trench

塹壕

兵士が敵の攻撃から身を守るために入る、細長い溝。

やさしい英語で： A long, narrow hole where soldiers stay to protect themselves from enemy attacks.

• The soldiers waited in the trench.
• Enemy shells exploded near the trenches.
• He spent several months fighting in a muddy trench.

類義語： defensive ditch

よく使う表現： in the trench, a front-line trench, trench warfare

溝、海溝

人が掘ったり自然の力でできたりした、地面の細長いくぼみ。

やさしい英語で： A long, narrow hole in the ground, made by people or by natural forces.

• They dug a trench for the pipes.
• Rainwater collected in the trench beside the road.
• Some ocean trenches are several kilometres deep.

類義語： ditch

よく使う表現： dig a trench, a deep trench, an ocean trench

溝を掘る

土地に細長い穴や水路を掘る。

やさしい英語で： To dig long, narrow holes or channels in land.

• They trenched the field for drainage.
• Workers are trenching the ground to install new cables.
• We must trench this land before laying the pipes.

類義語： ditch

よく使う表現： trench the land, trench for drainage, trench a field

深く掘り返す

土を列状に深く掘り、新しい穴の土を前に掘った穴へ移す。

やさしい英語で： To dig soil deeply in rows, moving soil from each new hole into the previous one.

• We trenched the vegetable bed.
• The gardener trenched the soil before planting.
• They trench these beds each autumn to improve the soil.

類義語： double-dig

よく使う表現： trench a garden, trench the soil, trench a bed