2015.12.07
Tip 175 ”splitting hairs” 無料ビジネス英語学習
無料ビジネス英語学習 Words & Phrases 第175弾は、”splitting hairs” です。
重要でない事にこだわり過ぎて仕事が進まない、なんてことありませんか？
今回は、そんな場面で使える表現をご紹介します。
ヒカとタロウは会社の新しいwebsiteの構成をしています。
ほとんど完成し、あとは細かい部分をチェックするだけです。
“Taro, maybe we should use a smaller font size here.”
「タロウ、この部分もう少し小さいフォントサイズにすべきじゃない？」とヒカが言いました。
「ヒカ、君はちょっと細かすぎるよ。このフォントサイズで問題ないよ。」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？
”You are too detailed.The font size is fine.”
これでも伝わりますが、もっと自然な表現があります。
そこで、
“Hika, you’re splitting hairs. The font size is fine.”
と言ってみましょう。とても自然です。
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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 "splitting hairs"
What does this mean? Well I have hair. Well, I'm losing hair especially here...
But if you get a strand of hair
and you try splitting
this hair down the middle...
that's really hard to do right? It
requires a lot of concentration detail.
But what does this idiom really mean?
OK I will explain that in just a minute
but first let's do our test. So I say:
Wow, this year's almost finished.
We only have one more month. And you say...
Yes, it's crunch
time. Let's meet our targets.
OK hope you got that. OK let's go on to splitting hairs.
Here's what I sometimes hear. Let's imagine that
Taro and I are putting together maybe
a new poster or new website. OK?
And we're discussing the details. It's
almost finished.
The website, let's say website, is finished and I say:
Taro, maybe we should use a smaller
font size here.
It's not a big problem, it's all finished but I'm still saying
maybe we should change this little thing. Maybe we should change the pink to light pink.
It's not an important point but I'm being very detailed about something.
And Taro says: Hika, you are too detailed.
The font size is fine.
OK, "you are too detailed" he wants to say
Hika, you're focusing too much on one thing.
Look at the big picture. OK?
The little points are not important.
He wants to say this: You're too detailed.
Well I really natural way to see this is
like this
So I say: You know, maybe we should use a smaller font size.
And Taro says:
Hika, you're splitting hairs. The font size is fine.
Very natural! It means "Hika, you're being too detailed."
OK, don't worry about the small
little things.
The customer or the viewer will not
care about that.
You're splitting hairs.
OK so in your office, you know, there's
usually one person in your office
who's really detailed and says
Maybe we can do this and change this...
and they talk about something really small
that's not important, we can say
Well, you're splitting hairs. it's OK don't worry.
Alright let's look at pronunciation.
it's not you're splittinG hairs but it's
You're splittin' hairs.The fon' sizeis fine.
You try...
Good! OK with my sentence:
Maybe we should use a smaller font size...
Yeah, maybe you're right. OK perfect!
So for homework I will say:
Maybe we should use a smaller font size.
And you say:
You're splitting hairs. The font size is fine.
Please remember this and we will see you next time. Thank you.
today's idiom is "splitting hairs"
What does this mean? Well I have hair. Well, I'm losing hair especially here...
But if you get a strand of hair
and you try splitting
this hair down the middle...
that's really hard to do right? It
requires a lot of concentration detail.
But what does this idiom really mean?
OK I will explain that in just a minute
but first let's do our test. So I say:
Wow, this year's almost finished.
We only have one more month. And you say...
Yes, it's crunch
time. Let's meet our targets.
OK hope you got that. OK let's go on to splitting hairs.
Here's what I sometimes hear. Let's imagine that
Taro and I are putting together maybe
a new poster or new website. OK?
And we're discussing the details. It's
almost finished.
The website, let's say website, is finished and I say:
Taro, maybe we should use a smaller
font size here.
It's not a big problem, it's all finished but I'm still saying
maybe we should change this little thing. Maybe we should change the pink to light pink.
It's not an important point but I'm being very detailed about something.
And Taro says: Hika, you are too detailed.
The font size is fine.
OK, "you are too detailed" he wants to say
Hika, you're focusing too much on one thing.
Look at the big picture. OK?
The little points are not important.
He wants to say this: You're too detailed.
Well I really natural way to see this is
like this
So I say: You know, maybe we should use a smaller font size.
And Taro says:
Hika, you're splitting hairs. The font size is fine.
Very natural! It means "Hika, you're being too detailed."
OK, don't worry about the small
little things.
The customer or the viewer will not
care about that.
You're splitting hairs.
OK so in your office, you know, there's
usually one person in your office
who's really detailed and says
Maybe we can do this and change this...
and they talk about something really small
that's not important, we can say
Well, you're splitting hairs. it's OK don't worry.
Alright let's look at pronunciation.
it's not you're splittinG hairs but it's
You're splittin' hairs.The fon' sizeis fine.
You try...
Good! OK with my sentence:
Maybe we should use a smaller font size...
Yeah, maybe you're right. OK perfect!
So for homework I will say:
Maybe we should use a smaller font size.
And you say:
You're splitting hairs. The font size is fine.
Please remember this and we will see you next time. Thank you.
