実践ビジネス英語 ディクテーション (3/29,30)
こんにちは。NHKラジオ「実践ビジネス英語」”Talk the Talk”のディクテーションです。
Lesson 24のテーマは、‘Learn, Unlearn and Relearn’（学び、学んだことを忘れ、再び学ぶ）でした。Vignetteでは、変化する世界の中で備えておくべき資質が主な話題になりました。今の大学生が学んでいることの40%が10年後には時代遅れになるそうです。常に変化に適応できる状態でいることの重要性が語られました。
“Talk the Talk”では、お2人が時代の変化を感じたエピソードを具体的に話されています。
★英文の終わりに語注をつけました。
Learn, Unlearn and Relearn
（S: 杉田敏先生 H: Heather Howardさん）
S: Well, here we are with the last vignette of this academic year.
We’re finishing up with the conversation about adapting to the changing world.
H: I chuckled when Collins said her nieces and nephews can’t imagine a world before computers and smartphones.
I often tell my daughter too, “We didn’t have X or Y when Mommy was a little girl.”
You know, I used to look at the lifespans of famous people from the past and think, “Wow, what enormous changes they witnessed.”
Take someone who was born in 1850 and passed away in 1930 for example.
They would have gone from a world of horses to a world of automobiles and witnessed the invention of the telephone.
As I got older, though, I realized that we’ve seen groundbreaking developments like that too.
I was in middle school when one of my teachers showed the class a new invention, a personal computer for the home.
This is called a “mouse,” she said, and you use it to manipulate the “cursor.”
And now I carry a computer in my pocket, meaning my smartphone, that lets me read the news, watch a movie and order a pizza delivered to my house.
S: Yes, we all keep learning new things all our lives.
Not just academic learning but everyday gadgets too.
We learned to use touch-tone telephones and smartphones after dial phones and operator-assisted phones.
Computers used to be as big as an office but now they’re desktops, laptops and palmtops.
Cameras evolved from film cameras to disposable and digital cameras.
It was a new unlearning and relearning experience every time.
H: And the vast majority of the world has managed to do it, so we shouldn’t be afraid.
Remember when I talked about my mother, and how she freaked out the first time her computer screen scrolled up?
She and I still laugh about that today, about 35 years later.
Because she’s come a long, long way since then.
She’s even written, formatted and published her own web magazine.
S: The biggest unlearning and relearning I had to do was probably with automobiles.
I bought my first car in the States in the early 1970s.
I turned a key to start that car, but now I just push a button.
And I had to roll the window down by turning a little handle, but now you also do that by pushing a button.
My driving instructor used to tell me never to apply the brake in one go on an icy or wet road.
You had to apply and release the brake multiple times; it was called “pumping”.
Or the car would go into a dangerous spin.
Now the ABS or anti-lock braking system will do it all for you.
So do slam on the brake with a lot of force if you have to make an emergency stop.
And we’ll undoubtedly have to do a bunch more unlearning and relearning when autonomous vehicles are introduced.
H: I remember my mother doing that in the car when I was a kid.
But that’s gone too, Huh?
Well, well.
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Words and Expressions
groundbreaking: 革新的な、画期的な
freak out:（ショックなどで）異常な興奮状態になる
in one go: 一気に、1回で
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