fodder

飼料、まぐさ

干し草など、家畜に与える食べ物。

やさしい英語で： Food such as hay or other plants given to farm animals.

• The cattle need more fodder.
• We stored enough fodder for the winter.
• The farmer grows several fodder crops.

使い方： fodder for animals (The farmer grew fodder for his cattle.)

類義語： animal feed, feed

よく使う表現： animal fodder, winter fodder, fodder crops

安っぽい素材、埋め草

安物や粗悪品と見なされ、つまらない用途にしか使えない素材。

やさしい英語で： Material considered cheap, poor, or useful only for some low purpose.

• The film is cheap fodder for late-night television.
• His private life became tabloid fodder.
• The channel filled its schedule with disposable entertainment fodder.

使い方： fodder for something (The private messages became cheap fodder for gossip magazines.)

類義語： filler, low-grade material

よく使う表現： tabloid fodder, cheap fodder, fodder for something

使い捨ての人員、大砲の餌食

重要でないとして、利用したり犠牲にしたり取り替えたりされる人々。

やさしい英語で： People treated as unimportant and easy to use, harm, or replace.

• The soldiers were treated as cannon fodder.
• Poor workers became fodder for the growing factories.
• He refused to send more young people as fodder for the war.

使い方： fodder for something (Young recruits became fodder for a pointless war.)

類義語： cannon fodder

よく使う表現： cannon fodder, human fodder, fodder for something