disappearance

失踪、消失

人や物が行方不明になったり、去ったり、存在しなくなったりすること。

やさしい英語で： An event in which someone or something goes missing, goes away, or stops existing.

• Nobody could explain his disappearance.
• Police investigated the disappearance of two children.
• The disappearance of local shops has changed the town.

使い方： disappearance of someone/something (Police are investigating the disappearance of a young woman.)

類義語： vanishing

反対語： appearance

よく使う表現： sudden disappearance, mysterious disappearance, disappearance of something, gradual disappearance

見えなくなること、消失

人や物が視界から消えて、見えなくなること。

やさしい英語で： The moment or process of becoming impossible to see.

• We watched the ship’s disappearance into the fog.
• Her disappearance behind the curtain ended the scene.
• The moon’s disappearance behind clouds left us in darkness.

使い方： disappearance behind something (We watched the sun’s disappearance behind the hills.)

類義語： vanishing

反対語： appearance

よく使う表現： disappearance from view, disappearance behind something