crop

作物

食料や役立つ製品を得るために、大量に栽培する植物。

やさしい英語で： A plant grown in large amounts for food or other useful products.

• Rice is an important crop here.
• The farmers grow several crops on their land.
• Dry weather has damaged the wheat crop.

よく使う表現： grow a crop, food crop, cash crop

収穫、収穫量

一つの季節に農場で収穫された作物や、その収穫量。

やさしい英語で： The amount of plants or their products collected from a farm in one season.

• We had a good crop this year.
• The apple crop was smaller than expected.
• Heavy rain ruined last summer’s crop.

使い方： crop of something (The trees produced a large crop of pears.)

類義語： harvest, yield

よく使う表現： bumper crop, poor crop, crop of something

嗉嚢

一部の鳥などの体内にある、胃に送る前の食べ物をためる袋。

やさしい英語で： A bag inside some birds and other animals that holds food before it reaches the stomach.

• The bird’s crop was full.
• Seeds collect in the crop before reaching the stomach.
• The vet gently examined the pigeon’s crop.

類義語： craw

よく使う表現： bird’s crop, full crop

切り抜く、トリミングする

画像の周辺を取り除き、必要な部分だけを残す。

やさしい英語で： To remove the outer parts of a picture so only the part you want remains.

• Please crop this photo.
• She cropped the image to remove the empty space.
• Can you crop the picture into a square?

使い方： crop something to something (I cropped the photo to the required size.)

類義語： trim

よく使う表現： crop a photo, crop an image, crop something tightly

短く刈る、短く切る

髪や、動物の耳・尾をとても短く切る。

やさしい英語で： To cut hair or an animal’s ears or tail very short.

• She decided to crop her hair.
• The barber cropped his hair very short.
• Some owners crop their dogs’ ears.

使い方： crop something short (He cropped his hair short for the summer.)

類義語： clip, cut short

よく使う表現： crop someone’s hair, crop something short, crop a tail

先端を切る、食み取る

特に植物などの先端を切ったり、かみ取ったりする。

やさしい英語で： To cut off the top part of something, especially a plant.

• The sheep crop the grass.
• He cropped the tops of the young plants.
• Horses had cropped the shoots close to the ground.

類義語： trim, clip

よく使う表現： crop the grass, crop a plant

耕作する

収穫して利用したり売ったりする植物を、土地で栽培する。

やさしい英語で： To use land to grow plants that will be collected and used or sold.

• They crop this field every year.
• The land was cropped with wheat last season.
• Farmers crop the lower fields more often.

使い方： crop something with something (They crop the fields with barley.)

類義語： cultivate

よく使う表現： crop a field, crop the land