ラジオ英会話 Lesson 157 too、rather のイメージ
Key Sentence
The movie was too long.
Today’s dialog
ヘレンとギャリーはロマンチックな映画を見に行ったのに、ギャリーは寝てしまったようです。
Helen: Gary, I heard you snoring in the theater.
Gary: Was I snoring? I must have fallen asleep. The movie was too long.
Helen: It was so romantic and interesting. I can’t believe you slept through the most important scene!
Gary: Which scene did I miss?
Helen: Let’s go to a café and talk about it.
Gary: We’ve been sitting in a theater for two hours. I’d rather take a walk somewhere. The weather’s so nice.
Helen: All right, we can talk while we walk.
英訳練習
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Gary, I heard you snoring in the theater.
Was I snoring? I must have fallen asleep. The movie was too long.
It was so romantic and interesting. I can’t believe you slept through the most important scene!
Which scene did I miss?
Let’s go to a café and talk about it.
We’ve been sitting in a theater for two hours. I’d rather take a walk somewhere. The weather’s so nice.
All right, we can talk while we walk.
Grammar and Vocabulary
– 1 –
I heard you snoring in the theater.
– 2 –
I must have fallen asleep.
Feel English
Key Sentence
The movie was too long.
Practice
私は、あまりに疲れたので眠れませんでした。
このスープはかなりまずいね。
私は、どこかを散歩するほうが、むしろいいですね。
問題は知性の欠如ではなく、やる気の 欠如です。
Expressions in Action
It’s too dangerous to go swimming in the sea today.
Could we hold the meeting on Friday rather than Tuesday?
WORDS & PHRASES
sleep through ～ ～の間ずっと眠ったままでいる。
miss 見逃す
would rather ～ むしろ～するほうがいい
not A but rather B A ではなく むしろ B。
rather than ～ ～ではなく
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