tip over course of action fall prey to drive someone up the wall turn to curtail hanky-panky with the best intentions disruptive
────────────────────────────── tip over, …をひっくり返す ────────────────────────────── When you tip an object over or when it tips over, it falls or turns onto its side or upside down.
NOTE: overturn means almost the same as tip over.
ex) She tipped the pan over and a dozen fish fell out.
────────────────────────────── course of action, 行動方針、一連の措置 ────────────────────────────── A course of action is an action or a series of actions that you can do in a particular situation.
E-DICより。
a course of action「方策，対策，手段，措置」
I am opposed to a course of action that may risk war. 私は戦争の危険をはらむ方策には反対だ
────────────────────────────── fall prey to, …のえじきになる ────────────────────────────── To fall prey to something bad means to be taken over or affected by it.
ex) On the flight from Paris to Toulon, Mechiche fell prey to panic.
────────────────────────────── drive someone up the wall, （人）を極度の不安に陥れる、 （人）を窮地に陥れる ────────────────────────────── If you say that something or someone is driving you up the wall, you mean that they are annoying and irritating you a lot.
Turn down the volume of the radio, will you? The noise is driving me up the wall. ラジオの音を小さくしてくれないか。 それを聞いてると気が狂いそうになるんだ
────────────────────────────── turn to, 助けを求める ────────────────────────────── If you turn to someone, you ask them for something such as help, advice, or information.
ex) Thank you Geoff. Now we turn to John Venables to see what he thinks.
E-DICより。
someone to turn to (for advice) 相談相手
このturn toは「頼る」というほどの意味で、for adviceは省略して 言う場合も多い。
I was in need of someone to turn to. 私は相談相手を必要としていた
───────────────────────────── 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 ────────────────────────────── ★curtail, 切り詰める、そぐ、押さえる hanky-panky, 不道徳な行為 with the best intentions, 善意で disruptive, 破壊的な、秩序を乱す
"NHKラジオ ビジネス英会話 Stress Control (3) 5/4-5 2007"
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