basin

洗面台、洗面器

手や顔を洗うための器で、多くは浴室などに固定されている。

やさしい英語で： A bowl, often fixed in a bathroom, where you wash your hands and face.

• Wash your hands in the basin.
• The bathroom basin has a leaking tap.
• She left the soap beside the basin.

類義語： sink, washbasin

よく使う表現： wash basin, bathroom basin, basin tap

たらい、鉢

水などを入れるための、幅が広く比較的浅い容器。

やさしい英語で： A wide, fairly shallow container for holding water or other things.

• She filled a basin with water.
• Pour the mixture into a wide basin.
• We carried three metal basins into the kitchen.

使い方： basin of something (He brought a basin of warm water.)

類義語： bowl

よく使う表現： basin of water, plastic basin, fill a basin

流域

雨水や川の水が同じ川、湖、海へ流れ込む地域。

やさしい英語で： An area of land where rain and rivers all flow towards the same river, lake, or sea.

• Rainfall increased across the river basin.
• The Amazon basin contains many smaller rivers.
• Pollution upstream can affect the whole basin.

使い方： basin of something (Many farms lie within the basin of this river.)

類義語： drainage area, catchment

よく使う表現： river basin, drainage basin, basin of something

盆地

多くは高い土地に囲まれた、低く広がる土地。

やさしい英語で： A wide area of low land, often surrounded by higher land.

• The town lies in a wide basin.
• Mountains surround the dry basin.
• Ancient lakes left thick layers of sand in the basin.

類義語： depression, hollow

よく使う表現： mountain basin, desert basin, low basin

くぼみ、凹地

広い鉢のように、中央が低く周りが高くなっているもの。

やさしい英語で： Something shaped like a wide bowl, with a low middle and higher sides.

• The rock had a shallow basin.
• Rain collected in the basin worn into the stone.
• The melted ice left a smooth basin in the surface.

類義語： hollow, depression

よく使う表現： shallow basin, basin in something, basin shape