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2005年11月の記事
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ビジネス英会話(11/25）のディクテーションに挑戦
Blogosphere(6) Friday, November 25*TalkS: Chris, we talked about blogosphere composed of blogs and bloggers.C: Hmm.S: Now some of my friends become bloggers, uh..C: Oh, yeah.S: Now I read their blogs, and some are interesting, others are boring.C: Yeah, a friend of mine started up her own blogs, so she lives here and her family lives in the US, and I think she wanted to use it so that her sister and her mother and her friends could see her son growing up.S: Hmm.C: And here about the activities, but I looked at it a few times, but she's so busy and I don't think she updates it very often. S: But that's the good way to keep up with each other.C: Yeah, I think it's a great idea. You know, you can limit who has access to it if you want to, so you can keep it private, and you can also allow people a certain amount of commenting on your blog if you'd like.S: Yeah, as we said many of the bloggers are not professional journalists, they are just the common people. But historically, blogs are bloomed during a political election or natural disaster or terrorist attack.C: Uh, they seem like a great thing to keep up with current events. I supposes if you find a couple of blogs written by people that you either agree with or disagree with, but find very interesting. Then uh, whenever a current event happens, you can read what they're thinking and of course, read the papers..S: Yeah.C: See what's on TV.S: And some of the mainstay media like newspapers and magazines..C: Um-huh.S: direct their readers to refer to blogs which contain more information. C: Yeah, I saw that. It's a great way to correct information when there's chaos because anyone who has some information can post it, and as long as the readers remember that it's not an official statement, it's what people are thinking at that moment. I think it's wonderful.S: Some blogs have become controversial..C: Um-huh.S: written by American soldiers that are stationed in Iraq.C: I thought it was pretty amazing that military hadn't been censoring them at all at the beginning. And even now I think censorship of the soldiers' blog is very right.S: Um-huh. I think it's difficult to sensor blogs technically.C: Yeah, right. Well, I guess what they would have to do is give orders about what kind of content you could put on your blog, and then take disciplinary action for people who break that. I don't think that military would be reading everybody's blogs, but somebody might report it to them.S: And of course, recently we talked about a podcasting.C: Um-huh.S: Which is like a personal radio station.C: Oh, they're great. I haven't looked at a lot of them. I haven't had a lot of time yet, but I found a couple of websites that list podcasts, and they're...they're all organized by topic. Ah, the ones I've looked at so far are free, so some of whom are very amateurish that doesn't mean it won't be interesting, but it doesn't sound like what you hear of on the radio or TV.S: All these new technologies, uh, pose a challenge to communications people..C: Yeah.S: They have to know how to integrate these new tools into traditional methods of communication.C: Yeah, I think it's very tough for people whose job is managing communication, but on the other hand for people who want information, I think it's like a new Renaissance, maybe. For me the hardest thing is finding the information I want or finding the time to look at everything that I'd like to look at.S: Sometimes there's too much information.C: Oh, there's so much information out there. I could just spend all day, everyday, reading things, and listening to the radio or podcasts or whatever is available.●あんな時、こんな時○S: It was all the rage. 大流行している。S: hellの代わりに、hornetを使うこともある。 スズメバチのように怒った。C: "Mad" is also used, sometimes to mean very crazy about, "I really like or love you." You could say "I'm mad about you." and that means "I really love you." It's different from "I'm mad at you," which means "you've done something I don't like.S: mad の次に来る前置詞に注意。 I am mad at you. 私はあなたに怒っている。 I am mad about you. 私はあなたに夢中。首ったけ。C: "Mad" also includes the idea of crazy. "Angry" only means angry. And in the past, I think people were careful to keep those two meanings separate, but nowadays people use it pretty interchangeably when they're talking about anger.S: blow my top 怒りを爆発させる 類した表現も色々とある。 hit the roof hit the ceiling go through the ceiling あまりにも腹が立って天井、屋根から突き抜けるくらい 興奮した、飛び上がった、という感じ。C: There's another phrase using "blow." You could say "blow a gasket," and they give the idea that they're so much pressure you just explored with anger.S: Oh, that's great[beautiful]! 反語、皮肉C: And you show that you're using the opposite meaning by the intonation that you use.S: nuisance 嫌なこと、面倒くさいことC: Similar phrase is, "What a pain."S: perturb 動揺させる、狼狽させる、不安にさせる 怒る、イライラする、という意味S: irk, vex, pique ちょっと気取った言い方C: Yeah, they're not explosions of anger, they're more like a bunch of pinpricks.S: 特に exasperated は big word。 irked, vexed, piqued とは、ちょっと違った意味合いがある。 formalな抗議をするときに使うことが出来る。 お店の店員の態度が悪い。店長を呼んで、 "I was quite annoyed [disturbed, ruffled, exasperated]" という単語を使って苦情を言う、という感じ。S: resentful 憤慨しているS: I can't say I'm at all pleased. 満足しているとは言えない。C: It sounds like someone who's still quite angry, but it's a little bit cooled off anger. The person isn't feeling finally angry at this point, but they're not ready yet to give up the anger.S: 言い方によっては、慇懃無礼な響きにもなり得る。C: There's all kinds of ways to say this, but here's the good one.C: Please join us again next time.
2005年11月26日
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ビジネス英会話(11/23）のディクテーションに挑戦
Blogosphere (5) Wednesday, November 23---------------- Word Watching----------------■ hear over [through, on] the grapevine うわさや口コミで知る1) Another way to say you heard a rumor or somebody told yousomething is to say "a little bird told me," and then pass on thenews.2) A more formal way to say this is "anonymous sources." Andthere is a couple of other similar phrases as well, you might hearthat on the news for example.a reliable source said 信頼できる情報筋によれば■ jump ship 転職をする、急に会社をやめるもともとは「（船員が）契約期間を満たさずに船を降りる」「（無断で）持ち場を去る」といった意味似た様な意味で、 bail out （飛行機のパイロットなどが）緊急脱出をする、というフレーズもある3) "Jump ship" could be, because the ship is in a bad conditionbecause the working conditions are no good, but it could also bebecause some other place or different ship or a port has muchbetter conditions.もっと一般的に「会社を辞める」という場合には、quit や resign を使う■ compare notes 情報交換する、感想を述べ合う 4) Another way people say this is "catch up with someone" or"catch up with each other."■ food for thought 思考の糧（古典的な隠喩 metaphor ）5) In school in the U.S., kids learn about some rhetorical devicesand especially metaphor and simile. Simile is a phrase that uses"as "or "like " in it. So for example, you could describe someone isbeing as tough as leather. And it doesn't mean their skin is hard.It means they're very tough character they're not easily stoppedor hurt.6) The only problem with using similes and metaphors is that thebest ones are used again and again and again. And often turn intocliche.■ blogosphere7) Sphere is kind of a difficult pronounce word even for Englishspeakers and it means uh...a ball something round and threedimensional. You can talk about "atmosphere," "stratosphere" or even "sphere of influence," which is used a lot in international politics.Western Hemisphere 西半球 Eastern Hemisphere 東半球sphere 活動の範囲、領分■ registered nurse10) The licensing of nurses in the U.S. is controlled by each statesseparately. So there are differences from state to state. Butgenerally registered nurses do a three or four year course. Manyof them earn B.A.'s, but the uh first four years of college. They arealso licensed practical nurses and they do a shorter course. Theyalways work together with a nurse or a doctor. And more recentlynurse practitioner has become a little bit more common. And theyhave still more training and can do some of the basic tasks thatdoctors used to handle.11) That's all for today.12) So long for now.
2005年11月24日
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ビジネス英会話（11/21）のディクテーションに挑戦
Blogosphere Monday, November 211) claim to be journalist ジャーナリストであると名乗る、自称するThis is the way "claim" as usually used in English. It doesn't meancomplain or complaint like it does in Japanese.日本語では、クレームというと苦情と同じような意味で使われますが、ここでは、違います。2) questionable 問題の多い、いかがわしいSomething "questionable" is something you should watch out for. It'sdoubtful, it's problematic, it's fishy.3) come across 出くわす、たまたま見つけるIf you "come across" something, you find it when you're not reallylooking forward. It just kind of appears in front of you and younotice it.4) a giant step away ～は大きく違っている、離れている"A giant step away" means it's very different from. I think maybe thephrase "giant step" as used because there's a kids game, a children'sgame in the U.S. called "Mother, may I?" and the basics of the game isone child is the mother and the other children are told what kind ofsteps they can take to come up closer toward the mother. They can takebaby steps, regular steps or giant steps, and they have to be carefulto say, "Mother, may I?" before they actually move, or they have to goback to the starting line. Some groups of kids add all kinds of otherdifferent steps as well.5) I think this is a mistake many people make. They look at thestatistics and then expect individual cases to reflect exactly thesame information. But, of course, statistics are made up of many manydifferent individual cases. And so I think for each individual case,you have to look at freshly again with the statistics as a kind ofindication of possibilities.■ Vocabulary Building6) evolve into ・・・に発展する、進化して・・・になる "Evolve into" sounds like a slow process of changing from one state to another state.7) That's all for today.8) Thanks for joining us.
2005年11月22日
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ビジネス英会話（11/18）のディクテーションに挑戦
今日は娘の発表会「不思議の国のアリス」で、娘は見事「アヒル」役という大役をやり終えました（笑）。Blogosphere (3) Friday, November 181) subscribe to （新聞や雑誌などを）購読する、同調する、賛成する"Subscribe" is often used to talk about the way you get newspapers ormagazines regularly. You pay by the month or by the year, and theneach issue is delivered to your house at the correct time. But"subscribe" in English can also be used to talk about what you believein or something that you approve of. It's also possible to use"subscribe to" to mean sign off on, actually, put your signature on apolicy statement or something like that.2) frontIn weather forecasting "front" is the word you use for new air massthat's coming through, the front edge of it, that's changing the weather.3) so-calledReid uses the phrase "so-called." This is often used in English to say"That's what it's called," but that's not really what it is. Anotherway you could do this, which actually works better in print is to cut"so-called" and put "quotes" around "news." That means again, you'reusing the word "news" but it's not really what most people think ofis news. In that case, those kinds of quotation marks are calledscare quotes.4) bad news draws more fliesbad news sells ともいう。悪いニュースを掲載したほうが新聞や雑誌が売れるdraws more flies というフレーズから有名なことわざを思い出す ⇒ Honeydraws more flies than vinegar. = 厳しい言葉を使うよりも優しい言葉を使ったほうが、やさしく接したほうが効果がある5) household name おなじみの名前"To become a household name" is to become very very famous or very veryfamiliar to everybody, a kind of part of everyday life, even at home.-------------------- Vocabulary Building--------------------6) spell doom 死、破滅を意味する"Spell" is used, of course, to tell what the letters are in a word,but it has a broader meaning as well. You can use spell to meanindicate, signify or even express. The phrase "spell it out" meansexpress it very clearly.----------------------7) That's all for today.8) Thanks for joining us.
2005年11月19日
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ビジネス英会話（11/16）のディクテーションに挑戦
Blogosphere (2) 11月16日（水）・17日(木）ブログの世界1) draws over a million visitors 百万以上のアクセスがあるvisit , hit も使う。Reid also uses the verb "draw" to talk about attracting orpulling visitors to the website. 2) spike （アクセス数の）急増"A spike in traffic" means a high point. A time where many more people in usual visit the website. You can talk about "peaks" when the number goes up rapidly very rapidly. You can also talk about "troughs" which is the opposite, the number goes way down below average.3) willIn this sentence, Reid uses the verb "will". In this case,I think he's not talking about the future. I think he's talkingabout whether Takahashi-san wants to or not, if it's in his will to go along with what Reid's proposing. Instead of saying "will" he could have said "if you like" or "if you want" or "if you don't mind."4) podcast （ネット上の）簡易型ラジオ放送A "podcast" very simply is a kind of audio file that you candownload from the internet. What makes it a little bit different than any old kind of an audio file is that they're often on a subscription basis which means you pay some money for it. Not all of them at that way, but it's quite common. And every time you re-connect to the website, you automatically receive the latest audio file. ----------------Vocabulary Building----------------5) roster of ・・・ ・・・の登録リストThere is other words that have the similar meaning. Youcould say "registry" and that tends to be used with government especially local government. If you're lookingfor information about marriages and deaths and births andthings like that, you'd consult the county registry.Another word with a similar meaning is "roll". And be careful of the spelling, that's R-O-L-L. 6) Talk to you again.
2005年11月17日
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ビジネス英会話(11/14）のディクテーションに挑戦
Blogosphere (1) 11月14日（月）・15日(火）ブログの世界1) how 's your dad doing? お父さんの具合はいかがですかWhen you have time, take a look at the text and you'll see "dad "is written with a small letter. Sometimes it's hard to tell which way to write that word, and the same with "mom." But usually if you ask yourself, can I use his or her in front of it, you should write it with a small letter. If you're using it as a name , then you should write it with a capital letter. Dad, Mom 自分の親のことを言う場合には、大文字を使うことが多い。2) he downs every dose （薬などの1服を）きちんと飲むYou could say a measure, a single measure and the amount of the measurement, of course, depends on what the prescription was. Sometimes "dose" is also used to talk about other things, though. Maybe things that are good for you that you don't really want. So for example, "You could need a dose of discipline." or "You could look at something with a dose of skepticism."3) immensely 非常に、大いに（形容詞は immense）"Immensely" is kind of an interesting word here. It meansvery very much. But if you think about it, you can't substitutethe word "largely" here. Because "largely" means for the most part. It doesn't mean the 100%. 4) laying the groundwork for ・・・ ・・・のために土台を築く、基礎作りをしている（建築からでたことば）"Laying the groundwork" comes from the construction industry, and is talking about building foundation or preparingfor the visible part of what's being built. It's very commonto use either one of those phrases in this kind of situation. 5) blog ブログA blog is a kind of diary or journal that's posted on the internetso that anybody can read it. It's short for web log. Web meaning the world wide web, and log meaning journal or list of activities or something like that. 6) oh （イントネーションによってニュアンスが違う）How you say "oh" can make a difference in the meaning. If you slide up very clearly, making it a very strong kind of a question. "Oh" it sounds a little bit like your sort of skeptical about what you just heard. If your intonation is falling, it shows a little more interest, "Oh", you're kind of surprised and pleased. ＊上記のOhは各種のイントネーションで発音されていますが、うまく書けませんでしたので、区別していません。----------------Vocabulary Building----------------7) jell （意思・意見・計画などが）固まるjelly からの逆成語"jell" in this case, is a verb. When it's a verb, you have to spellit j-e-l-l. It seems to be a backformation from the word"jelly," and that means "jelly" was the first word and the verbwas developed from the noun. There is another kind of gel,g-e-l, which is probably short for gelatin and it's a noun thatdescribes that kind of a mass like a hair gel.8) Thanks for tuning in.
2005年11月15日
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英会話上級（11/11）のディクテーションに挑戦
今日はついでに英会話上級にチャレンジしてみました。Review It! Apply It! Lesson 18 Friday, November 111(A): Hi, everyone, Thank you very much for joining us today. 2(G): Welcome back, everybody, Are you ready to begin?--------------------------------B. What would YOU say?Anitaさんや、Garyさんならどういうか？（共通ダイアログ）A: Don't tell me you were here all night.B: I went home to shower and change.A: You can't keep this up. It's not healthy.3(G): Well, a friend told me I should give 80%, not a 100% that 80% is good enough. What do you think? 4(A): Personally, I don't think I could do that. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and like to give my all 100%.5(G): Oh, my problem is I like to give a 100% to my work, too. I don't like to do something in the field that I could have done it better. But you're right. In some ways, it's not good for my health. 6(A): Not just some ways, The long term effects of sleep deprivation are really more serious than you think.7(G): Zzzzz...8(A): Gary?（共通ダイアログの後に）9(A): You know what, you're absolutely right. I'm fed up with this. I can't take any more of these all-nighters. My house is in decline. I have no personal life and my productivity is not up to par. I'm gonna talk to the boss about it. 10(G): Hum...it's OK for you to vent like this to me, but be careful how you put it to the boss.（共通ダイアログの後に）11(A): I know, but in this company, results are the bottom line regardless of health. I can't afford to miss any deadlines.12(G): Well, as a friend, I hope you find the way to meet your company's expectations without sacrificing so much of your private life.13(A): Yes, but I know that these high-pressure situations won't last forever. As I start to work my way up in the company, I'll have more free time. 14(G): I'm glad to hear that. I know your work is important to you. But you also have you look out for yourself.-------------------------15(A): Thank you everyone, You did a great job. 16(G): Yes, really terrific work everyone, until next time.17(A, G & Y): Bye!
2005年11月13日
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ビジネス英会話（11/11）のディクテーションに挑戦
2週間に1回来るラストの金曜日はいつも長いですね。Team Spirit (6) チームの求心力 11月11日（金）・12日（土）S: Ah, Chris. As you were growing up.C: Um-huh.S: Which was more emphasized, the spirit of competition or the spirit of team work?C: That' s kind of hard to say 'cause it really depends on the situation, but I'd say at home we were encouraged to cooperate usually. There are six kids in my family, so without cooperation we'd have chaos.S: With other members of the family and with neighbors ?C: Yeah, right.S: Cooperation ?C: Uh, you know, help each other, don't fight too much. My parents always insisted that we be polite to each other, even within the family. They'd say, you know, you don't have to like each other, but you do have to be polite. Because you are in the same family.S: Um-huh.C: So that's a kind of cooperation, I think. So that we could get along fairly smoothly.S: There has been a lot of emphasis on group achievement in Japan.C: Um-huh.S: An individual is a constituent member of the group.C: Yeah.S: And as the group you have to act together.C: Uh-huh. I've heard it described by one person as not polar opposites, not individualism on one end of a spectrum, and group or cooperation type behavior at the other end, but more as a circle. So Japan starts at one part of the circle and the U.S. starts at the other part of the circle, so in the U.S. people think "If it's good for me, it's gonna be good for my team as well." Whereas in Japan people start thinking "Oh, it's good for the group. So it's gonna be good for me as well." And I think this circle view is more useful when you have people like Japanese who tend to think more of group first and people like Americans who think of individual competition first to work together more easily. It's, uh, I think it helps bring people to the other ways of thinking more easily.S: So as an American working in Japan, is it hard to strike the balance between the two?C: Yeah, I think so because I can see some of the things I should do to be a good team member here. But it goes very strongly against, uh, not even so much what I think, but what I feel is correct. And I think it easier to change your thinking because it's conscious, and you can study things and let's look at statistics. But changing something that you feel is a lot harder. I find it a lot harder in any way. Even if your mind tells you it's useful. In this recent vignette, talking about team spirit when Takahashi-san said, he distracted Japanese self and started acting more American. I think he's not really talking about how difficult it can be to do that. I'm sure he found many challenges in trying to lose his Japanese self so that he could, could work better in the U.S. But then some people do that more easily than others.S: That's true.C: Um-huh.●あんな時、こんな時○C: In this case, the word "Boy" is used more like an interjection. I don't think it means a young male. You could substitute "Wow."S: "Brother" も interjection（間投詞） "Boy, oh boy" とも言う。S: "Whew" も間投詞で、"やれやれ" という感じ。C: Yeah. This is really an interjection. It looks like a word the way it's written, but I think most people will say it's sound more than an actual word.S: これ（"Thank goodness!"）もよく聞く言葉ですけれど、"God" という言葉 をあまり口に しない方がいい、というように考える人もいます。 "God" の代替語として、"goodness" "heavens"C: Some other phrases that you could use to talk about relief or a sigh of relief, like you hadn't realized how upset a person was until everything was settled and a sigh of relief is escaped from that person.S: "a sigh of relief" 安堵の溜息を漏らす 何かあってホッとした、という時の溜息。C: Another one people use sometimes when they're saved or they're relieved just at the last moment is "saved by the bell." I think this phrase comes from boxing probably, where the bell at the end of the round is rung when a boxer is just about to lose. So you can be saved by the bell because the time runs out before you actually have the trouble you're afraid of.S: "saved by the bell" （ボクシングの状況で）ベルによって救われた。 "安心した" という意味。 "To my great relief" と言って、文章を続ける言い方もあります。 "put one's mind at ease" 安心させる "put someone at ease" "ease somebody's mind" とも言える。C: In the military, a higher ranking person might tell a lower ranking person at ease, which means he doesn't have to stand at a tension he can take a somewhat more relaxed stance.S: "at ease" 軍隊では "休め" の意味。C: Of course, there're all kinds of ways to express this feeling, but here's the good one. "I'm relieved to know that we can make the delivery deadline."S: That's all for today.C: Please join us again next time.
2005年11月12日
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ビジネス英会話（11/9）のディクテーションに挑戦
Team Spirit (5) Wednesday, November 9---------------- Word Watching----------------■ brainstorming 自由討議1) And in that case, it's often a sort of a business tool, when a group of people or team is trying to generate new ideas or different approaches.2) It's hard to just say things off the top of your head without thinking about them when you're with a group of people.3) I think also other people's ideas, even when they are bad ideas after you had a chance to think about them, can spark your own ideas. You hear something from someone, and it makes you think something else and so. cross-fertilization などともいう4) Yeah, it's sort of a kind of control the group free association.■ Greetings 「やあ、こんにちは」 （口語）5) I think it comes also partially from science fiction. If you think of "Alien" is coming to visit the earth. Lots of times in...in movies, old movies and science fiction stories. They say "Greetings. Take me to your leader. take me to your leader 宇宙人がいう言葉とされている6) Yeah, my brother's been doing that for years and I do it occasionally. Although what I usually use in e-mail also means greetings, but it's a different word "salutations."7) A couple of other things I sometimes use in e-mail are "Howdy",but that's usually when I wanna be a bit humorous or "Hi, there."8) It's also fairly common for English speakers just to completely drop any kind of greetings and start writing as if it was a conversation and their answer in what was written in the previous e-mail.■ lay back のんびりやる、リラックスするビジネスの場合、形容詞の laid-back を使うと、あまりやる気の無い、ゆったりし過ぎている、となる9) Yeah, if you think of someone who's paying attention andwho's interested in the enthusiastic, you think of them as sittingup straight or maybe even leaning forward. I always thought those motorcycles looked really uncomfortable too. AlthoughI've never sat on once, I can't say for sure. leave-behind マーケティング用語で、営業のツールとして潜在顧客 のもとに残しておくもの（会社概要、製品のサンプル、ノベルティなど）■ upcoming 今度の、きたるup-and-coming 前途有望な、新進の、頭角を現した 10) Up-and-coming is an adjective to describe people that have high potential. Nowadays sometimes they just call them high-potentials with an asset used as a noun or the talents.Sometimes people in the company that are expected to go farare called talents.11) And there is uh...an older phrase also "rising star," somebody who's star type person who's coming up quickly from lower ranksin the company.rising star 新進気鋭のup and running 軌道に乗っている 12) That means every thing's organized and started and it's continuing along smoothly.13) Thanks for listening.
2005年11月10日
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ビジネス英会話（11/7）のディクテーションに挑戦
Team Spirit (4) チームの求心力 11月7日（月）・8日（火）1) Takahashi-san inserts the word "do" in this sentence to emphasizethat he feels strongly about this. I think maybe it's another one of those positive signs he's been giving without actually saying "yes."to take in a new job. 2) gut issue 基本的な問題It's funny he chose the word "gut" to talk about important issues,important topics. Gut is a part of your body, and many people saytheir...their gut is too large or growing when they are kind of fat and out of shape. So it's kind of a little pun he chose that phrase to talk about health and fitness.3) Lunch with Punch パンチの効いたランチ"Lunch with Punch" is kind of an interesting name for this campaign. First of all, lunch and punch rhyme, so makes it easyfor people to remember it. It has kind of a rhythm. Then also"punch" has three meanings in English. It's a kind of fruit drinkthat often includes alcohol, so it's possible to have some punchwith your lunch. It also means power, something that has punchhas power or it has an energy. And third meaning is to hit someonewith your fist. So in this case, I think probably the campaign isreferring to power and energy being in control of your lunch. either no or let's go ==> either go or no go とも言う。4) I wonder if fine really means that it's a little bit funny thatshe is saying uh...they sound very interested in Takahashi-sanalso but...but then she says "we don't wanna pressure you, take your time", which actually could be adding more pressure.5) And once again, Takahashi-san still hasn't quite said "yes."He can't say much more without saying "yes." But he still hasn't said yet.------------------- Vocabulary Building-------------------7) gut issue 基本的な問題、感情的な争点A gut issue is something that's so deep, it's almost instinctual.It's not from your head where you think, it's not from your heartwhere your emotions are. But it comes from... from your belly.Gut has basically two meanings in English. One is your intestines,the organ that processes food after your stomach, and also belly, the area of your body where your intestines are. So sometimes people talk about having a big gut meaning their fat,or in this case, gut issue which is referring to how deeply people feel, physically feel issues. ----------------------8) Thanks for listening.
2005年11月08日
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ビジネス英会話（11/4）のディクテーションに挑戦
今日は天気が良いので、今から娘と公園へ散歩に行きます。==============================================================Team Sprit (3) 11月4日（金）・5日(土）チームの求心力==============================================================1) problem solving 問題解決I'm really glad Takahashi-san said "problem solving" in this case.Recently I often hear people trying to avoid the word "problem"and they substitute the word "issue". But issue is a broader word, it includes problems, but it also includes things that are not problems, topics that you need to discuss to make adecision. It doesn't mean it's a problem, it's something to talk about. Although it would've been funny in this case, because he is talking about solving something. It would've been pretty funny,if he'd said "issue-solving."issue management という言葉はある。mainland China 中国本土PRC(People's Republic of China) ともいう2) keep one's eyes and ears open to ・・・常に耳をそばだて、目を凝らしておく"Keeping your eyes and ears open to something" means whenyou see it or hear it, you think about it seriously, you don'tjust reject it after a quick look. ただ keep one's eyes open とだけもいうAnd using the proposition "to" in this case, means exceptnew things and take a really good look at them before you reject them. See them as is good possibilities. You could say"keep your eyes and ears open 'for' something." But the meaning is a little bit different then, it means search for something, try to find something, be alert to something thatmight be coming. 3) team player チームとして仕事のできる人その反対は individual contributor ( ≒ lone wolf 一匹狼 ） Another way to say someone who works individually, but in anegative way is to call them the "star" or the "prima donna." ----------------Vocabulary Building----------------4) raise the roof 大騒ぎする、激怒するThere're a couple of similar phrases, but they are not quiteas broad or wide-ranging as raise the roof. "Raise the roof"just means make a lot of noise. It could be because of theparty, it could be due to anger, but uh other phrases like "raisea stink" usually means complain. And another one "blowone's stack." means make a lot of noise because you areangry.5) Tune in next time.
2005年11月05日
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ビジネス英会話(11/2）のディクテーションに挑戦
Team Spirit (2) Wednesday, November 21) low key 押さえた調子、控えめな調子"Low key" means not too noticeable, kind of quiet. The opposite,however, is not a "high key." If you want to (wanna) say the opposite,you probably say something like "conspicuous," or "high profile."2) pound one's chest 胸をたたくI've never actually seen someone pounding their chest physically in anargument, but I think it refers to things like not just using a voicebut using your body also is part of the argument, the way you movekind of energetically or even aggressively. People do stamp their feetactually during arguments, especially if they're very frustrated andthey might "chew the scenery but usually that just means "over act" orpoor out your emotions much larger even than with normally beacceptable in that situation.3) chew the scenery 大げさに振舞うAnd I think especially because Takahashi-san used the phrase "chew thescenery," it's an idiom that comes out of the theater and originallyit meant an actor who's over acting. So they are doing too much, so theyare very unbelievable. But, recently it's sometimes used almostpositively to mean somebody who's acting with energy and enthusiasm.4) Chinese-American 中国系アメリカ人"Chinese-American" is one of the so-called hyphenated Americans.Various people in the U.S. put their cultural background first beforeAmerican to describe themselves and where their families came from. The hyphen, however, is not always used in writing that idea showing yourcultural background is called hyphenated Americans, but it's notalways written that way. That's a style decision.African-American アフリカ系アメリカ人5) Please join us again
2005年11月03日
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ビジネス英会話（10/31）のディクテーションに挑戦
*Team Spirit (1)I think Takahashi-san did a really good self-introduction at this point,because he spoke his name very slowly, and very clearly.I think almost everyone tends to say their name too fast in introductions,so it's difficult especially when it's a name from a different language.It's difficult to catch the name clearly and correctly, which makes a little bit harder on the other people.*a licensed nutritionistTakahashi-san described himself as a licensed nutritionist.Sometimes he's also, in other times called himself a dietitian.In English, in many situations, two words are pretty much interchangeable.It means a person whose profession is related to food and how it affects your body. But in some circumstances, one on the other, is a little moreappropriate. I'd say dietitian is a little more related to clinics andthe medical properties or affects of food. And a nutritionist is someone who knows a lot about food, but maybe notquite so much about using food for treatment.*test kitchen実際に食品を作ってみたり、調理したりして、スタッフみんなで味見をして、意見を言ったりする。外部の人を招いて、photo session をする等、多様な目的で使われるkitchen のこと。*taste treatsTakahashi-san also talks about "taste treats." A treat generally in English is something, maybe small but delightful and unexpected,a small nice surprise.And they’re often something to eat or related to eating.But to make it very clear here, he says taste treats. You couldprobably substitute the word snack in many situations.あるいは、"tidbit" とも言う。"おつまみ"という感覚に似たちょっとした食べ物。Ida Fine says that they worked in closer association with MarshEg.This makes it sound like both doing their own separate work, but by talking to each other and coordinating their work they managed todo more work and to do it better.Other way, she could have said it include they worked closely with MarshEg or in close cooperation with.Thanks for joining in.
2005年11月01日
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