birch

カバノキ、白樺

薄く、多くは淡い色の樹皮が層になってはがれる木や低木。

やさしい英語で： A tree or bush with thin, often pale bark that comes off in layers.

• A birch grows beside the lake.
• The birches have pale bark.
• She planted a young birch in the garden.

よく使う表現： silver birch, birch tree, birch bark

樺のむち

罰として人を打つための、カバノキの棒や細い枝の束。

やさしい英語で： A stick or bundle of thin branches used to hit someone as a punishment.

• The guard carried a birch.
• Prisoners feared punishment with the birch.
• The museum displays birches once used in schools.

類義語： rod, switch

よく使う表現： use the birch, punishment with birch, birch rod

樺皮のカヌー

カバノキの樹皮で作った、小さくて軽い船。

やさしい英語で： A small, light boat made using tree bark.

• They crossed the lake in a birch.
• He carried his birch to the river.
• Two birches rested on the shore.

類義語： birch-bark canoe

よく使う表現： paddle a birch, birch canoe

樺のむちで打つ

罰として、カバノキの棒や細い枝の束で人を打つ。

やさしい英語で： To punish someone by hitting them with a stick or bundle of thin branches.

• The guards threatened to birch him.
• Boys were once birched for breaking school rules.
• The court ordered that the prisoner be birched.

類義語： beat, flog

よく使う表現： birch someone, birch a prisoner