実際のC Programming講義を見てみる！英語字幕も付いているので、非常に役に立つ！
cap off - ～を仕上げる、～を締めくくる
cap off
- ～を仕上げる、～を締めくくる
- finish or complete, as with some decisive action
Examples
- Cap it off with a wonderful ice cream novelty from the restaurant.
- He capped off the meeting with a radical proposal.
- Tesla's tough week was capped off with the news that it failed to crack the S&P 500.
furlough - 一時解雇する
furlough
- 〈米〉～を一時解雇する
- * layoffと似てるが、layoffは解雇されている状態、furloughは解雇されていない状態の違いがある
- to allow or force someone to be absent temporarily from work
Examples
- After safety concerns, the company furloughed all 4,000 of its employees.
- Walt Disney Co. is furloughing employees across all divisions in its domestic operations, as the world’s largest entertainment company struggles with continued fallout from the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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overdrive - 〔人を〕過度に働かせる
overdrive
- 〔車などを〕過度に運転し続ける、〔人を〕過度に働かせる
- a state of great activity, effort, or hard work
Examples
- The official propaganda machine went into overdrive when war broke out.
- Need toilet paper? Procter & Gamble plant goes into overdrive during coronavirus crisis.
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take credit for - 自分の手柄にする
take credit for
- 自分の手柄にする、～のことで称賛される,
- ここでcreditは称賛、名誉
Examples
- How can he take credit for work he didn’t do?
- Trump took credit Tuesday for taking measures that he said had prevented the deaths of millions, noting that some confidants had told him to not “do anything, just ride it out and think of it as the flu.”
detour - 遠回り、回り道
detour
- 遠回り、回り道、迂回路
- a different or less direct route to a place that is used to avoid a problem or to visit somewhere or do something on the way
Examples
- You'd be wise to make a detour to avoid the roadworks.
- The pipeline route from cultivating a lead to closing a sale 95% of the time takes a detour to an obstacle from the buyer.
downplay - 軽視する
downplay
- 軽視する、(…を)控えめに扱う
- to make something seem less important or less bad than it really is
Examples
- Trump downplays coronavirus threat again, even as number of cases in U.S. surges.
