beat up

殴りつける、めった打ちにする

何度も殴り、相手にひどいけがや痛みを与える。

やさしい英語で： To hurt someone badly by hitting them many times.

• They beat up my brother.
• He was beaten up outside a club.
• Why did those boys beat him up?

使い方： beat someone up (Two men beat him up outside the station.); be beaten up (She was beaten up on her way home.)

類義語： beat, assault, batter

よく使う表現： beat up someone, beat up badly, beat up a stranger

自分を責める

自分のしたことを何度も責め、つらい気持ちになる。

やさしい英語で： To keep blaming yourself and feeling bad about something you did.

• Do not beat yourself up.
• I beat myself up over that mistake.
• He keeps beating himself up for losing the keys.

使い方： beat yourself up over something (Do not beat yourself up over one bad grade.); beat yourself up for doing something (She beat herself up for forgetting his birthday.)

類義語： blame yourself, reproach yourself

よく使う表現： beat yourself up, beat myself up

厳しく責める、罪悪感を抱かせる

相手を厳しく批判し、あることへの罪悪感を抱かせる。

やさしい英語で： To criticize someone harshly and make them feel guilty about something.

• Stop beating him up over this.
• They beat her up for missing the deadline.
• The boss keeps beating us up about our results.

使い方： beat someone up over something (The manager beat her up over a small mistake.); beat someone up for doing something (Do not beat him up for being late once.)

類義語： criticize, blame, berate

よく使う表現： beat up someone, beat someone up over

傷つける、痛めつける

事故や厳しい活動などにより、けがやあざを負わせる。

やさしい英語で： To leave someone hurt or bruised through an accident, difficult activity, or other cause.

• That fall beat me up badly.
• The crash beat him up, but he survived.
• Three days on rocky trails really beat up my knees.

使い方： beat someone up (That rough hike really beat me up.)

類義語： injure, batter

よく使う表現： beat up someone, beat up your body

先に起きる

ほかの人より先に目を覚ます、またはベッドから起きる。

やさしい英語で： To wake or get out of bed before someone else does.

• I beat you up this morning.
• She beat me up and made breakfast.
• Can you beat me up tomorrow and start the coffee?

使い方： beat someone up (I beat my brother up this morning and made the coffee first.)

類義語： wake before, get up before

よく使う表現： beat someone up, beat someone up today

手配する、集める

努力して何かを手配したり、必要なものを集めたりする。

やさしい英語で： To manage to arrange or obtain something through effort.

• We must beat up some support.
• They beat up volunteers for the search.
• She beat up a small party to help with the work.

使い方： beat up something (They beat up support for the expedition.)

類義語： arrange, organize, muster

よく使う表現： beat up support, beat up recruits, beat up volunteers

ぼろぼろの、使い古した

何度も使われて古くなったり、傷んだりしている。

やさしい英語で： Old or damaged because it has been used a lot.

• His car is really beat up.
• She wore a beat-up leather jacket.
• These chairs look more beat up every year.

類義語： battered, worn, shabby

反対語： new

よく使う表現： beat up car, beat up shoes, beat up furniture

でっち上げ騒ぎ、誇張報道

事実以上に重大に見せた話や、作り上げたり大げさにした世間の騒ぎ。

やさしい英語で： A story or public complaint made to seem much more serious than the facts support.

• That story is a beat-up.
• The minister dismissed the headlines as a media beat-up.
• Was the whole scandal just a political beat-up?

類義語： manufactured controversy, media hype

よく使う表現： media beat up, a beat up, political beat up