🍒 今日のコトバ by 多岐川恵理:THEY FEEL THEY'RE HITTING THE JACKPOT THAT DAY.

firefighter は、消防士を指すのに適した語です。firemenという人も多いですけど、firemenに別の意味もあります。そして、ほとんどの消防士はfiremanよりfirefighterと呼ばれるのを好みます。 It's also slang for a relief pitcher in baseball. New Orleans は、発音するのが難しい都市と言えます。というのは、アメリカの北部ではたいてい、 [New Orleans] とか [New orLeans]と発音されますし、南部では、もっとくだけた [Norleans]という発音です。ほとんど１語として発音されますね。辞書で確認したときには、４種類の発音が載ってました。 Gripe is a rather informal kind of a word to talk about a complaint. A lot of people call them firemen. 野球の救援投手をことをいうスラングでもあります。 The phrase "for a living" always refers to work.{/INSERTKEYS}{/PARAGRAPH} And most firefighters prefer to be called firefighter not fireman. When I checked the dictionary, there were four different pronunciations listed. But the phrase really is limited to people listening to the speaker. gripeは、不満のことをいうくだけた語です。名詞としても動詞としても使えます。 Sometimes people use the phrase "hit the jackpot" just to mean "I've been very lucky" or "Things went my way". html "Present company" usually refers to everybody who's joined in the same conversation. And you can use the word as a noun or a verb. But firemen has other meanings as well. They don't mean an actual jackpot. I think it tends to sound more like [Norleans], almost like one word. So in this situation it might be a little misleading, because they're having this conversation in their company. {PARAGRAPH}{INSERTKEYS}but in the South, they say it in a more relaxed way.