We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
また、それでも会話中に逆に答えてしまったことに気がついた場合は、”No... oh, I mean, yes. I like tomatoes.“といったように、「ことばの消しゴム："I mean"」で訂正すれば済む話。心理学的にも、間違えちゃいけないと思うほど間違えやすくなるので、対策法を知った上で気楽に構えていた方が得策です。
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余談ですが、”Don’t you like tomatoes?”というのは、中学時代の教科書に出てきて、なんか知らんけどクラスで流行った思い出の例文のひとつ。（まぁ年代がバレるんですけどね…）
極端な例だが、「イギリスで見知らぬ人に助けを求める場合」であれば "HELP!"と叫んではならず、"Excuse me, Sir. I'm terribly sorry to bother you, but I wonder if you would mind helping me a moment, as long as it's no trouble, of course."と丁寧に願い出るのが作法である*し、"I love you."は「月が綺麗ですね。」と訳してこそ粋というものである(￣∇￣)
I wanted him to know that the way we find our strength is through our challenges. I wanted him to know that we can alldosomething big when we startsmall. I wanted him to know that each of us is more resilient than we could ever imagine. So here I am holding little Thelonious. I look down at him, and it hits me: he's a baby.
"I wanted him to know that ~"という弱・強リズムの繰り返しで、確かに大人が子どもに伝えたいと想うメッセージが提示され…
Thelonious君を腕に抱きながら気がついた (it hits me)：赤ちゃんやないか！と。
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また、ガリレオが個人的に「ここは！」と思ったのが以下 (8:47頃)：
We forget that the power to changesomeone's life is always in our hands. Change-making does not belong to one group of people; it belongs to all of us. You don't have to wait on anyone to tell you that you are in this. Begin. Start by doing what you can with what you've got, where you are and in your ownway.
この授業シリーズが 7/4 (火)より、The Empty Hearse「空の霊柩車」を題材とした Season 3の配信をスタートします！
☆ Live from 221B ~Season 3~からの変更点 ★
・ドラマスクリプト（会話部分）だけに集中！
Season 1~2での授業では、熱狂的 Sherlockianである Ariane DeVereさんが作成された詳細な場面描写付きのスクリプトを、ご本人のご承諾をいただいてテキストに使用していました。もちろんそれも高い学習効果を生んでいたのですが、Arianeさんが "speaker and spoken words only" versionを作成してくれていたこともあり、Season 3からは実際のドラマの中で繰り広げられる会話表現を集中的に学んでいくスタイルに変更します。これにより、現代の Londonで実際に交わされる本物のイギリス英語の会話表現がより強く記憶の中に残りやすい授業に進化を遂げます！
・実践への応用を意識した解説の充実化！
Sherlockの世界では thrillingかつ excitingな出来事が次々と起こり、そこが大きな魅力ですが、我々の住む現実世界にそのまま応用できる表現ばかりが出てくるわけでもありません。よって Live from 221Bの授業においては、Sherlockたちのセリフに現れる英語を出発点として、日常での応用例を数多く繰り返し紹介していきます。ドラマの中で繰り返し使われる表現は日常生活においても多用されます。ドラマスクリプトを学んで「ふ〜ん」で終わるのではなく、授業と課題ファイルで【使える英語】として脳に焼き付き・口をついて出てくるように、ガリレオが導きます！
ニュースに対して自分の意見を英語で表現するための参考としてもらうための記事シリーズ第２弾。今回は、3/28から流通開始となった、イギリスの new £1 coinについての記事を題材にしてみよう。
■「これからの時代を考えると無駄が多い」編
Although the new £1 coin looks beautiful and will attract collectors, I wonder how much it will cost to change the lockers, vending machines and shopping trolleys*. Nowadays, e-cash systems are becoming more and more popular and this trend will continue. I think it would be more convenient to make them work with, say, an Oyster card, when changes have to be made anyway. Obviously, we are moving towards the cashless society and from this point of view, all the efforts and troubles to prepare for the new design do not appear to be worth the cost.
The news says that this new coin has a hidden security feature to protect it from counterfeiting. Considering the fact that 2.55% of £1 coins in circulation were estimated to be fake in 2015, it is wise of the Royal Mint* not to reveal any details about the additional feature. But still, counterfeiters will definitely try to duplicate this new £1 coin, too. Whatever the "hidden feature" may be, I hope it will really produce the intended result.
*背景説明: the Royal Mint「王立造幣局」
→英国の硬貨鋳造を担当する政府の施設。ここでの mintはスースーするやつではなく、ラテン語 moneta (money)を語源とする「造幣局」の意味。
As the first lady in this video says, he does speak his mind and won the presidential election. I believe politicians today should learn to express their true feelings, instead of sticking to their public stance, because people are used to communicating with celebrities through SNS and feel sympathy for those who seem "closer" to them. In this sense, at least to some extent, President Trump succeeded in getting people to think that he shares the same view as them. As Near (Death Note) says, "if you can't beat the game, if you can't solve the puzzle, you're nothing but a loser."
Although his supporters might assume that Mr Trump is honest because he appears to be speaking his mind, we should distinguish "frankness" and "honesty". I don't think he is trustworthy or well qualified as a politician, because he is neither tactful nor diplomatic. What the President is supposed to do is to manage various conflicts, rather than to provoke them. Just dividing the world into half -- his supporters and his enemies -- and condemning the latter will never solve any problem. As a business leader, it might be legitimate for him to say whatever he believes at his own risk, but as a politician, he needs to know where he stands.
I think the third man in the video has got a point. Indeed, it's only been a month and thus it's too early to decide whether Mr Trump is a good President or not. What we really have to focus on is whether he can really turn things around as the man says, or he will just turn the world upside down.
（大意）
三番目の男性の言っていることに一理ある。大統領就任後1ヶ月では、トランプ氏について判断を下すには時期尚早。本当に事態を好転させられる (turn things around)のか、それとも世界をめちゃくちゃにしてしまう (turn the world upside down)だけなのか、そこに注目していく必要があろう。
