privy to field questions from call the shots the next best thing run the risk of
────────────────────────────── privy to, …（の内々）に限られた、…の内情に通じた ────────────────────────────── If you are privy to something secret, you have been allowed to know about it. [FORMAL]
ex) Only three people, including a policeman, will be privy to the facts.
────────────────────────────── field questions from, …からの質問をさばく、…からの質問に 当意即妙に答える ────────────────────────────── If you say that someone fields a question, you mean that they answer it or deal with it, usually successfully. [JOURNALISM]
ex) He was later shown on television, fielding questions.
────────────────────────────── call the shots, 支配する、牛耳る、指図する ────────────────────────────── The person who calls the shots is in a position to tell others what to do.
ex) The directors call the shots and nothing happens without their say-no.
────────────────────────────── the next best thing, 次善策、二番目によいこと ────────────────────────────── You use next to say that something has more of a particular quality than all other things except one. For example, the thing that is next best is the one that is the best except for one other thing.
ex) The one thing he didn't have was a son. I think he's felt that a grandson is the next best thing.
────────────────────────────── run the risk of, …の危険を冒す ────────────────────────────── If you run the risk of doing or experiencing something undesirable, you do something knowing that the undesirable thing might happen as a result.
ex) The officers had run the risk of being dismissed.
"NHKラジオ ビジネス英会話 Doctor-Patient Relations (4) 6/11-12 2007"
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私は準1級を受験したのですが、こちらもそうでした！ WuさんとIdaさんが登場しておられました。Idaさんの吹き替えは、キム・フォーサイスさんですよね？ 以前から多くの英語教材でお馴染みの美声です。
6/13/2007 01:36:00 午後
ほお準一級もビジ英の人が出ましたか。
吉報をおまちしておりますー
6/17/2007 12:34:00 午後