chicken

鶏肉

食用にする鶏の肉。

やさしい英語で： Meat from a farm bird, eaten as food.

• We had chicken for dinner.
• She grilled the chicken with lemon and garlic.
• Would you like a chicken sandwich?

よく使う表現： roast chicken, chicken soup, chicken breast

鶏

卵や肉を得るために、農場や家庭で飼う鳥。

やさしい英語で： A bird kept on farms or at home for its eggs and meat.

• A chicken laid an egg.
• We keep six chickens in our garden.
• The chickens were pecking at seeds on the ground.

よく使う表現： keep a chicken, chicken coop, a young chicken, backyard chicken

チキンゲーム

互いに向かって進み、衝突を避けようと先によけた方が負ける危険な遊び。

やさしい英語で： A dangerous game where people move towards each other, and the first to avoid a crash loses.

• They played chicken on an empty road.
• A game of chicken can end in a serious crash.
• Never play chicken with a train.

使い方： play chicken with someone/something (The drivers were playing chicken with each other.)

よく使う表現： play chicken, chicken with someone, game of chicken

臆病な

難しいことや危険なことをする勇気がない。

やさしい英語で： Too afraid to do something difficult or dangerous.

• Do not be chicken!
• I was too chicken to jump into the lake.
• Are you chicken, or will you try it?

使い方： too chicken to do something (He was too chicken to climb the ladder.)

類義語： scared, cowardly

反対語： brave

よく使う表現： be chicken, too chicken, chicken about something