folly

愚かさ、愚行

起こりそうな問題や先のことを考えず、適切な判断ができないこと。

やさしい英語で： A lack of good judgment, especially when someone ignores likely problems or acts without thinking ahead.

• Going alone would be folly.
• She regretted the follies of her youth.
• The disaster exposed the folly of building on the floodplain.

使い方： it is folly to do something (It is folly to spend money you do not have.); the folly of doing something (He realized the folly of ignoring her advice.)

類義語： foolishness, stupidity

反対語： wisdom

よく使う表現： sheer folly, the folly of, act of folly

フォリー、装飾建築

実用よりも、面白さや美しさを楽しむために作られた変わった建物。

やさしい英語で： An unusual building made mainly to look interesting or beautiful, rather than for a practical use.

• A stone folly stands in the garden.
• The tower is a folly built to resemble a ruined castle.
• Visitors can walk around the estate's unusual follies.

よく使う表現： garden folly, ornamental folly, eighteenth-century folly