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。

Would you buy a used car from this woman?

中国の中古車市場が活況のようですが、そこには仕掛けが…。CNNの記事です。

          

この写真の見出しとそして記事本文の最初に出てくるWould you buy a used~ from this woman?は何かを下敷きにした表現。英語のネイティブだったらすぐにピンときます。さてそれは何でしょうか。Koyamamotoくん、どうぞ。(UG)

Inside China's booming used car market

Would you buy a secondhand car from Li Tian You? You probably don't have a choice. For more than 10 years, she has been selling used cars in Dongguan, a factory town in southern China, and she knows every trick in the book.

"I've already sold four cars today. No, five," she says as she guides us through the Dongguan Used Cars Trading Center, which mainly sells Western and Japanese cars.
Now, she is looking to score her sixth sale of the day.

"This Volkswagen is very good," she says as she opens the door to a 2006 Jetta Sedan, starts the engine and offers me a seat. Loud Chinese pop music starts pumping from the sound system.

"It has only had one previous owner," she continues, "And that was me. So I know it's a good buy. I promise."

Asked about the price, she immediately shaves off 15% -- just for me -- to RMB 68,000 ($10,900), and continues the pitch.

"Volkswagen is very safe. This is the best car if you have a family."
"But if you want to find a new girlfriend, you buy a Mercedes-Benz," she says with a wink.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/25/world/asia/china-used-car-market/index.html?hpt=hp_c5