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=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*= ■□■NHKビジネス英語を120%利用■□■ & NHK News Headlines 発行者責任者 / Sanae Kawamoto 協力： Cecile, Sei Shimura, Ina, Akira, Kimie, Hiromi, Shin, Hiroko =*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*-=*= みなさん、おはようございます。 実践ビジネス英語 5/09 (Fri.) 分のお届けです。 ========================================================= 【原稿チェック： Hiromi, Ina, Cecile, Kimie, Hiroko, Shin】 【ディクテーション： Sanae】 ========================================================= 実践ビジネス英語 Friday, May 9 1<I>: Hello and welcome to the show. This is Susan Iwamoto. Let's put our communication skills to work. 2<S>: Now, in our most recent lesson, Hiroshi was advised to use the corporate concierge at the Great Lakes. Have you had a concierge at any of your past workplaces? 3<I>: No, but I would have loved it. However, I did have something similar to a corporate concierge's offer at one of my past employers in Japan. 4<S>: Really? What do you mean? 5<I>: Well, I worked at the headquarters of a major Japanese corporation for several years. And I was grateful for a number of support services the company offered its employees. We had a wonderful fitness club on the premises as well as banking services, a travel agency and a medical clinic staffed with several physicians. This was a huge help to those of us with long commutes, which was practically everyone I worked with. And when I first started working there, I had a 90-minute commute each way, not so unusual, and if I worked overtime, it would have been nearly impossible to try to complete any errands in my neighborhood before the shops closed. 6<S>: I understand only about five percent of American companies use the corporate concierge services. 7<I>: That's true and I'd say full-service concierges are still considered a very special perk rather than a standard benefit, but according to a survey done by an HR organization, these kind of perks have continued to increase over the past ten years or so. Some of the serves are even being outsourced to other countries. So there are a number of companies and individuals offering virtual assistant services. And these assistants can handle anything that can be done by phone or on the Internet. They may not be able to handdeliver theater tickets or your coffee from Ireland or India to your office in Chicago, but they can certainly arrange for someone to do so. 8<S>: Now, what are some of the other perks employers offer to attract top professionals? 9<I>: Well, as you might imagine, the variety of perks available varies by position and industry. For example, the hospital my sister works for offers popular perks such as discounts on sports and theater tickets, flower delivery, car rentals and gym memberships. Another friend of mine worked for a consumer products company, and she was able to buy most of our household needs from toothpaste to pet food at deeply discounted prices from the company store. Now other executives may receive company cars or even the use of corporate jets. Many companies offer on-site child care and that's something that is extremely attractive to working parents with small children. 10<S>: It sounds as though employees today are getting a great deal. What does the employer get out of it? 11<I>: Well, you know, as Jay said in the vignette, companies strive to be seen as an "Employer of Choice," especially when it comes to offering a working environment that supports a healthy work-life balance. Every year there are rankings of the most family-friendly companies, the best companies for women, etc. And the companies who make these lists get great publicity out of it. Being so highly rated not only attracts great people to work there but can also help boost their public image overall. I know that I take that into account when I choose who to work with, then it occasionally affects my choices as a consumer, too. ----------------- Word Watching ----------------- ■ smart 12) That's right. So "smart" is often used to mean intelligent in American English. And actually we sometimes say someone is "book-smart," which means that they have a lot of knowledge they learned from books in the classroom, academic knowledge. ■ envy 13) So you will often hear people say, "I envy you." But interestingly enough, there's another way we use this, "I don't envy you" to mean something, I guess, that would be similar to the Japanese "大変ですね" "Oh, I don't envy you. You've got so much work to do." ■ Grim Reaper 14) The "Grim Reaper" is definitely someone you don't want to meet. It has been used as a symbol of death for so many years in the U.S. and also in Europe. It's this very scary-looking figure in a black-hooded robe with a long scythe, this kind of long curved blade. ■ Karoshi 15) And it is difficult to translate, so it's used as is in Japanese. ■ work one's butt off 16) This is one of these great casual expressions that we'll use to mean "working really hard." We use some other body parts with "off" in this situation. You can say "laugh one's head off" or "scream one's head off," or if you "run your mouth off" it means that you talk and talk and talk. ■ be on top of something 17) We might also say "you are on the ball" but we would never use "on the bottom of something." ------------------------- 18) That's all for today. 19) Thanks for joining us. ========================================================= ==== NHK News Headlines by Sei Shimura ==== （この部分は、NHKラジオ第 2放送、午後 6時からのニュースヘッドラインを志村さんがディクテーションしてお送りします。） ------------------------------------------------- NHK News Headlines / Saturday, May 10, 2008 #3,565 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Voting is underway in Myanmar's referendum on a new draft constitution despite appeals to put off the vote to focus on relief activities after the cyclone disaster. 2) Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Buddhist temples in the ancient Japanese capital Nara on Saturday, the last day of his five-day visit to Japan. <Words & Phrases> 1) referendum 国民投票 2) relief activities 救助活動 ---------------------------------------------- NHK News Headlines / Friday, May 9, 2008 #3,564 ---------------------------------------------- 1) The Japanese government will send up to 10 million dollars' worth of additional aid to Myanmar. 2) The United States says it has received documents detailing operations at nuclear facilities in Nyonbyong from North Korea. 3) A Japanese Diet committee has passed legislation to cancel a ban on the use of space for defense purposes. <Words & Phrases> 1) Nyonbyong 寧辺(ニョンビョン) 2) pass legislation 法案を可決させる ========================================================= このメルマガは、NHKラジオ英語講座の「入門ビジネス英語」「実践ビジネス英語」を聴き、番組中の講師とネイティブの解説やおしゃべり部分をディクテーションしてお届けしています。テキストには書いていない部分ですので、何と話していたのだかの確認のためにご利用ください。NHKラジオ講座を使った熱心な英語学習者のために個人的に作成しているもので、NHKとは関係ありません。 ========================================================= このメールマガジンは「まぐまぐ」と「melma」を利用しています。 配信中止は http://home.att.ne.jp/zeta/sanae/melmaga.htm お問い合わせは sanae@sta.att.ne.jp まで ホームページ http://home.att.ne.jp/zeta/sanae/ ========================================================= |
