sweep

掃く

ほうきやブラシで床などの表面を掃除する。

やさしい英語で： To clean a floor or other surface with a broom or brush.

• Please sweep the kitchen floor.
• She swept the path before lunch.
• Have you swept the stairs yet?

よく使う表現： sweep the floor, sweep the steps, sweep something clean

さっと動く、横切る

広い範囲を滑らかに動いたり、大きな弧を描いて動いたりする。

やさしい英語で： To move smoothly over a wide area or in a broad curve.

• His arm swept across the desk.
• Strong winds sweep over the open fields.
• The searchlight swept slowly across the harbour.

使い方： sweep across/over something (A beam of light swept across the sky.)

類義語： swing

よく使う表現： sweep across something, sweep over something, sweep through something

払いのける、押し流す

大きな動きや強い力で、何かをすばやくすっかり取り除く。

やさしい英語で： To remove something quickly and completely with a broad movement or powerful force.

• He swept the papers off his desk.
• The waves swept away the little boat.
• She swept the broken glass into a bag.

使い方： sweep something off something (She swept the crumbs off the table.); sweep something away (The flood swept the fence away.)

類義語： clear away, brush away

よく使う表現： sweep something away, sweep something aside, sweep something off

掃き掃除

ほうきやブラシで表面を掃除すること。

やさしい英語で： An act of cleaning a surface with a broom or brush.

• The floor needs a sweep.
• I gave the steps a quick sweep.
• One more sweep removed the remaining dust.

よく使う表現： a quick sweep, give something a sweep

スポーツくじ

チームや選手がくじで割り当てられ、その相手が勝つと賞金を得るくじ。

やさしい英語で： A lottery in which people receive random teams or competitors and win money if theirs wins.

• We organized a sweep for the race.
• My team won the office sweep.
• Everyone paid five pounds to enter the sweep.

類義語： sweepstake

よく使う表現： office sweep, win a sweep, enter a sweep