Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

nature vs. politics


This stamp collecting thing was ostensibly for my daughter and I to do something together, though her enthusiasm has faded over the weeks.

From the start, she was drawn to brightly colored stamps with pictures of nature: flowers, animals, and the like. And she had no interest whatsoever in stamps with political themes, like flags or portraits of politicians.

America seems to put out an endless array of politically-oriented stamps. Flags and flags and flags - and none of these have any interest for my daughter.

Hey, if you were six years old, which of the stamps in this picture would you choose?

日本語 hints:
ostensibly = 表面上
enthusiasm = 熱狂、強い興味 Note that this is a noun; the adjective is enthusiastic. (She was enthusiastic about stamp collecting)
political -- this is an adjective, be sure not to mix it with nouns like politics or politician
an endless array = a very large number of
"if you were....would" is a very useful expression