digest

消化する

体が食べ物を分解し、利用できる小さな成分にすること。

やさしい英語で： If your body does this, it breaks food into smaller parts that it can use.

• Babies cannot digest every kind of food.
• My body digested the meal slowly.
• Do you find beans hard to digest?

よく使う表現： digest food, digest milk, digest a meal

理解する、咀嚼する

読んだり聞いたりした情報を、考えながら十分に理解すること。

やさしい英語で： To read or hear information and think about it until you understand it.

• I need time to digest the news.
• She read the report twice to digest its findings.
• Have you digested all that information yet?

類義語： absorb, take in

よく使う表現： digest information, digest the news, digest a report

消化される

食べ物が、食べた後に体内で分解されること。

やさしい英語で： If food does this, it breaks down inside your body after you eat it.

• Let your lunch digest before swimming.
• The heavy meal took hours to digest.
• Does this food digest easily?

よく使う表現： food will digest, let something digest, digest slowly

分類する、整理する

文章や資料を見つけやすく使いやすいよう、分かりやすく分類すること。

やさしい英語で： To sort written material into clear groups so it is easier to find and use.

• The scholar digested the laws by subject.
• They digested the records into clear sections.
• Her task was to digest scattered notes into an orderly account.

使い方： digest something into something (The clerk digested the records into separate categories.)

類義語： classify, arrange, organize

よく使う表現： digest laws, digest records, digest into sections

要約集、ダイジェスト

選ばれた記事や、他の文章を短くまとめたものを収めた本や雑誌など。

やさしい英語で： A book, magazine, or other publication containing selected articles or shortened versions of other writing.

• I read a weekly news digest.
• The editor included three articles in the digest.
• Does this digest cover international news?

使い方： digest of something (The newsletter provides a digest of recent articles.)

類義語： compilation, summary publication

よく使う表現： weekly digest, news digest, monthly digest

要覧、摘要

情報を集め、項目別に整理して使いやすくまとめたもの。

やさしい英語で： Information collected, sorted by subject, and presented in an easy-to-use form.

• The digest lists information under clear headings.
• He prepared a digest of the old records.
• We used her digest to find the relevant facts.

使い方： digest of something (She prepared a digest of the research notes.)

類義語： compendium, organized summary

よく使う表現： a digest, detailed digest, digest of something

法律摘要集、判例要旨集

法律や裁判所の判決を短くまとめ、項目別に整理したもの。

やさしい英語で： A collection of laws or court decisions, shortened and arranged by subject.

• The lawyer consulted a legal digest.
• This digest groups court decisions by subject.
• A new edition of the digest includes recent cases.

使い方： digest of something (The library holds a digest of court decisions.)

類義語： legal compendium

よく使う表現： legal digest, case digest, digest of laws