suffer (損害・苦痛を)被る、苦しむ、 a bout of 1勝負、1仕事、1期間 altitude 高さ、高度、標高。altitudes 高所。 stumble つまずく elusive 捕らえどころのない、理解しにくい。 Dow pulls back; Nasdaq hits new high NEW YORK - The Dow Jones industrial average suffered a bout of altitude sickness Wednesday, stumbling for a loss after making a charge at the record book on the way toward the elusive 9000 mark. pornography ポルノ synagogue ユダヤ教会堂 stagnant よどんだ sermon 説教 Scripture 聖書 laymen layman (一般信徒)の複数形。 RELIGIOUS GROUPS FIND REVIVAL ON THE WEB: Sure, you can find pornography on the Internet. But you can also find God. In a nation where attendance at churches and synagogues has been stagnant for decades, a religious revival seems to be taking place: Thousands of computers on the World Wide Web are serving up sermons and Scripture for all occasions. Techie laymen have taken it upon themselves to create home pages for churches, but now officials at the highest levels of mainstream religion are beginning to realize that's not enough - they need to get with the program themselves. advocate 弁護士、 Alzheimer アルツハイマー degenerate 退化する、 a time bomb ticking 時限爆弾 (tick : カチカチと時計の音を刻む) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1998 LIFESTYLE ADVOCATES WARN OF ALZHEIMER'S EPIDEMIC: WASHINGTON - Unless scientists find a way to prevent or cure Alzheimer's, the number of Americans with the brain- degenerating disease could more than triple as the population ages. "Many of our nation's baby boomers have a time bomb ticking in their heads today," said Stephen McConnell. The group's projections indicated that by 2050, when the youngest baby boomers will be in their 80s, 14 million Americans could suffer from the disease, compared with 4 million today.