astonishingly
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・UK /ə'stɒnɪʃɪŋlɪ/
A2 初級
adv.副詞驚くほど
The swim team performed astonishingly well at the competition
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なぜ人は不健康な関係に陥るのか (Why People get into Unhealthy Relationships)
- Where others would despair of intransigence or meanness, we see every chance of being able to change a partner – so long as we keep quiet and hope. It can take an awfully long time until we are in any position to realise that all told, the situation does appear a little strange and somewhat irrevocable. That it may not be entirely to our advantage to be told again and again that we are mad for wanting greater gentleness, or demanding for seeking a deeper connection, or crazy for wondering why a partner spends so much time on their phone or out drunk with friends. We could be compared to a giant fish, a tuna perhaps, whose had its fins cut off and lost any powers of navigation, so that it bobs helplessly on the current, hoping against hope that it will be taken somewhere nice, but unable to exert any influence on its course. The famous expression runs, when people show you who they are, believe them. But it's hard to be very clear-eyed about who is good and bad when you happen to grow up with a heavy disincentive to perceive certain awkward truths about your own parents, because you were five years old, trapped in a house with them, and love wasn't readily available from anyone else. Our entire perceptual mechanism may have been twisted as a result. Like an animal that can't perceive certain frequencies of light, our emotional eyes may have grown up unable to see difficult traits for what they are. Coldness now just looks like honourable absorption in more important tasks. Sarcasm is read as wit. Being belittled feels like care. We're always more likely to think of ourselves as bad for failing to elicit kindness from a fundamentally lovely person whom we'll continue to adore and admire, despite one or two signs of trouble, as opposed to conceiving that we might have fallen in with a jerk. We may be deep into our lives before we decide we might have had enough of suffering, and start to be curious about what kindness and presence might feel like. We may ever so slightly determine that though our partner may be using every ounce of their considerable logic and charm to secure the status quo, they might in the end just be taking us for a long ride. We don't have to be here. We are, astonishingly, not five anymore. If we're not happy, we can run.
他の人が強情さや意地悪さに絶望するところ、私たちは黙って希望を持ち続ける限り、相手を変えられる可能性があると考える。この状況が少し奇妙で、取り返しのつかないものであることに気づくまでには、非常に長い時間がかかる。もっと優しさを求めるのは頭がおかしい、もっと深いつながりを求めるのは要求が高い、なぜパートナーが携帯電話にばかり時間を費やしたり、友人と酔っ払って外出したりするのか不思議に思うのは頭がおかしい、と何度も何度も言われるのは、まったく得策ではないかもしれない。私たちは巨大な魚に例えられるかもしれない。
- We are, astonishingly, not five anymore.
実際の宇宙人はどのような姿をしているか (What Actual Aliens Might Look Like)
- Millions of years ago and astonishingly quickly, life emerged and evolved inside tiny water droplets deeper down in the planet.
海王星とサイズも組成もよく似た巨大ガス惑星です。
- Millions of years ago, and astonishingly quickly, life emerged and evolved inside tiny water droplets.
数百万年前、驚くほど速いスピードで、小さな水滴の中で生命が誕生し進化しました。
天文学は危機にある…そしてそれは信じられないほどエキサイティングだ (Astronomy Is In Crisis...And It's Incredibly Exciting)
- It matched our observations astonishingly well and made us feel like we'd almost deciphered the cosmic code.
それは私たちの観測と驚くほどよく一致し、あたかも宇宙の法則を解読したかのような気持ちにさせてくれました。
- It matched our observations astonishingly well and made us feel like we had almost deciphered the cosmic code.
最初は、それは単なる間違い、より多くのデータで消えるノイズのように見えました。
自然災害に関する10のダークな陰謀論 (10 Dark Conspiracy Theories About Natural Disasters)
- They were astonishingly unprepared for this complicated nuclear accident.
この複雑な原発事故に対して、彼らは驚くほど準備不足だった。
- They were astonishingly unprepared for this complicated nuclear accident.
2010年のハイチ地震は、この小さな島国に壊滅的な打撃を与え、数十万人が死亡し、多くの人々が避難した。
愛で私たちが忘れがちな、たった一つの質問—そしてその理由 (The One Question We Forget to Ask Ourselves in Love—and Why)
- A lot of other things seem not to be in any doubt—that the person is amazing, that their name makes them jump—but what remains astonishingly unexplored is something more banal: Are these people actually kind?
他の多くのことは疑いの余地がないように思える――その人が素晴らしいこと、その人の名前を聞くだけで飛び上がってしまうこと――しかし、驚くほど探求されていないのは、もっとありふれたことだ。その人たちは本当に親切だろうか？
