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For Life
2004.01.05

Hello! It's wonderful to be back here with you again after the long break! We'd love to sit with you and hear all about your holiday, but we know this is probably a very busy day for you. So we'll waste no time getting started.

We give you the first WordMaster of the year 2004!!

Today's Lesson
BACK TO WORK   仕事に戻って

Explanation

  • Back to work is a situation in which you are working again after having had a break.

    Also see the 9 January 2001 WordMaster, "BACK TO NORMAL."
  • back to work  は、休暇・休憩の後に仕事に戻った状態、という意味です。

    01/1/9のWordMaster "BACK TO NORMAL" 参照 

examples

  1. (on the 3rd of January)
    There are only two more days before the holiday is over. Then it's back to work on Monday. 
  2. It's been such a wonderful vacation! I really don't want to go back to work.
  3. (a bad-tempered employer to his workers at the end of a long coffee break)
    Okay, you've been standing around long enough. Get back to work!

It's going to be a great year for all of us!!