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  • Fair go/機会

    fair go Australian English A chance or opportunity. Also occasionally used as a complaint from somebody seeking just treatment. 日本語 １） 機会。チャンス。 ２） 公平な扱いを求めること。 Plain English 1) Chance. 2) Plea for just treatment. Strine Dictionary

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    豪キャブラリー： Suss out

    オージー英語では、物事を調べてみたり、見てみたりするような事を、直訳すると「思っている疑問を検証しよう」という堅苦しい表現を使う。「大らかなオージーにちょっと似合わないだろう」と思う人が少なくないと思う。その通り。Check out my suspicions、要は「思っている疑問を検証しよう」から省略し、砕けた言い方に変わりsuss outという形になった訳だ。典型的なオージー英語である。

  • 豪キャブラリー：Paddo

    Definition Paddo is an Australian nickname for the Sydney suburb of Paddington. 日本語の意味 Paddo はシドニーの有名な地区 Paddington の愛称です。 Explanation Australians love shortening words. Paddington becomes Paddo in everyday speech, just as afternoon becomes arvo and service station becomes servo. 日本語での解説 オーストラリア人は言葉を短くするのが大好きです。Paddington が Paddo になるのも、その代表的な例です。 Example “We spent the afternoon shopping in Paddo.” 日本語訳 「午後はパディントンで買い物をして過ごした。」 Strine Culcha The shortening of words is one of the defining features of Australian English. 文化メモ 単語を短縮して使う文化は、オーストラリア英語の大きな特徴の一つです。 Related Terms

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    いち早くCool Japanを先駆けて80・90年代の豪テレビCM

    Japan was trending in Australia long before it became flavor of the month in the way it has in recent years courtesy of Cool Japan. 近年の「クール・ジャパン」現象はオーストラリアでは、かなり昔から現れていた。 During the late 1980s through to the mid-1990s, a time when trade friction between a seemingly unstoppable Japan and the struggling United States resulted in such incidents as American autoworkers using sledgehammers to demolish a Japanese car, Australia was slowly moving out of its self-imposed isolation to embrace the Asia-Pacific region and building the firm relationship it now has with Japan. Australia was a pioneer in the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) and Working Holiday programs now welcoming thousands of people from all over…

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    Snag A Democracy Sausage Before The Nutjobs Strip Voting Rights

    Aussie voters in Tokyo will be able to snag a democracy sausage if they go to the Australian Embassy in Tokyo from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Friday, May 2, according to the Embassy website. This be an opportunity to exercise a hard-fought right to vote (or avoid being fined for not doing so because votng is compulsory). And it also presents an extremely rare instance of being able to see consular officials helping Australians and earning some of the cost of the world’s most expensive passports, ensuring the documents are not a complete rort. Australia is one of the few countries that make voting mandatory, which I believe…