この中にもcoming of age(大人になる)という言葉がでてきます。one too manyは辞書に載っていない形容詞です。意味は「一つだけ多い=多すぎる」です。one word too many(一言多い)one question too many(いちいち聞くなよ)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-znLPS5ORQ 2:10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDYdWkDLQ0U 1:39 one conflict too many 多すぎる紛争
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjw1yuGc5q4 0:31 one loss was too many
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msmz1DPWIBQ 0:12 that's two too many 二つ余計
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1eLoMTh5uQ 0:12 but sometimes that drink or two turns into a few too many 一杯、二杯のつもりがつい飲みすぎてしまう。1:08 you had that one too many. 飲みすぎてしまった
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1iuEba_Xco&feature=related 1:05 perhaps these dandys had one G&T too many. 多分この二人の男前たちはジントニックを飲みすぎたのだろう。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A13NSi6Hcio&feature=g-all-u 0:19 is it one scandal too many for Mayor Rob Ford? フォード市長はスキャンダルまみれか?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtI1KECVOUw 4;03 you brought two too many. (馬が一匹足りないんじゃなくて)お前らが二人余計な奴を連れてきただけだ。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kzVfbwVmMo 1;30 getting it wrong once was bad enough, (getting it wrong)twice, ONCE too many.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTJJCRiqIx0 2:11 to steal a line from a Kenny Chesney's song, one is one too many and two is never enough. ケニーチェズニーの曲から一節を拝借すれば、一つだけじゃ多すぎて、二つなら全然足りない。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmajz9qJu7c 1:16 there's the zero-tolerance (policy), which is supposed to mean 'one (incident) is one too many.' 不祥事については厳しい罰則規定があり、それは一度の不祥事でも「万死に値する」と言うことだ。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU0qvy--51Q 1:21 you lose your damn license for having one drink too many. ちょっと飲みすぎたために大切な免許を取り上げられる。
練習問題解答
a-676 one drink too many
a-1436 one too many
a-4825 one too many
b-0448 once too often
b-1159 one fatality is too many
b-5271 one shake too many
b-5945 one miss is too many