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Today you're coming with me around the city so
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that you can learn 20 everyday really useful English expressions like this
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and this helps us remember the expression make a splash
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and idioms like this this big fella behind me leads us to our next expression the lion's share and even this
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so you would probably say he's naked or you could use this next expression he's starkers hi i'm steve
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now this city is unusual
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because it's got two cathedrals this is what's commonly known as the old one
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and this one which as you can see is a lot more modern
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and you could say these two cathedrals are like chalk and cheese, which is our next expression.
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Chalk and cheese.
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This is used when two things are very different, like this.
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One of my kids likes riding their bike, but the other prefers reading.
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They're like chalk and cheese.
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If you look behind me, you can see lots of rope on this boat,
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which leads us nicely to our next expression, money but old rope.
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This means money that's easy to come by.
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You can get it without much effort.
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Use it like this.
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She's a television reviewer.
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Her job is money for old rope.
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Behind me is the only natural spring in the whole of this city.
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And it leads into this tiny little pond.
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And this helps us remember the expression, make a splash.
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To make a splash means to attract attention.
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Do something that makes you stand out.
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He really made a splash at the party by wearing a fancy jacket.
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Now behind me is grass.
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And that takes us to our next expression.
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The other man's grass is always greener.
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This means that other people always seem to be in a better situation than you are.
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It's used like this.
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He said that he wanted to change his job, but I warned him that the other man's grass is always greener.
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These stones that I'm walking on are called cobbles, and that should help us with the phrase cobble together.
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This means to make or build something quickly, using whatever you already have.
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Chews like this.
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They cobbled together a meal from what was already in the fridge.
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And now I'm in the underground to bring you the next English expression. On the right track.
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To be on the right track means to be acting or thinking in a way that's likely to lead to success.
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She checked her notes again and realised she was on the right track for the test.
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Now we're inside the railway station, and behind me you can see a train.
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This leads us to our next expression, lose your train of thought.
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This means to forget what you were talking about, or thinking, because of an interruption.
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The loud noise made me lose my train of thought.
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Now this used to be a small prison and to say that someone's actually in prison, we use the expression behind bars.
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This means to be in prison.
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Use it like this.
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The gang of car thieves are all behind bars.
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Behind me are headstones.
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These belong on a grave.
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And that gives us our next English expression, pushing up daisies.
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This English expression means to be dead and buried.
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He was warned that he'll be pushing up daisies if he keeps driving so fast.
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As we look around the city, you can see that there's one building that's a lot taller than all the others.
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It's that tower behind me.
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So we could use the expression, it's head and shoulders above the rest.
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This means to be much bigger or better than everyone or everything else.
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She is head and shoulders above the rest of the applicants for the job.
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This statue behind me is really famous in this city and as you can see he's not wearing any clothes at all.
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So you would probably say he's naked or you could use this next expression, he's Stalkers.
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Stalkers means to be completely naked.
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Use it like this.
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He came out of the bathroom stalkers because he forgot to take his towel.
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In the UK, we usually don't say call a cab, we say hail a cab.
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Use it like this.
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In English we say we're going to hail a cab, basically it means to wave your hand to stop a taxi in the street.
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They stepped out into the rain and put their hand up to hail a cab.
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I've been walking for over an hour now making this video.
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So I could say I was tired, or I could use the expression, I'm pooped.
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If you're pooped, you're extremely tired or exhausted.
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So you might say...
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After working all day, I was far too pooped to go out for dinner.
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Now this statue is a member of the royal family riding a horse.
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And that leads us to our next expression.
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Straight from the horse's mouth.
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This expression means to get information directly from the person who knows all about it.
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She knew the shop was closing because she heard it straight from the horse's mouth when the owner told her.
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This big fella behind me leads us to our next expression.
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The lion's share.
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The lion's share means the largest portion or the majority of something.
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She was like this.
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He spent the lion's share of his Saturday morning tidying the house before his guests arrived.
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and the next expression is it's fishy
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if something is fishy it means it's suspicious
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or you don't trust it something about his sudden decision to
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sell the business felt fishy the coffee shop behind me is one of my favorites
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because it gives all its profits to homeless people However, it's quite tricky to find.
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And that's because it's off the beaten track.
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Off the beaten track means located far away from busy roads or popular places where most people go.
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Often it's quite hard to find.
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We found a brilliant little seafood place off the beaten track.
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Now we're in one of the main shopping streets, which lets us use our next expression, to shop around, which is what these people are doing.
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This means to compare prices and quality at different places before you buy it.
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It's worth shopping around instead of buying the first thing, you see.
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This city has two football teams.
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Liverpool, who play in red and Everton, who play in blue.
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That reminds me of two really useful English phrases.
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out of the blue.
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Out of the blue means unexpectedly or without any warning.
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It was out of the blue when he asked her to marry him. And into the red.
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This means to spend more money than you really have.
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Paying for the roof to be fixed pushed their bank account into the red.
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このB1レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「Sound More British · Everyday Expressions explained in the City」を教材にしています。 繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：expression, English, lead, track。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が104文、単語が1167語あります。 音声の長さは10:16です。 話す速さは1分あたり約114語で安定しており、シャドーイングしやすいペースです。 単語の88%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれるため、語彙は分かりやすいです。
この動画の重要語彙
動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。
| 単語 | 発音 | 意味 |
|---|---|---|
| splash 動詞 | /splæʃ/ | はね散らす, し吹く |
| stalker 名詞 | /ˈstɔːkə(ɹ)/ | ストーカー |
| poop 名詞 | /ˈpuːp/ | うんち, うんこ |
| chalk 名詞 | /t͡ʃɔk/ | 白亜 |
| hail 名詞 | /heɪl/ | 霰, 雹 |
| rope 名詞 | /ɹoʊp/ | ロープ, 綱 |
| daisy 名詞 | /ˈdeɪ.zi/ | 雛菊, 延命菊 |
| cathedral 名詞 | /kəˈθiːdɹəl/ | 大聖堂 |
| warn 動詞 | /woɹn/ | 警告する, 言い聞かせる |
| statue 名詞 | /ˈstæt͡ʃu/ | 像, 彫像 |
| phrase 名詞 | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | 句, 語句 |
| interruption 名詞 | /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpʃən/ | 中断, 邪魔 |
| reviewer 名詞 | 評論家 | |
| starkers 形容詞 | /ˈstɑɹkɚz/ | すっぽんぽん |
| tidy 形容詞 | /ˈtaɪ.di/ | きちんとした, こざっぱりした |
動画に出てくる句動詞
| 単語 | 意味 |
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| look around 動詞 | 見回す |
この動画の文法
話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。
| 文型 | 動画での表現 |
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| 受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる | are called · was warned · be fixed |
| 関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える | cheese, which is · person who knows · around, which is |
| 比較級 -er than / more … than — 二つのものを比べる | taller than · better than · more money than |
| 過去進行形 was/were + -ing — 過去のある時点で進行中だった動作 | were talking · was closing |
注意したい発音
話し手はI'm, we're, you'reなど、短縮形や弱形を16回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。
- 「th」の音: cathedral /kəˈθiːdɹəl/, thief /ˈθiːf/, cloth /klɒθ/
- 「sh」と「zh」の音: splash /splæʃ/, interruption /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpʃən/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/
- 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: interruption /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpʃən/, unexpectedly /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪdli/
日本語話者が苦手な音：
- /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: fella /fɛ.lə/, phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, seafood /ˈsiːfuːd/, thief /ˈθiːf/
- 子音の連続 — 間に母音を入れない: splash /splæʃ/, stalker /ˈstɔːkə(ɹ)/, warn /woɹn/, statue /ˈstæt͡ʃu/, phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/
この動画での練習方法
- まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
- 通常の速度で一文ずつシャドーイングし、話し手のリズムに合うまで繰り返します。
- 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。splash, stalker, poopなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。
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