2015.11.09
Tip 171 ”wing it” 無料ビジネス英語学習
無料ビジネス英語学習 Words & Phrases 第171弾は、”wing it” です。
プレゼンやスピーチ。
急遽誰かにお願いしなければ！！という場面も良くあると思いますが、
やっぱり急には頼みにくいものですよね。
でも、こんな風に伝えたら良いかもしれません。
タロウの会社に急遽メディアの取材が来ることに。
慌てたタロウは、同僚のヒカに簡単なスピーチをして欲しいと頼みました。
“Wait, wait, wait. I haven’t prepared anything.I can’t. I can’t.”
「ちょっと待てよ！何も準備してないんだから。無理だよ、無理！」とヒカ。
「準備なんて要らないよ。アドリブでいいんだ。」
と言いたい場合、あなたがタロウなら英語で何と言いますか？
“Don’t worry you can ad-lib.”
「ad-lib（アドリブ）」
日本人は良く使う聞きなれた言葉ですが、実は英語ではあまり使われないんです。
そこで、
“Don’t worry. Just wing it.”
と言ってみましょう。きっと引き受けてくれるはずです！
発音もビデオでチェック！
「てきとうにやる」を意味するこの表現を、ぜひ使ってみて下さい。
Hello and welcome to this Bizmates words and phrases video series and today's idiom
is "wing it." Maybe it's slang, but this is
acceptable slang. OK, not a bad word.
Wing.. wing it. What does this mean? We will find out but first let's do our test.
So, I say: I'll work on it this weekend to
finish it.
Don't worry I'll work on Saturday and Sunday to do this. And you say...
That's right! No need to bend over backwards not that important.
I hope you got that.
So let's go on to today's idiom
wing it. OK, so let's imagine that Taro
asks me to make a speech. He says
Hika, we have some very important customers today. Maybe the media, a news reporter or
magazine journalist is here. Hika, can you
make a short speech? A short presentation?
Sometimes they ask me and I say:
Wait, wait, wait. I haven't prepared anything.
I can't. I can't. And Taro says:
Don't worry you can ad-lib.
Ad-lib is OK. I hear many Japanese students use this word ad-lib
but in English it's not actually not that common
we don't use it so often -- ad-lib.
OK. We can understand it but a more common word
instead of ad-lib, in the office, is like
this --
So Taro asks me to make a short presentation or speech
and I say:
No, no, no. I haven't prepared anything.
I'm not ready. And he says:
Don't worry. Just wing it.
Yeah, very natural. Just wing it. You don't need to prepare. You do it all the time.
Ad-lib. Just wing it.
OK very natural.
So, let's look at pronunciation, its
Don't worry. Jus' wingit... jus' wingit. Not JUST
but jus' wingit. You try...
OK, good. OK, with my sentence:
I haven't prepared anything.
OK, sure I'll wing it.
okay for homework so next time I will say
I haven't prepared anything. You say
Don't worry. Just wing it.
Please remember this and we will see you
next time. Thank you.
is "wing it." Maybe it's slang, but this is
acceptable slang. OK, not a bad word.
Wing.. wing it. What does this mean? We will find out but first let's do our test.
So, I say: I'll work on it this weekend to
finish it.
Don't worry I'll work on Saturday and Sunday to do this. And you say...
That's right! No need to bend over backwards not that important.
I hope you got that.
So let's go on to today's idiom
wing it. OK, so let's imagine that Taro
asks me to make a speech. He says
Hika, we have some very important customers today. Maybe the media, a news reporter or
magazine journalist is here. Hika, can you
make a short speech? A short presentation?
Sometimes they ask me and I say:
Wait, wait, wait. I haven't prepared anything.
I can't. I can't. And Taro says:
Don't worry you can ad-lib.
Ad-lib is OK. I hear many Japanese students use this word ad-lib
but in English it's not actually not that common
we don't use it so often -- ad-lib.
OK. We can understand it but a more common word
instead of ad-lib, in the office, is like
this --
So Taro asks me to make a short presentation or speech
and I say:
No, no, no. I haven't prepared anything.
I'm not ready. And he says:
Don't worry. Just wing it.
Yeah, very natural. Just wing it. You don't need to prepare. You do it all the time.
Ad-lib. Just wing it.
OK very natural.
So, let's look at pronunciation, its
Don't worry. Jus' wingit... jus' wingit. Not JUST
but jus' wingit. You try...
OK, good. OK, with my sentence:
I haven't prepared anything.
OK, sure I'll wing it.
okay for homework so next time I will say
I haven't prepared anything. You say
Don't worry. Just wing it.
Please remember this and we will see you
next time. Thank you.
