(480) joke, big-game hunter and a lion

A big-game hunter VS a huge lion

  An intrepid1) big-game hunter was on his way back to camp with a record day’s bag2) when a huge lion suddenly stalked3) out of the jungle not thirty paces4) away.

The hunter had only one bullet left in his gun.
   He waited until the lion was ready to spring, took careful aim,  ― and missed. The jig was up5), he figured, ― but then a miracle occurred. The lion sprang too far, and landed in a heap6), fifteen feet beyond the hunter, who made the stockade7) in safety.

 The next afternoon the hunter went into his back yard to practice a little shooting at close range. He heard the strange noise outside the fence, and peered over it to see what was afoot8).  It was the lion ― practicing short leaps!
--- 笑う英語 Bennett Cerf’s JOKES For All Occasions, 1981

1) intrepid [ɪntrépɪd]: Fearless; bold; brave.
2) a record[rékɚd] day’s bag:
    Record: 記録的な
    Bag: The quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person).
3) stalk [stˈɔːk]: To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner
4) pace: The distance covered by a step.
5) The jig[ʤɪ́g] was up. : the game was up.
6) in a heap: どたりと
7) afoot [əfˈʊt]: Currently in progress.
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(479) word: dromedary

Dromedary

I saw this word in a children book , titled “words starting with letter D.”

 

Dromedary [drάmədèri]: speedy one-humped camel

 

 

Bactrian camel [bˈæktriən‐]

Two-humped camel of the cold deserts of central Asia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYXyCzpVOss

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(478) a lump of sugar

以下、すべてwebからの転記ですが、カフェでの話は特に、良いですね。
単語一つに、一つずつこんな話が聞けたら、作れたら、どんなに良いでしょうか

●a lump of: 一個の

There was a girl in a café who was very fond of a dog who used to come there regularly with a man and she regularly gave him a lump of sugar, one day the man came in without the dog and said the dog was dead. The girl had the lump of sugar in her hand and when she heard the dog was dead tears came to her eyes and she ate the lump of sugar (Paris France, Liveright, 1970, p. 34).

 

氷砂糖の感じですね。

Chinese Lump Sugar is lumps of crystallized, refined sugar made from sugar cane.

It is opaque1) lumps of sugar, made in different sizes. The colour can be white or yellow; the yellow is referred to in English as Yellow Lump Sugar.

1) opaque: inpervious to light

http://www.cooksinfo.com/chinese-lump-sugar