でも今日の例文の２行目の "I'll write it down" を "I'm going to write it down" と言い換えることは決してできません。
be going to ... は，あらかじめ決めていたことを「…することにしている」という場合に用い，例文のように「とっさに決めたこと」については用いないからです。
"We're holding Tina's farewell party at two p.m. on May 20. I'll give you a ride to the hotel." "Hold on a second. I'll write it down before I forget it."
▽ Slash Reading
"We're holding/Tina's farewell party/at two p.m./on May 20. I'll give/you a ride/to the hotel." "Hold on/a second. I'll write it down/before I forget it."
▽ Free Translation
「ティナの送別会を５月２０日の午後２時に行うよ。僕が君をホテルまで車に乗せていくから」「ちょっと待って。忘れないうちに書き留めておくわ」
▼ WORDS
□ hold＜動3＞＜会など＞を行う［開く］（＝ have）（◆例文の現在進行形は「近い
未来」のことを表している）
□ will＜助＞…するよ，…するつもりだ（◆一人称の主語（I, we）で「意志」
を表す。短縮形（'ll）で用いることが多い）
□ farewell＜名＞お別れ
□ at＜前＞…に（◆時刻のように「点」的な時や場所の前に置く）
□ on＜前＞…に（◆曜日や日付に用いる。例文は「日付」。in は「月」の前）
□ give＜動4＞O'にOを与える（◆例文では，O'がyou，Oがa ride）
□ ride＜名＞車での移動（＝ lift）（◆＜動＞で使う場合は，「（車などで）移動する」）
□ a second＜副＞少しの間（＝ a minute）（◆ second には「秒」の意味もある）
□ before＜従接＞…する前に
□ forget＜動2or1＞（Oを）忘れる（◆例文では＜動2＞。＜動1＞で用いbefore I forget としてもよい）
▼ Phrases & Patterns
□ give O' a ride to ...＜動＞O'を車に乗せて…へ連れていく
□ hold on＜動＞そのままで待つ（＝ wait）
□ write ... down＜動＞…を書き留める（◆ downは「（下に）留める」）
□ before S + V ...＜副＞ＳがＶ...する前に→ ＳがＶ...しないうちに（◆ before S don't V という「否定形」は不可）
Like its larger siblings in Sony's line of e-readers, the Reader Pocket Edition employs Sony's unique optical technology to allow fingers to tap away.
The Reader Pocket Edition has a 5in E Ink Pearl display, the same kind of screen as on the third-generation Amazon Kindle but 1in smaller. Not surprisingly, the device weighs less, too: At just 155g, the Pocket Edition is easy to hold in one hand while you're curled up on the couch for a reading session.
The optical-technology touchscreen uses infrared sensors to detect where your finger is; it compares that information against a matrix that identifies your finger's position and what action you are trying to accomplish, and then performs that action. The result is striking. I found the display brighter and dramatically sharper than Sony's previous touchscreen technology, with better contrast and clarity, as well as crisp greyscale images. Furthermore, I could make selections with featherlight touches to the screen. Previously, Sony used a resistive touch overlay on its Touch Edition PRS-600; the effect was unfortunate, with muted responsiveness, a persistent glare and fuzzy text.
In use, I found the touch navigation terrific and natural in feel. You simply touch to turn pages, and touch to get one of the 12 pop-up dictionaries, including conversion dictionaries for French, German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch, plus American and British English.
A simple row of buttons that lies beneath the screen consists of page-back and page-forward buttons, a zoom button, a font button and an options button. At top is the power switch, while the built-in slim stylus is at the upper right.
Among the options is the ability to adjust the contrast and brightness ratio further - a first among the e-readers we've seen. You can also choose from among six font sizes, from XS to XXL. If you opt for the last of those sizes, however, expect to do an awful lot of page turns on this petite unit. People with poor eyesight would do better to consider the 6in Sony Reader Touch Edition PRS-650BC.
The unit also now charges via the increasingly common micro-USB port; previously, Sony used mini-USB. The e-reader has both Memory Stick and SD card slots, and 2GB of on-board storage.
One of the Reader platform's strengths is its support for the ePub e-book standard, which allows you to buy books from Sony's own store (you upload to the device after downloading books to the Mac/PC Sony desktop client) and other stores with ePub, as well as to download books from libraries.
One of its weaknesses is its pan-and-zoom approach to reading PDFs (though its PDF handling is still an improvement over that of the past).
Another weakness: No 3G or Wi-Fi. By contrast, the latest Amazon Kindle with Wi-Fi and 3G is US$189 - $40 less - and adds an extra inch to the screen to boot. You pay a steep price for the slick design of the highly portable Pocket Edition.
Australian Macworld's buying advice.
Among the small, 5in-screen e-reader set, Sony has leaped to the head of the pack. If you want your e-reader in a paperback size, the Sony Reader Pocket Edition is the best model you can get.
This documentary film was released by Channel 4 (UK) in 1995. Cf. Tim Shorrock, "Japan's Nuclear Nightmare (Part One)" (18 March 2011); Tim Shorrock, "Japan's Nuclear Nightmare (Part Two): Nuclear Gypsies -- The Subcontractors Who Do the Dirty Work" (20 March 2011); "メシ最悪、雑魚寝、被曝 . . . 原発作業員「日当４０万円」の過酷労働" (Zakzak, 29 March 2011);
"Of roughly 83,000 workers at Japan's 18 commercial nuclear power plants, 88 percent were contract workers in the year that ended in March 2010, the nuclear agency said. At the Fukushima Daiichi plant, 89 percent of the 10,303 workers during that period were contractors. In Japan's nuclear industry, the elite are operators like Tokyo Electric and the manufacturers that build and help maintain the plants like Toshiba and Hitachi. But under those companies are contractors, subcontractors and sub-subcontractors -- with wages, benefits and protection against radiation dwindling with each step down the ladder. . . . Some [Fukushima Daiichi emergency] workers are hired from construction sites, and some are local farmers looking for extra income. Yet others are hired by local gangsters, according to a number of workers who did not want to give their names. . . . Since the mid-1970s, about 50 former workers have received workers' compensation after developing leukemia and other forms of cancer. Health experts say that though many former workers are experiencing health problems that may be a result of their nuclear work, it is often difficult to prove a direct link"
(Hiroko Tabuchi, "Japanese Workers Braved Radiation for a Temp Job," New York Times, 9 April 2011);
"被曝基準超えた作業員の雇用継続求める 労使、国に要望" (Asahi Shimbun, 9 April 2011).
