come home

帰宅する、帰郷する

自分の家や、もともと暮らしていた土地に戻ること。

やさしい英語で： To return to your house or the place you originally came from.

• Please come home soon.
• She came home late last night.
• When will you come home from school?

使い方： come home from somewhere (She came home from work at six.); come home to someone/something (He came home to his family after months abroad.)

類義語： return home, get home

反対語： leave home

よく使う表現： come home late, come home from school, come home to someone

身にしみる、はっきりわかる

ある事実がはっきり分かり、その大切さや重みを深く感じること。

やさしい英語で： If a fact becomes very clear to you, you fully understand it and feel its importance.

• The truth finally came home to me.
• Her words came home to him after the accident.
• Only then did the full cost come home to us.

使い方： come home to someone (The danger came home to me when I saw the damage.)

類義語： sink in, hit home

よく使う表現： come home fully, come home suddenly

発祥の国で栄光を取り戻す

スポーツの発祥国が、その競技で再び栄光を手にすることを祝う表現。

やさしい英語で： When a sport returns to success in the country where it began, people celebrate it this way.

• Will football ever come home?
• Fans hoped football would come home that summer.
• After the final, supporters sang that football had come home.

よく使う表現： come home again, come home finally

走錨する

錨が海底を滑り、船を安全に固定できなくなること。

やさしい英語で： If an anchor moves through the ground, it no longer holds a boat safely in place.

• The anchor began to come home.
• Our anchor came home during the storm.
• If the anchor comes home, the boat may drift.

類義語： drag, slip

よく使う表現： come home slowly, come home again