1.トヨタの欠陥SUVの問題
・Three Toyota officials are under criminal investigation on suspicion of professional negligence for allegedly not issuing vehicle recalls for eight years and not fixing a defect that might have caused an accident.
・よくありがちなパターンですが?”俺が何か間違ったことをやったか?”、”いいえ、やるべきことをやらなかったのです。” →Toyota Motor Corp. said the officials did not do anything wrong. Toyota officials said they felt it was not necessary to recall the model in 1996 because the defect was not frequent enough. They also said Toyota saw no fault in the way the executives had dealt with the matter at the time.
・A vice president and managing director at Toyota Motor Corp. both knew about a serious steering defect in the Hilux Surf sport utility vehicle in 1996, eight years before it was recalled due to an accident in Kumamoto prefecture.
・The two executives, who oversaw (= watched over, 監督、監視する)quality control at the time, did not recommend a recall.
・反対車線に突っ込むイメージ→veered into oncoming traffic
The accident occurred on Aug.12, 2004, when a driver in Kumamoto lost control of his Hilux Surf. The vehicle, built in November 1993, veered into on-coming traffic and collided head-on with another car, injuring five people. It was discovered that steering ability was lost when the tie rod broke.
・捜査本部 a task force
Kumamoto prefectural Police set up a task force to probe the case last August.
2.尋ねられて~と言うパターン
・Asked if he hopes the council will vote for the resolution before the G-8 summit, Koizumi told reporters: "Yes. It would be better for the council to vote early."
・Asked how long Japan would wait, Abe said it would be at least a few days before Japan pushed for a vote.
3.怖い反応
Pyongyang responded by saying it would interpret sanctions as an act of war.
4.Zidane
・FIFA president Sepp Blatter says Zinedine Zidane could be stripped of his Golden Ball award for the best player at the World Cup due to violent conduct.
・意見が分かれる
Though fans across the world are clearly divided on whether the French star deserve condemnation or sympathy for head-butting Italy's Marco Materazzi in the World Cup final.