couldn't
US /ˈkʊdnt/
・UK /ˈkʊdnt/
A2 初級
aux. v.助動詞〜できなかった
I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
aux. v.助動詞まさか
Couldn't he have called earlier?
aux. v.助動詞〜できなかった
I tried to call you, but couldn't get through.
aux. v.助動詞〜していただけませんか
Couldn't you help me with this heavy box?
contr.短縮形～できなかった
I couldn't hear what she was saying.
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初の米国大統領討論会：ヒラリー・クリントン対ドナルド・トランプ（討論全文）| NBCニュース (The First Presidential Debate: Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump (Full Debate) | NBC News)
- They couldn't believe it.
規制を強化
- THEY COULDN'T BELIEVE
彼らは信じられなかった
ナショナルジオグラフィック - 万里の長城 - ドキュメンタリー (National Geographic - The Great Wall of China - Documentary)
- I couldn't have been successful Asean come on
私は成功することができませんでした。
- Without them, I couldn't have been successful.
私は成功することができませんでした。
デビッド・アレン: 「Getting Things Done」 (David Allen: Getting Things Done)
- And we need to make sure you've got implementation and deck clearing capability first because otherwise, you'll resist taking on bigger stuff because you'll know you couldn't handle it if you did.
デスクを整理することによって？
- And we need to make sure you've got implementation and deck clearing capability first because otherwise, you'll resist taking on bigger stuff because you'll know you couldn't handle it if you did.
だから、過剰な構造化がたくさんあります。
お金：人類最大の幻想 (Money: Humanity's Biggest Illusion)
- You couldn't just go to a beach somewhere and pick up bronze.
どこかのビーチに行ってブロンズを拾うなんてことはできない。
- You couldn't just go to a beach somewhere and pick up bronze.
価値があった。
運動が長寿にもたらすメリット (The benefits of exercise for longevity)
- I think about 89 Her physical life had basically Demised so significantly in the past decade that her actual death was almost just a matter of Formality, but she had lost the ability to do the things that mattered to her most a decade earlier So she couldn't play golf anymore because of her shoulder She couldn't garden because of her knees and hips and back.
89歳について考えてみると、彼女の肉体的な生活は基本的にこの10年で著しく衰え、実際の死はほとんど形式的な問題に過ぎなかった。
- I mean, she just couldn't she couldn't even play with her grandkids And so she spent most of the last decade of her life largely uninvolved in anything and you know did come down with dementia in the final year of her life and that's what ultimately took her life, but You know I was just Totally blown away by this person that I once remembered as being completely vibrant Losing everything and spending this last year In this state and I realized in that moment as I literally sat in a church pew first of all, this is really common and and and secondly This is what I want to train for like I for the first time in Four years realized aha the thing I want to train for is to avoid this.
つまり、彼女は孫と遊ぶこともできず、人生の最後の10年間はほとんど何もせずに過ごし、晩年には認知症になり、それが彼女の命を奪ったのです、でも私は、かつては何事にも全く動じなかったと記憶しているこの人が、晩年をこのような状態で過ごしたことに、ただただ圧倒されました。その瞬間、文字通り教会の教壇に座りながら、まず第一に、これは本当によくあることなんだ、そして第二に、これは私がトレーニングしたいことなんだ、と思いました。
