2013年3月7日木曜日

目の上のたんこぶを英語でなんと言うか?


a thorn in sideで日本語の意味は伝わります。0:55 Chavez, a thorn in the side of the US for years. チャベス大統領は長年アメリカにとっては目の上のたんこぶだった。

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNEPj_RhvYc 0:20 five years on, and still an immovable thorn in the side of Russo-British relations, Moscow won't extradite Britain's chief suspect in the 2006 murder of Alexander Litvinenko. 露英関係の大きな障害
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfLTWX3l8y0  0:43 Spain's troubles with its banks have been a thorn in its side.

参考リンク
http://bridge-english.blogspot.jp/2012/10/bane-of-my-life.html bane of my life

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