crack up

笑わせる

人をたくさん笑わせること。

やさしい英語で： If something does this to someone, it makes them laugh a lot.

• That joke cracks me up.
• His silly dance cracked the children up.
• What was it that cracked you up so much?

使い方： crack someone up (Your stories always crack me up.)

類義語： amuse, make someone laugh

よく使う表現： crack someone up, crack up an audience

大笑いする

とてもおかしくて、たくさん笑い始めること。

やさしい英語で： If you do this, you start laughing a lot because something is very funny.

• We all cracked up.
• She cracked up at the funny photograph.
• I keep cracking up whenever I remember his face.

使い方： crack up at something (We cracked up at his silly impression.)

類義語： burst out laughing, laugh

よく使う表現： crack up laughing, crack up at something

崩壊する、精神的に参る

人が精神的に耐えられなくなったり、物が機能を失ったり壊れたりすること。

やさしい英語で： If someone or something does this, they stop coping or working properly, or break into pieces.

• The old system is cracking up.
• He cracked up under the pressure of the job.
• The ice began to crack up as the weather warmed.

使い方： crack up under something (She feared she would crack up under the strain.)

類義語： break down, fall apart

よく使う表現： crack up under pressure, crack up completely

からかう

人がした恥ずかしいことなどを冗談の種にして、その人をからかうこと。

やさしい英語で： If you do this, you make jokes about someone, often about something embarrassing they did.

• They were cracking up at me about my hat.
• Stop cracking up at him about that mistake.
• Her friends cracked up at her about the awkward date.

使い方： crack up at someone about something (He kept cracking up at me about my new haircut.)

類義語： tease, make fun of

よく使う表現： crack up at someone, crack up about something

解散させる、分裂させる

集団のメンバーをばらばらにしたり、一緒に活動するのをやめさせたりすること。

やさしい英語で： If you do this, you make the members of a group separate or stop acting together.

• They tried to crack up the gang.
• Moving the pupils into different classes cracked up the clique.
• The dispute cracked their little group up.

使い方： crack something up (The teacher tried to crack the clique up.)

類義語： break up, disband

反対語： unite

よく使う表現： crack up a clique, crack up a group, crack something up

殻を割って取り除く

木の実の硬い殻を割って取り除くこと。

やさしい英語で： If you do this, you break and remove the hard outer covering of nuts.

• We cracked up some walnuts.
• She cracked up the pecans and saved the kernels.
• How many nuts can you crack up in an hour?

使い方： crack up something (We cracked up the pecans before baking.)

類義語： shell

よく使う表現： crack up nuts, crack up pecans, crack up walnuts

とても面白い、爆笑ものの

とてもおかしくて、人を笑わせるもののこと。

やさしい英語で： Something described this way is very funny and makes people laugh.

• That story was crack up.
• Your brother is so crack up when he tells jokes.
• We watched a crack up video of a dancing dog.

類義語： hilarious, funny

よく使う表現： a crack up joke, a crack up story, so crack up