constituent

選挙区の住民、有権者

選挙で選ばれた政治家が代表する地域に住む人。

やさしい英語で： Someone who lives in the area that an elected politician represents.

• The politician met a constituent.
• Her constituents want better public transport.
• He received hundreds of letters from angry constituents.

よく使う表現： meet a constituent, local constituent, constituent concerns

構成要素、成分

何かを作り上げている部分や物質の一つ。

やさしい英語で： One of the parts or substances that make up something.

• We identified each constituent of the mixture.
• The main constituent of the gas is nitrogen.
• Researchers measured the chemical constituents of the soil.

使い方： constituent of something (Water is a major constituent of the human body.)

類義語： component, part, element, ingredient

よく使う表現： a major constituent, chemical constituent, constituent of something

構成素

句や文の中で、一つのまとまりとして働く語や語の集まり。

やさしい英語で： A word or group of words that works as a single part within a phrase or sentence.

• This noun phrase is a constituent.
• The diagram shows how constituents form a sentence.
• A constituent may contain just one word.

類義語： syntactic unit

よく使う表現： a syntactic constituent, a sentence constituent, constituent structure

構成する

集まって一つの全体を作る部分の一つである。

やさしい英語で： Being one of the parts that together make a whole.

• We examined the machine's constituent parts.
• The mixture's constituent elements were listed on the label.
• Each constituent unit has a different role.

類義語： component

よく使う表現： constituent parts, constituent elements, constituent materials

憲法制定の

国の統治の基本的な決まりである憲法を作る権限を持つ。

やさしい英語で： Having the authority to create a country's constitution, the basic rules for how it is governed.

• The constituent assembly met today.
• Delegates to the constituent convention debated the new constitution.
• The elected body was given constituent powers.

類義語： constitution-making

よく使う表現： constituent assembly, constituent power, constituent convention