dummy

マネキン、ダミー人形

服の展示や安全性の試験に使う、人の形をした模型。

やさしい英語で： A model shaped like a person, used to display clothes or test safety.

• The dummy wears a blue coat.
• They used dummies to test the new car.
• She put the dress on a dummy.

類義語： mannequin, human model

よく使う表現： shop dummy, crash test dummy, training dummy

ばか、間抜け

頭が悪いと思う人を指す言葉。相手を傷つけることがある。

やさしい英語で： Someone you think is stupid; calling someone this can be hurtful.

• Do not be a dummy.
• I felt like a dummy after that mistake.
• She called him a dummy for losing the keys.

類義語： fool, idiot

よく使う表現： a complete dummy, call someone dummy

仮のもの、代用品

試験などのために、本物の代わりに使う仮のもの。

やさしい英語で： Something used in place of a real thing for testing or another purpose.

• This file is just a dummy.
• We used a dummy while testing the system.
• Replace the dummies with real customer records.

類義語： placeholder, stand-in

よく使う表現： a dummy file, use a dummy

腹話術人形

演者が唇を動かさずに、話しているように見せる人形。

やさしい英語で： A puppet that a performer makes seem to speak while keeping their own lips still.

• The dummy sat on his knee.
• Her dummy told a funny story.
• The performer gave both dummies different voices.

類義語： puppet

よく使う表現： ventriloquist dummy, wooden dummy

模擬の、仮の

試験などのために、本物の代わりとして作られたり使われたりする。

やさしい英語で： Made or used to take the place of something real, often for testing.

• We used dummy names in the report.
• This dummy phone cannot make calls.
• The students practised on dummy patients.

類義語： fake, mock, simulated

反対語： real

よく使う表現： dummy account, dummy data, dummy device

試作品を作る、模型を作る

すべての機能は備えていない、簡単な試験用の模型を作る。

やさしい英語で： To make a simple test version of something that does not fully work.

• We can dummy up a small stage.
• They dummied up a screen for the rehearsal.
• The team is dummying up a new control panel.

使い方： dummy up something (We need to dummy up a display before building the real one.)

類義語： mock up, prototype

よく使う表現： dummy something up, dummy up props

すごく、とても

程度が非常に大きいことを表す。

やさしい英語で： To a very great degree.

• It is dummy hot today.
• That game was dummy hard.
• These shoes are dummy expensive.

類義語： very, extremely, really

よく使う表現： dummy hot, dummy hard, dummy good