英語の勉強法ーHit 対 Attack | 福岡市・天神駅すぐのKENSINGTON英会話（ケンジントン英会話）

How to study EnglishーHit vs Attack

Hello everyone, summer is almost at an end and with that next comes typhoon season!

There is one mistake that all my students seem to make every year around this time and that it is when they are talking about typhoons.

Everyone seems to say this..

A large typhoon attacked Kagoshima last night. X

I know why you are saying this, but remember direct translations don’t always work. In this case, attack means to hit something or someone with intention, but since typhoons don’t have brains, and as far as I know they hold no grudge against Japan, then this is unfortunately, not possible.

If you want to use attack then it can be used in a sentence like this…

The World Trade Center was attacked by terrorists in 2001.

In this case it was intentional.

When we talk about natural disasters it is better to use the word hit.

Kagoshima was hit by a large typhoon last night.

Fukuoka City was hit by a magnitude 6 earthquake in 2005.

Fukuoka and Oita were hit with heavy flooding earlier this summer.

Jaimie

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英語の勉強法ーHit 対 Attack

みなさんこんにちは、いよいよ夏が終わって次は台風シーズンですね！

毎年この時期に台風の話しをしている時に生徒さんみんなが間違っている一つのことがあります。