blow up

爆発する、爆破する

爆発すること。または爆発させて何かを壊すこと。

やさしい英語で： To explode, or destroy something with an explosion.

• The bomb blew up.
• A gas leak caused the house to blow up.
• They blew up the old bridge last week.

使い方： blow something up (The soldiers blew up the bridge.)

類義語： explode, detonate

よく使う表現： blow up suddenly, blow up bridges

拡大する

画像を大きくしたり、一部をより近くから見せたりすること。

やさしい英語で： To make a picture bigger, or show a closer view of part of it.

• Please blow up the picture.
• She blew the photo up to check his face.
• Can we blow this image up without losing detail?

使い方： blow something up (Blow the image up so we can read the sign.)

類義語： enlarge, magnify

反対語： shrink, reduce

よく使う表現： blow up photos, blow up something

急に人気が出る、バズる

短い間に多くの人に知られたり、人気が出たりする。

やさしい英語で： To become very popular or widely known in a short time.

• Her video blew up overnight.
• The song is blowing up on social media.
• Nobody expected the little cafe to blow up so quickly.

類義語： take off, go viral

よく使う表現： blow up online, blow up overnight

拡大する

よく見えるように画像やその一部を大きくすること。

やさしい英語で： To make a picture or part of it bigger so you can see it more clearly.

• Can you blow up this photo?
• I blew the image up to see the writing.
• They are blowing up old photographs for the exhibition.

使い方： blow something up (Could you blow this photo up?); blow something up to a size (We blew the picture up to poster size.)

類義語： enlarge, magnify

反対語： shrink, reduce

よく使う表現： blow up pictures, blow up something

大げさに言う、誇張する

実際よりも深刻または重要なことのように見せること。

やさしい英語で： To make something seem more serious or important than it really is.

• Do not blow up a small problem.
• The papers blew the incident up into a scandal.
• She keeps blowing every disagreement up into a crisis.

使い方： blow something up into something (They blew a small mistake up into a major scandal.)

類義語： exaggerate, inflate

反対語： downplay

よく使う表現： blow up something, blow up problems