I deleted all my messages and then sent an e-mail hail to all the people on my contact list.
You just made that up?
Each e-mail you send begets at least one more in your in-box.
■意味を考えてみよう。答えは以下で
down in the dumps hinge on e-mail hail make up beget be hung up on I wasn't born neatnik empathize with pile up unanswered
────────────────────────────── down in the dumps, ふさぎ込んだ ────────────────────────────── If you are down in the dumps, you are feeling very depressed and miserable. [INFORMAL]
ex) She's feeling a bit down in the dumps and needs cheering up.
────────────────────────────── hinge on, …に依存する、…にかかっている ────────────────────────────── If one thing hinges on or hinges upon another, its existence or qualities depend entirely on the existence or qualities of the other thing.
[NOTE] Hang on means almost the same as hinge on.
ex) He said everything hinged on what happened to the United States economy.
────────────────────────────── e-mail hail, 電子メールを矢継ぎ早に送信すること ────────────────────────────── A hail of things, usually small objects, is a large number of them that hit you at the same time and with great force.
ex) The victim was hit by a hail of bullets.
────────────────────────────── make up, …をでっちあげる ────────────────────────────── If you make up something such as a story, you invent it, sometimes in order to deceive people.
ex) She told herself, 'Don't be stupid, you're making things up.'
────────────────────────────── beget, （…を）生じさせる、（…を）来す ────────────────────────────── To beget something means to cause it to happen or be created. [FORMAL]
ex) Economic tensions beget political ones.
（通例、好ましくないものを）生む、とのことです。
来す。。。読めません。
────────────────────────────── その他にも、次も押さえておきたい。[誌面の都合上省略] ★は重要表現 ────────────────────────────── be hung up on, …にこだわる I wasn't born, 生まれながらの…ではない neatnik, 身だしなみのよい人、身ぎれいな人 empathize with, 共感する pile up unanswered, 未返信のままたまる
"NHKラジオ ビジネス英会話 E-mail Overload (3) 9/21-22 2007"
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