スピーチで学ぶ英語表現

こんにちは～☆
イングリッシュブートキャンプ：由美です。
今回は、ビジネス界のトップの英語を聴いてきましょう。
その前に、ポチっとお願いできますか。応援よろしくお願いします
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見ていただくのは、Sheryl Sandberg氏のスピーチです。
Sandberg氏は、今話題の、FacebookのCOOです。

Facebookに関しては、以前こちらの記事に書きました。
COOとはChief Operation Officerのことで、平たく言えば社長ですね。
CEO（Chief Executive Officer）の次に偉い人、と思っておけばいいでしょう。
では、早速彼女のスピーチを見てみましょう。

１５分に渡るスピーチなので、最初のほうだけディクテーションをしたいと思います。
So for any of us in this room today, let’s start out by （　　　　　　） we’re lucky.
We don’t （　　　　）in the world our （　　　　　）lived in, our grandmothers lived in,
where （　　　　　）choices for women were so （　　　　　）.
And if you’re in this room today, most of us grew up in a world
where we have basic civil （　　　　　）.
And amazingly, we still live in a world （　　　　　）some women don’t have them.
But all that aside, we still have a problem, and it’s a real problem.
And the problem is this:
Women are not making it to the top of any （　　　　　　　）anywhere in the world.
The numbers tell the story quite clealy.
190 heads of states, nine are women.
Of all the people in parliament in the world, 13 percent are women.
In the （　　　　　　）sector, women at the top, C-level jobs, board seats,
tops out at 15, 16 percent.
The numbers have not moved since 2002, and are going in the （　　　　　）direction.
And even in the non-profit world, a world we sometimes think of as being led by
more women, women at the top: 20 percent.
We also have another problem, which is that women face （　　　　　）choices
between professional success and personal fulfillment.
A （　　　　　）study in the US showed that, of senior managers, of married senior managers,
two-thirds of the married men had children, and only one-third of the married women
had children.
A couple years ago, I was in New York, and I was pitching a （　　　　）.
And I was in one of those fancy New York private equity offices you can picture.
And I’m in the meeting, it’s about a three-hour meeting.
And two hours in, there’s kind of needs to be that bio break, and everyone stands up.
And the （　　　　　）running the meeting starts looking really embarrassed.
And I （　　　　　）he doesn’t know where the women’s room is in his office.
So I start looking around for moving boxes, figuring they just moved in,
but I don’t see any.
And so I said, “So did you just move into this office?”
And he said, “No, we’ve been here about a year.”
And I said, “Are you （　　　　　）me that I’m the only woman to have pitched a deal
in this office in a year?”
And he looked at me and he said,
“Yeah. Or maybe you’re the only one who had to go to the （　　　　　　　）.”
はい、いかがでした？
ちゃんとジョークを交えているところが、さすがはアメリカ人という感じですね。
彼女の英語は非常にクリアで聴き取りやすいと思います。
アップル社のスティーブ・ジョブズなんかもそうですが、スピーチが上手いというのが、
やはりこういうトップに立つ人たちにとってとても重要な要素なんですね。
長々とただダラダラ話せばいいというものではありません。
英語の勉強だけでなく、スピーチの組み立て方の勉強にもなる良い題材です。
答え合わせですが、後ほどアップするのでお待ちくださいね☆
１月週末ブートキャンプのお知らせです。

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