Tip 190 ”dress for success”無料ビジネス英語学習

無料ビジネス英語学習 Words & Phrases 第190弾は、”dress for success” です。

重要な商談やプレゼンなどには、一張羅を着て臨む方も多いのではないでしょうか。
今回はそんな時に使える表現をご紹介します。

ヒカは同僚のタロウに言いました。

“Taro, you look great today! New suit? ”
「タロウ!今日はカッコいいじゃないか!新しいスーツかい?」

「うん。ありがとう!ビジネスでは見栄えも重要だからね。」

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?

“Thank you! It’s important to look nice in business.”

これでも意味は伝わりますが、もっと自然な表現があるんです。

そこで、
“Thank you! It’s important to dress for success.”

と言ってみましょう。成功を呼び込むために形から入ることを意味する表現です。

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 video series

and today's expression is
dress for success

Dress for success.
What does this mean? We will find out

but first let's do our test.
Imagine you and I are colleagues and I say:

It's so quiet at the office this week.
What's going on? And you say:

There you go!
It's the calm before the storm.

I hope you got that. OK let's go on to today's expression

dress for success
But here's what I sometimes hear.

OK, so Taro and I are colleagues and I say:
Taro, you look great today!

New suit? And Taro says:
Thank you! It's important to look nice in business.

It's important to look nice in business?

OK, of course it is

but it doesn't... it sounds a little strange,
you know. It's important to look nice in

business. What does he really mean?
OK, well here's a more natural way

to express this. So if I say:
Taro, you look great today! Is that a new suit? Nice.

And he says:
Thank you! It's important to dress for success.

Very natural! You know, you wear nice
clothes and you feel good.

OK, so if you want to be successful, you
know, you dress nicely and you'll become

successful. OK, it's important in business.
It's a very natural expression.

It's important to dress for success.
Let's practice pronunciation, OK? so it's

Thank you! It's important to dress for success.
You try...

Good! OK, with my sentence:
You look great today!

Perfect! For homework now.
OK, so next time I'm going to say:

You look great today!

Okay and you just say...
There you go.

Thank you! It's important to dress for success.

OK, let's remember that and we'll see you
next time. Thank you.

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