fountain

噴水

公園や広場などを飾るために、水を空中に噴き上げる設備。

やさしい英語で： A structure that sends water into the air, often to decorate a park or square.

• We sat beside the fountain.
• Children watched the water rise from the fountain.
• The city built two new fountains in the park.

よく使う表現： garden fountain, water fountain, beside the fountain

泉、湧き水

水が地面から自然に湧き出る場所。

やさしい英語で： A place where water comes naturally out of the ground.

• Clear water flowed from the fountain.
• They found a natural fountain among the rocks.
• The travelers drank from a cool mountain fountain.

類義語： spring, water source

よく使う表現： natural fountain, mountain fountain, a clear fountain

噴き出す、噴き上がる

水しぶきのように、勢いよく上や外へ流れ出る。

やさしい英語で： To rush up or out in a strong stream, like water spraying into the air.

• Water fountained into the air.
• Lava fountained from the volcano's mouth.
• Blood was fountaining from the wound.

使い方： fountain from something (Hot water fountained from the broken pipe.)

類義語： gush, spurt

よく使う表現： fountain from something, fountain into something, fountain upward