■NHKラジオ 実践ビジネス英語 Storytelling (5) 7/22 2010
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■前回の復習です。答えは最後で
at the risk of
belabor the obvious
add a new dimension to
elicit questions
up to speed
What does it take to...?
there's no substitute for
■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。
Misspelled words, distracting color combinations and too
many fonts in your slides are guaranteed to turn off your
audience,
People can sense that.
Wow, this has been a very enlightening discussion.
Talk about boring.
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be guaranteed to, 確実に...する、間違いなく...する
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If you say that something is guaranteed to happen, you mean
that you are certain that it will happen.
ex) Reports of this kind are guaranteed to cause anxiety.
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turn off, ...に興味を失わせる、...に嫌気を起こさせる
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If something turns you off or if you turn off, you stop
being excited or interested. [INFORMAL]
ex) customers turned off by poor advertising techniques.
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sense, 感じる、わかる
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If you sense something, you become aware of it or you realize
it, although it is not very obvious.
ex) She probably sensed that I wasn't telling her the whole
story.
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enlightening, 啓発的な、ためになる
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To enlighten someone means to give them more knowledge
and greater understanding about something. [FORMAL]
ex) It can be an enormously enlightening and exciting
experience.
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Talk about boring. , なんて退屈なんだ
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You can say talk about before mentioning a particular
expression or situation, when you mean that something is
a very striking or clear example of that expression or
situation. [INFORMAL]
ex) Took us quite a while to get here. didn't it?
Fate moving in a mysterious way!
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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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なしです。
■もう一度読んでみよう
Misspelled words, distracting color combinations and too
many fonts in your slides are guaranteed to turn off your
audience,
People can sense that.
Wow, this has been a very enlightening discussion.
Talk about boring.
■前回の復習の答えです
at the risk of, ...するおそれを覚悟のうえで、...することになる
かもしれないが
belabor the obvious, わかりきったことをくどくど言う
add a new dimension to, ...に新たな一面を加える
elicit questions, 質問を引き出す
up to speed, (最新情報などに)通じていて[精通して]
What does it take to...? , ...するのに何が必要ですか。
there's no substitute for, ...に代わるものはない