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好きになった人に気に入られるため、一途な行動をとるのはよくあること。でも、その人がアクティブな「健康おたく」（a fitness freak）だったら、ちょっとついていくのが大変かもしれませんね。

今回登場する男性は、好きな女の子に気に入られようと奮闘する友人の話をしています。会話の男性は、ふだん運動をしない友人が、女の子の「健康おたく」に一生懸命付き合っている様子を笑っていますが…。

（初級〜中級）

※今月も引き続きYouTubeによる配信を試験的に実施しています。上記の画面をクリックして番組をお楽しみください。*** It's a Good Expression ***

（今回の重要表現）

ridiculous

ばかばかしい

highly impossible

とても無理な

a chain smoker

ヘビースモーカー

to get winded

息切れする

What's THAT supposed to mean?

一体それはどういう意味？

a fitness freak

「健康おたく」

to scale

（山に）登る

a tricycle

三輪車

That would be the one!

まさにその人のことだよ！

to be madly in love with

〜に夢中の

She IS like the most popular girl in school, so...

実際、彼女は学校で一番人気ある系の子だから...。

※ここでのlikeは、間投詞としての「えっと」、あるいは前置詞としての「〜みたいな」としても解釈可能。

to have an effect on

に影響がある

to act like a desperate loser

やけくそな負け犬として振舞う

*** Script ***

The Things a Guy Will Do for a Girl

Situation: Kimberly and Stephen are at the student plaza eating lunch.

M: Hey, did you hear about what Suzuki-san is doing during Golden Week? It's ridiculous!

W: No, I didn't hear. What's he gonna do?

M: Well, I heard from Tammy that she heard from Kazuya that Suzuki-san is going to walk all the way from Hiroshima University to Hokkaido!

W: From here to Hokkaido in a week? Walking? That sounds highly impossible. Not only that, but Suzuki-san is a chain smoker. He gets winded just walking from the library to the cafeteria!

M: Ha ha. I KNEW you wouldn't understand, Kimberly.

W: What's THAT supposed to mean?

M: Look, Suzuki-san isn't doing this because he wants to. He's doing it because he got invited to go by Sarah Fisher.

W: Sarah Fisher? That fitness freak who scaled Mt. Fuji on a tricycle?

M: That would be the one! Suzuki-san's madly in love with her, and he'll do whatever she asks!

W: Well, she IS like the most popular girl in school, so it isn't too surprising she has that effect on a guy like him.

M: If you ask me, he's just acting like a desperate loser!

W: Maybe you're right.

(Stephen gets a message on his phone and looks at it.)

M: Uhhh, Kimberly, something came up. I gotta go.

W: What? I thought you said you were free all day? What is it?

M: Sarah Fisher just invited me to free climb the biology building! I gotta go!

W: Wait!... Ah! And he said SUZUKI-SAN was a desperate loser?

(Written by David Shaner)