fathom

理解する、見抜く

難解なこと、特に人の動機や行動を理解する。

やさしい英語で： To understand something difficult or confusing, especially someone's reasons or behaviour.

• I cannot fathom his reasons.
• She finally fathomed out the strange message.
• Can anyone fathom why the machine keeps stopping?

使い方： fathom why/how/what… (I cannot fathom why he left so suddenly.); fathom something out (Can you fathom this puzzle out?)

類義語： understand, figure out, comprehend

よく使う表現： fathom something out, fathom someone's motives, cannot fathom why

測深する

水がどれほど深いかを測る。

やさしい英語で： To measure how deep water is.

• The sailors fathomed the bay.
• They used a weighted rope to fathom the water.
• We must fathom the channel before the ship enters.

類義語： sound

よく使う表現： fathom the depth, fathom the bay, fathom the channel

尋

主に水深に使う、６フィート、約１．８３メートルの長さの単位。

やさしい英語で： A unit of length equal to six feet, used especially to measure water depth.

• The water is one fathom deep.
• We anchored in six fathoms of water.
• The chart gives all depths in fathoms.

よく使う表現： a fathom deep, one fathom, fathom of rope

尋

岸から、指定の尋数の水深になる最も近い地点までの距離の尺度。

やさしい英語で： A measure of distance from shore based on the water depth at the nearest point of that depth.

• The boat lay a fathom offshore.
• They waited two fathoms from shore, where the water reached that depth.
• We rowed three fathoms out, stopping at the nearest three-fathom depth.

よく使う表現： a fathom offshore, a fathom out