blood

血、血液

体内を流れ、酸素や栄養を各部に運ぶ、通常は赤い液体。

やさしい英語で： The usually red liquid that flows inside your body, carrying oxygen and food to its parts.

• There was blood on his shirt.
• She gives blood twice a year.
• The nurse took a blood sample from my arm.

よく使う表現： blood pressure, blood test, lose blood, donate blood

血縁、血のつながり

生まれによって共通の家族や祖先を持つ人同士のつながり。

やさしい英語で： The connection between people who share family members through birth.

• They are related by blood.
• Blood ties do not always make a family close.
• He is my uncle by marriage, not by blood.

使い方： by blood (We are related by blood, not by marriage.)

類義語： kinship, blood relationship

よく使う表現： related by blood, blood relation, blood ties

血縁者、肉親

結婚や養子縁組ではなく、生まれによってつながっている家族。

やさしい英語で： The family you belong to through birth, rather than marriage or adoption.

• I cannot abandon my own blood.
• She treats him kindly because he is her blood.
• He chose to protect his blood despite their argument.

類義語： family, kin, relatives

よく使う表現： my own blood, your own blood, blood is thicker, someone's own blood

血で染める、血まみれにする

人や動物の血で、物を覆ったり汚したりする。

やさしい英語で： To cover or stain something with the red liquid from a person’s or animal’s body.

• The wound blooded his shirt.
• A deep cut had blooded her sleeve.
• The fighter's nose was blooded by the blow.

類義語： bloody, stain with blood

よく使う表現： blood a blade, blood someone's face, blood someone's hands