NHKラジオ　実践ビジネス英語　2011/06/17 Lesson 6 Management Potential (3)　★　驚きの無料電子書籍

■NHKラジオ　実践ビジネス英語　2011/06/17 Lesson 6 Management Potential (3)

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本メルマガの単語の復習はこちらでどうぞ

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■前回の復習です

prospect

daunting

get butterflies in one's stomach

tall order

food for thought

show ample evidence

put in longer hours

be held to

weight on someone's shoulders

■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

From what I can tell by watching you work, you don't seem to

let those things get to you too much, Paul.

To continue, it's also important to have a desire to excel,

to not settle for second best.

Another key part of the managerial skill set is the ability

to see the big picture and not bogged down in details.

Yes, we're bucking the trend here.

The way I see it, companies that cut back on leadership

training to save money in the short term are penny wise

and pound foolish.

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get to you, 〔出来事・人などが肉体的または精神的に〕こたえる

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If something that has continued for some time gets to you,

it starts causing you to suffer.

ex) That's the first time I lost my cool in 20 years in this

job. This whole thing's getting to me.

ex) Try not let it get to you. : あまりくよくよしないで。

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settle for, ...という結果に甘んじる

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If you settle for something, you choose or accept it, even

though it is not what you really want, because nothing else

is available.

ex) Don't settle for second best.

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get bogged down in details, 細部にこだわる

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If you are bogged down in a task, you are not progressing

quickly because you are being too careful or spending

too much time on minor problems.

ex) Don't get bogged down in details.

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buck, （情勢などに）逆らう、強く反対する

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If you buck the trend, you obtain different results from

others in the same area. If you buck the system, you get

what you want by breaking or ignoring the rules.

ex) While other newspapers are losing circulation,

we are bucking the trend.

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Penny wise and pound foolish. 小銭に気を遣って大金を失う。

一文惜しみの百知らず。  

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If you say that someone is penny-wise and pound-foolish,

you are criticizing them for being careful in small matters

but careless in more important ones. [mainly BRITISH,

OLD-FASHIONED]

ex) If we had the right number of auditors to go out and

check on this, we would have saved billions of dollars.

In other words, we have been penny-wise and really

pound-foolish here.

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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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in one's [someone's] book, （人）が思うには、（人）の意見では

get caught short, 不意打ちを食らう、（欲しい時に）必要なものがない

groom, 仕込む、教育する

■もう一度読んでみよう

From what I can tell by watching you work, you don't seem to

let those things get to you too much, Paul.

To continue, it's also important to have a desire to excel,

to not settle for second best.

Another key part of the managerial skill set is the ability

to see the big picture and not bogged down in details.

Yes, we're bucking the trend here.

The way I see it, companies that cut back on leadership

training to save money in the short term are penny wise

and pound foolish.

■前回の復習の答えです

prospect, （将来そうなると）考えること、予想、見通し

daunting, おじけづくような、ひるませる、気後れするような

get butterflies in one's stomach, どきどきする、そわそわして落ち着かない

tall order, 難しい注文、手に負えそうもない仕事

food for thought, 考える材料、考えるべきこと

show ample evidence, 十分な証拠を示す

put in longer hours, より長い時間を費やす

be held to, ...を問われる、...を求められる

weight on someone's shoulders, (人)にのしかかる重圧[重荷]