Queations and Answers

Q:)What is the definition of ‘lesbian’, ‘gay’, ‘bisexual’ and ‘transgender’?

A:)Lesbian means a woman who is sexually attracted to other women.
Gay means a person who is sexually attracted to other people of the same sex (especially men).
Bisexual means a person who is sexually attracted to both men and women.
Transgender a person who feels emotionally that they want to live, dress, etc. as a member of the oposite sex, especially one who has a medical operation to change their sexual organs.

Q:)Which countries allow same-sex couples the same legal rights as couples of the opposite sex?

A:)The Netherlands, Spain, Canada, etc. mainly Europe and North America allow same-sex couples.

Gambling scandal spreads in sumo

Several sumo stable masters are among those who admitted to gambling on baseball games in a recent survey conducted by the Japan Sumo Association (JSA), a JSA source revealed June 16.
The most recent scandal to hit the sumo world until now had been focused on wrestlers who had admitted to illegal gambling, but elders, including stable masters and tokoyama hairdressers, have also been found to be involved.
At an emergency executive meeting June 15, the JSA accepted an offer from ozeki Kotomitsuki's stable master, Sadogatake, for the wrestler to sit out the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament in July and he has been banned from sumo pending the results of a police investigation into his alleged gambling activities on baseball.
Aside from Kotomitsuki, several other unidentified top-division wrestlers were among those who admitted similar wrongdoing, a JSA source said. (Kyodo News)

要約：
相撲協会の実施した実態調査により、多くの力士や親方が野球賭博に関与していたことが明らかになった。

単語：
stable masters
親方
admitted to ～
～したことを認めた
Japan Sumo Association
日本相撲協会
revealed
明らかにした
elders
上の人
be involved
関与している
emergency executive meeting
緊急理事会
the wrestler
その力士（琴光喜のこと）
sit out ～
～を休場する
pending ～
～が出るまでの間
alleged ～
～の疑い
Aside from ～
～のほかに
wrongdoing
違法行為

Nuke session approves early steps to disarm

The 189 member nations of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) on May 28 adopted a detailed plan of small steps down a long road toward nuclear disarmament, including a sharply debated proposal to move toward banning doomsday arms from the Middle East.
The 28-page final declaration was approved by consensus on the last day of the month-long conference, convened every five years to review and advance the objectives of the 40-year-old NPT.
Under its action plan, the five recognized nuclear-weapon states — the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China — commit to speed up arms reductions, take other steps to diminish the importance of atomic weapons, and report back by 2014. (AP)

要約：
国連本部で約1ヵ月間にわたり開かれていた核拡散防止条約（NPT）再検討会議は5月28日、核軍縮の進展などの行動計画を盛り込んだ最終合意文書を採択し、閉幕した。


単語：disarm
軍縮する
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
核拡散防止条約
adopted
～を採択した
banning
～を禁止する
doomsday arms
破滅の武器（核兵器のこと）
by consensus
全会一致で
convened
招集される
objectives
目的、目標
recognized
（核保有を国際的に）認められた
commit to ～
～に取り組む
diminish
～を減らす

Toyota-Tesla EV tie-up at NUMMI

The heads of Tesla Motors Inc. and Toyota Motor Corp. surprised the auto world May 20 by announcing a partnership to develop and build electric vehicles at a recently shuttered auto plant in the San Francisco Bay area.
Toyota President Akio Toyoda said his company will invest 4.5 billion yen in Tesla when the company begins selling stock to the public, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk said his company will purchase the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., known as NUMMI, in Fremont, Calif., where the Model S electric sedan will be built.
"We're going to create electric cars together," Musk told a news conference at Tesla's office in Palo Alto, Calif. "It's a great honor to work with a company like Toyota, one of the automobile leaders of the world and one I've personally long admired." (AP)
Shukan ST: June 4, 2010(C) All rights reserved

要約:

トヨタ自動車は5月20日、米自動車会社のテスラモーターズと、資本・業務提携することで基本合意したと発表した。

単語、熟語:
EV （=electric vehicle） tie-up
電気自動車での提携
NUMMI （=New United Motor Manufacturing Inc.）
元トヨタと米 GM の合併工場
shuttered
閉鎖された
auto plant
自動車工場
stock
株式
electric sedan
電気自動車のセダン
（have）long admired
長い間素晴らしいと思っていた

Woman fine after heart pumps

A woman was released from a hospital in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on May 18 after undergoing what may have been the world's first successful operation to embed two assist pumps for her heart, officials at the institution said. Unlike pumps outside the body, those embedded internally increase blood flow and are believed to be less likely to cause complications involving brain-blood circulation or infection. (Kyodo News)

要約:

大阪府吹田市の病院で、重い心臓病で心臓が機能しなくなった30代の女性患者に2つの植え込み型の補助人工心臓を装着する手術が行なわれ、無事成功した。女性は現在退院している。

単語:

heart pumps
人工心臓で血液を送れるようにする手術
undergoing ～
～を受けて
embed
～を埋め込む
internally
体内に
complications
合併症
brain-blood circulation
脳の血液の循環

Kawaguchi returns to World Cup squad

Veteran goalkeeper Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi and striker Kisho Yano were the biggest surprises in an otherwise familiar selection as national team manager Takeshi Okada named his squad for the World Cup on May 10. Shinji Ono, who many had tipped to make a late run into the 23-man roster, did not make the cut. Kawaguchi has been a member of every squad since Japan first qualified for the world's top tournament in 1998. (The Japan Times)
Shukan ST: May 21, 2010(C) All rights reserved


要約：

6月11日に開幕するサッカーのワールドカップ南アフリカ大会に出場する日本代表メンバー23人が5月10日、東京都内のホテルで発表された。川口選手が代表復帰した。

単語：

had tipped to ～
～すると思っていた
roster
代表チーム
make the cut
代表に選ばれる
qualified for ～
～への出場権を得た

master league -Real vs Barce

"Real Madrid and Barcelona have 95 and 96 points respectively with a game to play in La Liga," writes Thomas Phillips. "Surely they're both on for some sort of record?"
In fact, they're on for a few. Both teams have already smashed the previous highest points tally in the Primera Division, set by Barça last season with 87. Pep Guardiola's side look ready to set a new best, so Real may have to settle for the unwanted title of the team scoring the most points without winning the league.
The pair will also set a remarkable standard of 197 points combined should they both win their final games. Obviously that's a La Liga record, but we can't find anything to beat it anywhere in the football world. It certainly beats the best we can muster in England – Reading and Sheffield United's combined 196 points in the Championship in 2005-06 – and that came over 46 games in a 24-team league rather than the 38 games and 20-team league that is the Spanish top flight. Rangers (85) and Celtic (103) combined for 188 points in the Scottish Premier League in 2001-02. Barry Town's 104-point romp to the Welsh title in 1997-98, when combined with runners-up Newtown, adds up to 182. Italy's best? A competitive 172 in 2006-07. If you can do any better, we'd be pleased to hear from you.
Real have already broken the record for most wins in a season, their 31 (presumably soon to be 32) beating the record of 28 set by themselves in 1987-88 and matched by the Barça of Ronaldo, Luis Figo and Hristo Stoichkov in 1996-97. Barcelona's solitary defeat this season is not a record, however. Athletic Bilbao in 1929-30 and Real Madrid in 1931-32 both went unbeaten in their league campaigns (though back then they consisted of just 18 matches).
Leo Messi is well short of a record-breaking season of scoring. His 32 was matched by Atlético Madrid's Diego Forlan last year, beaten by Ronaldo's 34 in 1996-97 and dwarfed by Hugo Sanchez's 38 (in 36 games) for Real in 1989-90 and Telmo Zarra's 38 in 30 games for Athletic Bilbao back in 1950-51.
Real will have to go some to set a new team high-scoring mark. The current ensemble have thus far mustered 101 six short of the Sanchez-inspired Los Blancos who scored 107 in 1989-90. And defensively they have both been a bit of a shambles, nowhere close to Deportivo's astonishing 18 conceded in 38 games in 1993-94 or the outright record of 15 set by Real in the 10-team top flight of 1931-32.

単語：
・combine 結合させる
・romp とびはねる
・

感想：　
レアルとバルサの対決はかなり見物ですね!!
…見る気はありませんが。