scale up

規模を拡大する、生産能力を増やす

事業や工程を拡大し、より多く生産・処理できるようにする。

やさしい英語で： To change a business or process so it can produce or handle more.

• We need to scale up production.
• The company scaled up its operations as demand grew.
• Can this process scale up to serve a million users?

使い方： scale something up (The factory plans to scale its production up.); scale up to something (We need to scale up to ten thousand orders a day.)

類義語： expand, increase, grow

反対語： reduce

よく使う表現： scale up production, scale up operations

比例拡大する

各部分の比率を保ったまま、全体を大きくする。

やさしい英語で： To make something larger while keeping the same relative sizes of its parts.

• Scale up the image, please.
• She scaled up the diagram to fit the poster.
• Can we scale this model up without changing its proportions?

使い方： scale something up by something (Scale the drawing up by twenty percent.); scale something up to something (We scaled the model up to twice its original size.)

類義語： enlarge, magnify

反対語： reduce

よく使う表現： scale up an image, scale up a model

よじ登る、登る

壁や崖などの急な面を、上に向かって登る。

やさしい英語で： To climb toward the top of a wall, cliff, or other steep surface.

• They scaled up the wall.
• The climbers scaled up the cliff before sunset.
• Could anyone scale up that icy rock face?

使い方： scale up something (They scaled up the steep cliff with ropes.)

類義語： climb up, ascend

反対語： descend

よく使う表現： scale up a wall, scale up a cliff