This is the other oil shock. とはなかなかうまい表現。 edible oils:食用油
Cooking oil may seem a trifling expense in the West. But in the developing world, cooking oil is an important source of calories and represents one of the biggest cash outlays for poor families, which grow much of their own food but have to buy oil in which to cook it.
trans fat:トランス脂肪 ↑ the chemically altered fats (化学変化した油)
The palm is a highly efficient producer of vegetable oil, squeezed from the tree's thick bunches of plum-size bright red fruit. An acre of oil palms yields as much oil as eight acres of soybeans, the main rival for oil palms; rapeseed, used to make canola oil, is a distant third. Among major crops, only sugar cane comes close to rivaling oil palms in calories of human food per hectare.
Using thepseudonymMomo, she posted K - about a bar hostess who gives birth to her client's child - in brief chapters on the keitai shosetsu website Gocco.
pseudonym:偽名 ← 昨日、ボキャマラで覚えたばかりで嬉しくてついつい(笑)。
以下よりIHT。
Critics said the dominance of cellphone novels, with their poor literary quality, would hasten the decline of Japanese literature.
Because of writing on the cellphone, her nail had cut into the flesh and became bloodied
When a work is written on a computer, the nuance of the number of lines is different, and the rhythm is different from writing on a cellphone ↑ これはなんとなくわかるかも。私もPCで文章を書くのと鉛筆で文章を書くのは全く違うから。とにかくリズムかな。鉛筆だと自分の思っているよりも遅いスピードでしか綴れないけど、PCだと、ほぼ自分が思っているのと同時にタイプできるから。
The boom appeared to have been fueled by a development having nothing to do with culture or novels but by cellphone companies' decision to offer unlimited transmission of packet data, like text-messaging, as part of flat monthly rates. ↑ パケット定額がブームの立役者
They punched out text messages with their thumbs with blinding speed, and used expressions and emoticons, like smilies and musical notes, whose nuances were lost on anyone over the age of 25. ↑ 携帯でブラインドタッチできない時点で、時代の格差を感じます・・・。
Given the cellphone novels' domination of the mainstream, critics no longer dismiss them, though some say they should be classified with comic books or popular music. ↑ 携帯小説は漫画やPOP音楽っていう分類という指摘はごもっとも。