birth

誕生、出産

赤ちゃんや動物の子が母親の体から出てくること。

やさしい英語で： The event when a baby or young animal comes out of its mother’s body.

• The baby’s birth made everyone happy.
• She gave birth at home.
• His date of birth is on the form.

使い方： give birth to someone (She gave birth to a healthy baby boy.); at birth (The baby weighed three kilos at birth.)

類義語： childbirth, delivery

反対語： death

よく使う表現： give birth, birth certificate, date of birth, birth weight

誕生、始まり

新しい考えや活動、組織、生活の仕方が生まれること。

やさしい英語で： The beginning of a new idea, activity, organization, or way of life.

• That meeting marked the birth of our club.
• The book describes the birth of modern science.
• New printing methods helped the birth of a national newspaper industry.

使い方： birth of something (The invention marked the birth of a new industry.)

類義語： beginning, origin, creation

反対語： end

よく使う表現： birth of something, birth of cinema

実の、血のつながった

養子縁組や結婚ではなく、生まれたことによって血がつながっている。

やさしい英語で： Related to someone through being born to them, rather than through adoption or marriage.

• She met her birth mother last year.
• His birth parents live in another country.
• Do you know anything about your birth father?

類義語： biological

反対語： adoptive

よく使う表現： birth mother, birth father, birth parents

産む、出産する

妊娠の終わりに、自分の体から赤ちゃんを産み出す。

やさしい英語で： To bring a baby out of your body at the end of pregnancy.

• She birthed her baby at home.
• The midwife supported her as she birthed twins.
• Many women prefer to birth their babies in hospital.

類義語： give birth to, bear, deliver

よく使う表現： birth a baby, birth a child