ストラックアウト王子さん
「ぐずる」と言うのが英語から来ているとは知りませんでした。色々、勉強になりますね。
あと、?のmindですが、動詞でも使われますよ。よく空港や地下鉄で"mind your step"とか、"mind your head"とアナウンスされているのをよく聞きます。そういえば姫路城の狭い階段のところにも"mind your head"と外国人用に書かれてました。"Don't mind her/him"(彼女(彼)の言ったことを気にするな)とか、"I don't mind"とかはよく聞きますが、"Don't mind"は聞きませんね。
えっ、mindは動詞もありますよ。
自動詞でも十分いけるし、その場合普通do/don'tなどの助動詞の後に来ます。
だから、
I don't mind.「構いませんよ。」(I don't mind it.は×)
if you don't mind.「もしよろしければ」
Do you mind?「やめてくれないかな。」
など、助動詞後に自動詞のmindが続く表現は色々あります。
「ドンマイ」ではなくてNever mind.っていうのは確かにそうですが。
>かったんさん、
ブログ、興味深く拝見しました。「そうそう、」と頷きながら読ませて頂きました。私の先生も、よく言いかけた事を途中で言うのをやめて"Never mind."と言ってるんですが、"Don't worry"と "Forget it"の意味があるというのは、ブログを読ませていただいて、よく分かりました。
あと、Handoutですが、私の先生はみんなHandoutを使います。生徒数は関係ないと思います。授業で使うプリントのを指す場合のcopyはphotocopyと同じだと思いますが、handoutは紙だけでなく、バインダーや書類のセットなどにも使えます。Oxford英英辞典では、"Handout:a document that is given to students in class and that contains a summary of the lesson, a set of exercises, etc."となってます。
Freeway of Love
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Freeway of Love" is a Grammy Award-winning song released as the first single from Aretha Franklin's 1985 album Who's Zoomin' Who?. It was very successful in the United States, peaking at the #3 position of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and topping the Hot R&B Singles chart for five weeks (from July 27, 1985 to August 24, 1985). [1]. In a remixed "rock" version, the song also topped the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, as well. This single, Aretha's seventeenth Top 10 hit in the U.S., also earned her tenth Grammy Award, for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.
The song features a notable contribution from Clarence Clemons, the saxophonist from Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJgqKNM3zfU
Aretha Franklin - Freeway Of Love
Knew you'd be a vision in white
How'd you get those pants so tight?
Don't know what you're doin'
But you must be livin' right
We got some places to see
I brought all the maps with me
So jump right in...Ain't no sin
Take a ride in my machine
City traffic movin' way too slow
Drop the pedal and go...go...go
Goin' ridin' on the freeway of love
Wind's against our back
Goin' ridin' on the freeway of love
In my pink cadillac
Goin' ridin' on the freeway of love
Wind's against our back
Ain't we ridin' on the freeway of love
In my pink Cadillac?
Never you mind the exit signs
We got lots of time
We can't quit 'til we get
To the other side
With the radio playin' our song
We keep rollin' on
Who knows how far a car can get
Before you think about slowin' on down
City traffic movin' way too slow
Drop the pedal and go...go...go
変化形 : kinkier , kinkiest
kinky
【名】
〈俗〉盗品{とうひん}◆通例kinkies
【形】
〔髪などが〕縮れた、ちりちりの
・She's got long, strawberry blonde, kinky, curly hair, way down the back.
〔心の〕ゆがんだ、ひねくれた
〈俗〉〔性的に〕異常な、変態の、倒錯した
・His sexual demands are kinky.
・I don't have kinky sexual fantasies, but I think some people do.
・His interest in wearing women's lingerie is pretty kinky
〈俗〉不正な
(続く)
テリーさんによればShe's a very kinky girlが「彼女はとてもホモな女の子である」となるのでしょうか?:
Super Freak
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Super Freak" is a 1981 hit single produced and performed by Rick James for the Motown label. The song, co-written by James and Alonzo Miller, was first released on James' album Street Songs and became one of James' signature songs. It features background vocals from Motown labelmates The Temptations, in which the bass singer is James' uncle Melvin Franklin, and Canadian singer Taborah Johnson. "Freak" is a slang term for, as described in the song's lyrics, "...a very kinky girl / The kind you don't take home to mother".
The song was a big hit for James in 1981, charting on the pop, R&B and dance charts in the U.S. On the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #16 in the fall of 1981 and spent 10 weeks in the top 40. Together with two other singles from Street Songs, "Give It to Me Baby" and "Ghetto Life", it spent three weeks at #1 on the American dance charts earlier that year.
Rick James later performed the song on the The A-Team TV show. It is also well known from having been sampled by MC Hammer on his 1990 breakthrough hit "U Can't Touch This".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75qXUfp4wtw
Rick James - Super Freak: Stereo
She's a very kinky girl
The kind you don't take home to mother
She will never let your spirits down
Once you get her off the street, ow girl
She likes the boys in the band
She says that I'm her all-time favorite
When I make my move to her room it's the right time
She's never hard to please
{Refrain}
That girl is pretty wild now
The girl's a super freak
The kind of girl you read about
In new-wave magazine
That girl is pretty kinky
The girl's a super freak
I really love to taste her
Every time we meet
She's all right, she's all right
That girl's all right with me, yeah
She's a super freak, super freak
She's super-freaky, yow
Super freak, super freak
She's a very special girl
The kind of girl you want to know
>From her head down to her toenails
Down to her feet, yeah
And she'll wait for me at backstage with her girlfriends
In a limousine
Going back in Chinatown
Three's not a crowd to her, she says
"Room 714, I'll be waiting"
When I get there she's got incense, wine and candles
It's such a freaky scene
{Refrain}
{Bridge}
Temptations sing!
Ohhhhh
Super freak, super freak
That girl's a super freak
Ohhhhh
She's a very kinky girl
The kind you don't take home to mother
She will never let your spirits down
Once you get her off the street, ow girl