ウーさんの3行目、open up new shortcutsのopen upですが、 色々な意味があるようで、どれか判別できません。
二番目のウーさんで、fall by the waysideは聖書が語源のようです。 Expat Lifestyle (2) 10/4-5, 2006で出てきました。
■意味を考えてみよう。今日取り上げる単語が含まれています。
Learning how to operate the gadgets is beside the point.
When these young people pour into the workforce, they won't tote briefcases.
New technologies, including communication tools, will continue to come into play.
We're on the cusp of a new wave of corporate communications.
Do we rise to the challenge or fall by the wayside?
■今日注目する表現はこれ! 答えは以下で
beside the point pour into the workforce come into play on the cusp of rise to the challenge perpetual [形] fall by the wayside kick around [口] pintsize
────────────────────────────── beside the point, 別問題で、要点を外れて ────────────────────────────── If you say that something is beside the point, you mean that it is not relevant to the subject that you are discussing.
ex) Brian didn't like it, but that was beside the point.
────────────────────────────── pour into the workforce, 社会に出る、働き始める ────────────────────────────── When people or things pour into a place, they arrive there very quickly and in large numbers.
ex) There were hundreds in our ranks as we poured into the building.
Flood into means almost the same as pour into.
────────────────────────────── come into play, 作用 [活動] し始める ────────────────────────────── When something comes into play or is brought into play, it begins to be used or to have an effect.
ex) The real existence of a military option will come into play.
────────────────────────────── on the cusp of, …の最前線で [に] ────────────────────────────── If you say that someone or something is on the cusp, you mean they are between two states, or are about to be in a particular state.
ex) I am sitting on the cusp of middle age.
cuspは「とがった先端」という意味ですが、あまり聞きませんね。 on the cusp ofで、「…の変わり目に」とLEXISに載っていました。
────────────────────────────── rise to the challenge, 難題を善処する、挑戦に応じる ────────────────────────────── If someone rises to the challenge, they act in response to a difficult situation which is new to them and are successful.
ex) They rose to the challenge of entertaining 80 schoolchildren for an afternoon.
────────────────────────────── 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 ────────────────────────────── perpetual [形], 永続する、絶え間ない = permanent, continual ★fall by the wayside, 途中で挫折 [脱落] する kick around [口], …を比較検討する pintsize, 小さい
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