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2005年12月の記事
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ビジネス英会話（12/7）のディクテーションに挑戦
Paper Chase Day (5) Wednesday, December 7■ discard 処分する、捨てる、廃棄する1) dis という接頭語を使った言葉はいろいろあるdisown, discredit, disappoint, discrepancy2) Another one is "disrespect," which means treat someone badly.That's recently been shorten just to "dis." He dissed me so I dumpedhim.■ stuffaholic 物中毒者3) There's a bunch of examples here. These are very common,foodaholic, workaholic, chocoholic, shopaholic.4) There's a lot. I saw couple others, biblioholic, which issomebody who loves and collects books and infoholic, somebody who, Iguess, can't get enough information.5) I'm sure more and more words using that ending will be coined,because it's very easy to form them and it's a kind of idea. Well,there's almost always someone who overdoes something.■ pack-rat attitude6) You can also say the place where that person keeps all theirthings is a rat's nest.7) I think some parents might describe their kids rooms as rat'snests.8) その他、ビジネスに関連した言葉で rat が使われるのは、rat race = し烈な出世競争 I smell a rat. = 何かおかしい （ねずみの匂いがする）9) And it also includes the idea not just something strange, butit's strange because someone has evil intensions.10) copy cat = 猿真似Kids often use this word when they're doing something and anotherkid comes and does to same thing. It's a scornful word when kids useit, "Oh, you copy cat."11) parrot ⇒ おうむ、他人の言葉を真似る人、（動）おうむ返しに言う12) You probably use it in situations where somebody is sayingsomething that another person uh already said, but the currentspeaker isn't really thinking. They are just repeating what theyheard. They are parroting their boss or they're just parroting whatthey heard somewhere else. They either don't really understand it or they don't really mean it.■ reinvent the wheel 無駄な努力をする13) I think that the key point of this phrase is the needless. It'sthe needlessness of going back to the beginning and inefficiency andwaste of time that's involved. A similar phrase start fromscratch means that you need to go back to the beginning, it's a goodthing.-----------------------------14) Please tune in again next time.
2005年12月08日
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ビジネス英会話（12/5）のディクテーションに挑戦
Paper Chase Day (4) Monday, December 51) neat desks This is one of the first pieces of the advice that I read for people,young people going into businesses. "Keep your desk neat and asempty as possible." One book even went into how to do thatsaying, "take out the folder you need, for the the work you aredoing now, and the materials you need, only for that work, and whenyou finish, put it away before you take out the next one." But cometo think of it, it sounds like what parents tell their kids, "put yourtoy away before you take out a new one."ダンプカー（和製英語） 英語ではdump truckという2) think out loud 思っていることを口に出して言う。しゃべりながら考える。It's also called "talk to yourself." But that sometimes has a littlebit more negative meaning.He always talks to himself. 独り言を言う。3) My boss is talking only to himself and to God today.4) I've also heard that it's...it's okay to talk to yourself. The time tostart worrying is when you begin answering yourself.5) on earth 一体全体In the sentence, the phrase "on earth" is used as an intensifier.”Is there anything on earth?...of all the things on earth?”--------------------- Vocabulary Building---------------------6) retrieve （動）・・・を取り出す、（情報を）検索するA similar word is "fetch". "Fetch" tends to be used with dogs. It'sthe word English speakers use to tell a dog to go pick something upand bring it back. Sometimes people use it for themselves, like"Oh, I forgot the salt. I'll go fetch it." Or it can also be used to talkabout how much someone paid for something you're selling. You cantalk about what price it fetched.Golden Retriever 射止めた獲物を咥えて戻ってくるように訓練された猟犬7) If you are not sure which one to use, "retrieve" is probably alwaysacceptable. It sounds a little more formal than "fetch."-----------------------7) That's all for today.8) Thanks for listening.
2005年12月06日
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ビジネス英会話（12/2）のディクテーションに挑戦
Paper Chase Day Friday, December 21) if in doubt 決めかねるようならThis phrase, "if in doubt" and it's very similar phrase "when indoubt" are used a lot in English, either phrase is most oftenfollowed by either "don't" plus a verb or "ask."2) When in doubt, don't capitalize.大文字にしようか小文字にしようか迷ったときは小文字にしなさい。3) a pilot project 試験的なプロジェクト"A pilot project" is one that is a tentative model. It might be usedin the future if it goes well or it could be developed further if itseems to be a good start. The word "pilot" is used to mean sort of atentative beginning. In the phrase, pilot light, it's a small flamethat's constantly burning so that when you turn on your gas stove or when your water heater turns on, the main flame can easily start up toheat the water or turn on your stove.4) put your finger on the info 情報をすぐに取り出せるようにしておくAnd "put your finger on something" means find it, get itimmediately.5) draw bead on ～に狙いをつけるDraw a bead on something means take aim at it. The bead is a smallmetal knob on old rifleｓ, at the far end of the rifle, and it helpsyou aim the rifle in the correct place. So when you sight along therifle, you look at one notch up near your eye and you line it up withthe bead at the end of the rifle, and that's how you aim itaccurately.--------------------- Vocabulary Building---------------------6) pending 未決定の、～の間Words with "pend" in it often have something to do with hanging. Soif you can think of waiting as a kind of hanging because nothing'sactually happening. It's easier to understand pending.patent pending = 特許申請中7) well-organized人に関しても、物に関しても使えるYou are a well-organized person. = 頭の中も非常に整理が行き届いている。（最高の褒め言葉になる。）---------------------8) Talk to you again.
2005年12月03日
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ビジネス英会話(11/30）のディクテーションに挑戦
メモリーカードが壊れていて、録音が正しくてきていませんでした（悲）。Paper Chase Day (2) Wednesday, November 301) hate to get rid of 処分するのを嫌がるIn stead of saying you "hate to get rid of" something, you couldsubstitute the phrase "can't bare to part with" something.2) You've got to be joking. それは冗談でしょう。In a case like this, when you think someone's joking or trying tomake you believe something that isn't really true. You could say,"You've got to be joking," like Green does, but, there's a couple otherphrases. You could say, "Are you pulling my leg?" or more simply,"Unbelievable," or very casually, "Oh, go on!"3) toss out ～を捨てる、放り出すTakahashi talks about "tossing out the most paper." "Toss out" is aphrase of verb that means throw something away or get rid ofsomething, put it in the trash can. Sometimes for the samemeaning though people will drop the "out" and just say I tossed it.But "toss" alone is also its own verb. It's a kind of lightlythrowing things. You could "toss a ball up in the air," up and down,up and down. People toss a coin to choose teams or who gets to gofirst, a kind of decision making, mechanism. And you can also tosssalad. In that case, you take different kinds of leaf lettuce andbreak it up into bite size pieces and then in English, people don'tusually say "mix it." Mixing is a heavier action that you use for buttersand things like that with a spoon. Because salad leaves are verylight weight, to kind of toss them into the air, so that all thedifferent types get mixed up nicely.4) date back to the creation of the world 大昔にさかのぼるThe phrase "date back to the creation of the world," just means it'svery very old. Another phrase that people use sometimes to saysomething is very old is to say, "It's as old as dirt."5) ditch （ 動）捨てる、 （名）どぶ"Ditch" means "get rid of," but it's very slangy sounding. Actually,ditch is a noun and a verb. As a noun, it's a long narrow trench inthe ground. I think you probably hear it use much more in a slangmeaning. In this case, Greene is just talking about throwing away ordiscarding something, but you can also use it to talk about gettingaway from a person. Especially if it is with some friend orcompanion that you don't want to be with right now, you can also,"ditch the police," if they're following you. That's escape fromthem following you. You can also use it to talk about skippingclasses or not going to school or playing hooky.ditch a girlfriend = ガールフレンドを捨てる--------------------- Vocabulary Building---------------------6) cull 選別する、間引く"Cull" is kind of an interesting word. When it's used as a verb, itcan be neutral, it just means picking things out of a group for somereason. It can also be used negatively. If you're picking them out,because they're defective. But as a noun, it almost always refers tothings that have been rejected and so they're usually worse qualityor not functioning properly things like that.-----------------------7) Thanks for listening.
2005年12月01日
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