2015.01.19
Tip 129 ”rings a bell” 無料ビジネス英語学習
無料ビジネス英語学習 Words & Phrases 第129弾は、”rings a bell” です。
顔は覚えていないけれど、名前を聞いたらピンときた等、何かをきっかけに思い出すことってありますよね。
今回はそんな際に使える便利なフレーズを紹介します。
例えば、ヒカは同僚のタロウに
“Do you know the movie, The Untouchables?”「アンタッチャブルっていう映画知ってる？」と聞きました。
「聞いたことある。」と伝えたい場合、あなたがタロウなら英語で何と言いますか？
“Maybe I’ve heard it.”「たぶん聞いた。」
こちらは文法的にも誤りがあり、”I’ve heard of it.” が正解です。
また”I’ve heard of it.”より、伝わる自然な表現があります。
そこで
“It rings a bell.”「聞いたことある。」
と言ってみましょう。よく使われるナチュラルなフレーズです。
“The name rings a bell.”でも大丈夫です。
ぜひこの表現を使ってみて下さい。
Hello and welcome to this Bizmates
words and phrases
video series. And today's idiom
is rings a bell. Ding-a-ling-a-ling.
What does this mean? We will find out but
let's do
our test. So I'm going to say,
I want you to come to my event, some
sort of
event. And I say, are you absolutely sure
you can come?
Are you sure you can come? And you say,
not I will go 100 percent. But
that's right. I'll be there rain or
shine.
Did you get that? I hope so. Okay let's go
onto today's idiom,
Rings a bell. Okay so let's imagine Taro
and I are colleagues again.
And we're just making small talk and I
say Taro,
do you know the movie the untouchables?
It's my favorite movie.
Do you know this movie? The untouchables? And he thinks
and he says, yeah maybe I heard it.
Hmm...
OK maybe you've heard it. Okay.
It's grammatically incorrect.
If he were to say well maybe I've
heard of it,
is acceptable. It's okay, but a more
natural way to say,
oh yeah, yeah, yeah. The name, the name sounds really familiar.
If you wanna say that, then you could say
this.
So I say do you know the movie,
The Untouchables? It's my favorite movie.
Do you know? And he says,hmmm
it rings a bell, just like that.
It rings a bell. Okay so
let's look at pronunciation .
Rings a. Rings a bell. It rings a bell.
You try. Good okay with my
question. Do you know the movie,
The Untouchables?
Perfect just like that.
Yeah you know and you could change it to, yeah the name rings a bell
is OK to. It rings a bell. Okay I
yeah I I've heard it before. It
it sounds familiar, like this. Okay so
next time
I'm going to ask you. I'm gonna say, hey
do you know the movie, The Untouchables?
And you say, not maybe I've heard it.
But yeah it rings a bell.
Okay so please remember this. And we'll
see you in the next lesson.
Thank you.
words and phrases
video series. And today's idiom
is rings a bell. Ding-a-ling-a-ling.
What does this mean? We will find out but
let's do
our test. So I'm going to say,
I want you to come to my event, some
sort of
event. And I say, are you absolutely sure
you can come?
Are you sure you can come? And you say,
not I will go 100 percent. But
that's right. I'll be there rain or
shine.
Did you get that? I hope so. Okay let's go
onto today's idiom,
Rings a bell. Okay so let's imagine Taro
and I are colleagues again.
And we're just making small talk and I
say Taro,
do you know the movie the untouchables?
It's my favorite movie.
Do you know this movie? The untouchables? And he thinks
and he says, yeah maybe I heard it.
Hmm...
OK maybe you've heard it. Okay.
It's grammatically incorrect.
If he were to say well maybe I've
heard of it,
is acceptable. It's okay, but a more
natural way to say,
oh yeah, yeah, yeah. The name, the name sounds really familiar.
If you wanna say that, then you could say
this.
So I say do you know the movie,
The Untouchables? It's my favorite movie.
Do you know? And he says,hmmm
it rings a bell, just like that.
It rings a bell. Okay so
let's look at pronunciation .
Rings a. Rings a bell. It rings a bell.
You try. Good okay with my
question. Do you know the movie,
The Untouchables?
Perfect just like that.
Yeah you know and you could change it to, yeah the name rings a bell
is OK to. It rings a bell. Okay I
yeah I I've heard it before. It
it sounds familiar, like this. Okay so
next time
I'm going to ask you. I'm gonna say, hey
do you know the movie, The Untouchables?
And you say, not maybe I've heard it.
But yeah it rings a bell.
Okay so please remember this. And we'll
see you in the next lesson.
Thank you.
