messenger

使者、伝令

人に伝言や知らせを届ける人。

やさしい英語で： A person who carries a message or delivers information to someone.

• A messenger brought the letter.
• The king sent messengers to every village.
• She worked as a bike messenger during college.

類義語： courier, message carrier

よく使う表現： send a messenger, bike messenger, royal messenger

前触れ、先触れ

何かが近づいている、または間もなく起こることを示す人や物。

やさしい英語で： A person or thing that signals something is coming or about to happen.

• The dark cloud was a messenger of trouble.
• They saw the bird as a messenger of hope.
• These early flowers are messengers of spring.

使い方： messenger of something (The first swallow seemed a messenger of spring.)

類義語： harbinger, herald, forerunner

よく使う表現： messenger of doom, messenger of spring, messenger of hope

使者で送る、バイク便で送る

品物などを、届ける役目の人に託して送る。

やさしい英語で： To send something using a person who delivers it for you.

• Please messenger the package today.
• We messengered the signed papers to their office.
• Can you messenger these documents over this afternoon?

使い方： messenger something to someone (Please messenger the contract to our lawyer.)

類義語： courier

よく使う表現： messenger something over, messenger the documents