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• ビジネス英会話（12/7）のディクテーションに挑戦

  Paper Chase Day (5) Wednesday, December 7■ discard 処分する、捨てる、廃棄する1) dis という接頭語を使った言葉はいろいろあるdisown, discredit, disappoint, discrepancy2) Another one is "disrespect," which means treat someone badly.That's recently been shorten just to "dis." He dissed me so I dumpedhim.■ stuffaholic 物中毒者3) There's a bunch of examples here. These are very common,foodaholic, workaholic, chocoholic, shopaholic.4) There's a lot. I saw couple others, biblioholic, which issomebody who loves and collects books and infoholic, somebody who, Iguess, can't get enough information.5) I'm sure more and more words using that ending will be coined,because it's very easy to form them and it's a kind of idea. Well,there's almost always someone who overdoes something.■ pack-rat attitude6) You can also say the place where that person keeps all theirthings is a rat's nest.7) I think some parents might describe their kids rooms as rat'snests.8) その他、ビジネスに関連した言葉で rat が使われるのは、rat race = し烈な出世競争　I smell a rat. = 何かおかしい （ねずみの匂いがする）9) And it also includes the idea not just something strange, butit's strange because someone has evil intensions.10) copy cat = 猿真似Kids often use this word when they're doing something and anotherkid comes and does to same thing. It's a scornful word when kids useit, "Oh, you copy cat."11) parrot ⇒ おうむ、他人の言葉を真似る人、（動）おうむ返しに言う12) You probably use it in situations where somebody is sayingsomething that another person uh already said, but the currentspeaker isn't really thinking. They are just repeating what theyheard. They are parroting their boss or they're just parroting whatthey heard somewhere else. They either don't really understand it or they don't really mean it.■ reinvent the wheel 無駄な努力をする13) I think that the key point of this phrase is the needless. It'sthe needlessness of going back to the beginning and inefficiency andwaste of time that's involved. A similar phrase start fromscratch means that you need to go back to the beginning, it's a goodthing.-----------------------------14) Please tune in again next time.

  2005年12月08日

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• ビジネス英会話（12/5）のディクテーションに挑戦

  Paper Chase Day (4) Monday, December 51) neat desks　This is one of the first pieces of the advice that I read for people,young people going into businesses. "Keep your desk neat and asempty as possible." One book even went into how to do thatsaying, "take out the folder you need, for the the work you aredoing now, and the materials you need, only for that work, and whenyou finish, put it away before you take out the next one." But cometo think of it, it sounds like what parents tell their kids, "put yourtoy away before you take out a new one."ダンプカー（和製英語）　英語ではdump truckという2) think out loud 思っていることを口に出して言う。しゃべりながら考える。It's also called "talk to yourself." But that sometimes has a littlebit more negative meaning.He always talks to himself. 独り言を言う。3) My boss is talking only to himself and to God today.4) I've also heard that it's...it's okay to talk to yourself. The time tostart worrying is when you begin answering yourself.5) on earth 一体全体In the sentence, the phrase "on earth" is used as an intensifier.”Is there anything on earth?...of all the things on earth?”--------------------- Vocabulary Building---------------------6) retrieve （動）・・・を取り出す、（情報を）検索するA similar word is "fetch". "Fetch" tends to be used with dogs. It'sthe word English speakers use to tell a dog to go pick something upand bring it back. Sometimes people use it for themselves, like"Oh, I forgot the salt. I'll go fetch it." Or it can also be used to talkabout how much someone paid for something you're selling. You cantalk about what price it fetched.Golden Retriever 射止めた獲物を咥えて戻ってくるように訓練された猟犬7) If you are not sure which one to use, "retrieve" is probably alwaysacceptable. It sounds a little more formal than "fetch."-----------------------7) That's all for today.8) Thanks for listening.

  2005年12月06日

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• ビジネス英会話（12/2）のディクテーションに挑戦

  Paper Chase Day Friday, December 21) if in doubt 決めかねるようならThis phrase, "if in doubt" and it's very similar phrase "when indoubt" are used a lot in English, either phrase is most oftenfollowed by either "don't" plus a verb or "ask."2) When in doubt, don't capitalize.大文字にしようか小文字にしようか迷ったときは小文字にしなさい。3) a pilot project 試験的なプロジェクト"A pilot project" is one that is a tentative model. It might be usedin the future if it goes well or it could be developed further if itseems to be a good start. The word "pilot" is used to mean sort of atentative beginning. In the phrase, pilot light, it's a small flamethat's constantly burning so that when you turn on your gas stove or when your water heater turns on, the main flame can easily start up toheat the water or turn on your stove.4) put your finger on the info　情報をすぐに取り出せるようにしておくAnd "put your finger on something" means find it, get itimmediately.5) draw bead on ～に狙いをつけるDraw a bead on something means take aim at it. The bead is a smallmetal knob on old rifleｓ, at the far end of the rifle, and it helpsyou aim the rifle in the correct place. So when you sight along therifle, you look at one notch up near your eye and you line it up withthe bead at the end of the rifle, and that's how you aim itaccurately.--------------------- Vocabulary Building---------------------6) pending 　未決定の、～の間Words with "pend" in it often have something to do with hanging. Soif you can think of waiting as a kind of hanging because nothing'sactually happening. It's easier to understand pending.patent pending = 特許申請中7) well-organized人に関しても、物に関しても使えるYou are a well-organized person. = 頭の中も非常に整理が行き届いている。（最高の褒め言葉になる。）---------------------8) Talk to you again.

  2005年12月03日

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• ビジネス英会話(11/30）のディクテーションに挑戦

  メモリーカードが壊れていて、録音が正しくてきていませんでした（悲）。Paper Chase Day (2) Wednesday, November 301) hate to get rid of　　　処分するのを嫌がるIn stead of saying you "hate to get rid of" something, you couldsubstitute the phrase "can't bare to part with" something.2) You've got to be joking. それは冗談でしょう。In a case like this, when you think someone's joking or trying tomake you believe something that isn't really true. You could say,"You've got to be joking," like Green does, but, there's a couple otherphrases. You could say, "Are you pulling my leg?" or more simply,"Unbelievable," or very casually, "Oh, go on!"3) toss out ～を捨てる、放り出すTakahashi talks about "tossing out the most paper." "Toss out" is aphrase of verb that means throw something away or get rid ofsomething, put it in the trash can. Sometimes for the samemeaning though people will drop the "out" and just say I tossed it.But "toss" alone is also its own verb. It's a kind of lightlythrowing things. You could "toss a ball up in the air," up and down,up and down. People toss a coin to choose teams or who gets to gofirst, a kind of decision making, mechanism. And you can also tosssalad. In that case, you take different kinds of leaf lettuce andbreak it up into bite size pieces and then in English, people don'tusually say "mix it." Mixing is a heavier action that you use for buttersand things like that with a spoon. Because salad leaves are verylight weight, to kind of toss them into the air, so that all thedifferent types get mixed up nicely.4) date back to the creation of the world 大昔にさかのぼるThe phrase "date back to the creation of the world," just means it'svery very old. Another phrase that people use sometimes to saysomething is very old is to say, "It's as old as dirt."5) ditch （ 動）捨てる、　（名）どぶ"Ditch" means "get rid of," but it's very slangy sounding. Actually,ditch is a noun and a verb. As a noun, it's a long narrow trench inthe ground. I think you probably hear it use much more in a slangmeaning. In this case, Greene is just talking about throwing away ordiscarding something, but you can also use it to talk about gettingaway from a person. Especially if it is with some friend orcompanion that you don't want to be with right now, you can also,"ditch the police," if they're following you. That's escape fromthem following you. You can also use it to talk about skippingclasses or not going to school or playing hooky.ditch a girlfriend = ガールフレンドを捨てる--------------------- Vocabulary Building---------------------6) cull 選別する、間引く"Cull" is kind of an interesting word. When it's used as a verb, itcan be neutral, it just means picking things out of a group for somereason. It can also be used negatively. If you're picking them out,because they're defective. But as a noun, it almost always refers tothings that have been rejected and so they're usually worse qualityor not functioning properly things like that.-----------------------7) Thanks for listening.

  2005年12月01日

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• ビジネス英会話(11/25）のディクテーションに挑戦

  Blogosphere(6) Friday, November 25*TalkS: Chris, we talked about blogosphere composed of blogs and bloggers.C: Hmm.S: Now some of my friends become bloggers, uh..C: Oh, yeah.S: Now I read their blogs, and some are interesting, others are boring.C: Yeah, a friend of mine started up her own blogs, so she lives here and her family lives in the US, and I think she wanted to use it so that her sister and her mother and her friends could see her son growing up.S: Hmm.C: And here about the activities, but I looked at it a few times, but she's so busy and I don't think she updates it very often. S: But that's the good way to keep up with each other.C: Yeah, I think it's a great idea. You know, you can limit who has access to it if you want to, so you can keep it private, and you can also allow people a certain amount of commenting on your blog if you'd like.S: Yeah, as we said many of the bloggers are not professional journalists, they are just the common people. But historically, blogs are bloomed during a political election or natural disaster or terrorist attack.C: Uh, they seem like a great thing to keep up with current events. I supposes if you find a couple of blogs written by people that you either agree with or disagree with, but find very interesting. Then uh, whenever a current event happens, you can read what they're thinking and of course, read the papers..S: Yeah.C: See what's on TV.S: And some of the mainstay media like newspapers and magazines..C: Um-huh.S: direct their readers to refer to blogs which contain more information. C: Yeah, I saw that. It's a great way to correct information when there's chaos because anyone who has some information can post it, and as long as the readers remember that it's not an official statement, it's what people are thinking at that moment. I think it's wonderful.S: Some blogs have become controversial..C: Um-huh.S: written by American soldiers that are stationed in Iraq.C: I thought it was pretty amazing that military hadn't been censoring them at all at the beginning. And even now I think censorship of the soldiers' blog is very right.S: Um-huh. I think it's difficult to sensor blogs technically.C: Yeah, right. Well, I guess what they would have to do is give orders about what kind of content you could put on your blog, and then take disciplinary action for people who break that. I don't think that military would be reading everybody's blogs, but somebody might report it to them.S: And of course, recently we talked about a podcasting.C: Um-huh.S: Which is like a personal radio station.C: Oh, they're great. I haven't looked at a lot of them. I haven't had a lot of time yet, but I found a couple of websites that list podcasts, and they're...they're all organized by topic. Ah, the ones I've looked at so far are free, so some of whom are very amateurish that doesn't mean it won't be interesting, but it doesn't sound like what you hear of on the radio or TV.S: All these new technologies, uh, pose a challenge to communications people..C: Yeah.S: They have to know how to integrate these new tools into traditional methods of communication.C: Yeah, I think it's very tough for people whose job is managing communication, but on the other hand for people who want information, I think it's like a new Renaissance, maybe. For me the hardest thing is finding the information I want or finding the time to look at everything that I'd like to look at.S: Sometimes there's too much information.C: Oh, there's so much information out there. I could just spend all day, everyday, reading things, and listening to the radio or podcasts or whatever is available.●あんな時、こんな時○S: It was all the rage. 大流行している。S: hellの代わりに、hornetを使うこともある。 スズメバチのように怒った。C: "Mad" is also used, sometimes to mean very crazy about, "I really like or love you." You could say "I'm mad about you." and that means "I really love you." It's different from "I'm mad at you," which means "you've done something I don't like.S: mad の次に来る前置詞に注意。 I am mad at you. 私はあなたに怒っている。 I am mad about you. 私はあなたに夢中。首ったけ。C: "Mad" also includes the idea of crazy. "Angry" only means angry. And in the past, I think people were careful to keep those two meanings separate, but nowadays people use it pretty interchangeably when they're talking about anger.S: blow my top 怒りを爆発させる 類した表現も色々とある。 hit the roof hit the ceiling go through the ceiling あまりにも腹が立って天井、屋根から突き抜けるくらい 興奮した、飛び上がった、という感じ。C: There's another phrase using "blow." You could say "blow a gasket," and they give the idea that they're so much pressure you just explored with anger.S: Oh, that's great[beautiful]! 反語、皮肉C: And you show that you're using the opposite meaning by the intonation that you use.S: nuisance 嫌なこと、面倒くさいことC: Similar phrase is, "What a pain."S: perturb 動揺させる、狼狽させる、不安にさせる 怒る、イライラする、という意味S: irk, vex, pique ちょっと気取った言い方C: Yeah, they're not explosions of anger, they're more like a bunch of pinpricks.S: 特に exasperated は big word。 irked, vexed, piqued とは、ちょっと違った意味合いがある。 formalな抗議をするときに使うことが出来る。 お店の店員の態度が悪い。店長を呼んで、 "I was quite annoyed [disturbed, ruffled, exasperated]" という単語を使って苦情を言う、という感じ。S: resentful 憤慨しているS: I can't say I'm at all pleased. 満足しているとは言えない。C: It sounds like someone who's still quite angry, but it's a little bit cooled off anger. The person isn't feeling finally angry at this point, but they're not ready yet to give up the anger.S: 言い方によっては、慇懃無礼な響きにもなり得る。C: There's all kinds of ways to say this, but here's the good one.C: Please join us again next time.

  2005年11月26日

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• ビジネス英会話(11/23）のディクテーションに挑戦

  Blogosphere (5) Wednesday, November 23---------------- Word Watching----------------■ hear over [through, on] the grapevine うわさや口コミで知る1) Another way to say you heard a rumor or somebody told yousomething is to say "a little bird told me," and then pass on thenews.2) A more formal way to say this is "anonymous sources." Andthere is a couple of other similar phrases as well, you might hearthat on the news for example.a reliable source said 信頼できる情報筋によれば■ jump ship 転職をする、急に会社をやめるもともとは「（船員が）契約期間を満たさずに船を降りる」「（無断で）持ち場を去る」といった意味似た様な意味で、 bail out （飛行機のパイロットなどが）緊急脱出をする、というフレーズもある3) "Jump ship" could be, because the ship is in a bad conditionbecause the working conditions are no good, but it could also bebecause some other place or different ship or a port has muchbetter conditions.もっと一般的に「会社を辞める」という場合には、quit や　resign　を使う■ compare notes 情報交換する、感想を述べ合う 　4) Another way people say this is "catch up with someone" or"catch up with each other."■ food for thought 思考の糧（古典的な隠喩 metaphor ）5) In school in the U.S., kids learn about some rhetorical devicesand especially metaphor and simile. Simile is a phrase that uses"as "or "like " in it. So for example, you could describe someone isbeing as tough as leather. And it doesn't mean their skin is hard.It means they're very tough character they're not easily stoppedor hurt.6) The only problem with using similes and metaphors is that thebest ones are used again and again and again. And often turn intocliche.■ blogosphere7) Sphere is kind of a difficult pronounce word even for Englishspeakers and it means uh...a ball something round and threedimensional. You can talk about "atmosphere," "stratosphere" or even "sphere of influence," which is used a lot in international politics.Western Hemisphere 西半球　Eastern Hemisphere 東半球sphere 活動の範囲、領分■ registered nurse10) The licensing of nurses in the U.S. is controlled by each statesseparately. So there are differences from state to state. Butgenerally registered nurses do a three or four year course. Manyof them earn B.A.'s, but the uh first four years of college. They arealso licensed practical nurses and they do a shorter course. Theyalways work together with a nurse or a doctor. And more recentlynurse practitioner has become a little bit more common. And theyhave still more training and can do some of the basic tasks thatdoctors used to handle.11) That's all for today.12) So long for now.

  2005年11月24日

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• ビジネス英会話(11/14）のディクテーションに挑戦

  Blogosphere (1) 11月14日（月）・15日(火）ブログの世界1)　how 's your dad doing? お父さんの具合はいかがですかWhen you have time, take a look at the text and you'll see "dad "is written with a small letter. Sometimes it's hard to tell which way to write that word, and the same with "mom." But usually if you ask yourself, can I use his or her in front of it, you should write it with a small letter. If you're using it as a name , then you should write it with a capital letter. Dad, Mom 自分の親のことを言う場合には、大文字を使うことが多い。2) he downs every dose （薬などの1服を）きちんと飲むYou could say a measure, a single measure and the amount of the measurement, of course, depends on what the prescription was. Sometimes "dose" is also used to talk about other things, though. Maybe things that are good for you that you don't really want. So for example, "You could need a dose of discipline." or "You could look at something with a dose of skepticism."3) immensely 非常に、大いに（形容詞は immense）"Immensely" is kind of an interesting word here. It meansvery very much. But if you think about it, you can't substitutethe word "largely" here. Because "largely" means for the most part. It doesn't mean the 100%. 4) laying the groundwork for ・・・　・・・のために土台を築く、基礎作りをしている（建築からでたことば）"Laying the groundwork" comes from the construction industry, and is talking about building foundation or preparingfor the visible part of what's being built. It's very commonto use either one of those phrases in this kind of situation. 5) blog ブログA blog is a kind of diary or journal that's posted on the internetso that anybody can read it. It's short for web log. Web meaning the world wide web, and log meaning journal or list of activities or something like that. 6) oh （イントネーションによってニュアンスが違う）How you say "oh" can make a difference in the meaning. If you slide up very clearly, making it a very strong kind of a question. "Oh" it sounds a little bit like your sort of skeptical about what you just heard. If your intonation is falling, it shows a little more interest, "Oh", you're kind of surprised and pleased. ＊上記のOhは各種のイントネーションで発音されていますが、うまく書けませんでしたので、区別していません。----------------Vocabulary Building----------------7) jell （意思・意見・計画などが）固まるjelly からの逆成語"jell" in this case, is a verb. When it's a verb, you have to spellit j-e-l-l. It seems to be a backformation from the word"jelly," and that means "jelly" was the first word and the verbwas developed from the noun. There is another kind of gel,g-e-l, which is probably short for gelatin and it's a noun thatdescribes that kind of a mass like a hair gel.8) Thanks for tuning in.

  2005年11月15日

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• 英会話上級（11/11）のディクテーションに挑戦

  今日はついでに英会話上級にチャレンジしてみました。Review It! Apply It! Lesson 18 Friday, November 111(A): Hi, everyone, Thank you very much for joining us today. 2(G): Welcome back, everybody, Are you ready to begin?--------------------------------B. What would YOU say?Anitaさんや、Garyさんならどういうか？（共通ダイアログ）A: Don't tell me you were here all night.B: I went home to shower and change.A: You can't keep this up. It's not healthy.3(G): Well, a friend told me I should give 80%, not a 100% that 80% is good enough. What do you think? 4(A): Personally, I don't think I could do that. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and like to give my all 100%.5(G): Oh, my problem is I like to give a 100% to my work, too. I don't like to do something in the field that I could have done it better. But you're right. In some ways, it's not good for my health. 6(A): Not just some ways, The long term effects of sleep deprivation are really more serious than you think.7(G): Zzzzz...8(A): Gary?（共通ダイアログの後に）9(A): You know what, you're absolutely right. I'm fed up with this. I can't take any more of these all-nighters. My house is in decline. I have no personal life and my productivity is not up to par. I'm gonna talk to the boss about it. 10(G): Hum...it's OK for you to vent like this to me, but be careful how you put it to the boss.（共通ダイアログの後に）11(A): I know, but in this company, results are the bottom line regardless of health. I can't afford to miss any deadlines.12(G): Well, as a friend, I hope you find the way to meet your company's expectations without sacrificing so much of your private life.13(A): Yes, but I know that these high-pressure situations won't last forever. As I start to work my way up in the company, I'll have more free time. 14(G): I'm glad to hear that. I know your work is important to you. But you also have you look out for yourself.-------------------------15(A): Thank you everyone, You did a great job. 16(G): Yes, really terrific work everyone, until next time.17(A, G & Y): Bye!

  2005年11月13日

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• ビジネス英会話（11/11）のディクテーションに挑戦

  2週間に1回来るラストの金曜日はいつも長いですね。Team Spirit (6) チームの求心力　11月11日（金）・12日（土）S: Ah, Chris. As you were growing up.C: Um-huh.S: Which was more emphasized, the spirit of competition or the spirit of team work?C: That' s kind of hard to say 'cause it really depends on the situation, but I'd say at home we were encouraged to cooperate usually. There are six kids in my family, so without cooperation we'd have chaos.S: With other members of the family and with neighbors ?C: Yeah, right.S: Cooperation ?C: Uh, you know, help each other, don't fight too much. My parents always insisted that we be polite to each other, even within the family. They'd say, you know, you don't have to like each other, but you do have to be polite. Because you are in the same family.S: Um-huh.C: So that's a kind of cooperation, I think. So that we could get along fairly smoothly.S: There has been a lot of emphasis on group achievement in Japan.C: Um-huh.S: An individual is a constituent member of the group.C: Yeah.S: And as the group you have to act together.C: Uh-huh. I've heard it described by one person as not polar opposites, not individualism on one end of a spectrum, and group or cooperation type behavior at the other end, but more as a circle. So Japan starts at one part of the circle and the U.S. starts at the other part of the circle, so in the U.S. people think "If it's good for me, it's gonna be good for my team as well." Whereas in Japan people start thinking "Oh, it's good for the group. So it's gonna be good for me as well." And I think this circle view is more useful when you have people like Japanese who tend to think more of group first and people like Americans who think of individual competition first to work together more easily. It's, uh, I think it helps bring people to the other ways of thinking more easily.S: So as an American working in Japan, is it hard to strike the balance between the two?C: Yeah, I think so because I can see some of the things I should do to be a good team member here. But it goes very strongly against, uh, not even so much what I think, but what I feel is correct. And I think it easier to change your thinking because it's conscious, and you can study things and let's look at statistics. But changing something that you feel is a lot harder. I find it a lot harder in any way. Even if your mind tells you it's useful. In this recent vignette, talking about team spirit when Takahashi-san said, he distracted Japanese self and started acting more American. I think he's not really talking about how difficult it can be to do that. I'm sure he found many challenges in trying to lose his Japanese self so that he could, could work better in the U.S. But then some people do that more easily than others.S: That's true.C: Um-huh.●あんな時、こんな時○C: In this case, the word "Boy" is used more like an interjection. I don't think it means a young male. You could substitute "Wow."S: "Brother" も interjection（間投詞） 　"Boy, oh boy" とも言う。S:　"Whew" も間投詞で、"やれやれ" という感じ。C: Yeah. This is really an interjection. It looks like a word the way it's written, but I think most people will say it's sound more than an actual word.S: これ（"Thank goodness!"）もよく聞く言葉ですけれど、"God" という言葉 をあまり口に しない方がいい、というように考える人もいます。　 "God" の代替語として、"goodness" "heavens"C: Some other phrases that you could use to talk about relief or a sigh of relief, like you hadn't realized how upset a person was until everything was settled and a sigh of relief is escaped from that person.S: "a sigh of relief" 安堵の溜息を漏らす　 何かあってホッとした、という時の溜息。C: Another one people use sometimes when they're saved or they're relieved just at the last moment is "saved by the bell." I think this phrase comes from boxing probably, where the bell at the end of the round is rung when a boxer is just about to lose. So you can be saved by the bell because the time runs out before you actually have the trouble you're afraid of.S: "saved by the bell" （ボクシングの状況で）ベルによって救われた。 　"安心した" という意味。 "To my great relief" と言って、文章を続ける言い方もあります。 "put one's mind at ease" 安心させる "put someone at ease" "ease somebody's mind" とも言える。C: In the military, a higher ranking person might tell a lower ranking person at ease, which means he doesn't have to stand at a tension he can take a somewhat more relaxed stance.S: "at ease" 　　軍隊では "休め" の意味。C: Of course, there're all kinds of ways to express this feeling, but here's the good one. "I'm relieved to know that we can make the delivery deadline."S: That's all for today.C: Please join us again next time.

  2005年11月12日

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• ビジネス英会話（11/9）のディクテーションに挑戦

  Team Spirit (5) Wednesday, November 9---------------- Word Watching----------------■ brainstorming 自由討議1) And in that case, it's often a sort of a business tool, when a group of people or team is trying to generate new ideas or different approaches.2) It's hard to just say things off the top of your head without thinking about them when you're with a group of people.3) I think also other people's ideas, even when they are bad ideas after you had a chance to think about them, can spark your own ideas. You hear something from someone, and it makes you think something else and so. cross-fertilization などともいう4) Yeah, it's sort of a kind of control the group free association.■ Greetings 「やあ、こんにちは」　（口語）5) I think it comes also partially from science fiction. If you think of "Alien" is coming to visit the earth. Lots of times in...in movies, old movies and science fiction stories. They say "Greetings. Take me to your leader. take me to your leader 宇宙人がいう言葉とされている6) Yeah, my brother's been doing that for years and I do it occasionally. Although what I usually use in e-mail also means greetings, but it's a different word "salutations."7) A couple of other things I sometimes use in e-mail are "Howdy",but that's usually when I wanna be a bit humorous or "Hi, there."8) It's also fairly common for English speakers just to completely drop any kind of greetings and start writing as if it was a conversation and their answer in what was written in the previous e-mail.■ lay back のんびりやる、リラックスするビジネスの場合、形容詞の laid-back を使うと、あまりやる気の無い、ゆったりし過ぎている、となる9) Yeah, if you think of someone who's paying attention andwho's interested in the enthusiastic, you think of them as sittingup straight or maybe even leaning forward. I always thought those motorcycles looked really uncomfortable too. AlthoughI've never sat on once, I can't say for sure. leave-behind　マーケティング用語で、営業のツールとして潜在顧客 のもとに残しておくもの（会社概要、製品のサンプル、ノベルティなど）■ upcoming 今度の、きたるup-and-coming 前途有望な、新進の、頭角を現した 10) Up-and-coming is an adjective to describe people that have high potential. Nowadays sometimes they just call them high-potentials with an asset used as a noun or the talents.Sometimes people in the company that are expected to go farare called talents.11) And there is uh...an older phrase also "rising star," somebody who's star type person who's coming up quickly from lower ranksin the company.rising star 新進気鋭のup and running 軌道に乗っている 12) That means every thing's organized and started and it's continuing along smoothly.13) Thanks for listening.

  2005年11月10日

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• ビジネス英会話（11/7）のディクテーションに挑戦

  Team Spirit (4) チームの求心力　11月7日（月）・8日（火）1) Takahashi-san inserts the word "do" in this sentence to emphasizethat he feels strongly about this. I think maybe it's another one of those positive signs he's been giving without actually saying "yes."to take in a new job. 2) gut issue 基本的な問題It's funny he chose the word "gut" to talk about important issues,important topics. Gut is a part of your body, and many people saytheir...their gut is too large or growing when they are kind of fat and out of shape. So it's kind of a little pun he chose that phrase to talk about health and fitness.3) Lunch with Punch　パンチの効いたランチ"Lunch with Punch" is kind of an interesting name for this campaign. First of all, lunch and punch rhyme, so makes it easyfor people to remember it. It has kind of a rhythm. Then also"punch" has three meanings in English. It's a kind of fruit drinkthat often includes alcohol, so it's possible to have some punchwith your lunch. It also means power, something that has punchhas power or it has an energy. And third meaning is to hit someonewith your fist. So in this case, I think probably the campaign isreferring to power and energy being in control of your lunch. either no or let's go ==> either go or no go とも言う。4) I wonder if fine really means that it's a little bit funny thatshe is saying uh...they sound very interested in Takahashi-sanalso but...but then she says "we don't wanna pressure you, take your time", which actually could be adding more pressure.5) And once again, Takahashi-san still hasn't quite said "yes."He can't say much more without saying "yes." But he still hasn't said yet.------------------- Vocabulary Building-------------------7) gut issue 基本的な問題、感情的な争点A gut issue is something that's so deep, it's almost instinctual.It's not from your head where you think, it's not from your heartwhere your emotions are. But it comes from... from your belly.Gut has basically two meanings in English. One is your intestines,the organ that processes food after your stomach, and also belly, the area of your body where your intestines are. So sometimes people talk about having a big gut meaning their fat,or in this case, gut issue which is referring to how deeply people feel, physically feel issues. ----------------------8) Thanks for listening.

  2005年11月08日

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• ビジネス英会話(11/2）のディクテーションに挑戦

  Team Spirit (2) Wednesday, November 21) low key 押さえた調子、控えめな調子"Low key" means not too noticeable, kind of quiet. The opposite,however, is not a "high key." If you want to (wanna) say the opposite,you probably say something like "conspicuous," or "high profile."2) pound one's chest 胸をたたくI've never actually seen someone pounding their chest physically in anargument, but I think it refers to things like not just using a voicebut using your body also is part of the argument, the way you movekind of energetically or even aggressively. People do stamp their feetactually during arguments, especially if they're very frustrated andthey might "chew the scenery but usually that just means "over act" orpoor out your emotions much larger even than with normally beacceptable in that situation.3) chew the scenery 大げさに振舞うAnd I think especially because Takahashi-san used the phrase "chew thescenery," it's an idiom that comes out of the theater and originallyit meant an actor who's over acting. So they are doing too much, so theyare very unbelievable. But, recently it's sometimes used almostpositively to mean somebody who's acting with energy and enthusiasm.4) Chinese-American 中国系アメリカ人"Chinese-American" is one of the so-called hyphenated Americans.Various people in the U.S. put their cultural background first beforeAmerican to describe themselves and where their families came from. The hyphen, however, is not always used in writing that idea showing yourcultural background is called hyphenated Americans, but it's notalways written that way. That's a style decision.African-American アフリカ系アメリカ人5) Please join us again

  2005年11月03日

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• ビジネス英会話（10/28）のディクテーションに挑戦

  2週間に1度来る復習の金曜日はフリートークの分量が多いので、大変です（汗）。=======================================================10月28日（金）・10月29日（土）Focus on Wellness (6) 健康重視戦略フリートーク1（S）: Now, Chris, we talked about the focus on wellness. Uh...theword "wellness" seems to be coming back. It means more thanjust being well, right?2（C）: Yeah, I think so, because we have the word "well" and wealso have the word "healthy". So I think wellness is a largerconcept. It includes being healthy and it includes being uninjuredI guess you could say. I think it includes mental health as well,but that's still closer to physical health. I think wellness includesthe idea also of being happy and comfortable in your life, not justphysically and mentally, you know, the way you should be.3（S）: Well, compared to the 70's and 80's, people are more health-conscious these days. We no longer hear about three-martini lunches or liquid lunches, do we?4（C）: That's true. I think also maybe the pace of life is a littleslower, so you could have a drink or two at lunch time, and didn'thave to function immediately afterwards. But uh...it's it's not onlythat I think part of it is because baby boomers are getting older,though oldest ones are retirement age now. And uh...even theyounger baby boomers are at least middle-aged, I think. And so I think they are thinking about their health a lot more.5（S）: They don't want to look old.6（C）: Yeah. I think, in the past, people just sort of assumedthey're gonna lose a couple of teeth as they got older and theyassumed they were gonna get wrinkled and they assumed they weregonna lose hair and turn gray. And that, you know, their musclewill start sagging and it's true all of those things do happen topeople, but the more they take care of yourself, the later ithappens or I think it happens less. I've read things about gettingolder people even very old people to exercise makes quite adifference in their quality of life or I suppose you could say intheir wellness.7（S）: And more people are on diet and we talked about portioncontrol.8（C）: Yeah, I think people are thinking about it a lot moreI don't know if it has much of an effect yet, ha ha...But if this idea of wellness continues to become really main stream andeverybody just expects to have some degree of wellness intheir lives. Although I have read a couple of things, heard acouple of things about people who think in the near future you may be able to live for ever, or at least extend your life quite a bit.9（S）: I am reminded of this graffiti we did a number of years ago. Which went something like uh... I intend to live foreverso far so good.10（C）: Uh,Huh.11（C）: Ha ha..I guess everybody could say that.-------------------- あんな時、こんな時--------------------□ Am I glad to see you! （窮地に陥って、そこに誰か助ける人が現われた。）ああよかった、といった時の表現12（C）: With the intonation you can make it more clear whetheryou just happy to meet someone or whether they came in thenick of time and saved you.□ Glad you could drop by [stop by].13（S）: drop by も stop by も同じような意味ですね。ちょっと立ち寄ってくれて、ありがとう。14（C）: Just be careful who you drop in on. Because or who you drop by to see, because a lot of people are not too happy withthat.15（C）: You can also use this as a farewell. When the peopleare walking down the sidewalk going back toward the car or tothe train station, you're waving good-bye, you could say "glad you could stop by."□ It's great to hear from you.16（C）：hear from は「お手紙をもらう」ということですけれど、17（C）: I think this one is when somebody calls you or sends a letter. If they call you on the phone, of course, you can say itdirectly to them after they've called you, if it's a letter, youmight write this in your reply and earlier we had "glad to hearthat." "Glad to hear that" you would say someone face to face."Glad to hear from you" implies that you are not face to face.□ Charmed.18（S）: Charmed. というのはどういう時に使いますか？19（C）: It sounds a little old-fashioned to me or maybe a littlebit British. You can use that, when you meet somebody, itmeans you are very charming, so I feel charmed just meetingyou.20（S）: fantastic と fabulous を結びつけた言葉として、fantaburousなんていうのもある。21（C）: You could also say "delighted."□ I'll be glad to do what I can.22（C）: The first one in this set is probably used usually whensomebody's made a request. and you're glad you can help them or support them or give them what they'd like. The second one can also be used the same way. It gives me great pleasureto help you or to do what you would like. You can shorten it and just say "With pleasure." □ It gives me great pleasure.23（C）: The phrase "it gives me great pleasure" is fairly often used to when people are introducing other people. Like on astage "It gives me great pleasure to introduce to you our speaker tonight."------- 問題-------24（C）: There's all kinds of things you could say, but here ispretty good one. "I'm so glad to see you again. You're lookinghealthy and prosperous." looking healthy and prosperous 健康で裕福そうに見えますね。---------------- English Challenge----------------125（C）: Look at the form. You will hear a man giving informationto put on the form.26（C）: The answers are: (1) Chong (2) Boston (3) Super Soft (4) Sales representative.227（C）: Look at the form. You will hear a message from a customer enquiring about a company's cleaning services. Fillin the blanks with the appropriate information.28（C）: The answers are: (1) computer (2) warehouse (3) 7thof June (4) reception--------------------29（S）: That's all for today.30（C）: I hope you can join us again.

  2005年10月29日

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• ビジネス英会話（10/26）のディクテーションに挑戦

  私もBrightwell Farm 社で働いてみたいものです。。Focus on Wellness (5) Wednesday, October 26---------------- Word Watching----------------■ spouse 配偶者1) Spouse is used a bit more formally in English most of the time,but there is a joke people say "What's the plural of spouse?",and the answer is "spice."It's following the pattern of mouse-mice. The actual plural is"spouses."2) There is other ways to talk about another person who isimportant to you depending on what kind of relationship you haveand what you think about it. Sometimes people talk about theirpartner, which I occasionally find a little confusing, I'm not sureit first if they mean a business partner or the person they're living with. Another one that people sometimes use is "significant other." I think that started off more as a joke, to tell the truth, but now it's become pretty main stream especially for people who either aren't married or think their marital status is not important in a situation.significant other 同棲中の異性、共同生活者(もともとは社会学の用語）■ crumbleThat's the way the cookie crumbles.　運命に任せるしかない、思い通りにはならないものだ、（状況があまり望ましくない時に使う）3) A similar phrase is "that's the way it goes."That's life とも言う。■ turned one's thumbs down　拒否・拒絶・禁止all thumbs 不器用な人4) There is other phrases with thumb as well. Two of them are related to whether you are very young at growing plants or not,if you have a green thumb , it means you have a talent, for plants indoor or outdoor whatever type. If you have a brown thumb, it means you have no ability with plants and they tend to die and turn brown when you are taking care of them. ■ consider it done できたも同然、できたと思ってください5) So be very careful using it, it's only good when you'reabsolutely certain that it will be done.-------------------------6) Joining us again.

  2005年10月27日

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• ビジネス英会話(10/14）のディクテーションに挑戦

  2週間に1回来る、杉田先生とクリスさんのトークの日は、分量が多く大変です。(>_

  2005年10月15日

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• ビジネス英会話（10/10）のディクテーションに挑戦

  今日は比較的短かったので、その後のニュースなどもディクテーションしてみました。New Horizon (4) Monday, October 101) dog-eat-dog 食うか食われるかの、熾烈な競争の"Dog-eat-dog" is a phrase, it's often used to describe a fierce competition or even ruthless self-interest. So when people are taking care of themselves or companies are competing against other companies, they focus very clearly and strongly on their own interest.cutthroat 喉をかき切るような2) scramble up the ladder 出世の階段を苦労しながらよじ登るIn English if you just say the "ladder", it often means a corporate ladder. it's climbing up through the hierarchy in a company. But climbing up a ladder, also means being successful, because you are getting higher and higher. "Scramble up the ladder"makes it sound much more difficult. In this case "scramble" is a kind of awkward climbing or could be moving on your hands and knees quickly because you just can't get to your feet. So "scrambling up the ladder" sounds like there's a very fierce competition to rise in the company.3) have one's tongue hanging out 渇望しているTakahashi says his tongue is hanging out, in this case the phrasemeans he is anticipating, he is excited, he is looking forward to something. Sometimes the same phrase is used to mean all tired out, like a dog when it's tired and tongue is hanging out and the dog is panting. 4) a stack of greenbacks （アメリカの）ドル札の束"A stack of greenbacks" means a lot of money. Greenback is oneof the slang words for U.S. dollars, because until very recentlythey were green front and back. Now they've added a few other colors, but they're still mostly green I'd say.Do we see eye to eye on that? = Do we agree with each other?advice and guidance ご指導ご鞭撻5) go for it 思い切ってやってごらんなさい"Go for it" is a phrase people use a lot to encourage people to trysomething new. You could say "try it", "take a chance", "go for it".6) please continue listening.今日はおまけでその後のニュース（10/11）も挑戦してみました。-----------------------------------------NHK News Headlines / Tuesday, October 11, 2005-----------------------------------------1) Three days after the strong earthquake in Pakistan, aid supplies including those from Japan have begun arriving.2) Japan's lower house of parliament has passed a set of bills to privatize postal services which is the core of prime minister Koizumi's structural reforms.3) In Indonesia, police have made their first arrest in connection withrecent suicide bombings in Bali.

  2005年10月11日

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• ビジネス英会話（10/5）のディクテーションに挑戦

  母が突然、高血圧で倒れ、病院に担ぎ込まれました。幸い意識も回復し、話せるようになったのですが、まだ何も食べることもできず、動けません。「いつまでもあると思うな、親と金」ですね。今後の対策も考えなくてはいけません。入院が長期化しないと良いのですが・・・**********************************************************New Horizon (2) Wednesday, October 51) appreciate = 理解するという意味と、感謝するという意味と両方ある。この場合は両方の意味が入っていると理解していいのでしょうか？Yeah, I think it's... it's quite strongly mixed here because on theone hand, he is pretty much decided to leave the company and May Greywon't be very pleased with that. But on the other hand, he's also beenvery open about it, because he may wanna come back some day. And Ithink, she is glad he's been opening clear. So, she is sort ofthanking him for that and she is also understanding his position atthe same time.2) In a discussion or an argument, this phrase means "I head what yousaid, but I disagree."3) on the surface"On the surface" is a nice useful phrase meaning I haven't looked intodeeply yet, but first impression is good. Another phrase you could useis "at first glance." A similar phrase is "superficially." But,superficially is usually used when you are saying it's only thesurface and that's a negative point.4) devil's advocate 悪魔の代理人In stead of "take on the role of devil's advocate, many people say"play the role of devil's advocate," it's basically the same meaning,But, a "devil's advocate" is interesting also. First of all,"advocate" means a backer or supporter generally and specifically canalso mean attorney or lawyer. The phrase "devil's advocate" though,usually describe somebody who's supporting the opposite argument forthe sake of argument by arguing by discussing two sides of some issue.You can lean more about the issue or you can test the argument that'syou really support. So, playing devil's advocate is like supportingthe devil, it's taking up the other side.5) So, here's an example of Grey playing devil's advocate. Usually,this would be a pretty aggressive question to ask someone who justsaid they were pretty much decided to move to a new position. Italmost sounds like she thinks he can't look into the new job on hisown. But, because she already said she was gonna be the devil'sadvocate for his decision, it's OK for her to ask hard and directquestions.6) It's a good thing that Grey decided play the devil's advocate,because he's already found an area that Takahashi hasn't looked intovery carefully that is about the culture of the company he's thinkingabout joining. He begins by saying frankly, although phrases he could use include, "to tell the truth," or "actually," it depends onhow formally he wants to express himself.7) Takahashi-san also talks about leveling with the people who mightbecome his new team members. Level with is very informal way to saytalk openly or frankly, but sometimes if you look at someone and say,"I'll level with you," it's usually a signal that they are going totell you something you don't really want to hear.8) Join us next time.

  2005年10月06日

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• ビジネス英会話（9/26）のディクテーションに挑戦

  3時半起きは、朝の時間を有効活用できますね。****************************************Be Your Own Boss(4) Monday, September 261) go it alone 他人の力を借りずに自分でやる"Go it alone" is a phrase people often use in English to talk about people who are independent, and don't want a lot of help from other people. 2) trade on prestige 威光とか名声を利用して商売をするAnd then the phrase she also uses "trade on prestige" it doesn't mean actual trading, it means trying to use prestige to help build up a business.3) stone-broke 全くお金を無くした、破産した"Stone-broke" might sound like sort of a strange phrase, but stone in this case doesn't mean a rock. In this case, it's a kind of intensifier, so it means he was absolutely completely broke, he had no money. You can also hear the phrase in "stone-cold" meaning in this case like a stone very cold.Another similar kind of intensifier is the word "dead". And when it's used as an intensifier, it doesn't mean "not living". It just adds intensity to the word it modifies. So for example, you could say "dead-broke" is another way you can talk about being completelyout of money. or you could also use "dead" in a phrase like a "dead-right".4) rabid 凶暴な Caruso also talks about rabid loan collectors. "rabid" is usually used in two meanings. One is to describe animals that have a specific kind of viral disease, But it is also used in another way to mean raging or uncontrollable or having excessive enthusiasm. So rabid loan collector is a loan collector who will not let you get away.5) Another phrasae Caruso uses is "running for deep cover". Another way to say that is he is hiding, he is avoiding the creditors, and he is not paying his loans. "Running for"of course is escaping and trying to run away. "Deep cover" means someplace where you can hide or no one can see you.6) petty cash 小口現金"petty" is a word in English that can be kind of negative. Whenit's describing cash, it's very neutral and just means small amounts of cash. But if you use it to describe people, it means they have a very narrow outlook, they think about a focus on things that are not really very important. Another word you could use is trivial.7) Thanks for listening.

  2005年09月27日

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• ビジネス英会話(9/16）のディクテーションに挑戦

  Early Bird (6) Friday, September 161: Chris, I know you are an early bird.2: That's right.3: What time do you get to the office?4: About 7:10, usually.5: That's early.6: Yeah, luckily, I'm a natural early bird. I've always tended towake up early.7: So, at that time of the day, do you find many of your colleagues?8: I'm usually one of the first. On my floor, there's another guywho tends to come in pretty early, usually by 7:30. I'm usually inbefore everybody though, on my floor. Some of the other floors, when Isign on to the company land, I can see usually there's two orthree people before me. Although sometimes I am the first one to signon.9: So, you have the morning all by yourself.10: Yeah.11: What do you do mostly.12: Oh, um... one of the reasons I get there that early is becauseI can't stand the crowded trains.13: Uh-huh.14: And since it's easy for me to get up, I pack my breakfast andlunch and carry it with me. So, first I have breakfast at my deskwhile I do e-mail and things like that. And it's nice, it's veryquiet. We have, you know, hot water and things like that, so I canhave coffee. It's no problem at all.15: So the trains are not crowded?16: No, it's great. I'm very happy with that, even, you know, lessthan ten minutes different, the following train, the one it goes afterthe one when I usually take is much more crowded. Although it's stillearly, it's not completely packed like regular rash hour, but it'sstill probably has about twice as many people as the train I've beentaking recently.17: You said you are natural early bird.18: Yeah, that's for sure.19: So, as a child, did you get up early in the morning?20: Yes. Of course, sometimes my parents had to wake us up, butthat tended to be more when I got a bit older and when I was workingin the evening and going to high school. But when I was a quite bityounger, we had to ask my parents if we could get up in the morning,because they didn't like little kids to be up alone. They get sillyideas, right? So we'd have to ask first and a lot of the time, they tell us,"No, go back to bed. It's too early. I can also remember waking up andnot feeling sleepy, so, instead of turning on the light because itwasn't quite light enough, right? In stead of turning on the light andwaking up my sister, I'd hold open the curtain on the window so I getenough lights, so I could read until it was time to get up.-------------------- あんな時、こんな時--------------------■ I fully realize that your company is not a nonprofit organization."nonprofit organization" あるいは、"not-for-profit organization" ともいえる。21) I think not-for-profit tends to be more British English andnonprofit tends to be used more in the U.S. But I think they arebasically the same things.■ You're on your way to becoming a board member. That's what I'veheard.22) Occasionally, instead of "on your way to," you'll hear "on theroad to." I think probably the difference is "on the road to" is muchmore clear past that people know you need to follow. So, for example,if you want to become a doctor, what you need to along the way is veryclear, so they might say "on the road to" in that case.■ money is not a dirty word = profit is not a dirty word23) I think the opposite of that is people who focus more on well beingand support and helping other people, sometimes they feel like makinga profit is... is less noble or not good.■ They say the stock market is about to tumble again.24) In this case, "tumble" is used as a verb, but you can also use thephrase "take a tumble" with the same meaning.■ My information is that the local currency will be devalued soonerrather than later.25) A little more formally sometimes in newspapers if they'll sayunnamed sources.26) My source tells me = 私の情報源から聞いたところによれば27) I've heard over the grapevine. うわさによれば■ I do appreciate that you are giving me advice out of sheergoodwill.28) This one on the surface looks extremely polite, but it's actuallya way to say, "I don't want your advice," without saying it quite soboldly or directly. And also with the "do," it's kind of stressing theappreciation.29) It might be followed up with a sentence something like this, but Ithink I have enough experience to make my own decisions.どれも非常にフォーマルな言い方ですね。30) If you are going to use some of these phrases, be sure it's in a veryformal situation because otherwise it sounds like you're rather angry.Because people tend to speak more formally than is appropriate whenthey become angry.------- 問題-------31) You might hear something like this: Your company is well-known toall of us so please abbreviate the company profile section and gostraight into your proposals.32) That's all for today.33) Thanks for staying with us.

  2005年09月17日

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• ビジネス英会話のディクテーションに挑戦（9月12日）

  仕事がバタバタしていてなかなかディクの時間が取れません（悲）。Early Bird (4) Monday, September121) with every mileDomingo kind of cut a sounds a little bit short, you could add "with" every mile you drive away or "along with" every mile you drive away. But it is very common kind of shortening in conversation.2) way back when かつては、昔は"Way back when" is a phrase that means "in the past". But it tends to bring in a feeling the speaker is looking at the past nostalgically.3) double the timeReid says it takes double the time to get there. "Double the time" refers to the time that used to be usual for his father. 4) largelyIn this case, Reid says "largely on flat land". In this case, it doesn't mean big. It means "mostly" or "mainly".5) I'm all for it 大賛成"I'm all for it." is kind of interesting, because the opposite wouldn't be "I'm all against it". It would probably be "I'm completely against it."6) stifleStifle's kind of interesting verb. It means smother or suppress, so you can use it all kinds of situations from murder by stopping someone's breathing which is "smother" all the way to "stifle dissent" which means suppress or stop people from expressing opposite opinions. It's also usedsometimes to talk about "heat" in the summer when there is very high humidity or if you're in a closed up room that becomes very hot. People call it "stifling heat". And there wasa TV show in the 70's where a husband use to tell his wife fairly often to "stifle herself", which is actually rather rude sounding7) night classes 夜間授業Night classes at the college or university or very commonway for working adults to complete a college education8) That's all for today,9) Please tune in again next time.

  2005年09月13日

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