tongue

舌

口の中にある柔らかい器官で、味覚や発音、飲み込みに使う。

やさしい英語で： The soft part inside your mouth that helps you taste, speak, and swallow.

• My tongue feels sore.
• She burned her tongue on the hot soup.
• The doctor asked me to stick out my tongue.

よく使う表現： stick your tongue, bite your tongue, tip of tongue

言語、言葉

人が使う言語。特に子どもの頃に覚えた言語。

やさしい英語で： A language, especially the one someone learned as a child.

• English is her mother tongue.
• They spoke to each other in their native tongue.
• He could read several ancient tongues.

類義語： language

よく使う表現： native tongue, mother tongue, foreign tongue

タン、牛タン

牛などの動物の舌を食用にしたもの。

やさしい英語で： The mouth part of an animal, especially a cow, prepared and eaten as meat.

• We had tongue for lunch.
• She served cold tongue with mustard.
• The butcher sells beef tongue on Fridays.

よく使う表現： beef tongue, cold tongue, sliced tongue

ベロ、タン

靴ひもの下にあり、足の甲を覆う部分。

やさしい英語で： The piece of material under the laces of a shoe, covering the top of your foot.

• The shoe’s tongue slipped sideways.
• These boots have thick, padded tongues.
• Straighten the tongue before you tie your laces.

類義語： flap

よく使う表現： shoe tongue, padded tongue, leather tongue

舌状に伸びる

細長い舌のような形で別の場所へ伸びる。

やさしい英語で： To extend into another area in long, narrow shapes.

• The soil layer tongues into clay.
• A thin deposit tongued into the surrounding rock.
• Several sandy layers tongue through the darker soil.

使い方： tongue into something (The sandy layer tongues into the clay beneath it.)

類義語： extend, project

よく使う表現： tongue into something, tongue through something

本実接ぎする

板の端の細い突起を別の板の溝にはめてつなぐ。

やさしい英語で： To join pieces of wood using a narrow raised edge that fits into a matching cut.

• The carpenter tongued the boards together.
• We need to tongue these floorboards before fitting them.
• She carefully tongued the edges to make a firm joint.

よく使う表現： tongue boards together, tongue the edges