“Packed”の意味と使い方 Bizmates初級ビジネス英会話 Point 253

Packed ってどういう意味?

Packed は直訳すると「詰まっている」「パンパン」という意味になり、スケジュールが埋まっている状態や、電車がすし詰め状態である時の状況を表現する際に使われます。

 

Packed ってどういう場面で使うの?

たとえば、同僚に飲みに誘われた時に:

Justin: Let’s go out for a drink this week sometime!
You: Sorry, my schedule is packed this week. How about next week?

Justin: 今週飲みに行きましょう!
You: すみません、今週はスケジュールが詰まっていて。来週はどうですか?

 

Packed の自然な使い方を動画で学ぶ

こちらの動画で、発音や、会話の中での自然な使い方を、Bizmatesのプレゼンター Justinが解説します。

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Hello everyone. Justin here and welcome
back to another Bizmates for Beginners

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video lesson, where every week we
introduce a new idiom, phrase, or

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expression that you can use in your
daily business conversation. And this

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week everyone, we are going to learn:
"packed." OK so if you want to know how to

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use it and what it means, please stay
tuned, but first everyone, that let's do a

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quick review of last week's class.
Alright so imagine I say: I'm going to

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make the proposal to the boss now!
So we came up with a really great idea

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together, so I want to pitch it to our
boss. But you think that I'm acting too

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quickly - the idea it's not quite right,
yet we need a little bit more time, so

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you want to tell me: Please wait. Don't
be so quick, alright, don't act so hastily.

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So how do you say that?
You've got five seconds. Are you ready?

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OK go!

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Alright, and time is up. So you can say:
Hold your horses. It's too soon. We

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need a better plan. Alright so hopefully
you remember this. If you did, great job!

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Well if you didn't, don't worry you'll
get it next time, alright? OK so let's

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move on to: "packed." Now this is what I
sometimes hear... alright so it was a long

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week and you know I'm feeling a little
bit tired, so I'm talking to my colleague

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Taro, and I say: Taro, now let's go for a
drink this week sometime. I could really

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use some time outside of the
office to relax and kind of take it easy.

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Taro says: Oh sorry, Justin. My schedule
is too busy this week. How about next week?

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OK, yes I understand how you are always
very busy, so no problem. Let's set it for

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next week.
OK so "my schedule is too busy" - this

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is fine, I understand what he is trying
to say, but when you are communicating

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with some of your foreign colleagues or
coworkers, you might hear them say

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something like: Sorry. My schedule
is packed this week. How about next week?

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Alright, so if something is "packed" it
means it's really, really busy. So for

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example: Wow, this restaurant is packed.
Alright, it means there's so many people,

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there's no space. It's really busy.
It's packed, okay? So for example, if you

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are really busy, you can say: yeah, my
schedule is really packed today. So you

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don't have time for for another meeting,
for example, okay? It's packed.

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Alright, so pronunciation - very simple: packed.
OK, so please repeat after me...

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My schedule is packed this week.
Your turn.

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OK, very good.
Alright now, in response to my question

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and my sentence here: Hey, let's go for a
drink this week sometime!

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Right. So sorry

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my schedule is packed this week.
How about next week? Okay?

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Alright so please remember this for next time.
OK everyone our bonus question is

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another way to say: "in a hard situation."
If you know what the answer is, please

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feel free to leave it in the comments
below. If not, well don't worry, you can

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find it in one of our previous video
lessons, so please take a look, okay?

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Alright everyone, so that is it for me
this week. Thank you always for watching.

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Have a great weekend, everyone and I'll
see you next time. Thank you.

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