sewer

下水道、下水管

建物から汚れた水や排泄物を流す、地下の管や水路。

やさしい英語で： An underground pipe or passage that carries dirty water and waste away from buildings.

• The sewer under our street is blocked.
• Workers repaired the damaged sewer yesterday.
• Heavy rain caused the sewers to overflow.

類義語： drain

よく使う表現： blocked sewer, sewer pipe, sewer system

縫い手、裁縫をする人

針と糸で布を縫い合わせたり直したりする人。

やさしい英語で： A person who joins or repairs cloth using a needle and thread.

• My grandmother is a skilled sewer.
• This machine is easy for a beginner sewer to use.
• Experienced sewers helped repair the costumes.

類義語： sewist

よく使う表現： skilled sewer, home sewer, experienced sewer

給仕役

中世に、食事を出したり配膳を整えたりした人。

やさしい英語で： A person whose job in medieval times was to serve or arrange food at meals.

• The sewer brought food to the lord.
• A royal sewer supervised the serving of dinner.
• The household employed two sewers for its great feasts.

類義語： server

よく使う表現： royal sewer, household sewer, sewer at court

ハマキガ

幼虫が糸を出して葉の縁をつなぎ合わせる、小さなガ。

やさしい英語で： A small moth whose young use silk to join the edges of a leaf together.

• A sewer larva had folded the leaf.
• The apple leaf sewer is a small moth.
• We found several sewers among the orchard's leaves.

よく使う表現： apple leaf sewer, leaf sewer larva

下水道を敷設する

建物や地域に、汚れた水や排泄物を流す管を設ける。

やさしい英語で： To provide a building or area with pipes that carry away dirty water and waste.

• The council plans to sewer the village.
• The district was sewered before the houses were built.
• Sewering remote settlements can be expensive.

よく使う表現： sewer an area, sewer a district, sewer the village