去年の秋頃から、手帳に夕食の内容を書きためています。 一ヶ月見開きページのカレンダータイプの手帳を使って います。 こうすると、自分が何を食べてきたのか、一目でわかります。 去年の鍋マイブームのあと、最近は再び外食中心になって いるので、この手帳を見ることで、つい同じ店に何回も 行っていることなどが、わかります。 休日に、あの店には月に一回ペースで行っている、といった 思わぬ発見もあります。 これもひとつの、レコーディングダイエットです。
■NHKラジオ 実践ビジネス英語 Shady Investment Seminar (3) 5/22 2009 ■意味を考えてみよう。今日取り上げる単語が含まれています。 Luckily, though, my mom is quite financially literate - she used to teach bookkeeping at a local high school and is well aware of market mechanics. How sleazy. I told her not to sign anything until I'd had a chance to go over the documents, and once I did, I saw right away that this was a sophisticated con job aimed at fleecing gullible retirees. Thank goodness your mother had the presence of mind to wait until she'd checked things out with you, Rosa. ────────────────────────────── financially literate, 財政 [金融] に通じている ────────────────────────────── If you describe someone as literate in a particular subject, especially one that many people do not know anything about, you mean that they have a good knowledge and understanding of that subject. ex) Head teachers need to be financially literate. ────────────────────────────── sleazy, たちの悪い、あくどい ────────────────────────────── If you describe something or someone as sleazy, you disapprove of them because you think they are not respectable and are rather disgusting. [INFORMAL] ex) a sleazy fellow ────────────────────────────── fleece, ...から金を巻き上げる ────────────────────────────── If you fleece someone, you get a lot of money from them by tricking them or charging them too much. [INFORMAL] ex) She claims he fleeced her out of thousands of pounds. ────────────────────────────── gullible, だまされやすい ────────────────────────────── If you describe someone as gullible, you mean they are easily tricked because they are too trusting. ex) I'm so gullible I would have believed him. ────────────────────────────── have the presence of mind to, ...する冷静さがある ────────────────────────────── If you say that someone had the presence of mind to do something, you approve of them because they were able to think and act calmly in a difficult situation. ex) He had the presence of mind to put his emergency oxygen tube in his mouth. ────────────────────────────── その他にも、次も押さえておきたい。[誌面の都合上省略] ★は重要表現 ────────────────────────────── You can say that again. , あなたの言うとおりです。同感です。 put the squeeze on something, （人）に圧力をかける fall for the hard sell, 強引な売り込みに引っ掛かる liquid, (金融資産などが)現金化しやすい、流動性がある surrender charge, 中途解約料 be after, ...を求める、...を手に入れようとする、...を狙っている
