The Daily English Show #734 YouTubeでフィーチャーの歌で英語の勉強。　崖から飛び降りたら願いを叶えてくれるとしたら？

#734 YouTubeでフィーチャーの歌で英語の勉強。　崖から飛び降りたら願いを叶えてくれるとしたら？

2008 / 05 / 16 ( Fri )

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Hi, I’m Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show.

Today I recommend a song which I found on YouTube because it was featured on the front page.
The song is called: It Gets Lonely.
I think it’s a good one to study because it’s pretty simple, it’s easy to understand and the lyrics are pretty clear. And he has a really nice voice too.

I think the song is about a person who is lonely because a relationship has ended and they didn’t want it to end.

I’d like to talk about a couple of lines from the song.

One line is:
　The meetings they are running late for

He’s talking about people who are running late for meetings.

To run late doesn’t mean that you are actually running, it just means that you are late. So what’s the difference between to be late and to be running late?

Well, if you are running late for something like a meeting or an appointment it means that you are not late yet, because you haven’t arrived at the event, but you know that you’re going to be late because it’s impossible for you to arrive on time – either because it’s going to take a certain amount of time to get there, or because the start time has already passed, so you know you’re going to be late.

Here’s an example from an article I found online about time management.

　I'm always running late — doctor appointments, lunch dates, personal-training sessions. I have a problem getting to work on time, too.

I also found an article called:
Top 10 Excuses When You're Running Late

And I found a video online called:

　How To Stop Running Late

One more thing about the song, there’s a line that goes like this:

　and people dressed to kill.

That sounds like people who are wearing army clothes to go and kill people, or hunting clothes to go and kill animals – but no, it’s actually an idiom. Dressed to kill is an idiom which means: wearing the kind of clothes that will make people notice and admire you.

STICK NEWS

Kia Ora, in Stick News today guards at a prison in Nova Scotia, Canada are refusing to work after asbestos was discovered at the prison.

Asbestos is a group of minerals with long, thin fibrous crystals.
Apparently, the Greeks called asbestos a "miracle mineral" because of its soft and pliant properties, as well as its ability to withstand heat.
Wikipedia says, unfortunately, this "miracle material" is now known to be highly toxic. The inhalation of asbestos fibers can cause serious illnesses, and since the mid 1980s, many uses of asbestos have been banned in many countries.
The Cape Breton Correctional Facility is a provincial jail in Sydney, Nova Scotia which houses 76 inmates.
When it was built 33 years ago asbestos was used in construction as a fire retardant.
Now nine staff members at the prison are refusing to work because they believe it is unsafe.
Wikinews reports the location is now undergoing testing, and the police will be providing emergency staffing until the issue is resolved.

And that was Stick News for Friday 16th of May.
Kia Ora.

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Word Of The Day

Today’s word is retard.
Retard is a verb which means to delay or hold back in terms of development.

The word is also used as a noun, put it’s pronounced differently.

retard v. /ri’ta:d/
retard n. /’ri:ta:d/

The noun can be used in a derogatory way to refer to a mentally challenged person but it's more commonly used as a general insult, like the word idiot.

friday joke

Three boys were hanging out at the top of a cliff. One of the boys saw a bottle and picked it up. Suddenly a genie popped out of the bottle and said: “Thank you for releasing me from this ancient curse. If you jump off this cliff and call out whatever you desire, you will land safely in a boat in a bountiful pile of that which you named.”
Then the genie disappeared.
The boy thought for a while, then leapt off the cliff, calling, “GOLD”, and he landed in a boat full of gold.
The second boy thought for a while and then jumped off the cliff calling: “DIAMONDS” and he landed in a boat full of diamonds.
The third boy was so excited that he forgot to think of anything to wish for and jumped off the cliff yelling, “WEEEEEE”.

　※wee＝おしっこ

conversations with sarah

　　I guess I could get in trouble

Kana
Does retard mean the same thing as idiot?
　Retardってマヌケと同じ意味？

Sarah
Yeah, but retard is stronger.
　うん、でもretardの方がより強いかな。

Kana
So people would be offended if I called them that?
　私が誰かをそう呼んだら怒らすことになるかな？

Sarah

Yeah, well it depends on the person.
　まあ、相手によるかな。

Kana
Some people wouldn’t be offended?
　人によっては怒らないってこと？

Sarah
Yeah, well, some people jokingly call their close friends names like idiot or retard or fool. But I don’t recommend trying it.
　そうだね、人によっては仲の良い友だち同士で、マヌケとかアホとかreatardって呼び合うからね。　でも言わない方が良いと思うよ。

Kana
I guess I could get in trouble.
　トラブルに巻き込まれるかもね。

Sarah
Yeah, if you judge the mood wrong they could get really annoyed.
　そうだね、もし空気を読み違えたらすごく嫌われちゃうかも。

サラのメモ：

　　It Gets Lonely
　　　　　　(Copyright 2008, Cooper & Caruso Music, Ltd.)

It gets lonely
so, so lonely
Surrounded by all these people
With important things to do

It gets lonely
so, so lonely
Surrounded by all these people
When none of them are you.

The meetings they are running late for
And the calls they need to take
Syncing calendars and appointments
on their cigarette break.
Blinking schedules and reminders
and the emails BCC'd
Wanting things they're never getting.
Getting things they'll never need.

It gets lonely
so, so lonely
Surrounded by all these people
With important things to do

It gets lonely
so, so lonely
Surrounded by all these people
When none of them are you.

Feels like I'm moving in slow motion
Or am I standing still?
In an ocean filled with taxi cabs
and people dressed to kill.
As their watches tick the hours
diamond dangling from their ears.
Like a symphony of silence.
Making music no one hears.

It wouldn't be this hard for me
if I knew you were still mine.
I tell myself I'm doing better
I tell myself I'm doing fine.

It gets lonely
so, so lonely
Surrounded by all these people
With important things to do

It gets lonely
so, so lonely
Surrounded by all these people
But none of them are you.
None of them are you.

knfの独り言：
すごくイイ声。　聴き惚れました。。。

Show 734 Friday 16 May
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