Being the newest addition to the team makes it easy to overstep bounds.
My boss wasn't pleased, and actually became quite vengeful, if we forget to send her not only cards but flowers and gifts as well.
Shuzo hates fawning.
Managing up is just as essential as fine-tuned teamwork with equals.
■意味を考えてみよう。答えは以下で
overstep bounds vengeful fawning fine-tune equal
────────────────────────────── overstep bounds, 出すぎたまねをする ────────────────────────────── If you say that someone oversteps the limits of a system or situation, you mean that they do something that is not allowed or is not acceptable.
ex) In male company, perhaps he did overstep the bounds of propriety.
────────────────────────────── vengeful, 執念深い ────────────────────────────── If you describe someone as vengeful, you are critical of them because they feel a great desire for revenge.
revengeする欲求が高いのをvengefulというのでしょう。
revengeの同意語でvengeanceも「復讐」 avengeは「復讐する」
ex) He was stabbed to death by his vengeful wife.
────────────────────────────── fawning, へつらい ────────────────────────────── If you say that someone fawns over a powerful or rich person, you disapprove of them because they flatter that person and like to be with him or her.
同意語 kowtow
ex) People fawn over you when you're famous.
────────────────────────────── fine-tune, 微調整する ────────────────────────────── If you fine-tune something, you make very small and precise changes to it in order to make it as successful or effective as it possibly can be.
ex) We do not try to fine-tune the economy on the basis of short-term predictions.
────────────────────────────── equal, 対等[同等]の人 ────────────────────────────── Someone who is your equal has the same ability, status, or rights as you have.
ex) You should have married somebody more your equal.
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