遠山顕の英会話入門 2023年夏号 Dialog 8
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Write It!
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◆ Bの中心には、Aがあります
C: Well, we saw the sentence "That's central," in the dialog.
K: Uh-huh.
C: So, we're gonna (going to) use "central," and we are going to write what actually is central, and we'll use the pattern "A is central to B."
K: What is the actual answer going to be like?
C: It's "The romance of Altair and Vega is the Tanabata Festival."
◆ それを笹の枝に結びつけます
K: Jeff?
J: Uh-huh.
K: 「結びつけます、それを」、これどうしましょう？
J: Well, we use the word "tie." So, we would "tie them," whatever we're tiing, "tie them to 何々."
K: 「笹の枝」は？
J: Right, bamboo branches.
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C: Always.
J: I'm sure they did.
C: Very nice.
J: Well done.
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Before We Move On!
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K: What about other expressions, phrases that you can use?
J: Well, you could say, "I second that."
J: Right.
K: Would you say that again?
J: Uh-uh. I second that.
C: And you can also say, "You can say that again."
K: Would you say that again?
C: You can say that again.
J: And something kind of like that "You said it."
C: Oh, that's a good one.
J: Yeah.
K: Would you say that again?
J: You said it.
C: And here's another, "I can't deny that."
C: I can't deny that.
C: You can say that again.
K: I second that or third that or whatever.
