parlor

店、サロン

特定の種類の商品やサービスを提供する店。

やさしい英語で： A business that offers a particular kind of product or service.

• We visited an ice cream parlor.
• She opened a tattoo parlor last year.
• Several pizza parlors deliver to our neighborhood.

類義語： shop, salon

よく使う表現： tattoo parlor, pizza parlor, ice cream parlor

客間、応接室

家で座って話をしたり、客を迎えたりする部屋。

やさしい英語で： A room in a house where people sit, talk, and welcome guests.

• They sat in the parlor.
• Her guests drank tea in the front parlor.
• The old house has two parlors.

類義語： sitting room, drawing room, living room

よく使う表現： front parlor, parlor furniture, sit in parlor

室内の、応接間用の

座って過ごしたり客を迎えたりする部屋で使うための、またはそれに適した。

やさしい英語で： Made for or suitable for use in a room where people sit and receive guests.

• The children played parlor games.
• This small instrument was popular for parlor music.
• Parlor painting became a fashionable hobby.

よく使う表現： parlor games, parlor music, parlor painting

口先だけの

気楽な議論で考えを支持するだけで、実際の行動には参加しないさま。

やさしい英語で： Supporting an idea through comfortable discussion without taking part in practical action.

• He dismissed their views as parlor socialism.
• The parlor revolutionary never joined a protest.
• She accused him of being a parlor radical.

類義語： armchair

よく使う表現： parlor socialism, parlor radical, parlor revolutionary