infrastructure

インフラ、社会基盤

地域の暮らしを支える道路や建物、水道、電力などの基本設備。

やさしい英語で： Basic roads, buildings, and supplies of water and power that a place needs to work properly.

• The city needs better infrastructure.
• Floods damaged roads and other essential infrastructure.
• The government is investing in rural infrastructure.

よく使う表現： public infrastructure, transport infrastructure, infrastructure investment, essential infrastructure

基盤、インフラ

組織や計画の運営を支える、基本的な仕組みやサービス、考え方。

やさしい英語で： The basic systems, services, or ideas that help an organization or project work.

• Our digital infrastructure needs updating.
• The project lacks the infrastructure needed for growth.
• They built a shared infrastructure for online services.

使い方： infrastructure for something (We need reliable infrastructure for storing customer data.)

類義語： framework, support system

よく使う表現： digital infrastructure, technical infrastructure, infrastructure for something