英語コラムの連載45回目です。
必要以上!?のビジネス英語マスター術
春の挫折も秋でリベンジ! 10月開講のNHKラジオ講座でもう一度頑張ろう
4月からだと挫折しやすいラジオ講座も、10月からなら
続けることができるかもしれませんよ。
http://journal.mycom.co.jp/column/bizenglish/045/index.html
■NHKラジオ 実践ビジネス英語 Decluttering (1) 9/15 2010
番組はインターネットで聴くことができます。
http://www.nhk.or.jp/gogaku/english/business2/index.html
パソコン関係は小さな装置やケーブルで机の周囲が
ごちゃごちゃしがち。
きれいな机にしてみませんか? ということで
こんなきれいな机には実は秘密があったのです。。。。
Declutter Your Desk
How to hide all those extra computer gadgets.
http://www.decluttered.com/
■前回の復習です。答えは最後で
backstabbing
sabotaging
niche
sneaky
Machiavellian
■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'm not one of those power-tripping executives who think
they need a desk the size of a football field to make
themselves feel important.
Well, as my first boss used to say, "If you can't find the
information you need in 30 seconds, it may as well not exist."
I feel a bit down about that, because I've been reading
how being messy can affect people's impression of you,
as well as your work performance.
Decluttering
And I took his words to heart.
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power-tripping, 権力をひけらかす、権力誇示の
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power trip
n. Slang
An action undertaken chiefly for the gratification associated
with the exercise of power over another or others
gratification 満足させること
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/power+trip より
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may as well, ...するのと同じである、...してもよい
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If you say that something, usually something bad, might as
well be true or may as well be true, you mean that the
situation is the same or almost the same as if it were true.
ex) The couple might as well have been strangers.
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feel a bit down, 少し落ち込んでいる
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down = depressed
If you are feeling down, you are feeling unhappy or depressed.
[INFORMAL]
ex) I have been down since the injury happened.
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declutter, (...にある)不要なものを捨てる
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to simplify or get rid of mess, disorder, complications, etc.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/declutter より
declutter your life と使われるようです。
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take something to heart, (アドバイスや教訓など)を肝に銘じる
[真剣に受け止める]
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If you take someone's advice or criticism to heart, you pay
a lot of attention to it, and are greatly influenced or
upset by it.
ex) Few people take this advice to heart, and their
continuing overweight and resultant diabetes place them
at significantly increased risk of heart disease.
resultant 結果として生じる
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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
I'm not one of those power-tripping executives who think
they need a desk the size of a football field to make
themselves feel important.
Well, as my first boss used to say, "If you can't find the
information you need in 30 seconds, it may as well not exist."
I feel a bit down about that, because I've been reading
how being messy can affect people's impression of you,
as well as your work performance.
Decluttering
And I took his words to heart.
■前回の復習の答えです
backstabbing, 陰で中傷すること、嫌がらせ
sabotaging, 妨害行為
niche, 適所、自分に適した場所
sneaky, 卑劣な、ずる賢い
Machiavellian, 権謀術数の、抜け目のない、目的のためには手段を選ばない