2015.06.26
Bizmates初級ビジネス英会話 Point 97 ”get back at someone”
初級者向けビジネス英会話 Bizmates for beginners 第97弾は、”get back at someone” です。
冗談でも本気でも誰かに何かをされて仕返しをすることってありますよね。
今回はそんな場面で使える表現を紹介します。
例えば、ヒカは同僚のタロウと会議をするため会議室を予約していましたが
他の人に会議室が使われていました。そこでヒカはタロウに
“The Sales Team took our meeting room.”「営業部が僕らの会議室とっちゃったよ。」と言いました。
「はぁ？やり返してやる。」と返答したい場合、あなたがタロウなら英語で何と言いますか？
“What? We will revenge.”「はぁ？リベンジします。」
でも伝わるかもしれませんが、少し不自然です。
そこで、
“What? We’ll get back at them.” 「はぁ？やり返してやる。」
と言ってみましょう。自然な表現です。
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 and welcome to this Bizmates for
beginners
video series and today's idiom
is "get back at someone."
Get back at someone. What does this mean? We will find out,
but first let's do our test. Okay, so I
say
I think our competitor has a new product.
They have a new product. And you say...
That's right. "Can you look into it?"
with the "W" sound. I hope you got that.
Okay let's go on to today's
idiom "get back at someone."
Here's what I sometimes hear.
Okay let's imagine, Taro and I,
we have a meeting and we
reserved a meeting room
in our company. Okay? So we reserved this room
and I say
The Sales Team took our meeting room.
They took the meeting room. I reserved it and they took it.
And Taro says "What? We will revenge."
Okay, it's kind of "We will revenge."
revenge is often used in Japanese
English
but we don't use it so much in English
like this
you know "I get revenge" maybe we can
say that,
but to use it as a verb -- we will revenge,
is a little strange. Okay, so
a more natural way to say this, is like
this.
So I say "The Sales Team took our
meeting room."
They took our meeting room. I booked the
room and they took it.
And Taro says "What?
we'll get back at them." Very natural.
We'll get back at them. Okay, so we will
do something to get revenge.
Okay? We'll get back at them. Let's look at pronunciation,
so it's "What?..." with a pause, and it's
often
quite high. It's "What?..." like this
We'll... not gets back, but it's GET back
We'll get backat... We'll get backat them.
"What?
"
with my sentence "The Sales Team
took our meeting room." ... Good!
Yes, let's get back at them. Okay so for homework
next time I will say "The Sales Team took
our meeting room."
and you say "What?..." we'll get back at them.
Very good. Please remember this and
we will see you
next time. Thank you.
beginners
video series and today's idiom
is "get back at someone."
Get back at someone. What does this mean? We will find out,
but first let's do our test. Okay, so I
say
I think our competitor has a new product.
They have a new product. And you say...
That's right. "Can you look into it?"
with the "W" sound. I hope you got that.
Okay let's go on to today's
idiom "get back at someone."
Here's what I sometimes hear.
Okay let's imagine, Taro and I,
we have a meeting and we
reserved a meeting room
in our company. Okay? So we reserved this room
and I say
The Sales Team took our meeting room.
They took the meeting room. I reserved it and they took it.
And Taro says "What? We will revenge."
Okay, it's kind of "We will revenge."
revenge is often used in Japanese
English
but we don't use it so much in English
like this
you know "I get revenge" maybe we can
say that,
but to use it as a verb -- we will revenge,
is a little strange. Okay, so
a more natural way to say this, is like
this.
So I say "The Sales Team took our
meeting room."
They took our meeting room. I booked the
room and they took it.
And Taro says "What?
we'll get back at them." Very natural.
We'll get back at them. Okay, so we will
do something to get revenge.
Okay? We'll get back at them. Let's look at pronunciation,
so it's "What?..." with a pause, and it's
often
quite high. It's "What?..." like this
We'll... not gets back, but it's GET back
We'll get backat... We'll get backat them.
"What?
"
with my sentence "The Sales Team
took our meeting room." ... Good!
Yes, let's get back at them. Okay so for homework
next time I will say "The Sales Team took
our meeting room."
and you say "What?..." we'll get back at them.
Very good. Please remember this and
we will see you
next time. Thank you.
