2010年6月24日木曜日

一ヵ月分のを英語でなんと言うか?

一ヵ月分の雨量、a month's worth of rain(0:21)が聞こえましたか?Storms last week dumped a month's worth of rain on parts of neighboring Alagoas and Pernambuco states, near the point where Brazil juts farthest east into the Atlantic.

一年分の雨量はa year's worth of rain 0:13です。

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcPAyOs_WbE  0:53 some nearby towns were left with as much as a century's worth of daily waste to clear up 仙台近郊市町村はは100年分の生ゴミをかかえている。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmSofrkzT0E&feature=g-all-u&context=G2508df0FAAAAAAAAMAA  0:22 70-years worth of toilet paper 70年分のトイレットペーパー
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaOEIwvsbyI 0:35 the community's only well has barely a day's worth of water left
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yssjPaVL7Cw 4:33 a week's worth of work with three guys 大人三人で一週間かかった仕事
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx6Zjff9A9o 8:41 that's not a year's worth of oil. that's weekly. そいつはあなたの食べる一年分の油じゃなくて、一週間分の油だよ。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwbdAJGvj_o 1:12 half a year's rain in just a matter of hours 数時間で半年分の雨量
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s1qYlzs8Ms  0:16 but it's not enough to provide for an entire day's worth of nutrition. 学校給食は一日に必要な総カロリーには及ばない。 

4:54 on the bottom are thousands of years worth of decomposing leaves which are the source of the sulfur cloud. シンクホールの底には何千年分の腐った葉っぱが堆積していて、それが硫黄の雲を発生させていた。

Bottomless Yucatan Sinkhole | JONATHAN BIRD'S BLUE WORLD

参考リンク
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5rtWcoWk-s 1:24 Austria has seen two months of rain in two days. = two months' worth of rain

練習問題解答
a-479 a year's worth of snow
a-3245 a day's worth
a-5869 six months' worth of pay この場合は、アポストロフィーだけをつける。
a-6468 a month's worth of rain
b-0520 a month's worth of July rain in just 48 hours
b-4100 a month's worth of rain
b-4302 a full year's worth of rain
b-5532 a month's worth of rain
b-5819 three months of rain
b-6554 a year's worth of rain