hobbit

ホビット

豊かな髪と毛の生えた足を持つ、架空の種族の小柄な人。

やさしい英語で： A small person from a made-up people, with thick hair and hairy feet.

• The hobbit lived in a comfortable hole.
• Two hobbits joined the adventure.
• This hobbit has unusually large feet.

類義語： halfling

よく使う表現： a young hobbit, hobbit village

フローレス原人

インドネシアのフローレス島で骨が見つかった、絶滅した小柄な人類。

やさしい英語で： A small, extinct relative of humans whose bones were found on the Indonesian island of Flores.

• Scientists found bones of the hobbit on Flores.
• The hobbit had a small brain.
• These hobbit fossils belong to an extinct human relative.

類義語： Homo floresiensis

よく使う表現： hobbit fossils, hobbit skull

ちび

とても背の低い人を冗談めかして呼ぶ言葉。

やさしい英語で： A playful name for a very short person.

• His friends call him a hobbit because he is short.
• She jokingly described herself as a hobbit.
• The two shortest players were nicknamed hobbits.

類義語： short person

よく使う表現： a little hobbit, call someone hobbit

ホビット

昔ウェールズで使われた、１６８ポンドに相当する重さの単位。

やさしい英語で： An old Welsh measure of weight equal to 168 pounds.

• The grain weighed one hobbit.
• The merchant sold two hobbits of barley.
• An old account records the price per hobbit.

よく使う表現： a hobbit, hobbit of grain