vertigo

めまい、回転性めまい

自分や周囲がぐるぐる回るように感じ、体のバランスを保ちにくくなること。

やさしい英語で： A feeling that you or everything around you is spinning, making it hard to keep your balance.

• She suffers from vertigo.
• An attack of vertigo made him sit down.
• His vertigo became worse whenever he stood up.

類義語： dizziness

よく使う表現： suffer from vertigo, attack of vertigo, severe vertigo

混乱、眩惑

理解しきれない考えや出来事、変化によって、頭が混乱し落ち着かなくなる感じ。

やさしい英語で： A confused, unsettled feeling caused by thoughts, events, or changes that seem too much to understand.

• The sudden freedom gave her a strange mental vertigo.
• He felt emotional vertigo as his familiar world disappeared.
• The endless possibilities produced a vertigo of the mind.

類義語： disorientation, bewilderment

よく使う表現： mental vertigo, emotional vertigo, vertigo of possibilities

旋回、高速回転

非常に速くぐるぐる回る動き。

やさしい英語で： The action of turning round and round very quickly.

• The wheel's vertigo blurred its painted markings.
• The dance ended in a vertigo of movement.
• Dust rose in the vertigo of the turning blades.

類義語： rotation, whirling

よく使う表現： rapid vertigo, vertigo of motion, vertigo of wheels

Vertigo属の巻貝

小さく縦長の殻を持つ、Vertigo属のごく小さな陸の巻貝。

やさしい英語で： A tiny land snail belonging to a group with small, upright shells.

• A tiny vertigo clung to the leaf.
• The researcher examined a vertigo under a microscope.
• This wetland provides a habitat for several vertigos.

よく使う表現： tiny vertigo, vertigo snail, vertigo shell