commons

共有資源、コモンズ

水や情報など、集団の誰もが共有したり使えたりする資源。

やさしい英語で： Resources, such as water or information, that everyone in a group shares or can use.

• Clean air is part of the commons.
• The project adds free teaching materials to the digital commons.
• Who should protect the global commons?

類義語： shared resources

よく使う表現： digital commons, global commons, protect the commons

共有地

町や村の人々が共同で持ち、使える土地。

やさしい英語で： Land that people in a town or village share and can use together.

• People gathered on the commons.
• The town holds a fair on the commons every spring.
• Cattle once grazed on these village commons.

類義語： common land, common

よく使う表現： town commons, on the commons, village commons

食糧、配給食

人や集団に与えられる食糧。特に量が少ない場合にいう。

やさしい英語で： The food provided to a person or group, especially when there is very little.

• The men survived on short commons.
• After weeks of short commons, the soldiers were weak.
• Winter brought short commons to everyone in the village.

類義語： rations, food

よく使う表現： short commons, live on commons