今週のメルマガ：NHK実践ビジネス英語（徹底復習）

今週のメルマガ：NHK実践ビジネス英語（徹底復習）

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 みなさん こんにちは 本多です。本メルマガはＮＨＫラジオ「実践ビジネス英語」から実践的な単語や表現を取り上げます。

■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。

What’s been the biggest change in your reading regime?

Then we grow restless and scamper off to the next page.

I seem to have he attention span of a gnat.

Don’t think me pretentious, but I tackled War and Peace during a recent vacation.

Getting through the first 50 pages or so was a slog.

I was slowly sucked into his fascinating world.

I prefer to be a hidebound traditionalist and stick with the good old-fashioned printed page.

＜単語の意味と例文＞

※以下の例文はtwitterから採取しました。

ビニエットの文章よりtwitterの文章の方が例文としては完結していて、よい感じです。

★reading regime, 読書スタイル

What’s been the biggest change in your reading regime?

ex) Incorporate #yoga into your reading regime

★scamper off, 走り読みする、走り去る

Then we grow restless and scamper off to the next page.

ex) Sometimes I see rabbits around my apt complex. I say “Hi, bunny!” then try to get a photo before they scamper off.

★have the attention span of a gnat, 非常に飽きっぽい

I seem to have he attention span of a gnat.

ex) “I write short poetry because… I have the attention span of a gnat.”

★pretentious, 見栄を張った、うぬぼれた

Don’t think me pretentious, but I tackled War and Peace during a recent vacation.

ex) Why Pairing Wine With Your Super Bowl Snacks Is Not Pretentious

スーパーボール観戦にはスナックとビールが定番のようですが、ワインもスナックに合うという記事です。

★slog, （骨の折れる長時間の）仕事

Getting through the first 50 pages or so was a slog.

ex) Mike and Jase. 16 miles. Slog. Windy, Cold and Muddy

slogには to walk slowly usually with heavy steps という意味もありました。

★be sucked into, …に吸い込まれる

I was slowly sucked into his fascinating world.

ex) So sad seeing someone get sucked into drugs & what not …. Smh

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