Phrase
折れ線グラフの説明
一般的な表現
上昇
- skyrocketed [skyrocket]
- rose [rise]
- increased [increase]
- continued to rise
維持
- remained unchanged
- remained steady
- leveled off = flat / even
下降
- declined [decline]
- decreased [decrease]
変化の具合に関する副詞的なところ
- sharply(鋭く、厳しく、荒々しく、とげとげしく、はっきりと、くっきりと、急に、急激に)
- dramatically(演劇的に、劇的に)
- significantly(意味ありげに、かなり、著しく、はっきりと) - a lot
- steadily(着実に、しっかりと、どんどん)
- gradually(徐々に、次第に、漸進的に)
- slightly(わずかに、少し、細く、きゃしゃに) - a little
- slowly(ゆっくり、遅く)
変動なしの表現
- remained constant(一定に保たれた)
- stayed at the same level(同じレベルに滞る)
説明例
冒頭とか
- I’d like to draw your attention to this graph.(このグラフに注目して頂きたい。)
- Please look at this graph. As you can see, sales increased from January to March.
数字の変動に関して
- Sales went up from 10,000 to 70,000.(売上は10,000から70,000に増加した。)
- Sales went up by 60,000.(売上は60,000増加した)
- Sales remained unchanged at 50,000.(売上は50,000を維持した。)
状況と結果
- The economy is booming but sales remained flat.(景気は好調に推移していますが、売上は横ばいです。)
- The economy is bad but our sales remained unchanged.(景気は悪いですが、売上は変わりません。)
理由
- due to / because of the bad weather.
- because the weather was bad.
- The reason being …
前置詞
- on November 1st
- on Monday
- on Monday evening
- in 1998
- in November
- in the evening
- at 3 o’clock
Words
- level off(leveled off)(平らな、水平の)
ex) Our production costs leveled off in December.(我々の生産コストは12月は不変だった。)
From free talk / Useful phrases
- She can drink heavily. = She can handle her alcohol.
- I was going to eat ramen. 【in the process plan】
- I am going to eat ramen. 【future plan】
- touristy place(観光客に人気のある場所)
- get off the beaten track = go to less popular places.
- It was warmer than last year.(昨年より暖かかった。)
- It was raining heavily.(激しく雨が降っていた。)