Tip 139 ”sleep on it”　無料ビジネス英語学習

無料ビジネス英語学習 Words & Phrases 第139弾は、”sleep on it” です。

時間をかけてじっくり考えてから結論を出す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に
“So shall we go with option A or B?”「じゃあ、オプションAとBとどちらにしましょうか。」と聞きました。
「一晩よく考えさせて。」と伝えたい場合、あなたがタロウなら英語で何と言いますか？

“Please give me time to think about it.”「考える時間をください。」
でも伝わりますが、より自然な表現があります。

そこで
“Let me sleep on it.”「一晩よく考えさせて。」
と言ってみましょう。よく使われる自然な表現です。

発音もビデオでチェック！
ぜひこの表現を使ってみて下さい。

Hello and welcome to this Bizmates
words and phrases video series

And today's idiom is

sleep on it. Sleep on it.

What does this mean? We will find out but
first let's do

our test. Okay so last time

we talked about gossip. Rumors.

Okay so I say I just thought Taka

and Eri holding hands. And you say

not I here a rumor but

That's right. Rumor has it

that they're dating. Okay a great phrase

for gossip. Okay let's go into today's
idiom.

Sleep on it. Oka.y

Are you ever in a situation

where you need time to decide?

Time to think and decide? Of course.
Well this is a great idiom for this

case.

Okay but here's what I sometimes hear. So imagine

Taro is my colleague and I say so
Taro

so shall we go with option A

or Be? Which one is better, A or B?
And Taro needs time so he says

please

give me time to think about it.
This sentence is perfect.

The grammar is okay. It's not
strange,

but to make it sound a little bit more

natural, we can use this idiom like this.

So I say Taro

so shall we go with Option A or B, and he
says

let me sleep on it. Very natural.

Let me sleep on it. Okay it just means give
me some time

to decide. Okay let's look at pronunciation.

So it's let me sleep on

it. Let me sleep on it. Let me sleep on it.
You try.

Good okay with my question.

So shall we go with Option A or B? There
you go.

Okay so for homework next time

I'm going to ask you. so shall we go with
option

A or B? And you say not please give me time.

Let me sleep on it. Please remember this

and we will see you in the next lesson.
Thank you.