意味一覧 (2件)
持ち上げる
解説 Definition
人や物事の良い面を強調して話し、注目や期待を高めるときに使います。実際よりも褒めることで興味を引こうとするニュアンスがあり、友人との会話や宣伝の場面で出てきます。ややカジュアルな表現ですが、会話の中で使いやすいフレーズです。
To talk something or someone up means to praise them strongly and make them seem better, more important, or more exciting. It is often used in advertising, business, or informal conversation. Sometimes it suggests that the praise is greater than the reality.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
この意味の talk up は、声の大きさではなく「言葉で評価を上げる」イメージです。talk about は単に話題にするだけですが、talk up は良い点を選んで強く語り、聞き手の期待や関心を高めます。商品なら talk up a product、計画なら talk up the benefits のように使います。基本義の「大声で話す」とは別に、up が「価値・注目を上げる」方向に働く用法として覚えると整理しやすいです。
`Talk up` means talking something upward. Your words push people's opinion or interest higher by stressing the good points. Remember it with `talk up a product` or `talk up the benefits`, and connect it with the idea of promotion.
例文
The coach talked up the rookie before the press conference.
コーチは記者会見の前にルーキーを大いに持ち上げた。
He talked up the restaurant so much that we had to try it.
彼がそのレストランをあれほど褒めたので、私たちは行ってみることにした。
大声で話す
(意味 2)解説 Definition
声が小さくて聞こえない相手に、もっと大きな声で話すよう促すときに使います。会議、授業、電話などで、聞き手まで声が届くように話す場面が中心です。命令形で使うと少し直接的です。
"Talk up" means to speak more loudly so other people can hear you better. It is often used when someone's voice is too quiet in places like meetings, classes, or phone calls. People say it to make sure the speaker's voice reaches the listeners clearly. In the imperative, it can sound a little direct.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
talk は「話す」、up は音量や勢いを上げる感覚を添えることがあります。turn up the volume「音量を上げる」と同じ方向で、talk up は声を届かせるために話し方を上げる、と考えると覚えやすいです。似た speak up も「大きな声で言う」によく使われます。一方、別義の「持ち上げる」は評価を上げる意味なので、音量を上げる場面と区別しましょう。
Think of "talk" as "speak" and "up" as making something higher, like in "turn up the volume." So "talk up" can help you remember the idea of raising your voice so people can hear you. It is close to "speak up," but be careful because "talk up" can also have another meaning: to praise or promote something.
例文
Could you talk up a bit? We can't hear you from the back of the room.
もう少し大きな声で話してもらえますか。部屋の後ろからは聞こえません。
During the online meeting, the manager asked everyone to talk up when their connection was weak.
オンライン会議では、回線が不安定なときは大きな声で話すように部長が皆に求めた。
If you talk up on the phone, my grandmother will understand you more easily.
電話では大きな声で話せば、祖母にももっと伝わりやすいです。
talk up の語源・成り立ち Etymology
talkは中英語talken（話す）で、古英語や古ノルド語系の語と考えられます。句動詞のupは「上へ」から転じた強調で、「話して価値を上げる」→「持ち上げる」。関連語はtalkativeなど。
"Talk up" combines "talk," a Germanic word found in Middle English, with "up," which often adds the idea of increase or emphasis. The phrase originally suggested raising something by talking about it. From that, it came to mean praising or promoting something strongly. A related word is "talkative," from the same base.
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