picnic

ピクニック

食べ物を持ち寄り、屋外で一緒に食べてくつろぐ集まり。

やさしい英語で： A relaxed outdoor gathering where people bring food and eat together.

• Let's have a picnic in the park.
• They organized a family picnic by the lake.
• Will you join us for the school picnic on Saturday?

よく使う表現： have a picnic, go on a picnic, family picnic, picnic in something

ピクニックの食事、弁当

公園や野外などに持って行って、外で食べる食事。

やさしい英語で： A meal you bring with you and eat outside, often in a park or the countryside.

• We ate our picnic under a tree.
• She packed a picnic of bread, cheese, and fruit.
• Our picnic was ruined when ants got into the sandwiches.

類義語： outdoor meal, packed lunch

よく使う表現： pack a picnic, picnic lunch, picnic basket, eat a picnic

楽な仕事、朝飯前

簡単で楽しいこと。多くは否定形で、仕事などが大変だと表す。

やさしい英語で： Something easy or pleasant to do, usually mentioned when saying a task is difficult.

• This job is no picnic.
• Looking after six puppies was hardly a picnic.
• Compared with the last exam, this one was a picnic.

使い方： be no picnic (Moving house with three children is no picnic.)

類義語： breeze, piece of cake, easy task

反対語： ordeal

よく使う表現： no picnic, be a picnic, hardly a picnic

ピクニックをする

楽しみのために食べ物を野外へ持って行き、そこで食べること。

やさしい英語で： To bring food somewhere outdoors and eat it there, usually for pleasure.

• We often picnic in the park.
• They picnicked beside the river yesterday.
• Families were picnicking on the grass near the beach.

類義語： eat outdoors, have a picnic

よく使う表現： picnic by something, picnic in something, picnic on something