Tip 132 ”in the same boat”　無料ビジネス英語学習

無料ビジネス英語学習 Words & Phrases 第132弾は、”in the same boat” です。

例えば、友人から相談を受け、実はわたしも同じ境遇や立場だったということってありますよね。
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に
“I have a really tight dead line.”「締切が迫ってるんだよ。」と言いました。
「私も同じ状況だよ。」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’m same.”「私、同じ。」
でも伝わるかもしれませんが、不自然です。

そこで
“I’m in the same boat.”「私も同じ状況だよ。」
と言ってみましょう。「同じ境遇」「同じ立場」などと言いたい時によく使われる自然な表現です。

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Hello and welcome to this Bizmates
words and phrases

video series for business people. And
today's

idiom is in the same

boat. Not car. Not plane.

Boat. What does this mean? We will find
out.

But first let's do our test. Okay so
remember?

I'm saying wow it's already 1 a.m. We're
having a Skype meeting.

It's really late and you say, I will sleep
now.

You know you're sleepy. You're tired. It's a little bit too direct.

So what should you say? That's right.

I'm going to hit the sack. Yeah so to
make it a little bit less

direct, it's good to use an idiom

like this. Yeah I'm gonna hit the sack. It
makes it a lot softer.

Okay so let's go onto today's idiom, in the
same

boat. OK, now this is what I usually

hear. So imagine Taro and I　are colleagues.

I'm under a lot of pressure okay. And I say
Taro I have a really tight deadline.

I've got to meet it by tomorrow. A really
tight deadline.

And Taro says yeah, yeah, yeah

I am same. You are same.

OK, you are in the same

situation. I see so you have

a tight deadline too.

So you know he can me too

or same with me. There are many
ways to express this.

I but I sometimes hear I am same.

You know it's a little bit strange, OK. It's
just bad English.

Now a good way to say this.

To say I am in the same situation as you,

so I understand how you feel, we can say
this.

So if I say yeah I have a really tight
deadline.

Taro says yeah I'm in the same boat.

Oh very natural, in the the same

boat. OK so, you know, in a boat

If you're in a boat together. We're

were in the middle of the ocean you know
the situation is the same.

So this idiom means we're in the same
situation.

I understand how you feel. OK.

So let's look at pronunciation. So it's
not

I'm in the, but its I'm in the. I'm in the.

I'm in the same boat. You try.

Good okay with my sentence. I have a really tight deadline.

Excellent Okay. So

for homework, Okay. I'm gonna say I have a really tight deadline

next time. And you say not I am same but

yeah I'm in the same boat. So please
remember this. And we will see you

next time. Thank you.