Rudeness is often the handmaiden of pressure building day in and day out.
The problem's exacerbated as we depend more and more on e-mail and phones instead of face-to-face conversation.
It really drives people crazy to be subjected to loud and annoying cell phone conversations.
Or the phones that blast funny ringtones in a busy office.
But even before the most recent technology was invented, there were always bosses who didn't acknowledge employees for entire days, as well as managers who were so frazzled that they perpetually lashed out at employees.
■意味を考えてみよう。答えは以下で
handmaiden exacerbate be subjected to blast acknowledge be frazzled perpetually lash out at backbreaking cross Boo-hoo syndrome bow out
────────────────────────────── handmaiden, 付随[従属]するもの ────────────────────────────── If one thing is the handmaiden of another, the first thing helps the second or makes it possible. [FORMAL]
ex) He disliked the idea that science should be a handmaiden to commerce.
────────────────────────────── exacerbate, 悪化させる = aggravate ────────────────────────────── If something exacerbates a problem or bad situation, it makes it worse. [FORMAL]
ex) Longstanding poverty has been exacerbated by racial divisions.
────────────────────────────── be subjected to, …にさらされる、…を被る ────────────────────────────── If you subject someone to something unpleasant, you make them experience it.
ex) Innocent civilians are being arrested and subjected to inhumane treatment.
────────────────────────────── blast, (大きな音を)出す、鳴らす ────────────────────────────── If you blast something such as a car horn, or if it blasts, it makes a sudden, loud sound, If something blasts music, or music blasts, the music is very loud.
ex) drivers who do not blast their horns.
────────────────────────────── acknowledge, (人に)あいさつする ────────────────────────────── If you acknowledge someone, for example by moving your head or smiling, you show that you have seen and recognized them.
ex) He saw her but refused to even acknowledge her.
"NHKラジオ ビジネス英会話 Be Nice (3) 11/9-10 2007"
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超メモ術の開発者です｡訪問者が急に増えたました｡
貴サイトでの紹介のお陰です｡ありがとうございました｡
これからも、改善していきますので宜しくお願いします｡
いま、超メモ術を活かしたスケジュール帳を準備中です｡
完成したら、ぜひご意見をお聞かせください｡
11/27/2007 10:02:00 午前