実践ビジネス英語 Friday, September 21
1) Nissen says his wife uses small plates and bowls to avoid large portions and make sure he doesn't snack after 8 p.m. To help with exercise, he wears pedometer and aims for ten thousand steps a day. Garcia says she is careful to get a good night sleep and weighs herself every evening and morning. Nissen says insufficient sleep increases levels of hunger hormone.
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Losing Weight (3)
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2) pedometer: This is a device that measures how many steps we take. In this
case the root "ped" means foot, and also shows up in "pedicure," and "meter" means measure, thermometer, speedometer, chronometer.
3) come to: In this case, "come to" means amount to, add up to some number. Imagine you are buying a plane ticket, you could say, "With tax and fuel surcharge, it 'comes to' 85,000 yen."
4) step in the right direction: This is an action that will make some improvement in a situation, make some progress toward a desired goal. Let's say, I'm a pretty disorganized person. I'm always forgetting appointments, and losing people's phone numbers. If I buy myself an appointment book, that's a "step in the right direction."
5) get a good night's sleep: "Sleep well" in other words. Another common expression using "sleep" is "sleep like a log," which means sleep very soundly as if you were an immovable log. I "sleep like log" myself. I once slept through a fire alarm when I was a little girl.
6) weigh oneself: Garcia uses "weigh" in a sense of measure one's physical weight? See how many pounds or kilograms we have. However, "weigh" can also mean evaluate, consider, you know, as if we were putting something on a scale, and saying, "How valuable is this to me? Is this an option I want to choose?" For example, the government is weighing more stimulus measures. The government is considering whether it should implement more stimulus measures.
7) work out: Garcia uses "work out" to mean prove effective or successful, develop in a satisfactory manner. For example, "We got some new software last month and it's 'worked out' great." In other words, it's functioning well; people are able to use it, etc. And "work out" can also mean find the solution to something, solve some issue, like "I haven't 'worked out' how to use this software yet."
8) endorphin buzz: In this case, "buzz" means a state of excitement, euphoria, as if we've just taken a drug of some kind. Garcia also could have said, "I get an endorphin high" or "I get an endorphin rush when I succeed."
