英語コラムの連載28回目です。
必要以上!?のビジネス英語マスター術
自力でスピーキング大特訓(1)
- 正しい英語でたくさんの"自分語り"を
ぺらぺらになるにはどうしたらよいか？
実践編です。
http://journal.mycom.co.jp/column/bizenglish/028/index.html
■NHKラジオ 実践ビジネス英語 Marriage for Fortysomething (6) 2/12 2010
■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。
While doing market research recently, I came across a survey
that says roughly 90 percent of baby boomers have married or
will eventually marry.
Is she dead set against the idea of getting married?
I hear one reason many women aren't in a hurry to get
married is that advances in fertility treatments have slowed
down the proverbial biological clock a bit.
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come across, ...を偶然見つける、...に出くわす
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Marriage for Fortysomething (2)より
If you come across something or someone, you find them or
meet them by chance.
ex) We like to identify and celebrate women's success
whenever we come across it.
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be dead set against, ...に断固反対である
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[ODE] set against
firmly opposed to
（ODEは定義がシンプルですねー）
ex) last night you were dead set against the idea.
ここで、deadはcomplete, absoluteという意味で使われいるようです。
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fertility treatment, 不妊治療
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fertile (形容詞)
A person or animal that is fertile is able to reproduce
and have babies or young.
名詞形がfertility。
ex) Doctors will tell you that pregnancy is the only
sure test for fertility.
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proverbial, よく知られている、よく言われる
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Something that is proverbial is very well-known by a lot
of people.
ex) His mastery of the French language was proverbial.
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biological clock, 出産可能年齢
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Your biological clock is your body's way of registering
time. It does not rely on events such as day or night,
but on factors such as your habits, your age, and chemical
changes taking place in your body.
ex) Whenever we change sleep cycles, our biological clock
has to adjust to the new schedule.
