豪キャブラリー： Rego
日本の車検と同じようにオーストラリアでは車を運転すると必ず持参しなければならない資格の書類がある。それが車の登録済証と言うもの。車検検査ほど厳しくないが検査済みの証明でもある。オージー英語ではRegistration papers（登録済諸書類）の省略はregoと言う。
 | 豪 | 英・米語 | 日本語 |
| Rego | Car registration papers | 車用の登録証明書（所持しないと運転しては行けない場合もある） |
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Snag A Democracy Sausage Before The Nutjobs Strip Voting Rights
Aussie voters in Tokyo will be able to snag a democracy sausage if they go to the Australian Embassy in Tokyo from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Friday, May 2, according to the Embassy website. This be an opportunity to exercise a hard-fought right to vote (or avoid being fined for not doing so because votng is compulsory). And it also presents an extremely rare instance of being able to see consular officials helping Australians and earning some of the cost of the world’s most expensive passports, ensuring the documents are not a complete rort. Australia is one of the few countries that make voting mandatory, which I believe…
Up yourself, up someone/自己評価が高過ぎる
Up yourself, up someone Australian English To be up yourself means to have an over-inflated opinion of your own value. To get up someone, however, means to get angry at them, or to rebuke them. 日本語 Up yourselfは、自己評価が高過ぎるという意味。Get up someoneは、人に対して叱るまたは怒ること。 Plain English 1) Up yourself: Haughty, an over-inflated opinion of self-worth, overly proud. 2) Get up someone: To rebuke or admonish, get angry with. Strine Dictionary
Singing Praises of Unsung Heroes
May is my favorite month of the year in Japan: it’s generally warm, dry and sunny with long days and the landscape is brilliantly verdant and lush, and that applies to my own garden. We’re only a couple of days into the month, though, so its full effects have yet to show, but that’s allowing lesser lights to take center stage, I realized this morning. Sitting in our living room and looking out into the garden I got to notice how delightful the bush rosemary is with its plethora of dainty little blue flowers. Despite being overshadowed by the bloody neighbor’s ferociously fast-growing bushes that take all the light from…
Root / Rooting の意味に注意！オーストラリア英語の要注意スラング
今回もちょっとnaughtyなので、、、、大人限定。
Glorious In Nearly Every Direction
This morning was an absolute ripper, with a fantastic full moon setting on the ride upstream and the rising sun resplendent in its glory as it came up over the Tama River when heading downstream. In-between, mists formed over the river, making it feel like I was cycling above the clouds at times. It was truly breathtaking, yet again. The day was also reasonably pleasant, cool rather than cold. It was truly a morning to savor. Of course, things are never that easy. I woke in the middle of the night, full of anxiety and fear yet again. I’m in trouble at work, with a harassing boss and fear-filled performance…
- Big Australia | Biz | Strine
かきを食う客ならBig Oysterが究極なかきだ！
南オーストラリア州セドゥナという町では、同町の海産物関係の伝統の象徴としてオーストラリアの「Big Things」ひとつであるデカイかきのBig Oysterがある。 セドゥナは元々捕鯨用の拠点として１９世紀で出来た町だったが、この数十年ではかき業が盛んとなり、1991年かきを称えるオイスターフェストという祭りを開催する。 コンクリート製のBig Oysterは元々同祭り用の山車のために作られたが4回その任務を果たして町の中に永遠提示するようになった。 セドゥナは砂漠であるナラボア平原の境界にあるので、東から西へ行くと最後の町であり、逆方向で行ってれば平原の終わりのシンボルとなるところのだ。 Ceduna Oyster Festival 2009 from CAAMA on Vimeo. 大きな地図で見る
