do oneself a disfavor act your age stave off prolong in thing a dab of
────────────────────────────── do oneself a disfavor, 不評を買う ────────────────────────────── If someone or something is in disfavour, people dislike or disapprove of them. If someone or something falls into disfavour, people start to dislike or disapprove of them. [FORMAL]
ex) He had escaped from Russia because his boss was in disfavour with the ruling party.
────────────────────────────── act your age, 年相応に分別のあるふるまいをせよ ────────────────────────────── If someone tells you to act your age, they are telling you to behave in a way that is suitable for someone your age, because they think your are behaving in a childish way.
杉田先生の解説からです。
ビニエットには、underact my ageと出ています。
────────────────────────────── stave off, 食い止める、寄せつけない ────────────────────────────── To stave off an unpleasant event means to prevent it happening. NOTE: Avert is a more formal word for stave off.
ex) There wasn't much that Abel could have done to stave off disaster.
────────────────────────────── prolong, 延長する、長引かせる ────────────────────────────── =extend To prolong something means to make it last longer.
ex) Mr Chesler said foreign military aid was prolonging the war.
────────────────────────────── in thing, 流行 ────────────────────────────── inという接頭語には「流行の」という意味があります。
in-language 最新流行の言葉（づかい） in-thing （今はやりで）かっこいいこと
It is the in thing to do. それは今はやりだ。
───────────────────────────── その他にも、次も押さえておきたい。[誌面の都合上省略] ────────────────────────────── a dab of, 少量の
"NHKラジオ ビジネス英会話 To Dye or Not to Dye (2) 3/21-22 2007"
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