The Daily English Show #774 "Hard"と"Hardly"の違い。　裸のカウボーイ VS M&M'sチョコレート。

#774 "Hard"と"Hardly"の違い。　裸のカウボーイ VS M&M'sチョコレート。

2008 / 06 / 25 ( Wed )

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Hi, I’m Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show.

I’ve quite often see people mix these two words up: hard and hardly.

Hard is an adjective.
For example:
The test was hard.
This mattress is hard.

It’s also an adverb.
For example:
I worked hard today.
I thought long and hard before I made my decision.

Hardly is also an adverb, but it has a different meaning than hard.
Hardly means scarcely, barely, almost not, almost none etc.

Here are some examples of how to use hardly:

There’s hardly any coffee left.
I hardly ever go out these days.
I’m so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open.

So you can’t say:
I thought long and hardly before I made my decision.

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I want to talk about a site called Alexa today.
This doesn’t really have anything to do with studying English – but I just think it’s an interesting site to check out.
On Alexa you can see rankings for the most popular sites in the world, and the most popular sites in different countries.

So, what are the most popular sites in the world?

　1. Yahoo
　2. Google
　3. YouTube
　4. Windows Live
　5. MSN
　6. MySpace
　7. Wikipedia
　8. Facebook
　9. Blogger
　10. Yahoo Japan

STICK NEWS

Kia Ora, in Stick News today, an American street performer called The Naked Cowboy is suing the maker of M&Ms.

The Naked Cowboy is a man who plays the guitar in Times Square, New York, wearing a white cowboy hat, white cowboy boots and white underpants.
In February, the company that makes M&Ms released a video billboard showing a blue M&M version of the naked cowboy.
The Naked Cowboy then decided to sue the sweet company for “using his likeness, persona, and image for commercial purposes without his written permission and by falsely suggesting that he endorses M&M candy."
A judge has now ruled that the lawsuit can proceed.

And that was Stick News for Wednesday the 25th of June.
Kia Ora.

今日のニュース（CNNビデオニュース）

今回のスティックニュースのイラスト

Word of the Day

Today’s word is endorse.
v. declare one’s public approval of

conversations with sarah

　　What’s the top site in New Zealand?

Joe
What’s the top site in New Zealand?
　ニュージーランドのトップ・ウェブサイトは？

Sarah
Google.

Joe
Oh, OK.

Sarah
And Yahoo is number two and then TradeMe is number 3, which is a site like eBay.
　ヤフーが２番目、トレードミーが３番目。　トレードミーはイーベイのようなサイト。

Joe
Don’t people use eBay in New Zealand?
　ニュージーランドの人たちはイーベイを利用しないの？

Sarah
No, I don’t think so. Well, not much anyway, cause TradeMe is so popular.
　あまり使わないと思う。　だからトレードミーが人気なんだろう。

Joe
What are some other popular sites?
　他の人気サイトは？

Sarah
Bebo is popular in New Zealand. That’s the most popular social networking site in New Zealand.
　ビーボが人気。　ビーボはニュージーランドで最も人気があるSNS。

Joe
Are you a member of Bebo?
　ビーボに登録してる？

Sarah
Yeah, I think so. But I probably haven’t logged in for a couple of years. I’m not a very good social networker.
　たぶんしてると思うけど何年もログインしていない。　私はあまり良くないソーシャル・ネットワーカーです。

サラのノート：
Do hard and hardly mean the same thing?

thedailyenglishshow.com has a traffic rank 4,822,168 - ha ha we're taking the world by storm!

More info at Alexa:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/thedailyenglishshow.com

(In case you didn't know, we've only had a site at thedailyenglishshow.com since June 1 2008, which explains some of the stats).

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