Tip 183 ”up-and-coming”無料ビジネス英語学習

無料ビジネス英語学習 Words & Phrases 第183弾は、”up-and-coming” です。

”up”は「上昇する」、”coming”は「目標に向かって進んでいる」を意味しています。
この２つを組み合わせ”up-and-coming”にすると、「将来有望な」「期待できる」というような意味になります。

ヒカとタロウの会社にも、将来有望な管理職候補生が入ったようです。

“How are the new management trainees?”「今度の管理職候補生はどう？」
ヒカはタロウに聞きました。

「有望な人が何人かいるよ。」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？

“Some of them have very good potential.”

この表現でももちろん完璧です。でも、こんな表現もあるんです。

“Yeah, we have some up-and-coming managers.”

是非使ってみて下さい！

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 & Phrases video series

and today's idiom is

up-and-coming

Up-and-coming.
What does this mean?

We will find out but first let's do our test.

OK, so you don't like your boss
and I asked you:

Why don't you like your new boss?
What's wrong?

And you say...

That's right.
We just don't see eye to eye.

We just don't... don't match.

OK, I hope you got that.
Let's go on to today's idiom

up-and-coming

This is a great idiom.

OK let's imagine that Taro and I,
we're colleagues, and

I asked Taro about the new management
trainees in our company.

How are the new management trainees?

So these are young people
training to become managers.

How are they?
Do we have some good people coming?

And Taro says:

Yes, some of them have very good potential.

Perfect sentence.
Some of them have very good potential.

Potential is a really common word.
So maybe in the future,

these managers... or these management
trainees, can become great managers.

They have good potential.

But a really natural way to say this
is to use this idiom

up-and-coming.
Like this...

So I say:
Hey, Taro. How are the new management trainees?

Are they good?
And Taro says:

Yeah, we have some up-and-coming managers.

Very natural!

Up-and-coming.
It means they have a lot of potential...

good potential.

We have some up-and-coming managers. Just like that.

We can use this in sports.
It's often used in sports --

He's an up-and-coming pitcher...
up-and-coming batter...

It means they have a lot of potential
to do well and to succeed.

So pronunciation. it's --
We have some up-an'-coming...

up-an'-coming managers.
We have some up-an'-coming managers.

You try.

Good.
OK, with my question:

So how are the new management trainees?

Great! I'm looking forward to meeting them.

Perfect. OK, so for
homework next time I'm gonna ask you:

How are the new management trainees?
and you say...

We have some up-and-coming managers.

Please remember this and we
will see you next time. Thank you.