Bizmates初級ビジネス英会話 Point 127 ”equipped with”

初級者向けビジネス英会話 Bizmates for beginners 第127弾は、”equipped with” です。

最近の電気機器は色々な機能が備わっていますよね。
今回はこの、「備わっている」「装備されている」という意味の表現をご紹介します。

ヒカは新しいiphoneを買ったようです。

早速iphoneでボイスレコーダーの機能を使いたいようなのですが、
まだ使い方に慣れていないヒカはタロウに聞きました。

“Taro, do I need to download a voice recorder?”
「タロウ、ボイスレコーダーの機能って、ダウンロードしなきゃいけないのかな？」

「もともと付いているよ。」と言いたい場合、あたながタロウなら何と言いますか？

“It has a voice recorder.

これでも全く間違いではないのですが、もう少しハイレベルな表現もしてみたいですよね。

そこで、

“It’s equipped with a voice recorder.”

と言ってみましょう。とても自然な表現です！

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

equipped with

It sounds like a difficult word --
equipped with

but it has a very simple meaning;
A very useful idiom.

OK, but first, let's do our test.
So...

imagine we are in a restaurant, we're
looking at the menu. And I say:

I don't like tomatoes.

I don't like this. I don't like cucumbers.
And you say:

That's right!

You're such a picky eater.

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

equipped with

So let's imagine that I bought a new iPhone.

And I say
I got my new phone!

and I don't know how to use it

and I need a voice recorder to record, I
don't know, maybe a meeting or something

and I say:

Taro, do I need to download a voice recorder?

And Taro says:

It has a voice recorder.

Perfect. Nothing is wrong with this.

It has a voice recorder.
It already has one.

But it's such a simple word.
It has a voice recorder.

To make it a little bit more advanced...

a little bit more high-level,
we can say this...

So if I say:

Hey, do I need to download a voice recorder
for my iPhone?

And Taro says:

It's equipped with a voice recorder.

OK, very natural!
It's equipped with a voice recorder.

This is a great idiom used to describe products.

it's equipped with... a roller so you can scroll down

It's equipped with a light sensor.

It's equipped with...
It's often used for features on a product.

OK, so let's look at pronunciation

It's equipped witha voice recorder.

It's equipped witha voice recorder.
You try...

Good!
OK, with my sentence:

Do I need to download a voice recorder?

Oh it's equipped with a voice recorder!

Perfect!
OK, for homework next time I will ask you:

Do I need to download a voice recorder for my phone?

And you say:
No...

That's right.
It's equipped with a voice recorder.

Please remember this and we
will see you next time.

Thank you.