ビジネス英会話復習ノート

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杉田 敏
NHKラジオビジネス英会話―海外勤務・大滝怜治編 (海外勤務・大滝怜治編)

の2本柱で学習中です。

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10/6.7

1. nail down / 確定する

She'll have a job nail down...

2. career advancement / 出世すること、昇進

Their bottom line is career advancement.

3. steadily / 着実に、しっかりと

The number is climbing steadily.

4. mindset / 物の見方

We have international mindset.

5. dread / 不安、恐れる
6. assignment / 任務、任命

We don't dread business assignment.

7. rotate / 交替する

They rotate me back here to headquarters.

8. reassign / 転任させる

before I get reassigned...

9. interact / 交流、影響

expected to interact with international client...

10. part and percel of~/ ~の本質的部分、substance

it's part and percel of my role...

11. diversity / 多様性

diversity is the key to the future...

12. labor pool / 労働力、労働人口

count on a labor pool of people with a vast range of...

13. vast / 広大な、莫大な

vast range of background and talent...

14. mingle / 混ぜる

10/4.5

1. hack / うまくやりぬく、がまんする

Many expats can't hack it...

2. fall by the wayside / 途中で挫折する

That's the chief reason why overseas postings fall by the wayside.

3. lark / 楽しいこと、愉快なこと
4. akin to~/ ~と類似の

kind of lark akin to a delightful fairy tale...

5. housebound / 家に引きこもる

you're lonely and hosebound...

6. mope / 落ち込む, depressed, sad

you stay home and mope...

7. dicey / risky

both spouses hove jobs is dicest.

8. compromise / 妥協

Can there be a compromise?

9. with all i's dotted and all t's crossed / 細かいところまで、細部にいたるまで
10. mutual satisfaciton / 双方の満足

Should have their negotiations done with all i's dotted and all t's crossed to mutual satisfaciton.

11. prospective / 予期される、見込まれる

orientation classes for prospective expats...

12. be obliged to~/ ~する義務がある

I have a spouse obliged to go overseas...

13. whiz off / 飛び去る、急いで行く

I'm home or whizzing off here and there...

14. evaluation / 評価

Everyone gets a bad evaluation now and then.

10/2.3

1. be slated to~/ ~する予定である

my protege, who's slated to
take over for me...

2. missionaries / 宣教師

his parents were missionaries
...

3. expat / =expatriate 海外駐在の

His wife was an expat
classmate and...

4. freewheeling / 自由奔放な

does have a lot of freewheeling
execs...

5. second nature / 第二の天性

travel overseas as second nature
...

6. inquisitive / 好奇心旺盛な

That must be unacceptable to inquisitive
kids, like you were...

7. monocultural / 単一文化の

I tend to be bored by a monocultural
life style...

8. suffocated / 窒息する

I fell kind of suffocated
...

9. flit / 飛び回る

I'm excited by flitting
from one country to another...

10. snug / 居心地の良い comfortable

with a snug
nest to come home

11. cubicle / 小寝室

these cubicles
are so small, I'll suffocate!

12. itinerant / 巡回する traveling

does have a lit of itinerant
execs...