accelerator

アクセル

車などの速度を上げるために足で踏むペダル。

やさしい英語で： The pedal you press with your foot to make a vehicle go faster.

• Press the accelerator gently.
• She took her foot off the accelerator.
• The accelerator stuck as he drove up the hill.

類義語： gas pedal

よく使う表現： accelerator pedal, press the accelerator, off the accelerator

促進要因、促進剤

ある過程をより速く進める人や物。

やさしい英語で： A person or thing that makes a process happen faster.

• Competition can be an accelerator of change.
• The grant acted as an accelerator for research.
• New technology became a powerful accelerator of economic growth.

使い方： an accelerator of something (The discovery was an accelerator of medical progress.)

類義語： catalyst

よく使う表現： accelerator of change, growth accelerator, powerful accelerator