dinosaur

恐竜

数百万年以上前に生きていた、今は絶滅した爬虫類に似た動物。

やさしい英語で： An animal like a reptile that lived millions of years ago and is now extinct.

• We saw dinosaur bones at the museum.
• Some dinosaurs ate plants.
• The child drew a huge dinosaur.

よく使う表現： dinosaur bones, dinosaur skeleton, giant dinosaur

恐竜

三畳紀、ジュラ紀、白亜紀に生きていた、恐竜の仲間の絶滅動物。

やさしい英語で： An extinct animal belonging to the dinosaur group, which lived during the Triassic, Jurassic, or Cretaceous period.

• This dinosaur lived in the Jurassic period.
• Scientists identified a new dinosaur from its bones.
• These dinosaurs disappeared long before humans existed.

よく使う表現： jurassic dinosaur, cretaceous dinosaur, dinosaur species

時代遅れの人

考え方などが古く、変化に鈍い、または変わろうとしない人や物。

やさしい英語で： A person or thing that is old-fashioned and slow or unwilling to change.

• He is a dinosaur who refuses to use email.
• That company is a dinosaur in a changing industry.
• You sound like a dinosaur when you dismiss every new idea.

類義語： relic

よく使う表現： political dinosaur, corporate dinosaur, old dinosaur

時代遅れの代物

古くなり、現代の必要に応えられなくなった物や仕組み。

やさしい英語で： An old object or system that no longer meets modern needs.

• This computer is a dinosaur.
• They finally replaced that dinosaur of a printer.
• The old payment system had become a dinosaur.

類義語： relic

よく使う表現： computer dinosaur, technological dinosaur, old dinosaur