常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

That’s a check in my book.

スケートに関してもまったくの門外漢ですが、このフレーズはどういう意味になるのでしょうか。Umeくん、トライしてみて。(UG)

No rethink for Chan after figure skating GP defeat

Three-time world champion Patrick Chan has vowed to stick to his “Olympic winning formula” despite his defeat at the Grand Prix Final, the last gathering of top stars before the Sochi Games.

Japanese teen Yuzuru Hanyu topped the six-man field both in the short program and the longer free-skate in Fukuoka, Japan, to hand the Canadian his first defeat of the Olympic season.

Chan, whose short program world record was broken by Hanyu overnight, skated a clean free program on Friday but stopped short of overtaking the Japanese, who sprang back from a fall in his opening quadruple jump.

Asked if he considers changing the program to boost his bid for the first-ever men’s singles Olympic figure skating gold medal for Canada, he replied: “No. Not at all.”

“I have the formula to success,” the 22-year-old Chan said, “and I have the formula to win the Olympics just through putting it together and having it turn out the way I have been training it.”

“If you get older and experienced, you learn to appreciate just little things and that for me was skating clean in the long (program) wherein nobody else did,” he said. “So that’s a check in my book.”

http://www.japantoday.com/category/sports/view/no-rethink-for-chan-after-figure-skating-gp-defeat