gas

ガス、燃料ガス

料理、暖房、発電のために燃やす気体の燃料。

やさしい英語で： A fuel that is burned to cook food, heat buildings, or produce electricity.

• We heat our house with gas.
• The gas bill was high last winter.
• Workers repaired a gas leak in the street.

よく使う表現： natural gas, gas heating, gas bill, gas leak

ガソリン

多くの自動車などに使われる液体の燃料。

やさしい英語で： The liquid fuel used by many cars and other vehicles.

• The car needs gas.
• We stopped for gas before crossing the desert.
• How much gas does your truck use?

類義語： gasoline, petrol

よく使う表現： gas station, gas tank, pump gas, run out of gas

気体、ガス

空気のように容器全体に広がる、固体でも液体でもない物質。

やさしい英語で： A substance like air that spreads out to fill its container and is neither solid nor liquid.

• Oxygen is a gas.
• The balloon contains a gas lighter than air.
• Some gases become liquids when cooled.

類義語： vapor, vapour

よく使う表現： oxygen gas, gas pressure, gas particles, gas expands

アクセル

車の速度を上げるために足で踏むペダル。

やさしい英語で： The pedal you press with your foot to make a vehicle go faster.

• She pressed the gas.
• Take your foot off the gas before the bend.
• He hit the gas and drove away quickly.

類義語： accelerator, gas pedal

よく使う表現： hit the gas, press the gas, off the gas, on the gas

おなら、腸内ガス

胃や腸にある気体で、不快感を起こし、げっぷやおならとして出る。

やさしい英語で： Air in your stomach or bowels that can cause discomfort or leave your body through burping or farting.

• Beans can give me gas.
• The baby had gas after feeding.
• A short walk helped relieve the trapped gas.

類義語： wind, flatulence

よく使う表現： have gas, pass gas, trapped gas, gas pain

ガスコンロ、コンロの火口

鍋の下で燃料を燃やす、コンロの部分。

やさしい英語で： The part of a cooker where fuel burns beneath a pan.

• Put the kettle on the gas.
• She turned the gas down when the soup began to boil.
• Have you turned the gas off under the pan?

類義語： burner, gas ring

よく使う表現： on the gas, light the gas, turn the gas down, turn the gas off

給油する、ガソリンを入れる

車などの燃料タンクに燃料を入れる。

やさしい英語で： To put fuel into a vehicle's tank.

• Let's gas up here.
• She gassed up the truck before work.
• Have you gassed the car up for our trip?

使い方： gas up (We need to gas up before leaving.); gas something up / gas up something (He gassed the car up at the next station.)

類義語： refuel, fill up

よく使う表現： gas up, gas up the car, gas the truck up

ガスで毒殺する、ガスで麻酔する

ガスを使って人を中毒にしたり、殺したり、意識を失わせたりする。

やさしい英語で： To use poisonous fumes to harm or kill someone, or use fumes to make someone unconscious.

• They gassed the rats in the warehouse.
• Many soldiers were gassed during the war.
• The animals were gassed to make them unconscious before surgery.

使い方： gas someone/something (The soldiers were gassed during the attack.)

よく使う表現： gas someone, gas the pests, gas an animal