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  • What? You must be joking!
  • Why? What's wrong?
  • It's 80 rupees.
  • Oh, the petrol price? Yeah.
  • petrol
    「ガソリン」はインド英語では"petrol"という(英英語・豪英語共通)。米英語・カナダ英語では"gas"または"gasoline"。
  • They said it is going to go up this week.
  • Again? They can't keep on doing this.
  • Every week it goes up by 10 or 12 paise.
  • paise
    "paise"は通貨の単位で、100パイサ=1ルピー。
  • At this rate I'll be bankrupt soon.
  • Yeah.
  • Doesn't it really make you jealous of people who drive CNG?
  • CNG
    "CNG"は"compressed natural gas"の略で「圧縮天然ガス」。ここでは「天然ガス自動車」を指す。
  • Tell me about it.
  • Those things get like 23 kilometers per litre.
  • You should have bought one.
  • Yeah,
  • Should have bought one when I still had money,
  • before the oil companies stole it all.

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