butterfly

蝶、チョウ

細い体と大きな羽を持ち、羽の色が鮮やかなことが多い昆虫。

やさしい英語で： An insect with a thin body and large, often brightly coloured wings.

• A butterfly landed on the flower.
• We saw yellow butterflies in the garden.
• This caterpillar will become a butterfly.

よく使う表現： colourful butterfly, butterfly wings, butterfly garden

創傷閉鎖テープ

切り傷の両端を合わせて固定する、小さな医療用粘着テープ。

やさしい英語で： A small strip of sticky medical tape used to hold the edges of a cut together.

• The nurse applied a butterfly bandage.
• Butterfly strips held the small cut closed.
• Keep the butterfly tape dry until tomorrow.

類義語： wound closure strip

よく使う表現： butterfly bandage, butterfly strips, butterfly tape

間接的変化

架空の歴史で、過去の出来事の変更が間接的に生む予想外の変化。

やさしい英語で： An unexpected change in an imagined history caused indirectly by an earlier event changing.

• That different birth date is a butterfly.
• The writer added several butterflies to the alternate timeline.
• This butterfly has little connection to the original change.

類義語： ripple effect

よく使う表現： unexpected butterfly, possible butterfly, historical butterfly

観音開きにする

食材を完全に切り離さずに切り、両側をつなげたまま平らに開く。

やさしい英語で： To cut food almost in half and open it out flat, leaving the two sides joined.

• Butterfly the chicken before cooking it.
• She butterflied the prawns with a sharp knife.
• Can you butterfly this piece of meat?

類義語： split open

よく使う表現： butterfly a chicken, butterfly the shrimp, butterfly the meat

歴史の流れを変える

過去の出来事を変え、後の出来事を間接的に変えたり、特定の人の存在をなくしたりする。

やさしい英語で： To indirectly change later events or prevent particular people from existing by changing an earlier event.

• That change would butterfly her birth away.
• The author butterflied the election by changing an earlier war.
• An altered timeline can butterfly people who were born later.

使い方： butterfly someone/something away (The earlier peace treaty butterflied several future leaders away.)

よく使う表現： butterfly someone away, butterfly later events