naturalist

博物学者、自然研究家

植物や動物、それらが暮らす環境を研究する人。

やさしい英語で： Someone who studies plants, animals, and the places where they live.

• A naturalist showed us the birds.
• The young naturalist recorded every insect she found.
• Local naturalists have studied this forest for years.

類義語： nature expert

よく使う表現： amateur naturalist, local naturalist, keen naturalist

自然主義者

超自然的な原因に頼らず、自然によって世界を説明できると考える人。

やさしい英語で： Someone who believes that the world can be explained through nature without supernatural causes.

• As a naturalist, she rejects supernatural explanations.
• The philosopher was a naturalist who trusted scientific evidence.
• These naturalists explain human thought through physical processes.

よく使う表現： philosophical naturalist, committed naturalist

自然主義の芸術家、自然主義者

人や自然をありのままに描こうとする芸術家。

やさしい英語で： An artist who tries to show people and nature as they really are.

• The painter was a naturalist.
• As a naturalist, she painted ordinary people in everyday settings.
• These naturalists preferred accurate detail to ideal beauty.

よく使う表現： naturalist painter, naturalist writer