2017.05.26
“Play with fire”の意味と使い方 Bizmates初級ビジネス英会話 Point 194
Play with fire ってどういう意味？
Play with fireは「火遊びする」や「無用なリスクを冒す」という意味になります。
Play with fire ってどういう場面で使うの？
たとえば、仕事の期限を破って上司に大目玉を食らったばかりの同僚Justinが、旅行雑誌を眺めながらこう言ったとします。
Justin: Wow! Maldives! Should I get a 2-week PV?
You: Really? You’d better not play with fire.
Justin: モルディヴかー！2週間くらい有給申請しちゃおうかな！
You: いやいや、火遊びはよくないよ。
Play with fire 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。
【CC】ボタンを押すと字幕機能も利用可能ですので、英語学習に是非お役立てください！
Hello everyone and welcome to this
week's Bizmates for Beginners. Today
everyone, we are going to learn the
expression "play with fire." Now it's a
good one, so let's find out what it means
and how to use it
but first as always let's do a quick
review of last week's expression.
Alright everyone, imagine I asked you:
What time is the interview? Now this is a
really important interview, so I have to
arrive on time. I can't be late, so what
do you say? You have five seconds, okay
everyone? Alright go?
OK and time is up,
if you said "it starts at one o'clock
sharp" then that's exactly right. Well
done and thank you for remembering last
week's expression. Alright so moving on
to "play with fire." Now this is what I
sometimes hear, I'm talking to my good
friend and my colleague, Taro and I say
to him -- I say: Taro, you know I'm going to
ask for a raise -- which means I'm going to
ask for more money from my boss, and Taro
he thinks maybe this is not a good idea
because my boss, let's imagine, is a
really strict and really tough guy, OK
and he gets angry very easily. So, Taro he
says: Really? Ah...
you'd better not take a big risk, maybe
because he will be really angry at my
request. Now although this is, yeah, maybe
good advice, I think it's not bad. The
expression is alright, but we can use
something a little bit more natural and
that is... yeah, that's exactly right.
Really? You'd better not play with fire.
OK, so whenever we do something risky
whenever we take a big risk, we're
playing with fire, okay? Fire of course is
really dangerous, if we lose control of it
everything could burn down. So when you
are "taking a big risk," when you are doing
something that could have really
negative consequences, you are
playing with fire.
OK, everyone? Alright so now
pronunciation, it's just as you see it
here -- play with fire.
Alright? So OK please repeat after me:
you'd better not play with fire.
Your turn.
Alright, very good. OK, now after
my sentence: I'm going to ask for a raise.
What do you think?
Alright very good
exactly right. OK so please remember
this for next time. Alright our bonus
question this week everyone is another
way to say: "too much" okay? Alright so
it's, you know, a pretty good hint so if
you know the answer leave it in the
comments below, but if you need to go
through some of our previous Bizmates
for Beginners video, you can find the
answer there as well, okay?
Alright everyone so that is it for me
this week. Thank you very much for
watching, as always. Enjoy your weekend
and I'll see you next time. Thank you.
week's Bizmates for Beginners. Today
everyone, we are going to learn the
expression "play with fire." Now it's a
good one, so let's find out what it means
and how to use it
but first as always let's do a quick
review of last week's expression.
Alright everyone, imagine I asked you:
What time is the interview? Now this is a
really important interview, so I have to
arrive on time. I can't be late, so what
do you say? You have five seconds, okay
everyone? Alright go?
OK and time is up,
if you said "it starts at one o'clock
sharp" then that's exactly right. Well
done and thank you for remembering last
week's expression. Alright so moving on
to "play with fire." Now this is what I
sometimes hear, I'm talking to my good
friend and my colleague, Taro and I say
to him -- I say: Taro, you know I'm going to
ask for a raise -- which means I'm going to
ask for more money from my boss, and Taro
he thinks maybe this is not a good idea
because my boss, let's imagine, is a
really strict and really tough guy, OK
and he gets angry very easily. So, Taro he
says: Really? Ah...
you'd better not take a big risk, maybe
because he will be really angry at my
request. Now although this is, yeah, maybe
good advice, I think it's not bad. The
expression is alright, but we can use
something a little bit more natural and
that is... yeah, that's exactly right.
Really? You'd better not play with fire.
OK, so whenever we do something risky
whenever we take a big risk, we're
playing with fire, okay? Fire of course is
really dangerous, if we lose control of it
everything could burn down. So when you
are "taking a big risk," when you are doing
something that could have really
negative consequences, you are
playing with fire.
OK, everyone? Alright so now
pronunciation, it's just as you see it
here -- play with fire.
Alright? So OK please repeat after me:
you'd better not play with fire.
Your turn.
Alright, very good. OK, now after
my sentence: I'm going to ask for a raise.
What do you think?
Alright very good
exactly right. OK so please remember
this for next time. Alright our bonus
question this week everyone is another
way to say: "too much" okay? Alright so
it's, you know, a pretty good hint so if
you know the answer leave it in the
comments below, but if you need to go
through some of our previous Bizmates
for Beginners video, you can find the
answer there as well, okay?
Alright everyone so that is it for me
this week. Thank you very much for
watching, as always. Enjoy your weekend
and I'll see you next time. Thank you.
