cuckoo

カッコウ

二音の鳴き声で知られる鳥。多くの種類が他の鳥の巣に卵を産む。

やさしい英語で： A bird with a familiar two-note call; many types lay their eggs in other birds’ nests.

• I heard a cuckoo this morning.
• A cuckoo laid an egg in that nest.
• Cuckoos return to these woods each spring.

よく使う表現： cuckoo call, cuckoo egg, hear a cuckoo

鳩時計の鳥

時計が時刻を知らせるときに、中から出てくる小さな鳥の人形。

やさしい英語で： A small bird figure that comes out of a clock when it announces the hour.

• The cuckoo popped out at noon.
• The clock’s wooden cuckoo had a broken wing.
• She watched the little cuckoo disappear behind its door.

よく使う表現： wooden cuckoo, clock’s cuckoo, carved cuckoo

カッコウの鳴き声

カッコウという鳥が出す、二音からなる鳴き声。

やさしい英語で： The two-note sound made by a bird of this name.

• A cuckoo echoed through the woods.
• We heard a soft cuckoo from the trees.
• Her imitation of the cuckoo made us laugh.

よく使う表現： distant cuckoo, soft cuckoo, repeated cuckoo

鳩時計

鳥の鳴き声と、通常は動く小さな鳥の人形で時刻を知らせる時計。

やさしい英語で： A clock that announces the hour with a bird sound and usually a small moving bird figure.

• The cuckoo struck twelve.
• We hung an old cuckoo in the kitchen.
• Have you wound the cuckoo today?

類義語： cuckoo clock

よく使う表現： antique cuckoo, wooden cuckoo, wind the cuckoo

頭のおかしい

考え方や振る舞いが奇妙で、理にかなわないように見える。

やさしい英語で： Behaving or thinking in a way that seems strange or unreasonable.

• That idea is completely cuckoo.
• I thought I was going cuckoo.
• You must be cuckoo to swim in this weather.

使い方： go cuckoo (I’ll go cuckoo if that alarm keeps ringing.)

類義語： crazy, mad, nuts

反対語： sane

よく使う表現： go cuckoo, completely cuckoo, a little cuckoo

カッコウと鳴く

カッコウ特有の二音の鳴き声を出す。

やさしい英語で： To make the two-note call associated with a particular bird.

• The bird cuckooed in the trees.
• Our old clock cuckoos every hour.
• We heard a bird cuckooing beyond the garden.

よく使う表現： cuckoo softly, cuckoo from trees, cuckoo all morning

繰り返し言う

同じことを何度も何度も言う。

やさしい英語で： To say the same thing again and again.

• He cuckooed the same phrase again.
• The speakers kept cuckooing their party’s slogan.
• She cuckoos whatever her friends say.

類義語： parrot, repeat

よく使う表現： cuckoo a phrase, cuckoo the slogan, cuckoo endlessly

住居を乗っ取る

弱い立場の人の家を乗っ取り、ひそかに組織犯罪の拠点にする。

やさしい英語で： To take control of a vulnerable person’s home and secretly use it for organized crime.

• The gang cuckooed his flat.
• Dealers were cuckooing homes to store stolen goods.
• Police warned that criminals might cuckoo vulnerable residents.

よく使う表現： cuckoo someone’s home, cuckoo a flat, cuckoo vulnerable people