英語5分間トレーニング　徹底活用学習ブログ

This very first episode opens with such an unexpected accident. Mary Alice Young, who is becoming a pilot of this story, shoots herself all of a sudden, though all of us thinks she must be happy with no worries. I gasped in surprise! I was hooked at the very beginning.


My name is Mary Alice Young.
When you read this morning's paper, you may come across an article about the unusual day I had last week.
Normally, there is never anything newsworthy about my life.
But that all changed last Thursday.

Of course, everything seemed quite normal at first.
I made breakfast for my family. I performed my chores. I completed my projects. I ran my errands.
In truth, I spent the day as I spent every other day, quietly polishing the routine of my life, until it gleamed with perfection.

That's why it was so astonishing when I decided to go to my hallway closet and retrieve a revolver that had never been used.


◆come across You find or meet something or someone by chance.

eg) I came across children playing.

◆newsworthy considered to be interesting enough to be reported in newspapers or on the radio or TV

eg) The number of death makes the story newsworthy.

◆chore tasks such as cleaning, washing and ironing that have to be done regularly at home

Ex) My husband and I both go out to work so we share the household chores.

◆errand a short trip that you make in order to do a job for someone

Ex) She runs errands for her housebound grandmother.

◆routine a way of life that is unintersting and ordinary

eg) a mundane routine of my life

◆retrieve you get it back from the place where you left if.