Meaning of JUST IN TIME - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

So in English when we say something happens just in time it means that it happens about

つまり、英語で何かが ジャスト イン タイムで発生すると言うとき、それは少し手遅れになる 1 秒前に発生することを意味し

one second before it would have been a bit too late.

ます。

A good example of this would be the other day I was walking and I was still a little

これの良い例は、 先日歩いていて、まだ

ways from my house and the clouds were starting to get kind of dark, and it looked like it

家から少し離れていて、雲が少し 暗くなり始めていて、雨が降るように見えた

might rain.

.

So I started to walk a little bit faster and when I got to the door of my house the rain

それで私は少し速く歩き始め 、家のドアに着いたとき、雨

started to come down.

が降り始めました。

So you could say that I got to my house just in time.

つまり、ちょうど間に合うように家に着いたと言えます 。

So I got to my house just before the rain started to come down.

それで、雨が降り始める直前に家に着きまし た。

You can use this phrase as well, maybe you had to go to a meeting and maybe the meeting

このフレーズを使うこともできます。 会議に行かなければならず、会議

started at 3:00 and you were in a bit of a rush and you were running a little bit late,

が 3 時に始まり、少し 急いでいて少し遅れていたかもしれませ

but you got to the meeting at 2:59, with one second to spare.

んが、会議に着いたのは 2:59、1 秒の余裕があります。

You got to the meeting just in time.

あなたは会議にちょうど間に合いました。