岩手医科大学英語2013年第3問
Whenever I'm teaching people about “body language, “this question is invariably asked ”Joe, what got you interested in ( 1 ) nonverbal behavior in the first place?” It wasn't ( 2 ) I had planned to do, ( 3 ) was it the result of some long-term fascination with the topic. It was much more down-to-earth than that. It was an interest born of necessity, the need to ( 4 )successfully to a totally new way of ( 5 ). When I was eight years old, I came to America as an exile from Cuba. We left just a few months after the Bay of Pigs invasion, and we honestly ( 6 )we would be here only for a short while as refugees.
Unable to speak English at first, I did what ( 7 ) of other immigrants coming to this country have ( 8 ). I quickly learned that to fit ( 9 ) with my new classmates at school, I needed to be aware of-and sensitive to-the “other” language around me, the language of nonverbal behavior. I found that was a language I could translate and understand ( 10 ). In my young ( 11 ), I saw the human body as a kind of billboard that transmitted(advertised)what a person was thinking via gestures, facial expressions, and ( 12 ) movements that I could read.
(出典 Joe Navarro. What Every BODY Is Saying. HarperCollins Publishers, 2008.)-
(注)
- invariably, いつも;
- fascination, 魅惑;
- down-to-earth, 現実的な;
- exile, 亡命者;
- invasion, 侵略;
- refugee, 難民;
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