長い夏休みも終わり今日から職場復帰です。
まだ暑さは続きそうです！
英語コラムの連載41回目です。
必要以上!?のビジネス英語マスター術
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今話題のiPad英語勉強法とは？
http://journal.mycom.co.jp/column/bizenglish/041/index.html
■NHKラジオ 実践ビジネス英語 Out on the Road (1) 8/18 2010
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http://www.nhk.or.jp/gogaku/english/business2/index.html
■前回の復習です。答えは最後で
be miles away
What's your take on something?
steadily escalating cost
grim prospect
complacent
■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。
They've flown the coop.
That's to say, just about everybody's out on the road.
So we haven't taken a slash-and-burn approach to
business-travel expenditure.
I don't think there's any substitute for face-to-face
contact, especially when really important issues and
deals are on the table.
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fly the coop, 出ていく、逃亡する
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If someone flies the coop, they leave the situation that
they are in, for example because they do not like it or
because they want to have more freedom to live or work
as they please.
ex) His wife is so fed up with his coldness she is about to
fly the coop.
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that's to say, つまり、すなわち
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You use <b>that is to say</b> or <b>that's to say</b> to
indicate that you are about to express the same idea more
clearly or precisely. [FORMAL]
<b> </b> の間は太字です。
ex) We're basically talking about an independent state in the
territories that were occupied in 1967, that is to say,
in the West Bank and Gaza.
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just about, ほとんど、ほぼ
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You use just about to indicate that what you are talking
about is so close to being the case that it can be regarded
as being the case.
ex) What does she read? Jusy about everything.
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slash-and-burn approach, 容赦ない方法、極端な取り組み
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Slash and burn is a method of farming that involves clearing
land by destroying and burning all the trees and plants on it,
farming there for a short time, and then moving on to clear
a new piece of land.
ex) Traditional slash and burn farming methods have exhausted
the soil.
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be on the table, （検討のために）提出されている、検討されている
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If you put a proposal, plan, or offer on the table, you
present it formally to other people so it can be discussed
and negotiated, in the hope that it will be accepted.
ex) The United States said Europe must put a new offer
on the table to save the talks.
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その他にも、次も押さえておきたい。[誌面の都合上省略] ★は重要表現
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out on the road, 旅行に出かけて、出張中で
■もう一度読んでみよう
They've flown the coop.
That's to say, just about everybody's out on the road.
So we haven't taken a slash-and-burn approach to
business-travel expenditure.
I don't think there's any substitute for face-to-face
contact, especially when really important issues and
deals are on the table.
■前回の復習の答えです
be miles away, ぼんやりしている、うわの空である
What's your take on something? , （あること）についてどう
お考えですか。
steadily escalating cost, 徐々にかさむ費用
grim prospect, 厳しい見通し、暗い展望
complacent, 自己満足した、ひとりよがりの、独善的な
