徹底トレーニング英会話2008年08月16日(土)
目標を達成するにはどのような努力も惜しむべきではありません。
No effort should be soared to achieve your goal.
【Let's Listen and Fill in the Blanks!】
○It's blazing hot. How can you stand this heat?
===> It's blazing hot. How can you stand this heat?
○This is nothing. Around here, we don't consider this hot.
===> This is nothing. Around here, we don't consider this hot.
△You mean a gets even worse?
===> You mean it gets even worse?
○You should've been here last week.
===> You should've been here last week.
【Let's Listen and Write!】
○I tried to read your e-mail.
===> I tried to read your e-mail.
○But I couldn't make it out.
===> But I couldn't make it out.
△It was completely *******.
===> It was completely garbled.
garble 文字化けする、混乱させる
○I want to buy a new sports car.
===> I want to buy a new sports car.
○But I know my wife won't let me.
===> But I know my wife won't let me.
△I don't have the correge to ask her.
===> I don't have the courage to ask her.
【Let's Listen and Answer!】
△I spoke to the travel agent today about our coming trip, and she said they don't mail out airline tickets anymore the way they used to.
===> I spoke to the travel agent today about our upcoming trip, and she said that they don't mail out airline tickets anymore the way they used to.
○Instead, they arrange electronic tickets.
===> Instead, they arrange electronic tickets.
○What we do is log onto the airline's website and find our reservation.
===> What we do is log onto the airline's website and find our reservation.
このreservationは、「予約の状況」を確認するという意味で単数形です。
○Then we print out our ticket reservations.
===> Then we print out our ticket reservations.
このreservationsは、「個々の予約の内容」が2つ以上あるようなので複数形です。
△We take the printouts to the airport with our passports and you issued the tickets in boring passes there.
===> We take the printouts to the airport with our passports and they issue the tickets and boarding passes there.

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