{"id":3259,"date":"2020-12-13T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog2\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2020-12-09T01:33:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T16:33:18","slug":"rodd-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog2\/rodd-5\/","title":{"rendered":"\u3010Rodd\u5148\u751f\u306e\u30cd\u30a4\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u82f1\u8a9e\u30d6\u30ed\u30b0\u3092\u8aad\u3082\u3046\uff01\u3011A Tumultuous Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone,<\/p>\n<p>Well as this <strong>stormy<\/strong> year finally draws to a close, I think everyone will be happy to see it gone and committed to history along with the coronavirus, the US elections, the worldwide protests and fights and all the other things that have plagued our newsfeeds. In saying that, I thought it would go into some words that describe 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>2020\u5e74\u3092\u82f1\u5358\u8a9e\u3067\u8868\u3059\u3068\uff1f<\/h2>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just say it was <strong>tumultuous<\/strong> to say the least.<em><strong> Tumultuous<\/strong> means\u00a0full of <a class=\"luna-xref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/tumult\">tumult<\/a> or riotousness; marked by disturbance and uproar.<\/em> For example:\u00a0<span class=\"luna-example italic\">a tumultuous situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Another word that comes to mind is <em><strong>onerous, <\/strong>which means\u00a0burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship.<\/em> For example: one might have\u00a0<span class=\"luna-example italic\">onerous circumstances &#8211; some that come to mind for me are having to wear a mask absolutely everywhere, social distancing, lockdowns, and curfews name a few.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"luna-example italic\">Next up might be <em><strong>oppressive<\/strong>, which means\u00a0burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical<\/em>. For example:\u00a0an oppressive king; oppressive laws. This year in Thailand, we have seen our fair share of these laws &#8211; both for public safety against the coronavirus, but some might argue also to stop the protests and freedom of speech against the government as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One that also matches some earlier parts of this year well. When we were in full lock down, nobody hardly dared go out on the streets and there was a curfew for 9:30pm, there was definitely a sense of <em><strong>foreboding<\/strong>,\u00a0which means\u00a0a strong inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, or evil, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately though Thailand handled the virus extremely well and we have been virtually virus free for almost five months, things are completely normal for the most part, and we have<strong> free rein<\/strong> to do anything again. <em>\u00a0<strong>Free rein<\/strong> means unlimited freedom to act or make decisions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With vaccines on their way and travel bubbles being planned, 2021 hopefully looks like it could be a much more <strong>rose-colored<\/strong> year. \u00a0<em><strong>Rose colored<\/strong> means cheerful or optimistic, especially to an excessive degree<\/em> &#8211; let us all hope that it really is.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On that note, I wish that all the best things that happened to you this year are the worst in the year to come.<\/p>\n<p>Have some great holidays, and a happy new year to you all!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, Well as this stormy year finally draws to a close, I think everyone will be happy to see it gone and committed to history along with the coronavirus, the US elections, the worldwide prote&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":3264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[230,5,3],"tags":[63,33],"class_list":{"0":"post-3259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-native","8":"category-asia","9":"category-liveabroad","10":"tag-lifestyle","11":"tag-33","12":"article cf"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/iStock-1194178134.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}