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  Tough Flu Season in U.S., Especially for the Elderly

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

The season has been particularly bad for older people, but appears to have peaked, with reports of new cases declining in most of the nation.

 

science, 科學 到" サイエンス"

science

(sī'əns)
n.

1. 1. The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.
   2. Such activities restricted to a class of natural phenomena.
   3. Such activities applied to an object of inquiry or study.
2. Methodological activity, discipline, or study: I've got packing a suitcase down to a science.
3. An activity that appears to require study and method: the science of purchasing.
4. Knowledge, especially that gained through experience.
5. Science Christian Science.

[Middle English, knowledge, learning, from Old French, from Latin scientia, from sciēns, scient-, present participle of scīre, to know.]

[名][U][C]

1 科学, 学問（の一分野）, …学

an exact science ［exact sciences］
精密科学

the applied sciences
応用科学

cultural science
人文科学

historical ［moral, linguistic］ science
歴史［道徳, 言語］学

the science of ethics
倫理学.

2 [U]自然科学；（学科としての）理科

a man of science
科学者.

3 [U]（科学的）知識；（一般的に）体系的知識；[C]特殊な学問の分野

occult sciences
（中世の）幽玄術；秘学.

4 [U]（競技などの科学的知識に基づいた）技術, わざ, 術.

have ... down to a science

…についての知識［技能］が完ぺきである.

［中フランス語←ラテン語scientia（scīre知る＋-ENCE＝知ること）. △CONSCIENCE］

現在朝日新聞等則採用音譯

サイエンス

sewer

 

音節

sew • er¹

発音

súːər | sjúə

レベル

社会人必須

sewerの変化形

sewers (複数形) • sewers (三人称単数現在)

（▼発音注意）[名]下水管, 下水渠(きょ).

━━[動](他)…に下水設備を設ける.
-age

suff.

1. 1. Collection; mass: sewerage.
   2. Amount: footage.
2. Relationship; connection: parentage.
3. Condition; state: vagabondage.
4. 1. An action: blockage.
   2. Result of an action: breakage.
5. Residence or place of: vicarage.
6. Charge or fee: cartage.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *-āticum, abstract n. suff., from Latin -āticum, n. and adj. suff..]

((名詞をつくる))「行為」「状態・地位」「集合」「料金」「場所」：marriage, leakage, peonage, cartage.



sewerman

1. n. A man who works in sewers.

Wiktionary

1. n. A man who works in a sewer.

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 . Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young. His arrival produced no stir in the town, and was accompanied by no particular incident, beyond that a couple of peasants who happened to be standing at the door of a dramshop exchanged a few comments with reference to the equipage rather than to the individual who was seated in it. "Look at that carriage," one of them said to the other. "Think you it will be going as far as Moscow?" "I think it will," replied his companion. "But not as far as Kazan, eh?" "No, not as far as Kazan."

equipage[ékwəpidʒ]

[名]

1 （従者つきの4輪）馬車；馬車と供ぞろえ.

2 （船・軍隊・探検隊の）装備, 装具, 用具一式(equipment).

3 ((古風))家庭用品（一式）

a tea equipage
茶器一そろい.

4 （一そろいの）身の回り品（装身具・化粧品セットなど）. ▼特定の目的に必要な用具一式をいう.