Tip 118 ”pick your brain”　無料ビジネス英語学習

無料ビジネス英語学習 Words & Phrases 第118弾は、”pick your brain” です。

考えれば考える程、アイデアが浮かばないことってありますよね。
今回はそんな時に使えるイディオムを紹介します。

例えば、同僚のタロウはアイデアが浮かばず悩んでいる様子です。
“Taro, do you need some help?”「タロウ、何か手伝おうか？」とヒカはタロウに聞きました。
「何かアイデアもらえない？」と言いたい場合、あなたがタロウなら英語で何と言いますか？

“Yes, can you give me some ideas?”「何かアイデアくれる？」
でも問題ないのですが、より自然で使えるイディオムがあります。

“Yes, can I pick your brain for some ideas?”「何かアイデアもらえない？」
と言ってみましょう。
アイデア豊富な方、知識や経験が豊富な方からいいアイデアを教えてもらえるかもしれません。

発音もビデオで確認してみましょう。
「お知恵を拝借」を意味するこの表現を、ぜひ使ってみて下さい。

Hello and welcome to this Bizmates
words and phrases video lesson for

business people.

And today's idiom is

pick your brain. Pick

your brain.

What does this mean? OK, we will find
out,

but first let's do our test. OK so

remember last time we learned buzz, bzzz. OK

So tell me some news that's generating

a lot on buzz now. A lot of people are
talking about it. A lot of people are

interested in this news.

What do you have Yes?

Something exciting. I hope so. OK let's
go on to today's idiom.

Pick your brain. We all know what a
brain is right?

OK some maybe you have a big brain,

and I and someone wants to pick at it.
What does this mean?

OK, well let's imagine that Taro and I are

colleagues and Taro is he's holding
his head, going uhh...

This is difficult. And he looks like he's
stressed out.

Taro's

confused or stressed. And I go up to Taro
and say hey Taro.

Do you need some help? You okay. You need some help?

And Taro says ah yes,

can you give me some ideas? Oh

OK. That's that's actually perfect. Sure
no problem, I can give me some ideas.

But it's a very simple sentence right?
Can you give me some ideas?

I have no idea so I need some help. Give
me some ideas,

which is perfect. OK, but

because you are now an intermediate or
advanced learner,

let's try to use some natural idioms.

And here's one. OK so instead you could
say this,

so if I say, hey Taro do you need some
help

with the your marketing plan or
marketing concept? Do you need some help?

And he says, ah yes can I pick your brain
for some ideas?

Yeah of course you could pick my big
brain for ideas.

Something like this. OK so it just
means

I want you get ideas

or get information from you because

I don't have this knowledge. You have
this knowledge.

I wanna pick your brain. OK it's a very
natural expression.

OK. So instead of can you help me

or can you give me some ideas, let's try
using

can I pick your brain for some ideas. It's kind of a

cool phrase. OK so pronunciation,

we can say, yes with a pause. Yes

can I, can I pick your brain for some
ideas?

Yes, can I pick your brain for some ideas?

You try.

OK good with my question. Taro, do you need some help?

Good OK.

For homework, whose brain

do you pick for ideas?

I'm sure there's someone in your company
that always has good ideas,

so you always go to this person and pick
their brain.

OK, who is that person? OK you can
tell me in the next lesson.

Thank you.