parasitic

寄生性の、寄生虫の

ほかの生物に寄生する生物や、他人に不当に頼る人に関する。

やさしい英語で： Connected with a living thing that lives on or inside another, or someone who unfairly depends on others.

• The test found a parasitic infection.
• Scientists studied the insect's parasitic life cycle.
• The novel explores the family's parasitic relationship with its wealthy neighbors.

よく使う表現： parasitic infection, parasitic disease, parasitic relationship

寄生する、寄生性の

ほかの生物の体の表面や内部に住み、そこから栄養を得る。

やさしい英語で： Living on or inside another living thing and taking food from it.

• Parasitic worms live inside animals.
• This parasitic plant takes nutrients from a tree.
• Some parasitic insects feed on their hosts' blood.

よく使う表現： parasitic worm, parasitic plant, parasitic organism

寄生的な、搾取的な

何も返さずに他人から金銭や援助などの利益を得る。

やさしい英語で： Taking money, support, or other benefits from others without giving anything back.

• Their relationship became parasitic.
• He enjoyed a parasitic lifestyle at his parents' expense.
• The writer attacked wealthy owners for their parasitic behavior.

類義語： exploitative, freeloading

よく使う表現： parasitic relationship, parasitic lifestyle, parasitic class

依存的な

意味や存在が、同じ種類の別の考えに依存している。

やさしい英語で： Depending on another idea of the same kind for its meaning or existence.

• The two concepts have a parasitic relationship.
• His account of error is parasitic on his account of truth.
• The argument's meaning is parasitic on assumptions introduced earlier.

使い方： parasitic on something (This concept is parasitic on an earlier theory of meaning.)

類義語： dependent, derivative

反対語： independent

よく使う表現： parasitic on something, parasitic concept, parasitic theory

寄生素子

設計図にはないが、回路に影響を及ぼす意図しない電気的要素。

やさしい英語で： An unplanned electrical element that affects a circuit but is not shown in its design drawing.

• The model includes one parasitic.
• These parasitics affect the circuit at high frequencies.
• An unexpected parasitic changed the signal's shape.

類義語： parasitic element

よく使う表現： circuit parasitic, unwanted parasitic, extract a parasitic