They couldn't care less about what's stocked in the mini-bar.
Top hotels are pushing the pedal to the metal on stepping up health and fitness amenities.
Hotel managers are learning to read body language.
Body language is the gestures, movements and mannerisms by which a person or animal communicates with others.
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couldn't care less push[put] the pedal to the metal amenities read body language mannerism
────────────────────────────── couldn't care less, まったくかまわない、全然気にしない ────────────────────────────── If you say that you couldn't care less about someone or something, you are emphasizing that you are not interested in them or worried about them. In American English, you can also say that you could care less, with the same meaning.
ex) Personally, I couldn't have cared less whether the ice-cream came from Italy or England.
────────────────────────────── push[put] the pedal to the metal, 全速力で車を運転する ────────────────────────────── このto the metalの意味がわからないのですが、色々調べたところ 「自動車の床」と解釈すると良いようです。
────────────────────────────── amenities, 生活を楽しく[快適に]するもの[設備、施設、場所] ────────────────────────────── Amenities are things such as shopping centres or sports facilities that are provided for people's convenience, enjoyment, or comfort.
ex) The hotel amenities include health clubs, conference facilities, and banqueting rooms.
────────────────────────────── read body language, 顔色や表情、態度から意味を感じ取る[判断する] ────────────────────────────── If you can read someone or you can read their gestures, you can understand what they are thinking or feeling by the way they behave or the things they say.
ex) If you have to work in a team you must learn to read people.
step on itが同じ意味。
────────────────────────────── mannerism, （言動などの無意識の）特徴、癖 ────────────────────────────── Say What You Meanのコーナーから。
Someone's mannerisms are the gestures or ways of speaking which are very characteristic of them, and which they often use.
ex) His mannerisms are more those of a preoccupied math professor.
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