trickle

細い流れ、滴る音

液体が少しずつゆっくり流れることや、そのかすかな音。

やさしい英語で： A small, slow flow of liquid, or the gentle sound it makes.

• Water escaped in a thin trickle.
• A trickle of blood ran from his finger.
• I could hear the trickle from the leaking tap.

使い方： a trickle of something (A trickle of water ran down the wall.)

よく使う表現： trickle of something, a slow trickle, steady trickle

細い流れ

流れる水の量がとても少ない小川。

やさしい英語で： A stream or river that has very little water flowing through it.

• The stream is only a trickle now.
• By August, the river had become a muddy trickle.
• Rain turned the trickle into a flowing stream again.

類義語： tiny stream

よく使う表現： a mere trickle, reduced to a trickle

少しずつ注ぐ、滴らせる

液体を細く流したり、一滴ずつ落としたりしてゆっくり注ぐ。

やさしい英語で： To pour liquid slowly in a thin stream or a series of drops.

• Trickle some water onto the soil.
• She trickled oil over the warm bread.
• He carefully trickled the medicine into the cup.

使い方： trickle something over something (Trickle the sauce over the fish.); trickle something into something (Trickle the oil into the bowl.)

類義語： drizzle, drip

よく使う表現： trickle something over, trickle something into, trickle something onto