今週は復習です。
過去のメルマガからの転載なのでラクちんでした。
一応ラジオは聞きましたよ。
イングリッシュチャンスではグラビアアイドル？が
さまざまな教材を使って英語を学習し、動画ブログを更新
しています。
http://english.chance.com/
ＮＨＫラジオ英会話とトークマスターを使っている本間晴圭ちゃん
を応援しよう！
過去のメルマガからの転載なのでラクちんでした。
一応ラジオは聞きましたよ。
イングリッシュチャンスではグラビアアイドル？が
さまざまな教材を使って英語を学習し、動画ブログを更新
しています。
http://english.chance.com/
ＮＨＫラジオ英会話とトークマスターを使っている本間晴圭ちゃん
を応援しよう！
■NHKラジオ 実践ビジネス英語 Office Chitchat 復習 10/29 2008
■意味を考えてみよう。今日取り上げる単語が含まれています。
I was accosted by a plainclothesman as I was leaving
the bookstore after a quick lunch last week.
The Japanese police officers were so kind and courteous.
They really go out of their way to make sure that
the streets are safe.
Even when it's not illegal, retailers are wary and worried.
Maybe there is something we can learn from it, if done tastefully.
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be accosted by, ...に声をかけられる
──────────────────────────────
声をかけられるという甘いものではなく、rude or threatening
な調子で声をかけられるということです。
If someone accosts another person, especially a stranger,
they stop them or go up to them and speak to them in a way
that seems rude or threatening. [FORAML]
ex) I went up to the policeman and complained that this man
accosted me in the street.
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courteous, [形] 親切な、丁寧な、礼儀正しい
──────────────────────────────
Someone who is courteous is polite and respectul to other
people.
ex) He was a kind and courteous man.
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go out of one's way to, ...するために力を尽くす、わざわざ...する
──────────────────────────────
If you go out of your way to do something, for example
to help someone, you make a special effort to do it.
ex) He was very kind to me and seemed to go out of his way
to help me.
──────────────────────────────
be wary and worried, 警戒し不安を感じる
──────────────────────────────
If you are wary of something or someone, you are cautious
because you do not know much about them and you believe
they may be dangerous or cause problems.
ex) People did not teach their children to be wary of strangers.
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tastefully, [副] 趣味のよいやり方で
──────────────────────────────
If you say that something is tasteful, you consider it to be
attractive, elegant, and in good taste.
ex) a large and tastefully decorated home.
■意味を考えてみよう。今日取り上げる単語が含まれています。
I was accosted by a plainclothesman as I was leaving
the bookstore after a quick lunch last week.
The Japanese police officers were so kind and courteous.
They really go out of their way to make sure that
the streets are safe.
Even when it's not illegal, retailers are wary and worried.
Maybe there is something we can learn from it, if done tastefully.
──────────────────────────────
be accosted by, ...に声をかけられる
──────────────────────────────
声をかけられるという甘いものではなく、rude or threatening
な調子で声をかけられるということです。
If someone accosts another person, especially a stranger,
they stop them or go up to them and speak to them in a way
that seems rude or threatening. [FORAML]
ex) I went up to the policeman and complained that this man
accosted me in the street.
──────────────────────────────
courteous, [形] 親切な、丁寧な、礼儀正しい
──────────────────────────────
Someone who is courteous is polite and respectul to other
people.
ex) He was a kind and courteous man.
──────────────────────────────
go out of one's way to, ...するために力を尽くす、わざわざ...する
──────────────────────────────
If you go out of your way to do something, for example
to help someone, you make a special effort to do it.
ex) He was very kind to me and seemed to go out of his way
to help me.
──────────────────────────────
be wary and worried, 警戒し不安を感じる
──────────────────────────────
If you are wary of something or someone, you are cautious
because you do not know much about them and you believe
they may be dangerous or cause problems.
ex) People did not teach their children to be wary of strangers.
──────────────────────────────
tastefully, [副] 趣味のよいやり方で
──────────────────────────────
If you say that something is tasteful, you consider it to be
attractive, elegant, and in good taste.
ex) a large and tastefully decorated home.
