2015.02.02
Tip 131 ”hit the sack” 無料ビジネス英語学習
無料ビジネス英語学習 Words & Phrases 第131弾は、”hit the sack” です。
もう遅い時間だから床に就く、もう眠たいから寝よう等、皆様はどんな表現を使いますか？
今回はそんな際に使えるイディオムを紹介します。
例えば、ヒカは同僚のタロウとSkypeで会議をしています。
“Wow, it’s already 1am.”「おぉ、もう午前1時だよ。」とヒカが言いました。
「もう寝よっか。」と返答したい場合、あなたがタロウなら英語で何と言いますか？
“I will sleep now.”「今、寝ます。」
でも伝わりますが、直接的で相手を驚かせてしまうかもしれません。
そこで
“I’m going to hit the sack.”「もう布団に入ります。」
と言ってみましょう。自然で柔らかい表現に聞こえます。
発音もビデオでチェック！
ぜひこの表現を使ってみて下さい。
Hello and welcome to this Bizmates words and phrases
hit the sack. A sack is a bag.
Okay what does this mean? We will find
out, but first let's do
our test. So imagine we are
colleagues
and I say to you, wow you
are an Excel expert. You are so
smart.
You're a genius. What do you say? It's not so difficult.
rocket science.
Hika, it's not rocket science. Okay I hope
Okay let's go on to today's idiom,
hit the sack. Okay but this is what I
often hear.
So imagine Taro and I
are having a Skype meeting. OK if you're
a Skype user, this is a good one.
Okay we're having a Skype meeting and I say
wow it's already 1 a.m. It's so late. And Taro says
And I'll be a little bit surprised
sentence. I will sleep now. I'm tired.
I'm going to end this call. I will sleep
OK so how can we make this sentence
Okay like this. So if I say we're having
wow it's already 1am and he says
yeah I'm I'm gonna hit the sack. Very
natural. Very soft
too. You know in English when you make a
direct
sentence like, I will sleep now. I will go
to bed now.
You know it could be a little too.
But if you use an idiom instead, it just
becomes softer.
You know. Yeah,I'm gonna hit the sack. It just becomes a little bit softer.
use this hear.
sack is like I said at the beginning,
And in the old days, people used to put
hit the sack. A sack is a bag.
Okay what does this mean? We will find
out, but first let's do
our test. So imagine we are
colleagues
and I say to you, wow you
are an Excel expert. You are so
smart.
You're a genius. What do you say? It's not so difficult.
rocket science.
Hika, it's not rocket science. Okay I hope
Okay let's go on to today's idiom,
hit the sack. Okay but this is what I
often hear.
So imagine Taro and I
are having a Skype meeting. OK if you're
a Skype user, this is a good one.
Okay we're having a Skype meeting and I say
wow it's already 1 a.m. It's so late. And Taro says
And I'll be a little bit surprised
sentence. I will sleep now. I'm tired.
I'm going to end this call. I will sleep
OK so how can we make this sentence
Okay like this. So if I say we're having
wow it's already 1am and he says
yeah I'm I'm gonna hit the sack. Very
natural. Very soft
too. You know in English when you make a
direct
sentence like, I will sleep now. I will go
to bed now.
You know it could be a little too.
But if you use an idiom instead, it just
becomes softer.
You know. Yeah,I'm gonna hit the sack. It just becomes a little bit softer.
use this hear.
sack is like I said at the beginning,
And in the old days, people used to put
