“Jet lag”の意味と使い方 Bizmates初級ビジネス英会話 Point 287

Jet lag ってどういう意味?

Jet lag とは「時差ボケ」という意味で使用され、Jet の「ジェット機」という意味と Lag の「遅れる、時間差がある」という意味が合わさった表現になります。

 

Jet lag ってどういう場面で使うの?

たとえば、同僚を気遣う時:

You: How was your business trip to New York?
Justin:  It was good. But I have jet lag.

You: ニューヨークへの出張はどうでしたか?
Justin: 良かったですよ。でも少し時差ボケがあります。

 

Jet lag の自然な使い方を動画で学ぶ

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Hello! And welcome to another Bizmates for Beginners video lesson where every
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week we introduced a new idiom, phrase, or expression that you can use in your
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daily business conversation. This week everyone we are going to learn: Jet Lag.
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Something I'm sure all of you have probably experienced at some point or
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another. But if you don't know what this is please stay tuned and we'll find out
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what this means and how to use it in more detail. But first as always let's
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start with a quick review from last week's class. Ok, so imagine you come into
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the office. And you see me but I'm not looking very happy, not very energetic,
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I'm kind of down. So how do you ask about my condition using the expression from
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last week? I'll give you five seconds to think about it. Are you ready? Okay and go!
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Alright and time is up. If you asked: Hey Justin, are you okay? Why the long face?
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And that's exactly right. Well done and thank you for remembering
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last week's class. Okay, let's move on to: Jet Lag. Now this is what I sometimes
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hear. Alright, so my good friend and colleague Taro he's been away on
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business trip for a couple of weeks. He just came back to the office. So I say:
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Taro, how was your business trip to New York? How did it go? He says: Yeah, it was
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good. But I have time lag. Time lag, time lag, time lag. Okay, I see, I know what
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you're trying to say. You're not really used to the time here. So it's kind of a
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lag. Although this is okay, I understand what Taro is trying to say,
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you might hear a native English speaker say something like this: It was good. But
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I have jet lag. Right, jet lag. So when it's morning in your destination, but in
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Japan it's nighttime. Or if it's morning in Japan and it's nighttime in your
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destination, your body clock is confused. You can't sleep. Alright, you have
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jet lag. Okay, not time lag, jet lag. Alright? So pronunciation, it's as you see
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it here. So please repeat after me. Please notice that when I speak or when
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I say this very quickly, I eliminate, I don't pronounce the ' T ' at the end of jet.
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So it's not jet lag. No no it's jet lag, jet lag. Okay, alright, so repeat after me:
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Yeah it was good. But I have jet lag. Your turn. Okay, good. Now after my question: So
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hey, how was your business trip to New York? It was good. But I have jet lag. Okay.
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But I read this somewhere online if you do have jet lag, they say don't take a
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nap. You know just try to power through the day, keep on going drink lots of
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orange juice. I hear vitamin C is good for you that could be a lie, but try it
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for yourself. See if it works, but anyways okay, remember this for next time. Our
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bonus question this week everyone is another way to say: It was really fun. It
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was really fun. If you know what the answer is please leave it in the
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comments below. If you don't know what the answer is, but you are curious, you
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are in luck. Because we covered it in one of our previous Bizmates for Beginners
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video lessons, so take a look if you have the time. And of course I will leave the
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answer to last week's bonus question in the information and comments below, so
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take a look. Okay, so thank you very much for watching the channel. As always
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everyone, have a great weekend and I'll see you next time. Bye bye!

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