Have a Beaut Chrissy 2011!
G’day all! Hope you have a bloody beaut Chrissy. Merry Christmas everyone!
メリークリスマス!!!オージー・クリスマスを祝う歌を楽しもう。
Thanks to Catherine Fisher for pointing out the Aussie Christmas songs.
G’day all! Hope you have a bloody beaut Chrissy. Merry Christmas everyone!
メリークリスマス!!!オージー・クリスマスを祝う歌を楽しもう。
Thanks to Catherine Fisher for pointing out the Aussie Christmas songs.
For someone who usually wakes before 4 a.m. daily, the past couple of days have provided some pretty lousy wake-up calls. Professionally, there had been a job eating away at me over the Golden Week holidays and a check this morning revealed I had overdone it as I had suspected. Given a proper amount of time and no distractions, I could fix it up today. Still looking at a tough and demanding week ahead. Then, one of the great joys I’ve had this year has been watching the plants I’d grown from seed grow and start to flower. I was so proud of myself and it had provided me with…
車について言うと、多くのオーストラリア人が勘違いをしていることがある。 豪国産車とされているHoldenは実際には車メーカー歴90年に及ぶその殆どは米ジェネラル・モーターズ(GM)の豪支社としてであった。しかし同社が1948年に初めて100パーセント豪州デザイン・製造車を発売したのは事実である。そして、間違いないのはピックアップトラックの発明だ。そのきっかけとなったのはビクトリア州のある農夫が「月曜日に教会まで乗って行き、その後豚を積み市場へ運べるような車が欲しい」とフォード社オーストラリア支社に依頼の手紙を寄せた事だ。そして、それに対して同社は見事に応え、以降、世界中に同デザインの車が起用されたが、当時のデザイン、車種名を保っているのはオーストラリアと隣国ニュージーランドだけである。UteはUtilityの略だ。英語圏の他の国ではオーストラリア発のuteをpick up truckと呼んでいる。
Ridgy Didgeは本物の意味。本格的、事実、真実 Example: That bloke reckoned the ute was ridgy didge, but I wasn’t buyin’ it for a second. 例:「あのヤロはそのユートが本物だと言い張ったけど、俺は全然信じなかった。」
My Brompton folding bike has proved to be more of a handful than I’d hoped with its unique parts costing a lot to maintain, but it is also lifting me to new heights in cycling, literally this month as I rode the Norikura skyline. The Norikura Kogen skyline is one of the highest elevation roads in Japan and I got a shock riding down a mountain for the first time, especially as I was carrying a heavy load. I rode my brakes nearly the entire descent of roughly 15 km, which started in pleasant sunshine, but ended in a mist. I had no idea how to descend properly, and when…
larrikin Australian English Somebody mischievous, who does not take life entirely seriously. Used more as a term of endearment as opposed to being critical. 日本語 いたずらっ子。呑気な人。気楽な人、生意気な人。Larrikinは、批判するより温かみを込めている言葉。 Plain English Prankster, trickster, cheeky. Strine Dictionary
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