実践ビジネス英語 Wednesday, January 16
1) Garcia says her mother recommended trying a variety of activities, something she has tried to do throughout her life. Breakstone says she learned to eat a good breakfast at camp while Garcia recalls her mother telling her not to suppress her feelings. Nissen says bullying is also something people encounter in childhood and adult life. And Breakstone says no one should ever use their position to bully others at work
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Teenagers' Life Lessons at Work (4)
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2) plant: "Plant" is being used as a verb here, but not to mean put some vegetable, flower or other thing in the ground to grow. Here, "plant" means set something firmly in place as if you intended to be there for a while. For example, "She had a long report to finish. So she 'planted' herself at her desk, and worked on it for five hours."
3) be into: Garcia uses this expression to mean be interested in some subject or activity and pursuing it. I'm really "into" history, for example. Another person might "be into" politics or yoga.
4) make for: In this case, "make for" means create or lead to, one or more elements in a situation created or led to the outcome X. So The wave of new products has "made for" a highly competitive market, for example. Or "Clear skies and warm temperatures 'made for' a beautiful Saturday."
5) well-rounded: This means comprehensive, well-balanced in a variety of elements. I remember when I was writing my applications for college, my teachers told me universities are looking for 'well rounded' students. In other words, they wanted to see a range of things on my application like, good grades, extracurricular activities, community service.
6) truism: This is a truth so obvious it doesn't need to be stated. It's a self-evident truth. I saw an interesting statement the other day. It said "It's an unfortunate 'truism' that common courtesy is not that common."
7) no sense in: There's no point in doing something. It's not sound or reasonable to do it, Garcia is saying. So a single person without children might think, "There's 'no sense in' buying a car yet. I can rent one if I need it."
8) bottle up one's emotions: Garcia uses "bottle up" in the sense of keep one's emotions inside, not express them, you know, as if we confined them inside the bottle. So you could say something like, "He 'bottled up his frustration' for so long it roared out during the meeting."
9) a good way of: This usage may sound odd in the vignette. Why would we want to lose the loyalty of our staff? But we often say, "X is a 'good way of' getting or a good way to get bad result Y. It just means that doing X will ensure Y, make Y very likely. So for example, "Not backing up our computer files is 'a good way of' losing important documents." Or "Not backing up our computer files is 'a good way to' lose important documents."
