child

子供

まだ大人になっていない、幼い人。

やさしい英語で： A young person who has not yet become an adult.

• The child is asleep.
• The children played outside after school.
• How old was your child when she learned to read?

類義語： kid, youngster

反対語： adult

よく使う表現： young child, small child, child development

子、子供

年齢に関係なく、ある人の息子や娘。

やさしい英語で： Someone’s son or daughter, whatever their age.

• She has one child.
• All their children have left home.
• His eldest child is forty now.

使い方： someone’s child (Their youngest child is now a doctor.)

類義語： offspring, son or daughter

反対語： parent

よく使う表現： only child, adult child, eldest child

申し子

特定の時代、場所、経験に考え方や行動を強く形作られた人。

やさしい英語で： A person whose ideas and behaviour were strongly shaped by a particular time, place, or experience.

• He is a child of his time.
• As children of the war, they valued peace.
• She remains a child of the culture that shaped her.

使い方： a child of something (She is a child of the digital age.)

類義語： product

よく使う表現： child of someone, child of something

子、子ノード

コンピューターで、別の要素の下に属するデータ、物、処理。

やさしい英語で： A data item, object, or process that belongs under another in a computer system.

• This node has one child.
• The program created two child processes.
• Each child inherits settings from its parent.

反対語： parent

よく使う表現： child node, child process, child object

産物、成果

特定の考え、出来事、努力によって生まれたもの。

やさしい英語で： Something that was produced by a particular idea, event, or effort.

• The book was a child of hope.
• This invention is the child of years of research.
• Their new festival was a child of that cultural movement.

使い方： a child of something (The project is a child of their shared imagination.)

類義語： product, result

よく使う表現： child of something, a child of

子

「with child」では胎内の子を指し、この表現は妊娠中を意味する。

やさしい英語で： In the phrase with child, expecting a baby.

• She was with child.
• They learned that the princess was with child.
• He returned to find his wife with child.

使い方： be with child (The queen was with child again.)

よく使う表現： with child, be with child