2016.07.11
Tip 206 ”add fuel to fire” 無料ビジネス英語学習
無料ビジネス英語学習 Words & Phrases 第206弾は、”add fuel to fire” です。
人事部の新しい方針にどうにも納得がいかないヒカ。
“I’m going to email a long complaint to HR.”
「人事部に抗議のメールを送ってやる！」
とご立腹です。
「落ち着くんだヒカ。トラブルが大きくなるだけだよ。やめておけよ。」
と言いたい場合、あなたなら英語で何と言いますか？
“Hika. Relax, it’ll cause more trouble.Don’t do that.”
これでも良いのですが、こんな時もっと適した表現があるんです。
そこで
“It’ll just add fuel to the fire.Don’t do it. ”
「火に油を注ぐだけだよ。やめておけよ。」
と言ってみましょう！より伝わる表現です。
発音もビデオでチェック！
ぜひこの表現を使ってみてください。
Hello, everyone. Welcome to this Bizmates
words and phrases video series and
today's idiom is:
add fuel to the fire
Maybe you can imagine what this means
because you have a similar idiom in
Japanese, right?
There's fire and then you add fuel to it,
and you get more fire
OK, so before we talk about this
let's do our usual test.
So let's imagine you have just invited
me to join a meeting suddenly and I say:
Well I'm kind of busy, you know.
Is this a high priority issue? And you say...
That's right.
It's a matter of life and death.
You better join, Hika.
Perfect.
OK, I hope you got that. Let's go on to
today's idiom "add fuel to the fire"
OK, but here's what I sometimes hear.
Let's imagine that I'm a little bit
angry because human resources,
they have a new policy.
OK? And I'm not happy with their policy.
Whatever it is.
And I say:
Taro, you know what
I'm going to email a long complaint to HR.
I'm going to tell them how I feel.
And Taro says:
Whoa, Hika. Relax, it'll cause more trouble.
Don't do that. OK,
this sentence is okay.
It will cause more trouble.
OK, but you know,
if we use a nice idiom here
add fuel to the fire
it just sounds a little bit nicer.
OK? So we could say...
You know, if I say:
You know i'm going to email
a long complained to HR.
And Taro says:
It'll just add fuel to the fire.
Don't do it.
There you go.
It sounds really natural, really strong, you know.
It will just add fuel to the fire.
You can just imagine the fire going...
after i send my email.
So don't do that, alright?
It'll just add fuel to the fire.
Let's look at pronunciation.
It'll justadd...
It'll justadd fuel to the fire.
It'll just add fuel to the fire.
You try...
Good. OK, with my sentence:
You know, I'm going to email
a long complaint to HR.
Well maybe you're right. OK, I won't.
I won't send the email.
Perfect. OK, so for homework next time
I'm going to say:
I'm going to email a long complaint to HR.
And you just say:
It'll just add fuel to the fire.
Don't do it.
OK, please remember this and
we'll see you next time. Thank you.
words and phrases video series and
today's idiom is:
add fuel to the fire
Maybe you can imagine what this means
because you have a similar idiom in
Japanese, right?
There's fire and then you add fuel to it,
and you get more fire
OK, so before we talk about this
let's do our usual test.
So let's imagine you have just invited
me to join a meeting suddenly and I say:
Well I'm kind of busy, you know.
Is this a high priority issue? And you say...
That's right.
It's a matter of life and death.
You better join, Hika.
Perfect.
OK, I hope you got that. Let's go on to
today's idiom "add fuel to the fire"
OK, but here's what I sometimes hear.
Let's imagine that I'm a little bit
angry because human resources,
they have a new policy.
OK? And I'm not happy with their policy.
Whatever it is.
And I say:
Taro, you know what
I'm going to email a long complaint to HR.
I'm going to tell them how I feel.
And Taro says:
Whoa, Hika. Relax, it'll cause more trouble.
Don't do that. OK,
this sentence is okay.
It will cause more trouble.
OK, but you know,
if we use a nice idiom here
add fuel to the fire
it just sounds a little bit nicer.
OK? So we could say...
You know, if I say:
You know i'm going to email
a long complained to HR.
And Taro says:
It'll just add fuel to the fire.
Don't do it.
There you go.
It sounds really natural, really strong, you know.
It will just add fuel to the fire.
You can just imagine the fire going...
after i send my email.
So don't do that, alright?
It'll just add fuel to the fire.
Let's look at pronunciation.
It'll justadd...
It'll justadd fuel to the fire.
It'll just add fuel to the fire.
You try...
Good. OK, with my sentence:
You know, I'm going to email
a long complaint to HR.
Well maybe you're right. OK, I won't.
I won't send the email.
Perfect. OK, so for homework next time
I'm going to say:
I'm going to email a long complaint to HR.
And you just say:
It'll just add fuel to the fire.
Don't do it.
OK, please remember this and
we'll see you next time. Thank you.
