crush

恋心、片思い

よく知らない相手などに抱く、強い恋愛感情。

やさしい英語で： A strong romantic interest in someone, often someone you do not know well.

• I have a crush on Sam.
• She had a secret crush on her classmate.
• Did you ever have a crush on a teacher?

使い方： a crush on someone (He has a crush on his neighbour.)

類義語： infatuation

よく使う表現： have a crush, crush on someone

好きな人

強い恋愛感情を抱いている相手。付き合っていない場合が多い。

やさしい英語で： Someone you have strong romantic feelings for, often without having a relationship with them.

• My crush smiled at me.
• Her first crush was a boy at school.
• He finally spoke to his celebrity crush.

よく使う表現： my first crush, celebrity crush

人混み、雑踏

人がぎっしり集まり、身動きしにくいほどの大きな人混み。

やさしい英語で： A large group of people pressed so closely together that moving is difficult.

• We could barely move in the crush.
• A crush of passengers filled the station entrance.
• She lost her bag in the crush outside.

類義語： crowd, throng

よく使う表現： crush of people, in the crush

押しつぶす

強い力で押して、物を傷めたり壊したりすること。

やさしい英語で： To damage or destroy something by pressing it very hard.

• Do not crush the box.
• A falling tree crushed their car.
• The empty cans were crushed flat.

類義語： squash, flatten

よく使う表現： crush a can, crush something flat

押しつぶす、搾る

強く押して形を変えたり、中の液体を絞り出したりすること。

やさしい英語で： To press something very hard, changing its shape or squeezing liquid out.

• Crush the grapes to get their juice.
• She crushed the garlic with a knife.
• The machine crushes fruit between two heavy rollers.

類義語： squeeze, squash

よく使う表現： crush grapes, crush garlic

砕く、粉砕する

押したり、たたいたり、すりつぶしたりして、ごく小さな破片にすること。

やさしい英語で： To break something into very small pieces by pressing, hitting, or grinding it.

• Crush the nuts before adding them.
• He crushed the ice for our drinks.
• These stones can be crushed into powder.

使い方： crush something into something (Crush the seeds into a fine powder.)

類義語： grind, pulverize

よく使う表現： crush nuts, crush into powder