eroded
  verb /ɪˈrəʊd/
  ・to rub or be rubbed away gradually:
  ・to slowly reduce or destroy something:
  1 a) 《他》 <土地など> を浸食する
  b) 《自》 浸食する
  2 a) 《他》 <権力・自信など> を徐々に損なう, 減じる
  b) 《自》 徐々に損なう, 減じる
• remnant
  noun /ˈrem.nənt/
  ​a small piece or amount of something that is left from a larger original piece or amount:
  1 〘特に書き言葉〙 (わずかな) 残り物, 生存者
  2 (布の) 切れ端
• cutoff
  noun /ˈkʌt.ɒf/
  ・the act of stopping the supply of something:
  ・a fixed point or level at which you stop including people or things
  1 《C》 締切（日）, 限度, 制限 cutoff date
  2 (援助・供給の) 打ち切り
  3 米 わき道
  4 (パイプの) 遮断装置 同意 valve
• tanker
  noun /ˈtæŋ.kər/
  a ship or vehicle that is built to carry liquid or gas:
  1 タンカー
  2 燃料輸送トラック
• spilling
  verb​ /spɪl/
  to (cause to) flow, move, fall, or spread over the edge or outside the limits of something:
  1 Image of spill a) 《他》 <液体> をこぼす
  b) 《自》 こぼれる
  2 《I always + adverb/preposition》 spill (out) into / onto something
  <観衆・観客などが> ＜場所＞にあふれ出る
  3 《I always + adverb/preposition》 spill into / onto something
  <光・明かりが> ＜場所＞にさし込む
• conjure
  verb /ˈkʌn.dʒər/
  ​to make something appear by magic, or as if by magic
  1 a) 《自》 手品をする b) 《他》 …を手品で出す
  2 《他》 〘フォーマル〙 <イメージ・考えなど> を思い起こさせる, ほうふつとさせる 同意 conjure up
• suck up
  to try to make someone in authority approve of you by doing and saying things that will please them:
  1 suck up 〘けなして〙 へつらう, ごまをする
  suck up to somebody
  ＜人＞にへつらう
  2
  → suck it up文句を言わずにやる
• strategically
  adverb /strəˈtiː.dʒɪ.kəl.i/
  ・in a way that helps to achieve a plan, for example in business or politics:
  ・in a way that provides military forces with an advantage:
  戦略的に, 戦略上
• perception
  noun /pəˈsep.ʃən/
  ・a belief or opinion, often held by many people and based on how things seem:
  ・the quality of being aware of things through the physical senses, especially sight:
  ・someone’s ability to notice and understand things that are not obvious to other people:
  1 《C》 認識, 考え（方）
  2 《U》 知覚, 感覚
  3 《U》 (生まれつきの) 理解力, 洞察力
• entanglement
  noun UK ​ /ɪnˈtæŋ.ɡəl.mənt/
  ・a situation or relationship that you are involved in and that is difficult to escape from:
  ・military uk specialized a fence made of wire with sharp points on it, intended to make it difficult for enemy soldiers to go across an area of land
  1 《C, U》 もつれた［面倒な］事態, ごたごた
  2 《C》 もつれ合ったもの
  同意 tangle
  3 《C, U》 引っかかる［もつれる］こと
• interrogating
  verb /ɪnˈter.ə.ɡeɪt/
  ​・to ask someone a lot of questions for a long time in order to get information, sometimes using threats or violence:
  ・computing specialized to get information from a computer
  <人> を尋問する, 取り調べる