sucker

カモ、お人好し

うまく言いくるめられて、話を信じたりお金を渡したりしやすい人。

やさしい英語で： A person who is easily tricked into believing something or giving away money.

• Don't be a sucker.
• Some poor sucker paid twice the usual price.
• They took me for a sucker and tried to cheat me.

類義語： fool, dupe, sap

よく使う表現： poor sucker, complete sucker, a total sucker

大好きな人、目がない人

誰かや何かが大好きで、誘惑に負けやすい人。

やさしい英語で： A person who likes someone or something so much that they find it hard to resist.

• I'm a sucker for chocolate.
• She's always been a sucker for romantic films.
• Are you a sucker for a friendly smile?

使い方： be a sucker for someone/something (I'm a sucker for happy endings.)

類義語： enthusiast, fan

よく使う表現： sucker for something, sucker for someone, such a sucker

棒付きキャンディー、ペロペロキャンディー

なめて食べる飴、特に棒の先に付いたもの。

やさしい英語で： A sweet that you suck, especially one on the end of a stick.

• The child wanted a red sucker.
• She handed out suckers after the game.
• He unwrapped a cherry sucker and put it in his mouth.

類義語： lollipop

よく使う表現： cherry sucker, sucker stick, give someone a sucker

こいつ、代物

話題の物を指すくだけた言葉。大きい物や扱いにくい物、すごい物によく使う。

やさしい英語で： A thing you are talking about, often something large, difficult to handle, or impressive.

• This sucker is heavy!
• We finally got the sucker through the door.
• That new engine is one powerful sucker.

類義語： thing

よく使う表現： this sucker, big sucker, move the sucker

吸うもの、吸血動物

液体を吸い込む動物や人、または装置。

やさしい英語で： An animal, person, or device that draws in liquid by sucking.

• A leech is a blood sucker.
• These insects are sap suckers that damage young plants.
• The tiny blood suckers left itchy marks on her legs.

よく使う表現： blood sucker, sap sucker, powerful sucker

ひこばえ、根萌芽

植物の根や幹の下部から伸びる、不要な新しい枝。

やさしい英語で： An unwanted new stem growing from a plant's roots or the lower part of its trunk.

• Cut off the sucker near the roots.
• The rose bush keeps producing suckers.
• Remove suckers before they take strength from the main plant.

類義語： root shoot

よく使う表現： root sucker, remove a sucker, rose sucker

だます、引っかける

人をだまして何かをさせたり、何かを渡させたりする。

やさしい英語で： To trick someone into doing something or giving you something.

• Don't let them sucker you.
• She was suckered into paying for an expensive course.
• The scammers suckered him out of all his money.

使い方： sucker someone into doing something (The advertisement suckered me into buying a useless gadget.); sucker someone out of something (They suckered him out of his savings.)

類義語： trick, fool, con, dupe

よく使う表現： sucker someone into something, sucker someone into buying, sucker someone out of

ひこばえを取り除く

植物の根や幹の下部から出た、不要な新しい枝を取り除く。

やさしい英語で： To remove unwanted new stems growing from a plant's roots or lower trunk.

• We need to sucker the roses.
• The gardener suckered the young trees in spring.
• They spent the morning suckering the maize.

よく使う表現： sucker the maize, sucker a plant, sucker the roses